During the past weekend the wife and I crowds cin the sidewalks cheered every
spent a very pleasant time among my old stop of the way. In fact it took many of us
back to the days in England when our
army buddies in Cranbrook.
The occasion was our bi-annual reunion regiment marched for the royalty and high
party which usually lasts anywhere from army brass and I'll bet you that that day in
three to four or five days for some of those Cranbrook meant a whole lot more to most
who have time on their hands and ample of us than all the parade square
maneuvers we took part in.
funds to pay the way.
: This year, the 14th one since the
I, too am looking forward to '88.
organization was formed, saw well over
With regard to the retirees golf on
200 of the vets plus a like number of wives Tuesday morning, we had an attendance of
or girl friends present. Add a number of 55. The Jim Scott foursome teed off shortly
guests from the host city and we saw after 7 a.m. and the rest followed. Our
around 500 seated for the "till we meet foursome was off the tee before 8 a.m.
again" supper on Saturday evening.
It was damp but we had a good program
They came from all over C8nada, the of mulligans and least putts prescribed by
U.S., and Great Britain and many people our desk team of Pat Martin and Bill
may wonder why. What is it makes a guy Leaman and everything went well. Next
and his wife travel thousands of miles to week Lou Freeman and a helper yet to be
spend a couple of days talking over old named will be on duty and we look forward
times and renewing old memories and to more of the same. We would like to
seeing faces that mostly have changed thank Pat and Bill fol'. a first-class job and
somewhat in 40-odd years? Just friend- hope they will be available to help out at
ship? Or is it a bond that grows stronger as another time should we need them.
time dims the inemories of the hell they
went through together, when your next
The winners were, in the low gross
move might be your last, and just living to department, Don Krug and Roger
remember them together means more McKeown with 36's and Bob Glover with a
than just a little expense and travel.
39. Bob won his on a draw with Sam AnYou heard it everywhere you went on selmo, in the last putts category, Peter
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. "Bill, you Browne, Bob Walley and Jim McDicken
old devil, you don't look a day older than with 13 putts each won in a draw over
you did dipping in the Mediterranean off Brick Bisaro, who incidentally got bitten
NQrth Africa" or "Bert, do you still raise by a bunch of wasps, Ike ljosse, Dave Nicol
your head from your work every time a and Bob Glover.
shell explodes" or even "Joe, maybe a
While on the subject of golfl'may as well
couple more wrinkles than you had when . tell you that the Golden City Day golf
we got thrown out of that joint in Calgary tourney has been cancelled. I think this
after discharge."
was a real good decision because too many
The overall picture was one of a happy people who had signed up for this tourney,
group of old sweats who were enjoying including me, found that they were going
every minute of it and before it was over to be in a bit of a spot.
telling one another ''wait'til '88."
Anyway, we shall see you all at the same
Hey, that parade to the cenotaph on place next week and we hope that we shall
Saturday afternoon was one of the enjoy it all as we have in the past.
highlights. You couldn't believe it but
So, for now, should we say,
there was nary a man out of step. The
'Tilnexttime, then!