R&D party

Bob Pugh wrote:

Dear Jock
I was very pleased to see your R&D blog. It brought back lots of memories. I did recognize one fellow in your group page - person 5, standing by Jim Lait is a fellow by the name of Richard Paquette. He worked for R&D in Edmonton and must have slipped in for the picture. He was an electrical engineer. He and Len Dobrucki, another Stelco Hamilton R&D man working at Stelco Edmonton left later to work in their own company manufacturing automated signs.
I have also attached some photos I had. Most are from an R&D party put on about 1968 or 1969. The "Thermics" group - Ray Meadowcrofts early group working on heat transfer problems, which I belonged to - organized it at Gil Dunlop and Keith Wilson's boarding house on Plain's Road which had a pool - I think it was called "The Ranch". The other pictures are from a 1975 Open House at the R&D Center and an Octoberfest dance in Hamilton about 1969.

Bob Pugh

Octoberfest (non R&D party): Marilyn Pugh, Rick Grigg, Sylvia Heyer, Bob Pugh, Rick’s wife, Klaus Heyer, 2 friends of Rick Grigg?

Pilot plant employee and wife,and Armand Allard and wife

Gil Dunlop’s wife

Secretary?,?

Klaus Heyer, Jim?, German Transfer Student?

Charley?, and Mary and Andy Kay

Frank Markus’s wife, Bob Pugh, Frank Markus, ?

Peter Rhee and Wife

Keith Wilson and Gil Dunlop


Jock and Denise McKay, and others

Lorne Murphy and others

Jock McKay, and Murray Thomson

?, Stu McKechnie, Arlene McKechnie, Ray Meadowcroft, ?, Marilyn Pugh

Ray Addinall, Don Harris, Ray Meadowcroft and Marilyn Pugh

Charley?, and Andy Kay

German Transfer Student and Wife?,and Pat and Henry Paulencu

Howard Meilach on guitar

Denise McKay, Ray Addinall, and Klaus Heyer

Roy Littlewood, Howard Meilach and Ray Addinall

Gene and Doreen Thom

Lorne Murphy, Wife and Pilot plant employee?, Ray Addinall, and Dave Pyle

German Transfer Student?, Frank Markus’s wife, student’s Wife?, and Frank Markus

Gil Dunlop, Mary Kay, and Andy Kay

Gil Dunlop’s wife, and Gil

Keith Wilson & Simonne Allard

R&D Open House:
Bob Pugh and Family, 1975