Cooperation Program) Subgroup J on Electronics (US/UK/AU/CA/NZ) 1990-94; Director General of the Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (DREV) 1992- 95: Scientific Adviser to the Canadian Forces (Land) 1993-95: Retired from the Public Service of Canada 1995.

Enjoyable life experiences: Was a member of the DREV scientific team that developed the first high-powered pulsed carbon-dioxide laser in 1968. Recognized all over the world today, this invention is seen as a technological breakthrough of the utmost importance in the development of industrial lasers. The huge scientific success of this discovery has not only brought acclaim, high and wide, for Canada, but has marked a major milestone in the development of a world-class Canadian laser industry with exports all over the world. Members of the DREV team were awarded the Gold Merit Medal by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada in 1971 for this invention.

As a semiprofessional trumpet player played in numerous hotel orchestras, concert bands and jazz groups in Montreal and Quebec over a period of several decades. Over the last five years served as church warden for the parish of Sainte- Marie-Mediatrice in Lorretteville. As NDC course member and DREV scientist/manager has traveled all over the world (Canadian North, North/South America, Europe, Asia, Middle-East, Australia and Afiica).

Most memorable SDU recollections: “Beside the long train journey from Quebec to Charlottetown and the ferry crossing from Cape Torrnentine to Borden, my first day in class is probably my most vivid recollection of SDU.

As I recall, it was a mathematics course in the basement of the Science Building. I was sitting very quietly at my desk with my eyes and ears wide open. While I could hear every word Father Roche was saying I couldn’t understand a thing of what he was saying. This was a most traurnatizing experience of tOtal immersion which I will never forget but which I will never regret either. It took me three weeks to figure out what was really going on in class. I also spent some wonderful aflemoons in the very same basement classroom playing trumpet with Roy Grant. Roy was a gifted piano player with a fantastic ear for music and jazz. I wonder what’s become of him.

Coming from a college environment in Quebec with a strict and exacting mentality concerning the opposite sex, it was quite a shock for me on my first weekend at SDU to find a poster in the entrance of our residence building inviting everyone to a dance party at the Prince of Wales College sponsored by the Children of Mary. The nights out in town to watch the hockey games and the famous hot chicken at the Rendezvous Restaurant after the games.”Jacques Comments: “ the next time that UPEI puts out another Alumni Directory, the ‘Class Year Listing’ section should include all alumni without exception whether they have contributed or not. This would add tremendously to the value and usefulness of the directory”.