A number of colleagues retired from Algonquin College last spring. To them, we wish much happiness on their next chapter in life. To us, some have left a few parting thoughts and even some lyrics.
Missy Burgess (Health and Community Studies) (1:45 min video; streamed wmv)
Odette Regimbald (Career and Access Centre) (1:18 min; streamed wmv)
Phil O'Connor (Receiving and Mail Services)
Wayne Martelock (Physical Resources)
(Thanks Val Sayah for capturing the video!)
Hello Algonquin!
Retirement is great! You should all try it.
So far I keep thinking I am on holidays and have to go back to work soon.
I would like to say thank you to all who attended my retirement party. I was totally amazed by the turnout and it really made me feel good to see all of you.
I am able to see some of you when I go in to use the gym, have to stay in shape for Golf you know. So keep your heads up in the halls, you never know when you might run into me.
I hope to be able to break “100” in my golf game regularly, now that I have a new Driver, thanks to the generous contribution of the College community, and have a little more time to play.
People have said before and now I know it is true: “You don’t miss the job, you miss the people.”
Take care and hope to see you soon.
Phil O’Connor
P.S. If you need to plan a party, talk to the guys in Receiving and Mail Services. They know how to organize a good one!! Right, Del?
Wayne’s World
The Man – The Legend
A POEM
A Man Called Wayne
Writers: Billy Edd Wheeler, Jed Perters
(Song by Johnny Cash)
Directed by Physical Resources
Verse 1
When he first got here he rode easy on the big John Deere.
He was tall and lean and you’d of thought
Nothing but a streak of mean could make him seem so tough.
He was a mountain of a man, and I want you to know.
He could cut green grass or shovel freezing snow.
He carried a clip-board in a canvas sock and folks just called him
The Handy-Man Mister MarteLOCK.
Chorus
We gotta walk those lonesome hallways,
We gotta walk them by ourselves
Wayne won’t be there to walk them with us,
We gotta walk them by ourselves
Verse 2
He gave it up, he turned his back
Cause Carpentry was callin’ and he had the knack
He could make kitchen cupboards or dado joints
And he had the skill to make his point
It’ll be this year that we had to part
And I guess we learned his lessons all by heart
I can still hear his power-tools roar down the alley
Where he used to store the paint, plywood and so much more
Verse 3
He worked at Algonquin and I want you to understand,
Mr. MarteLOCK was our Handy-Man