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Photo by Fangliang Xu<\/p><\/div>\n

Today marks the end of an era at Carleton\u2019s journalism school as one of our longest-serving professors \u2013 Mary McGuire \u2013 heads into retirement.<\/p>\n

Mary has been a full-time member of the Carleton faculty for 31 years. And she\u2019s been in the halls at Carleton since the late 1970s, when she was a star student in our Bachelor of Journalism program, graduating in 1979. One of her former classmates and later a colleague on faculty at Carleton, Dave Tait, said he\u2019s had many chances to learn from Mary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to know each other as J-school classmates and friends, but you’ve also been my teacher – at the Whitehorse Star, at CBC North and then back at Carleton – as I struggled to learn each job you’d already mastered,\u201d Tait said in a faculty farewell message to Mary.<\/p>\n

After graduating from Carleton\u2019s journalism program in 1979, Mary worked for seven years in Whitehorse, primarily for CBC Radio. She also covered northern and Indigenous issues on Parliament Hill and across the North for the CBC\u2019s Northern Service before joining Carleton\u2019s journalism faculty in 1990.<\/p>\n

McGuire was a fixture in the Carleton journalism faculty for close to three decades before cancer took her out of the classroom. She\u2019s taught more than a thousand students over the years and would have taught many more, had illness not cut short her teaching career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are now legions of superb journalists\u2014\u201cMary\u2019s kids\u201d\u2014running around out there, doing their bit to make the world a better place. And it\u2019s all thanks to you,\u201d said colleague Susan Harada.<\/p>\n

Mary also helped on more than one occasion to change the school\u2019s curriculum, was the first to expand courses in radio journalism and then, as the internet evolved, to develop and launch courses in digital and multimedia journalism, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou probably don’t know the degree to which you contributed to the School over the years but everyone else did,\u201d said Elly Alboim, a long-time colleague. \u201cYou dragged us into the digital age with determination and persistence. You led our efforts to professionalize our teaching and modernize our curriculum. It is a legacy you can be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mary McGuire on a stopover in Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic coast in the summer of 1981 on her way to Herschel Island in the Beaufort Sea for CBC Radio.<\/p><\/div>\n

Another part of McGuire\u2019s legacy at Carleton will be the fund she created to help introduce another generation of students to Canada\u2019s North. This fund, administered by the School of Journalism, will support student travel to accept paid internship opportunities with professional news organizations in Canada\u2019s northern territories or in one of Canada\u2019s predominantly Indigenous communities. And with Mary\u2019s encouragement, CBC North agreed to create a new paid internship program for Carleton grads.<\/p>\n

For colleagues, Mary\u2019s legacy will also be the years of friendship and support.<\/p>\n

One of Mary\u2019s former students, Matthew Pearson, has recently become a colleague after joining Carleton\u2019s journalism faculty last year. He summed up the feelings of many with a touching tribute to Mary published in December by Maclean\u2019s magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for the gift of your wisdom, your infectious love of radio, and your enduring dedication to our students. I carry you in my headphones, in my classroom and in my heart,\u201d Pearson said.<\/p>\n

The head of Carleton\u2019s journalism program, Allan Thompson, said he plans to recognize Mary\u2019s departure by launching a new tradition at Carleton\u2019s journalism school, hosting a panel discussion or symposium in Mary\u2019s honour to mark her retirement. It will be up to Mary to suggest the topic and the guest speakers. Watch for more details of this event in the autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best tribute to Mary and her remarkable 31 years at Carleton is to bring people together to talk about how to push the boundaries of journalism, how to help our students create a better world,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cThat has been Mary\u2019s specialty for three decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can learn more online about the <\/em>Mary McGuire Journalism Internship Travel Fund<\/em><\/a>, which is still accepting donations in Mary\u2019s honour. <\/em><\/p>\n

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