Marie-Claire Graves:
CLASS OF 1970
Marymount High SchoolClass of 1970
Paris,
Loyola UniversityClass of 1974
Montreal, QC
Marymount CollegeClass of 1970
Quebec city, QC
Marie-Claire's Story
Life
My Spouse
Rick and I met in Ottawa during my last posting before I retired from the army.
My Kids
My son is a wonderful young man who is currently making a splash in the advertising world as the creative Director in an Orlando advertizing firm. He is very talented, intelligent and well liked by his peers and loved to pieces by his mom of course!
My Pets
I have two cats, Radar was born in 1991 in Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec; I was the first human he saw; and Nuku a lonely little cat found in a pet store in Ottawa, Ontario. Both cats came with me to the US where I now live. Both are indoor only, but they have shown a preference for lying in the sun spots of sunny Tampa Bay Florida over the greyer winters of Little Rock, Arkansas. In short they are glad to be back in FL after a two year stay in AR..
My Job
I now scrapbook for others who don't have the time to scrapbook for themselves. You can see some of my work at webshots.com user mccplg.
Hobbies: I make Teddy Bears from scratch, paint
Own a scrapbook business: scrapbookbuddies.com which I can expand to 12 countries including of course Canada.
Military
I joined the Canadian Armed Forces (Army) in 1973 as a Private and retired in 1998 as a Major. For me military life was a blast! As a full time reservist I spent most of my years in the Montreal area, and I must say I really loved it. Here are some of the highlights.
Basic training with the RMR girls, Daria, Irene, Zoe and myself. We snuck out of the barracks, just to show we could outwit the brass and the MP's.
Officer training at BFC Valcartier with the English girl's platoon the summer of 1975. What a team we were both in the barracks and on leave.
The Montreal Olympics, w...Expand for more
ho would have thunk that a 23 year old would be assigned as the Assistant project manager on the construction of the Olympic Village and pull it off. Good thing I had no idea what a big job it was, especially as my boss couldn't do much of it as he couldn't speak French with the many Department heads. Then off I went to be a senior operations officer (the rest were all Majors and I was a 2LT) during the actual Games.
The 80's were all about being a personnel Officer at Army HQ and one of the funnies was getting a call from a General in National Defence HQ wanting to talk to me about why one of the Reserve units had downranked a number of their officers and non-commissioned officers so that they could be the ones sent over for Charles and Diana's wedding. Would you like to speak to the Colonel, General. No, I want to speak with you, I was given your number...duh?
In the 1990's I became involved in computers and having my mind taken over my a muse of some sort, wrote a poem which just recently a friend and ex-boss insisted needed sharing here. The poem, only handed out to a few, made it across the world, was used by General Dallaire during a meeting at the Pentagon and the UN on his return from Rwanda, handed out to numerous school children in Montreal during the 50th Anniversary of Peacekeeping and was part of someone's thesis. Wayne, I don't think I'd have written any of this bio had you not brought it up, LOL! The poem originally written in French, was translated into a matching rhythm in English so that it could be read in front of an international audience of 3500 in Quebec City in 1994.
I recently, (June 2009) moved from Florida to Northern Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati.
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