Camp No. 3 Kingston, Ontario Sunday March 20 2011      dimanche le 20 mars 2011

1230 hrs                                à 12h30

Introduction

• Awareness of sensibilities

• History

• Rudyard Kipling

• Camp 3 Organization

• Symbols of the Ceremony

• Ring

• Admin Details

• Questions

Awareness of sensibilities

• Ceremony is voluntary

• Inclusive to welcome all engineers into the profession

• There are some religious references to a higher power – These references are allegorical; think of them

in a way that you are comfortable in your beliefs

• Not gender neutral

History

• January 25 1922 in Montreal

• Professor Herbert Haultain– U of T Mining

• Was Addressing the 36th Annual Professional meeting of the Engineering Institute of Canada

• Suggested the development

of a tribal spirit among engineers

History

• Dr J.M.R. Fairbairn– Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific

Railway

• Suggests to Haultain that he contacts Rudyard Kipling on the subject

• On October 18th, 1922, Haultain writes Kipling

• November 9th Kipling responded.

History

• 7 past presidents of the Engineering Institute of Canada responsible for – the Integrity of the Ritual– Establishments of the Camps to administer the

ceremony to graduating engineers

“…even older ones, out struggling in the world, would find it both tonic and refreshing.”

• Inaugural Ceremony April 25th ,1925 at the University Club of Montreal

Kipling (1865 -1936)

• Journalist, Poet, Author• Nobel Prize in Literature – 1907• Attended United Services College• Poems

– Gunga-Din, Mandalay

• Books– Captains Courageous– The Man Who Would Be King– …

Camp 3 - Kingston

• Separate Organization

• Not part of Queen’s U or RMC

• Not part of the EIC

• Corporation– 7 Wardens – 7 Alternate Wardens

• 25 Camps – 7 Wardens – 7 Alternate Wardens

Camp 3 - Kingston

• Wardens drawn from Cross Section of Engineering Experience– Private Practice / Firms– Industry – Government – Academia – RMC, Queen’s

Camp 3 - Kingston

7 Wardens• Claude Bellerose – CFB Kingston• Kim Brown – City of Kingston (treasurer)• D. DePlanché(Dave) – Empire Life • Dr Jack Jeswiet – Queen‘s Mech Eng • Dr Scott Knight – RMC ECE• Dr Al Stewart – RMC Vice-Principal Academic• Dr Alain Beaulieu – RMC ECE (Chief)

Camp 3 - Kingston

8 Alternate Wardens

• Shannon Claggett – St-Laurence College• Wayne Pickell – Ontario Power Generation• Chris Roney – Roney Engineering• Jim Mason – Queen’s Mech Eng • Brian Surgenor – Queen’s Mech Eng • Maj Marc Fricker – RMC ECE• Marcy Burton – Defence Construction Canada• Dr Phil Bates – RMC Dean of Eng

Corporation of the 7 Wardens

Provide an opportunity for men and women to oblige themselves to the standards of ethics and diligent practice that is required by our profession

Separation from Academia• There is a reason why the Camps are separate

from academia

• Quote from Kipling to Fairbairn June 2 1925

Symbols of the Ceremony

Symbols of the Ceremony

• Symbolize the engineer’s bond to the material of his work

• Reminder of perversity of inanimate things– Property of materials– Their point of failure

• Duty of the engineer to protect the public from his creations

• Reminder of the breaking limit and capacity for failure in the engineer

Oath vs Obligation

• Oath is a promise to oneself

• Obligation is a duty to an organization or profession

The Ring

• In the face of possible difficulty and danger the ring is a reminder to neither abandon your calling nor advance too soon.

• Quote from Kipling in letter to Fairbairn in 1925

Gift of Cold Iron

• The gift of cold iron to newly obligated engineers is to welcome in the community of engineers

• Receive advice from the fellowship of the profession– and in your own time give advice to others

Anvil

• Twice during the ceremony the anvil will be struck 7 times– Symbolizes the 7 original Wardens– … … _ – S S T– things that are seen

• Stone, Steel and Time that proves them

– things that are unseen• Soul, Spirit and Time that tries them like a hammer

Secrecy

• The ceremony is not secret but it is closed and private

• No camera or cell phones

Other

• Piper Anthony Truelove

• Candidate Representative– James Hodgson

• Admin Details (take a handout)