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Interview: Major Richard Gaudion
Original Publication - JAC #53, February 2008 – March 2008
JAC: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
RG: Knowing I'm fulfilling God's will for my life.
JAC: What is your greatest fear?
RG: Drowning
JAC: What living person do you most admire?
RG: Kevin Buddle, my flying instructor
JAC: With which historical figure do you most identify?
RG: William Booth
JAC: What is the trait you deplore most in others?
RG: Selfishness
JAC: What is your greatest extravagance?
RG: Having a cruise on the QE2
JAC: What is your favourite journey?
RG: Flying London Gatwick to Guernsey, my home island
JAC: What do you consider the most over-rated virtue?
RG: Virtue cannot be over-rated.
But if vice is the antonym of virtue, and if money is a
vice, then having no money is over-rated in my view!!
JAC: What talent would you most like to have?
RG: To be able to dance
JAC: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would
it be?
RG: Have my impatience taken away
JAC: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
RG: Isolation
JAC: What is your most treasured possession?
RG: My piano
What is your most marked characteristic?
RG: Being an encourager
JAC: Who are your favourite writers?
RG: Henri Nouwen, AW Tozer, Charles Dickens & CS Lewis.
For a holiday, Jeffrey Archer
JAC: Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
RG: James Bond
JAC: Who are your heroes in real life?
RG: My Dad, Major Colin Johnson (a former Corps Officer), my
Uncle Henry (who died sometime ago, Cristiano Ronaldo and
Roger Federer
JAC: What is your motto?
RG: Qui Veult Peult (My school motto - He who wants to is able
to)
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