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George Destounis Pioneer of the Year
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Don Watts receiving ancillary award from Jack Bernstein.
Another Famous Players man, Don Watts, Director of Advertising, received an ancillary award for his long and devoted service to the organization. Jack Bernstein, V.P. and Director of Programming at FPL, presented the award to Don praising the tremendous work he has done for the Pioneers and stressing that there ‘‘isn’t anything Don won’t do in the aid of charity.’’
In accepting his award, Don noted that the ‘‘prime purpose of the CPP has always been to provide help and encouragement to those in our business who need it. Many deserving pioneers have received this award over the years for their dedication to this ideal and for their service to our industry and I am proud and honoured that you have considered me worthy of being numbered among them.’’
All of us at Famous are proud of this industry-wide recognition of George Destounis and Don Watts and of their dedicated, unselfish devotion to those in our business. @
People are our most important product... When they stop visiting our theatres or theme parks, there’s nothing left... We might as well go home.
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22 Premiere Issue, January 1981
General Sound’s Cecil Johnston named
Maritimes
Pioneer President by Lela Gee
® Cecil Johnston, District Manager for General Sound in St. John, N.B. was elected President of the Maritime Motion Picture Pioneers at their annual meeting held Oct. 26, 1980, in that city.
Cecil started in the business in 1946 with Dominion Sound Equipment as a service representative for the company in New Brunswick. In the following years, he became a salesman for Dominion Sound and in 1954, left Dominion to join General Theatre Equipment as District Manager for the Maritime Provinces — a position he retained until the amalgamation. of General Theatre and Dominion Sound in 1958 when he became District Manager for the newly-formed General Sound Equipment.
Cecil joined the Pioneers in 1974 and for the past two years has been Vice-President for New Brunswick.
Cecil’s wife, Doris, hails from Belleville, Ontario and has become an ardent Maritimer over the years. They have two children, Denise and Colin. Colin and his wife, Leslie, recently made Cecil and Doris proud grandparents with the birth of their daughter, Katie Marie.
Cecil Johnston
Cecil looks forward to promoting the Pioneers in the Maritimes and increasing membership in _ this industry-related group. All his friends in the Maritimes wish him well in his new office and hope to assist him in furthering the aims of the Pioneers. e
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operation. There are 10 arcades across Canada with four more opening up by the summer of 1981. The first arcade was opened in 1976.
TCL’s radio-controlled boats are located in 16 family entertainment centres in Canada and the U.S. Three are in Canada — one in Quebec at Man and His World and in Ontario at Pyramid Place and Crystal Beach.
The boats are three feet long and are operated on a radio wavelength
from a platform above the pond by means of a steering wheel. The idea of the boats is to manipulate them around props and other boats in the water. The boats are incorporated into the theme of the parks and can range from daring jungle vessels to seaworld research boats.
The boats operation began in June, 1979, and represents another “‘diverting diversification’? for the TCL group. ®
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