{"id":49912,"date":"2018-09-18T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=49912"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:38:22","slug":"throwback-2018-carleton-wraps-up-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/throwback-2018-carleton-wraps-up-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback 2018: Carleton Wraps Up Its Homecoming Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Throwback 2018: Carleton Wraps Up Its Homecoming Celebrations\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Thousands of Carleton alumni, students, faculty, staff and people from the broader Ottawa community celebrated Throwback<\/a> \u2014 the university\u2019s Homecoming festivities \u2014 from Sept. 10 to 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were more than 25 events this year, a combination of networking receptions, reunions, lunches, lectures and varsity games, with every Carleton faculty represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Benoit-Antoine Bacon attends the homecoming football game, where the Ravens defeated Queen’s University 42-39.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA special thank you to everybody who joined us,\u201d said Mark Savenkoff, the director of Alumni and Donor Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThousands came back to campus to reconnect with former classmates and professors, reminisce, hear from distinguished speakers, and cheer our Ravens on to victory. We\u2019re already looking forward to Throwback 2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Savenkoff wasn\u2019t exaggerating when he mentioned the Ravens\u2019 victories. All of Carleton\u2019s teams \u2014 women\u2019s rugby, women\u2019s and men\u2019s soccer, and football \u2014 won their games on Saturday, Sept. 15. The football squad beat Queen\u2019s 42-39<\/a> in double overtime, its third straight win to advance to 3-1 this season, in front of a sold-out crowd at MNP Park.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Throwback: Bringing Alumni Home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The Raven\u2019s Rally that day offered family friendly activities, including a miniature train, inflatables, virtual reality stations, a performance by Junk Yard Symphony and food trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ravens Hall of Fame dinner<\/a> on Sept. 13 was also part of Throwback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four new members were inducted in the Athlete category: Earl Cochrane, men\u2019s soccer; Marianne White (n\u00e9e Illing), women\u2019s water polo; Terry McCarthy, men\u2019s hockey; and Harry Van Hofwegen, football. Robert Laughton, men\u2019s basketball, was inducted in the Athlete\/Builder category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton alumnus Ian Mendes, a sportscaster with TSN, emceed the dinner and participated in the coin toss to kick off the football game.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Looking Back on Our Academic Achievements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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On the same night as the Hall of Fame ceremony, Carleton hosted the 10th<\/sup> annual Attallah Lecture<\/a>, \u201cMedia Forensics: Reading the Canadian Cultural Commodity,\u201d delivered by Carleton alumnus Will Straw, the James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the morning of Sept. 15, alumni from across Ontario and Quebec and from as far away as Florida returned to campus to attend the Milestone Anniversary Celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on Sept. 13, the annual Economics Alumni Reception featured special guest speaker Anil Arora, Canada\u2019s chief statistician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throwback 2019 will be held from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 \u2014 save the date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Carleton alumni, students, faculty, staff and people from the broader Ottawa community celebrated Throwback \u2014 the university\u2019s Homecoming festivities \u2014 from Sept. 10 to 17. There were more than 25 events this year, a combination of networking receptions, reunions, lunches, lectures and varsity games, with every Carleton faculty represented. \u201cA special thank you to everybody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":49915,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[17],"cu_story_tag":[1924],"class_list":["post-49912","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-alumni","cu_story_tag-advancement"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/49912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/49912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97501,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/49912\/revisions\/97501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=49912"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=49912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}