Gathering All the News

of the Law School at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. David MacDonald into the Ministry into politics becoming a cabinet minister and later Canadian Ambassador to Ethopia.

David started in a small way. “I was always interested in broadcast- ing”, he told me. “I decided when I was seventeen that whatever I was going to do, working at a radio station would be a very interesting job. and I began during summer vacations. It was a very informal arrange— ment but I do remember how much I was paid. It was twenty—five dollars a week and that was big money in the spring of 1954. It was a King’s ransom. My eyes were as big as saucers! After learning the basics of the control room, I was allowed to say, ‘CFCY in Charlottetown, 630 on your radio dial’ or ’This is the friendly voice of the Maritimes, CFCY.’ This was very, very exciting to me to think that I would be

When CF C Y TV opened, Eric Jessome produced his already popular talent Show, ‘Arnateur Cavalcade”.

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