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Alumni Achievement Awards Recipient

Dave Devall

Radio and Television Arts ’58

In April 2009, two days before his retirement, Dave Devall set the Guinness World Record for the longest career as a weather forecaster. While studying at Ryerson, Mr. Devall served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, where part of his training centred on meteorology. After working at CFPL-TV in London, CFRB Radio in Toronto and CHEX-TV in Peterborough, he auditioned, with 2,000 other hopefuls, for CTV Toronto at its launch in 1961. One of six people hired as a broadcaster, he worked for CTV for close to 50 years. Mr. Devall earned a loyal following with his warm personality and such on-screen antics as drawing symbols on a plexiglass screen. In 2007, he was made an honorary colonel of the Canadian Forces Squadron 436 at CFB Trenton.

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