{"id":6460,"date":"2017-06-18T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=6460"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:43:18","slug":"cu75-founding-day","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/cu75-founding-day\/","title":{"rendered":"CU75 Founding Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Seventy-five years ago, a small college offering night courses for academic credit opened shop at the High School of Commerce, known today as Glebe Collegiate Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Championed by a group of visionary citizens, and by a federal government that wanted to help students build their careers after the Great Depression and service<\/a> in the Second World War, Carleton College steadily evolved into one of Canada’s leading post-secondary institutions, a university that has provided a unique educational experience to more than 140,000 graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Sunday, June 18, half a dozen blocks and a world away from those humble origins, 250 or so people gathered at the grand Fairmont Ch\u00e2teau Laurier hotel for a gala reception to mark Carleton University’s 75th<\/sup> anniversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that date in 1942, the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning was established to assume responsibility for the operation of Carleton College. At the same meeting \u2013 held at the Chateau – the first board of governors was elected, and Henry Marshall Tory<\/a> \u2014 who had been the founding president of the University of Alberta and National Research Council, and established the school that would become the University of British Columbia \u2014 was appointed president and elected chair of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n

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CU75 Founding Day:
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The Founding Day Celebration brought together federal, provincial and municipal politicians, alumni and donors, university executives, faculty and staff, members of the Board of Governors, and people from the community at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton music instructor, and alumnus, Jack Coghill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They were welcomed by a jazz quartet performing vintage 1940s music and a flash mob performance of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy<\/em> before being led into the Drawing Room by bagpiper Jack Coghill, a Carleton music instructor and alumnus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patti Harper, the head of research support services at Carleton\u2019s MacOdrum Library and a driving force behind the anniversary book Carleton at 75: Reflections + Photographs<\/em><\/a>, served as the master of ceremonies for the event, while Elder Jim Albert provided welcoming remarks.
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\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau sent a congratulatory video message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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