Aleck Trawick, QC
June 17, 1945 - November 20, 2010
Aleck was a greatly valued member and Secretary of both the Churchill Foundation of Vancouver Island and the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Vancouver Island. He has left a significant hole in our associations and in our hearts. Read Aleck’s obituary and leave a message for his family here.
Friends of Aleck Trawick who would like to donate to the Churchill Foundation Vancouver Island can do so by sending a cheque to:
Churchill Foundation Vancouver Island: 405-3989 Quadra Street, PO Box 30125 Victoria, BC V8X 3E0. Please identify that the donation is in the name of Aleck Trawick. A tax receipt will be issued and Aleck's family will be notified of your donation. Thank you.
MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS
David Rodger turns 100! Read his amazing story here:
Author’s words reach unearthly audience: Chris Gainor’s book on the space program found a fan in Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk Tom Hawthorn Victoria— From the Globe and Mail Monday, May. 17, 2010 01:36AM EDT
As a boy, Chris Gainor arose at dawn to watch the launch of an Atlas missile atop which rode the astronaut John Glenn. He followed the Gemini program, and by the time Apollo took men to the moon, he was hooked, dreaming of the day when he, too, might go into space. Of course it never happened. Mr. Gainor became a journalist, winning a National Newspaper Award with the Vancouver Sun, and later working as a communications director for the NDP caucus in Victoria. Every January, he dons a trench coat and jams a long cigar into his mouth as he impersonates Winston Churchill at a ceremony in Beacon Hill Park to honour the memory of the British prime minister. Read more here
SWCSVI member, Olive Bailey, was awarded a special Commemorative Badge for her secret service at Bletchley Codebreaking Centre in England during WWII. Olive Bailey was among 10,000 men and women who worked in top secret to break enemy military codes during the Second World War.
Now, 64 years later, she and about 1500 other surviving cryptography operatives were recently honoured in October, 2009 , when presented with a special Commemorative Badge by UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Speaking at last year's Churchill Birthday Luncheon, Olive entranced us with her entertaining reminiscences of personal experiences in the secret world of code-breaking and counter-espionage at Bletchley Park.(Churchill famously described the security conscious staff as, “The geese that laid the golden eggs -- but never cackled.”) Foreign Secretary Miliband paid tribute to the codebreakers, saying: “Bletchley veterans represent the selfless commitment shown by every one of the people who worked in signals intelligence. I would like to thank you personally for all that you did and for the inspiration you have given to those who follow in your footsteps". To which, all members of SWCSVI also add our hearty congratulations, Olive!
Click link below for Olive's story and photos in our OCTOBER Newsletter:
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 2011-2012
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SOCIETY OF VANCOUVER ISLAND
PRESIDENT Paul Summerville mailto:presidentvanislechurchillsociety@shaw.ca
VICE-PRESIDENT Chris Gainor
SECRETARY Joel Fagan 250.477.2006
TREASURER Heather Travers heather.travers@shaw.ca
Directors/Chairs
EVENT SPEAKERS Sarah Warder
MEMBERSHIP Margaret Pyper pyperjones@shaw.ca
SPECIAL EVENTS Dan Munro 250-727-2830 dcmunro@shaw.ca
YOUTH & EDUCATION Kieran Wilson kieranw@telus.net
COMMUNICATIONS Matt Kelly
WEBSITE CHAIR Fiona Bramble fionabramble@telus.net
SPEAKERS BUREAU Beth Trawick
Members-at-large
Norman Kerr; David Rodger; Ron Armstrong 250.385.9552 captainca@yahoo.ca
CHURCHILL FOUNDATION VANCOUVER ISLAND
Executive Director, Mayo McDonough
250.595.0008
cfvi@shaw.ca
www.cfvi.ca
