WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1976, PAGE 11 Whitby resident since 1974 Kenneth By BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer In recent years, Whitby has become the home of a number of prominent people in the media. Newscaster Tom Gibney, film makers Ted Curl and Vic Vickers, and CFTO pro- grammer George Mackenzie are all Whitby residents. Another Whitby resident, who came to this town in the fall of 1974, is Kenneth Bagnell, editor of the Imperial Oil Review, one of North America's leadià g corporate• magazines. In June 1976, the Interna- tional Association of Business Communicators named the Imperial Oil Review the winner of the Award of Excellence for North America, in competition with 300 other publications. Mr. Bagnell travelled to Denver Colorado to receive the award, which was being pre- sented for the first time to a Canadian publication. The Imperial Oil Review also won the Award of Excellence for the Canadian branch of the association in the spring of 1976, and Mr. Bagnell attended the presenta- tion at Quebec City. For many years the Imperial Oil Review has featured historical articles and information on the petroleum industry. Mr. Bagnell has brought social issues to the magazine's pages in recent months, particularly with an article he wrote on mental illness, which appeared in the third issue of 1976. Mr. Bagnell has hopes of expanding the magazine's circulation and making it a monthly instead of a bi- monthly publication. "I determine the character Kenneth Bagnell, a Whitby resident since the fall of 1974, is editor of the Imperial Oil Review, one of the top corporate magazines in North America. Mr. Bagneil has had a varied career in television, radio, neWspapers and magazines since the age of 16. 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On the subject of expertise Mr. Bagnell ias iad a long and varied career in the media since ie becanie an announcer and disc jockey at a radio station in Sydney Nova Scotia at the age of 16. At 18 he was writing a sports column for a weekly paper in Sackville, New Brunswick, for 10 cents per inch of copy, and working in the summers at CBC and private radio stations. For four years in the winter he worked toward a degree in psychology at Mount Allison University, and did graduate work in theology at Pine Hill College in Halifax. From 1958 to 1961, Mr. Bagnell was a United Churci minister at Riverside, a com- munity near Moncton New Brunswick. At this time, A. C. Forest, editor of the United Church Observer heard of his work in journalism and invited Mr. Bagnell to join the staff of the Observer. The Observer sent Mr. Bagnell on trips to India, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, which pro- vided him with material for articles in the Observer, Weekend Magazine the Star Weekly and Maclean's Maga- zine, as well as television documentaries for the CBC. Mr. Bagnell says ie visited remote villages in Russia where no Canadian had been for 30 years, and wrote a series of articles on the church and youth of Russia for the Observer. From 1966 to 1968, Mr. Bagnell was managing editor of the Observer, but after two years in this position he wanted to get back into journalism, so he joined the Globe and Mail in Toronto as an editorial writer, and feature writer for the Globe Magazine. Magazine. Mr. Bagnell was the last editor of the Globe Magazine in 1971 and 1972. The magazine folded in 1972, he said, because it was not financially viable, being printed for only one paper, and not for several papers like Weekend, or The Canadian Magazine. From 1971 to 1972, Mr. Bagnell was a columnist, sharing the front page of the seçond section of the Globe and Mail with Bruce West. His column was of a general nature, on ideas, politicians, walks in the city, recipies and nostalgia pieces about growing up in the Maritimes. He found the nostalgia pieces the most popular, and received as many as 100 letters a week. During his stay at the Globe and Mail, Mr. Bagnell dideditorial commentary for television and radio shows, such as "Weekday" on the CBC network, and "Dialogue" on CFRB on an occasional fill-in basis. "This became a terrible load and I had no time for anything but work", Mr. Bagnell recalls. "I decided Bagnell wins top honors for Imperial Oit Review to get out from under it and became host for a CBC news show in Halifax. Mr. Bagnell was- host of "Here Today" in Halifax from 1973 to 1974, but the CBC in Halifax had a bad morale problem, he said, and he was happy to accept the editorship of the Imperial Oil 'Review when it was offered to him. Mr. Bagnell said he and his wife Barbara chose Whitby as their new home at this time "because we wanted to live in a small community. We had passed 'through Whitby several times and liked the location, and want- ed to be near the water. Every day we are grateful for the choice", he says. "We really love Whiitby". Mr. Bagnell, who lives on St. Lawrence Street, says many Whitby people remem- ber his columns which he wrote foi the Globe and Mail. 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