Photo taken at Glen Ritchie's retirement party in 2003.
Glen retired on 27 December 2003.
From left to right:
Jenne Looper,
Carl's Wife, Carl Olsen,
Gerry Brushett,
Art Solomon, Glen Ritchie,
Glenna Duguid,
Serge Bertuzzo
(Thank you Henry
Klain for providing the missing info)
Below
is a picture of Glen Ritchie and Art Solomon in the Royal Canadian Navy in
1966 when they took their Radioman Special
Training Course. Glen Ritchie is second from left in the back row. Art
Solomon is first from left in the middle row. As
Radiomen Special (a.k.a. Comm Research), most of Glen and Art's work
involved the monitoring of Soviet radio traffic and intelligence gathering at
stations in Alert, Inuvik, Bermuda and other places around the world. They were
experts in copying Russian morse code.
I was also a Radioman in the Royal Canadian
Navy but not a Radioman Special like Glen
and Art. I was a Radioman without the
special designation, also known as a Radio Sparker.
My main job was Naval Radio Operations onboard ships and submarines and at shore
Naval Radio Stations, handling ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship, ship-to-ship and
ship-to-aircraft radio traffic... Donald Courcy,
Webmaster
It is with sadness and regret
that I inform you of the recent passing of our colleague, Glen Clifford
Ritchie. After a long and distinguished career, Glen retired from the public
service on December 27, 2003. Many of you will know Glen when he served as
the Manager of the Acton Regional Spectrum Services Centre from 1987 to 2003.
Previously, he served with the Canadian Armed Forces for twenty-four years.
After a short illness, Glen
passed to his rest on Monday, June 6, 2005. For those that loved him as a
husband, father, brother, grandfather, uncle and friend, Glen, through his
struggle, demonstrated the best of the human spirit. On behalf of the Senior
Management Team in Ontario, we would like to express our sincerest condolences
to Mrs. Mary Ritchie and all family members.
Bob
Woodworth
Acting Executive Director
Ontario Region
8 June 2005
