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Lodge 246 Fetes 24 Retired Vets

CHAPLEAU, Ont.- Twenty-four members were honored recently at the initial presentation banquet and dance in honor of retired members of Lodge 246.

Each was presented with an engraved purse, suitably filled, and a memorial scroll, reports J. A. Ladrouaur, publicity chairman 246, and general chairman of presentation banquet.

Membership emblems were also awarded to a number of 246 aides at the banquet.

Other honored retired veterans, besides those named in the photo above, who were not available when the picture was taken, were: Samuel McGregor, Jack Radke, Bull Sutcliff, Frank Clement, George Tepping, and Colin Campbell.

Receiving membership pins were Ernest Bernier, 45-year; Bob Dillon, Bob Keays, Alfred Robinson, 40-year; Billie Moyle and John Marice, 35-year; Peter Therriault, Richard Carmichael, 30-year.

Max Brunnette, former local chairman of Lodge 246, was also to have been honored at this event. He and his son, Leo, a Lodge 245 member, met death by drowning last fall in a hunting accident.

HONORED RETIRED VETS AT THE first presentation banquet and dance for retired veterans of Lodge 246 at Chapleau, Ont. are pictured above with some of the guests and fellow-members present.

Standing in the back row, left to right, are Mr. F. L. Mooney, assistant superintendent Schrieba division CPR; Bob Dillon, retired BRTer; Mr. F. M. Saunders, personnel department, CPR; James Robinson, retired BRTer; center row, left to right: Billy Maple, retired BRTer; Bob Fraught and Bob White, retired BRTers; Emile Lemieux, Jack Maurice, J. D. Hamilton, Felix Forten, BRT members.

Seated, left to right: Cliff Pearson, Thomas Jordan, BRT members; Mr. Fallon, special guest, retired from CPR engineer list 26 years ago; Silvanas Woodard, Percy Collius, and Ernest Bernier, BRTers.