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Alumni Memory: Lewis Levendel, BJ \u201965<\/h2>\n

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Graduates of Carleton School of Journalism\u2019s one-year post-graduate program in 1965. From left are: Mebbie Black, Ann Fitzgerald, Lewis Levendel and Vera-Marie Stilwell.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1964 after graduating with a BA majoring in political science at Carleton,\u00a0 I decided to attend\u00a0 Ryerson Institute in Toronto which was offering a journalism-only program, unlike the one\u00a0 offered at my hometown university. But fortunately, Carleton introduced a new one-year post-graduate program. Eleven students enrolled from across the country and quickly bonded in an intensive program led by the iconic Wilfrid Eggleston, head of the Journalism School.<\/p>\n

A standout memory of the year was a student assignment covering the formal inauguration of the new Maple Leaf Flag of Canada on Parliament Hill. On a\u00a0 blustery February, 1965 day, classmate Ann Fitzgerald and I joined throngs to celebrate the launching of the \u00a0flag following a bitter nation-wide debate to choose a new flag. We lustily sang O Canada and teared up as our flag went up the pole. We had the feeling that we were witnessing a \u201ccoming out\u201d of Canada a couple years before the planned national Centennial and Expo 67 celebrations.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, we decided to celebrate the event in a most Canadian way by sliding down the\u00a0 snow-covered back (northside) of Parliament Hill (not as landscaped as it is now), and\u00a0 then heading off to where I lived in Sandy Hill to play a vigorous game of street hockey.\u00a0 Then it was to time to warm up our fingers inside before reaching for our typewriters to complete our assignment.<\/p>\n

Most of the graduates went onto careers in journalism or communications. Thanks to the Journalism faculty assistance, I found a summer job at The Globe and Mail and moved on The Canadian Press Ottawa bureau from where I was lucky to witness Centennial year events on Parliament Hill. – Lewis Levendel (BJ ’65)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lewis Levendel is author of A Century of The Canadian Jewish Press: 1880s-1980s published in 1989.\u00a0 Library Archives Canada holds his donation of documents including\u00a0 many audio recordings of his interviews.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo by Susan O’Connor (BJ ’70)<\/p><\/div>\n

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