The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1961, Qupperneq 69

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Major John K. Hjalmarson
Major John K. Hjalmarson, recently
retired staff officer with Canadian
Army Headquarters, has accepted a
position with the 700,000 member Can-
adian Automobile Association in Ot-
tawa.
He will head the newly-formed club
services division with CAA, which in-
cludes direction of the official appoint-
ment program of hotels, motels and
restaurants by the American Automo-
bile Association in Canada.
Announcement of his appointment
was made by John G. McQueen, exec-
utive secretary of CAA.
Born and educated in Winnipeg, his
career began with the Royal Bank of
Canada in 1929. In 1939, Mr. Hjalmar
son joined the Canadian Army and
went overseas with the First Division
in December of that year. He is a gra-
duate of the first Canadian War Staff
Course held in England in 1941.
In 1942, he took part in the Dieppe
raid and was awarded the Member of
the Order of the British Empire
(MBE).
At the end of hostilities, he was with
the Governor-General’s Foot Guards
in the 21st Armoured Regiment.
Following the war, Mr. Hjalmarson
held various staff appointments in Can-
ada, including a term with the Lord
Strathcona’s Horse in Calgary.
He is married to a former Canadian
Army nursing sister. They have one
son, John Jr.
★
ELECTED OFFICER OF THE
ASSOCIATION OF FELLOWS
OF THE MAYO FOUNDATION
In the internationally known Mayo
Medical Centre of Rochester, Minn.,
there is an Association of Fellows of
the Mayo Foundation comprising
about 650 members. At the annual
meeting last fall Dr. Frances Homer
was elected treasurer. Dr. Horner is a
daughter of Agust and Sella Magnus-
son, formerly of Lundar and Bissett,
Man., and now of Saskatoon. She and
her husband Dr. Bennett Horner, both
graduated in medicine in 1960 from the
University of Sask. On graduation
they went to a large hospital in Wash-
ington, D.C., where they served until
last summer when they were given posts
in the Mayo Clinic. To be immediately
elected to office in the Association
of Fellows of the Mayo Foundation
augurs well for Frances’ future. Dr.
Bennett Horner is the son of Senator
and Mrs. Ralph B. Horner of Blaine
Lake, Sask.
★
Martin James Bjamason, B.A. ,1960,
formerly of Winnipeg, is now in the
Foreign Office of the Department of
Citizenship and Immigration in Ot-
tawa.
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