Stelco R&D

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

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

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Reminder

Rick Minion email:

Hello all my fellow Stelco retirees,
I hope everyone is well. This is meant to be a simple reminder for you to keep the morning of June 3rd open for our breakfast gathering.

As always it is at:
Place: Smitty's Restaurant
1035 Brant Street
(NE corner of Brant Street and Plains Road)
Time: 9:00 am
Date: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

We have a room reserved at the back of the restaurant.
I`ll be sending out another reminder notice around May 23rd, 2009.

Hope you can attend.
Our next get together after this one will be October 7th of this year.

Take care,
Rick Minion

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Jim and Karen in Mexico Bus Crash!

Jim Lait

Karen Lait doesn’t remember her tour bus crashing head on with a tractor-trailer along a Mexican highway Monday afternoon.
All she recalls from before the accident is getting off the bus for lunch, getting back on after eating and then being told she is going to be OK as her head was being braced while her husband Jim, 60, lay motionless on the bus floor.

The Laits are recovering from non-life threatening injuries in a Mexican hospital after surviving a deadly and horrifying crash in the state of Coahuila. Eleven people died, including three Canadians. Among the deceased was a friend of the Laits, Carolyn Kowaleski of Caledonia. Her husband, Randy, survived.

In good spirits, speaking to the Post from her hospital bed — her room is next door to Jim’s — Karen, 58, explained how lucky she feels to be alive and how sad she feels for families whose loved ones died in the accident.