Wayne Mac Culloch:  

Update 7 July 2019 Enjoying retirement! Still engaged with Veterans issues and Professional Engineering activities but also spending time pursuing the many things I have set aside over the past 30 years for retirement. In addition, we are preparing to receive our first great-grandchild (a girl) later this month. Overall, life is moving at a more relaxed pace and I'm enjoying it thoroughly! New information I retired from working on 29 Sep 2018, but have yet to slow down. I'm still very involved in Veterans' issues, so the run-up to Nov 11 was hectic. Since that time a number of family issues have kept me busy, and on 6 Dec 2018 we welcomed our fifth grandchild. The grandkids certainly keep us hopping! We're looking forward to the New Year to really get into retirement mode! Cheers! Life After LRHS, I went to Royal Military College in Kingston, graduating with a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering. That grew to the Master's level at the Royal Military College of Science in the United Kingdom in 1991. I did toy with the idea of pursuing a MBA at Queen's, but things didn't work out. In the Armed Forces, I have retired as an Engineer and have served throughout Canada with the exception of the Yukon, and had quite a few tours overseas - the last one in Bosnia (again) from May 2000 to June 2001. Work kept me extremely busy - I seem to have had a knack for solving big, complex problems, so lots of folks kept knocking on my door to do more. "Success has its own rewards (punishments?)." I'm happily married to a wonderful lady from Nova Scotia, and we have two girls and one boy (Jennifer, Lauren and Donald) - and two grandsons (Martin Jr and Maddux). We've been in Ottawa now for quite some time, and it looks like this will be the permanent home. 'Pets' include 2 horses, 3 cats, 1 African pygmy hedgehog and 100 gals of goldfish (who like to be petted - really!) While I wasn't really looking to retire, now that I'm officially a disabled veteran, the Canadian Forces chose to release me, with my last day of work being 7 September 2007. In retirement, my plan was to make the 'honey-do' list my full-time job for a while - certainly my wife Deborah has been patient enough over the years - and I have a few pet projects of my own. But before my retirement leave ended in October 2008, I tested the job market with the Public Service, but decided not to pursue full-time paid employment for the time being - I have found volunteer work to be more fun and rewarding. To those ends, I now spend one day a week at the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre in Ottawa, on behalf of Veterans Affairs Canada, providing a Peace module to about 100 students aged 14 to 17 years from across Canada who visit the capital for a week. While this is far and away the highlight of my week, I also enjoy the many aspects of Freemasonry (which accounts for much of the remainder of my time). Ah, but if I though I was done with working for a living, I was mistaken. Just before Christmas 2009, I received a phone call from a former Canadian Forces colleague, asking me to fill a vacancy in the Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), Parliamentary Precinct Branch, helping with building engineering and maintenance management of these historic edifices. How could I say no? Now, if you've read this far, you might just be motivated enough to drop me a line. Cheers! Military 1968-1971 - Gunner, 2 Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, Montreal, Quebec 1971-1976 - Officer Cadet, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario 1976-1976 - Francophone Instructor, Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering, Chilliwack, British Columbia 1976-1978 Operations Officer, 5e Régiment du Génie de Combat, Valcartier, Quebec 1978-1978, Project Engineer, Spence Bay Airfield, 1 Construction Engineering Unit, Spence Bay, Northwest Territories 1978-1979 - Operations Officer, 5e Régiment du Génie de Combat, Valcartier, Quebec 1979-1981 - Regular Support Staff Officer, 45 Field Engineer Squadron, Sydney, Nova Scotia 1981-1983 - Staff Officer to Director General Military Engineering Operations, National Def...Expand for more