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In Memory of Elbert Stanley Reid, P.Eng., B.A.Sc. '51 This is to alert APEGBC members to the recent passing of Elbert Stanley Reid, P.Eng., B.A.Sc. '51 on July 5, in Duncan, BC. Born in Chilco, BC, in 1923, Bert attended school in Vanderhoof, graduating in 1941. He joined the RCAF and was assigned to the Pathfinder Squadron, leading bombing missions over Europe. In 1945, Bert enrolled in Forest Engineering at UBC and, after obtaining his degree, started a career in consulting at T&H Engineering and Forestry in Vancouver. Under Bert’s guidance, T&H carried out two of the largest industrial forest engineering projects undertaken in BC, one of which pioneered the use of helicopters to transport and re-supply field crews. In 1961, Bert and Jim Collins, P.Eng., founded Reid, Collins and Associates (RCA). The first years for the company were tough, so Bert accepted a long-term assignment to a U.N. Development

Programme/Food and Agriculture Organization forest engineering study in Ecuador. Bert uprooted his family for five years in Quito, while RCA, under Collins, expanded its domestic consulting capabilities. Returning to RCA in 1969, Bert focused on international business development and project management. When he retired in 1985, RCA had grown into one of the largest forest engineering consulting companies in the world. Bert continued independently consulting until the mid-1990s. Bert had a courteous and easy-going personality and a fine sense of humour, not above playing gentle pranks on colleagues. His business dealings were always honorable and fair; in a word, he

was a gentleman. L. Gary Kenwood Vancouver, BC

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