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 , CFCY.' This was very, very exciting to me to think that I would be ^7 6^ When CFCY TV opened, Eric Jessome produced his already popular talent show, "Amateur Cavalcade". 123 i