“LEADERSHIP, CITIZENSHIP, ANDNATION BUILDING FOR OUR TIMEs”

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By building upon its established reputation for leadership, the University of Alberta celebrates its past, and in sodoing realizes the lessons of that past and applies those lessons to its advantage in the present. But, it also has aneye on the future, particularly in taking advantage of new program opportunities, and resulting new opportunitiesfor present and prospective students.

This proposal for an Officers Training Program builds upon a proud legacy. It draws inspiration from the leadershiptenets of the University’s Dare to Discover: A Vision for a Great University, and is consistent with that vision. It is aproposal for a program to hel~ develop the initiative, self-discipline, and leader~hip potential of cohorts of students.It will develop their sense of citizenship and responsibility to others; it will bridge the gap between Canada’s militaryand civilian cultures; and it shouldultimately broa~den the experience and outlook of our public, professional, andparliamentary leaders. ‘ -

Those goals are well illustrated in ths document by~the career of FIt Lt Valera (Va) Ferguson (RCAF, Ret), one ofthe University of Alberta’s own alumnae, and a distinguished graduate of the University Reserve Training Program.This document also complements a 50-minute video, No Country for Young Men (Breakout Educational Network?Stornoway Productions), the story of the Canadian Officer Training Corps, which features prominent Canadians whocornpleted such training.

CANADP~S MILITARY AND THE UNIVERSITY OFALBERTA

Although the relocation and centralization of support for forty-seven regular force and reserve military units, of all.types, at Canadian Forces Base (CFB). Edmonton (Steele Barracks) occurred more than a decade ago, in 1996, it wasonly with the University of Alberta Library’s acquisition of the Sir Samuel Benfield Steele Collection in 2008 that theUniversity and Canada’s military establishment were drawn together in a collaborative relationship that continues toblossom in both expected and unexpected ways. For example, an early product of this new link is the establishmentby endowment of the Canadian Forces Chair in Rehabilitation Sciences, with its emphasis upon the specific medicalneeds of military and civilian personnel wounded, injured, and otherwise disabled in the line of duty.

As a result of this closer relationship between the military and the University, both Provost and Vice-President(Academic) Carl Amrhein and Vice-Provost Ernie Ingles have engaged in conversations with military commandersto explore projects of mutual interest. These discussions led to representation at the symposium Leadership,Citizenship, and Nation Building for Our Times: Is There a Role for Officer Training in Universities? held in the WestBlock of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa on 21 October 2009, with senior r~,ilitary officers, government officials,members of the Commons and the Senate, and university representatives.

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THE “CANADIAN NATIONALLEADERS PROGRAM”

The “Canadian National Leaders Program” is acitizen’s initiative of the Breakout EducationalNetwork working with both the governmentand military to restore the connectionsbetween Canada’s military, civil, and academiccommunities. It aims to raise the public’sperception of the military as a valued andsustaining national institution through theeducation of future leaders to developachievable and linked foreign, defense, andsecurity policies.

Adoption of the “Canadian National LeadersProgram” by Canada’s institutions of higherlearning — an updated version of Canada’sthree former service training programs* —

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and the academy; train future leaders andcitizens who are informed about defense and security issues, as well as the

role and value of the military; provide a pool of both serving and reserve officers; yield a strengthened militaryreflective of national values and perspectives; and revitalize the ethos of national service. As with the earlierprograms, participating students would experience a full spectrum of militarytraining activities, delivered locally andnationally by local reserve as well as active-service units; benefit from paid summer employment and other financialsupport; and enjoy camaraderie while developing their potential for leadership. In addition, without disturbingtraditional curricula of choice, one can imagine enhancing their programs with additional elective courses takenin many different faculties, including the wide spectrum of courses and degree programs offered in French at theUniversity’s Campus Saint-Jean. The University envisions applying interdisciplinary coordination to ensure the mostenriched curriculum possible for participating students.

HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS & TRADITIONS

With the withdrawal of British military garrisons from Canada, the Royal Military College was established at Kingston,Ontario, in 1876 to provide a cadre of professional officers with a higher level of training than that afforded by militiaunits and university rifle corps. However~ the supply of RMC graduates was insufficient to satisfy the needs of themilitary establishment immediately prior to the outbreak of WWI. Therefore, the Government of Canada turned toits universities, some of which established contingents of the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC) in 1912 as

war in Europe loomed on the horizon. For more than half-a-century, through both war and peace, the COTC andits later variants and naval and air force adjuncts, distributed across 27 university contingents, provided Canada’sarmed forces with a stream of commissioned officers. As home to one of the earliest and largest COTC contingents,the University of Alberta played a long and illustrious role (see Appendix).

By the 1960s, however; in the midst of a booming economy and plentiful job market, the number of trainee officerswho opted to serve in the forces upon graduation dwindled, since by then the decision whether to do so hadbecome entirely optional. Therefore, in 1967 the Department of Defense announced that it would terminate theprogram the following year because it no longer justified its operating costs. In its place, a Reserve Officer UniversityTraining Program (ROUTP) was established in 1969 (later renamed the Reserve Entry Scheme for Officers, RESO),which continues to enroll university students, but which has no visible presence on Canada’s university campuses.The 1995 closures of British Columbia’s Royal Roads Military College and Quebec’s College militaire royal furtherconsolidated military training atthe RMC in Kingston, and thus increasingly isolated the education of military officersfrom the education of other professionals.

In addition to widening the gap between Canada’s civilian and military establishments, the abolition of university-based programs in military leadership deprived the universities of valuable teaching tools that throughout thecritical decades of the 20th century helped them to produce leaders in the realms of business, education, medicine,law, politics, and the military, and thus advance the causes of leadership, citizenship, and service to the nation.

The proposed Canadian National Leaders Program seeks to renew those earlier; university-based programs for thebenefit of students, universities, and the country. It will combine the leadership training capacity of the CanadianForces with the highly developed academic leadership capacity of the University of Alberta, in both Canada’sofficial languages. It is less about creating recruits for either the regular forces or the reserves, since it would entailno commitment to join the CanadianForces upon graduation, than about

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history and civics. It also promotesthe development of the personalattributes of flexibility, reliability,initiative, loyalty, responsibility, andresilience.

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In the four decades that have passed since the abolition of campus-based officer training, the gap between Canada’scivilian and military cultures has widened, to the detriment of both. While the benefits to students who once choseto participate in officer training are manifest among many men and women alumni of the COTC, UNTD, and URTP,the nation at large would benefit in future if more of its public, professional, and parliamentary leaders shared asimilar experience of military training.

The Federal Government might soon be seeking a veryfew academic institutions with which to partner in developingpilot programs for the on-campus training of officers. Senior officers at CFB Edmonton have warmly endorsedthe University of Alberta as a preferred participant, and, indeed, they actively encouraged our participation.Indeed, with the base and military leadership so close at hand, we are well positioned to fulfill the requirements ofsuch a program as it evolves. An added benefit would be the creation of a more visible presence for the militaryon campus, although its extent is as yet undefined. Because it would bring additional students to the campuswho would not only be academically qualified, but also fully funded by the government, Provost Carl Amrheinis committed to undertaking a pilot program should such an opportunity arise. The potential benefits of such aprogram and its students warrant giving serious consideration to this proposal.

* Canadian Officer Training Corps (COTC), 1912-68; University Air Training Plan (later University Reserve Training Program, URTP), 1941-68;University Naval Training Division (UNTD), 1943-68.

R.A. Preston, Canada’s RMC: A History of the Royal Military College (Toronto, 1969).

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“THE NATION THAT WILL INSIST ON DRAWING A BROAD LINEOF DEMARCATION BETWEEN THE FIGHTING MAN AND THETHINKING MAN IS LIABLE TO FIND ITS FIGHTING DONE BY

FOOLS AND ITS THINKING DONE BY COWARDS.”

Lt-General Sir William Francis Butler(1838-1910)

After serving in Wolseley’s Red River expedition (1870-71) as the army’s advance intelligence officer~ Butleraccepted a commission from the Lt-Governor of the Northwest Territories to investigate and report on conditionsin the far West. He recounted his journeys in The Great Lone Land: An Account of the Red River Expedition andOther Travels andAdventures in Western Canada (1872). The creation of the North-West Mounted Police stemmedfrom one of the recommendations in his Report. Butler’s second Canadian foray in 1872-73 yielded an equallycelebrated sequel: The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, with Dogs, across Northern NorthAmerica (1873). Butler later recruited Canadian voyageurs for service in the Nile expedition to relieve GeneralGordon at Khartoum.

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VAL FERGusoN’s STORYValeria Aline Ferguson (née Liss) was born in Barrhead, Alberta, andattended a two-room high school in nearby Sangudo, where she learnedfrom a guest speaker about educational opportunities for young men toserve in the military while attending university. “To me, it all sounded veryexciting,” she remembers, “because many airplanes passed over ourfarm at Sangudo, which was on the flight path between Edmonton andFairbanks. I always imagined that Wop May was flying by and smiling atme. During the question and answer period I said, ‘That’s all very well andgood for the men, but what about the women?’ I think I rather startledthis gentleman because he said, ‘Well, only if you are going into homeeconomics and become a dietician; the Air Force is short of dieticians.’So from then on, I directed everything towards that career.”

“I was the fourth of seven children, and although Polish families placedmore emphasis on educating men, my Dad encouraged me to enter themilitary if I wished, but warned me I’d be on my own. When I went to theUniversity of Alberta, at my very first opportunity, I went and registeredin the University Reserve Training Program, one of three women whojoined that year and received officers’ training. When I joined themilitary there were a lot of people who didn’t know very much about it,but we were all patriotic. And I was thrilled, because it gave me moneyfor tuition, summer employment, and a chance to travel.

“As a member of the University Reserve Squadron, we went once a week to lectures and we were taken on flights tovarious air force bases. I still remember my very first orientation flight: it was in a Cl 19 ‘Flying Boxcar~’ a big freighter,ugly as sin, and very cold. They issued parachutes to all of us. Now, how on earth somebody on their first flightwould have ever bailed out of a Cl 19, I have no idea; there was no way I could have bailed out of that plane. I saidto one of the pilots, ‘Where are we now?’ And he said, ‘Oh, I’ll show you.’ And the next thing I knew, we ‘buzzed’the Ellerslie grain elevator.

“We took courses in leadership, marksmanship, military history, and nuclear defence. One summer~ we attendedthe School of Instructional Technique at Trenton, Ontario. We took courses on effective writing and speaking. Therewas a great variety, and I must say that many of those courses helped me in later years. The leadership trainingwas excellent and gave me a lot of self-confidence. I was one of two cadets chosen to go through a commercial,military dietetic training course in Toronto, a five-month program, plus training at a veterans’ hospital, followed byfurther training at an Air Force base. We knew we were a test case, and we were determined to succeed and notspoil things for anyone following us.

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“After graduation, I was commissioned as a Pilot Officer (later promoted toFlight Lieutenant) in the Regular Forces on May 17th, 1957, went overseas,and served at Marville, where two of our RCAF fighter squadrons werebased. The food we served was local produce, although the bulk of oursupplies came from Metz, because the American base there had a farbigger food service operation. In addition to managing the food services,

I also served as a guide to meet and escort many of the dignitaries andVIPs who passed through our base. I travelled around Europe in my freetime, and met a lot of very interesting people through my associationwith the Air Force. I was also made an honourary member of every oneof those RCAF squadrons. I’m still a member, and get invited to theirreunions.

“After leaving ~the forces, I married, and taught in Vancouver highschools. Those courses in public speaking helped me considerably in theclassroom, where I never had any problems with discipline. However, Idid notice a difference in attitude among my senior students, one ofindifference, or even hostility toward the military. But I believe thatattitude has totally changed since then, and young people are moreopen to choosing a military career. Many other fields have opened towomen since then, and travel is now so much easier and affordable, sothe military is perhaps a less attractive option than it was for me. But

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widow of the co~discOVerer of insulin women are apt to tackle things that challenge them, and I would love tosee the officer training program revived on university campuses.

“While today we are focused less on nuclear defenceand concern about missiles coming over the NorthPole, and more about patrolling our coastlines andasserted sovereignty over our lands and resources,we cannot afford to be pacifists. While patriotism isa factor — you should be proud of your country andproud of your uniform — I think many people wouldwelcome it because they realize that our militaryneeds highly trained officers, and that it wouldprovide incentives for students to pursue highereducation through financial support, as well asguaranteed employment, and the leadership skillsand training to pursue other opportunities in thefuture.”

With the Hon. Norman Kwong,Lt Governor of Alberta, and his wife

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APPENDIX: HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTP~S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE MILITARYEarly in .1914, Major Vernon Eaton, with President Henry Marshall Tory’s approval, gave a lecture on military mattersto 15 students. At Tory’s request, he submitteH a report in which he recommended the establishment of an officertraining program at the University “in order to start the graduates bfthe University with a sound view of the country’smilitary necessities.”1 Although the Board of Governors appeared favourably inclined, when a motion to this effectwas proposed by Tory and a second member of the University Senate that an optional course of instruction inmilitary history, tactics, and organization be established, two other Senate members suggested postponing themeasure until physical training programs could.be more fully developed. This second motion was lost, as was oneby the same members that.a “course in peace” also beoffered. Tory thought that such a course should.be taken onby the Extension Department;2 With the coming of WWI, the latter idea was not pursued further.

The local Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) was established later ii~ 1914 and remained a presence atthe University until 1968. The UofA contingent offered students military training and a vehicle for fulfilling theUniversity’s physical education requirements. As a former McGill University professor and administrator, Tory waswell aware of the university rifle clubs that had been in operation much earlier, and the establishment of an officers’training corps at both McGill and Laval Universities before the outbreak of war. On Tory’s re~ommendation, theSenate approved the estabIi~hment of an Officer Training Corps for the University of Alberta. It was modeled onthe program that existed in Great Britain; students who took thecourse had to pass the British War Office’s officers’exams before they could obtain a lieutenant’s or ca~tain’s commission, a practice that continued until 1940, whenthe Canadian bepartrnent of National Defense began administering the tests.

Given the patriotic enthusiasm at the outbreak of war in 1914, it is little wonder that almost all able-bodied malestudents imm&diately signed up for military training, thus enabling Tory to declare in 1914 that the COTC wouldbe mandatory for all male students. However~ he was forced to make it voluntary, when the students protestedthat cothpulsory.military training reflected badly on their patriotism. Classics professor W.H. Alexander was madecámmar~ding officer of the University’s COTC contingent. Other professors were involved as well, both as instructorsand as parade-ground foot soldiers..President Tory took to the drill field himself in a private’s uniform.

In 1915, the University of Alberta students joined with others of the five university companies mobilized to reinforcethe Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry regiment. In 1916, Alberta, together with the Universities of Manitoba,Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, formed the 196th Universities Battalion. The Alberta students, together withtheir friends, formed “C” Company.4 The Department of Extension, using its extensive connections with literarysocieties and clubs, abandoned a good part of its normal activities, and devoted itself almost exclusively to patrioticwork.5 In addition, the University established a Soldiers’ Comfort Club. Tory was proud of the “fact that the West,which is supposed to be the least loyal, has done far more than the East in proportion to its population.”6

In 1916, the UofA sent a company of the 196thWestern Universities (Overseas) Battalion undercommanding officer H.J. MacLeod, who later headed’

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other ways to the war effort. One of its prominent professors, R.W. Boyle, went to England, worked with Sir ErnestRutherford at Cambridge, and developed sonar as a means of detecting submarines. In 1915, President Tory offeredto furnish a 1040-bed hospital, an offer that the government declined.8

During the 1920s, the COTC remained one of the most vigorous and popular organizations on campus. In spiteof war weariness and drastc reductions in Canada’s military establishment, over 200 students, or 25 percent of themale student population, enrolled in the COTC.9 The student soldiers took great pride in achievements such asfinishing second in the 1924 Dominion Rifle Competition, beating McGill in the process. In addition to the usualinfantry, signals, and medical training, the COTC also featured boxing and wrestling. In 1922, air force cadet trainingwas added. COTC members participated in the wider community, such as providing an honour guard for the annualopening of the Provincial Legislature beginning in 1927. The COTC brass and bugle band, formed in 1923, beganbroadcasting twice weekly radio concerts in 1927, and provided music for skaters in the covered Rink that openedin 1928.

As the Great Depression unfolded in the 1930s, the COTC remained popular, doubtless because it offered theprospect of pay and summer employment. In 1932,69 candidates successfully completed their training. This was thelargest number of graduates in all universitiesin the British Empire. In 1936, 94 students received their certificates.In 1937, out of 241 cadets, over 100 passed the certificate exams. When war was declared in September 1939, over700 students enrolled in the COTC and related service programs. To accommodate them and their instructors,the Varsity Rink was opened for drilling, until a separate drill hall was erected. Accommodation continued tobe a problem throughout the war years. The University eventually relinquished its three residences, Athabasca,Assiniboia, and Pembina Halls, St Joseph’s and St Stephen’s Colleges, and the Normal School (aka Corbett Hall) forthe use of the military.

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flight at Mount Royal College in Calgary.Air Force cadets and other ranks in theNumber 4 Initial Training School (ITS)were housed in the three residences andNormal School, which created tensionwith other students until December 1944,when recruiting for the air squadron wasdiscontinued with the ending of the BritishCommonwealth Air Training Program.

In 1943, a University Naval TrainingDivision (UNTD) was established oncampus, under the command of Dr A.W.Matthews, Director of the School ofPharmacy. The UNTD featured divisionsnamed for Admirals Nelson, Rodney,and (later) Anson and Benbow. Cadets,affectionately known as the “Untidies,”undertook much of their training offcampus in a building dubbed H.M.C.S.Nonesuch.11

In 1941, exemption from military training UNTDcadetsonwestcoasttraifliflgexercise 1962 AA71 4-79was granted to senior students in medicine,engineering, and dentistry. By 1943, the Auxiliary Battalion of COTC was eliminated as men went directly into theservice. However, the officer-training component of the COTC continued. The UofA’s record during WWII wasexemplary. The University contingent provided over 2300 personnel on active service. One famous platoon includedboth Walter Johns and Andrew Stewart, future presidents of the University. With the ending of the war~ the need of

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In 1941, the Government called up all able-bodied men for service training, overwhelming the COTC, and resultingin the creation of an Auxiliary Battalion that enabled students to continue with their university studies. In 1942,students were asked to sign a declaration of willingness to go on active service, which led to a decline in enrollment.In 1942, the University established the Women’s War Services unit under the direction of Ms Mabel Patrick. All“Freshettes” were required to take physical training, drill, and rifle training. By war’s end, this service had beenreorganized as the Women’s Army Division. In addition to Red Cross and St John’s Ambulance training, women alsolearned motor vehicle maintenance. All such training was “not to interfere with the students’ academic work and willbe of such a calibre as not to be unduly burdensome to the student either physically or mentally.”

The year 1942 marked the establishment on campus of the University Air Training Program (UATP); members ofNumber 8 Squadron each received over 200 hours of training. That year the University also provided space for theRCAF’s Number 4 Nutritional Laboratory, and in October President Newton authorized the formation of a UATP

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ook upon the armed forces’ training as a useful- and important phase of higher education in Canada, worthy of everybody’s support.”12

In 1951, Number 107 University-Squadron RCAF was established at the University as an outgrowth of the existingRCAF (AuxiIia~y) University Flight, which began operating ir~ 1948. That year also saw the establishment ofa flightof the 107 Squadron and a branch of the COTC at the UofA’s Calgary campus, and ~he addition there of a UNTDunit in 1963, which’ only lasted two years.

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the services for university officer cadetswas drastically reduced. As early asNovember 1944, the ITS was disbanded,’as was the Nutritional Laboratory thefollowing year, its equipmentturned overto the Univer~ity. By 1947, enrollment inthe UNTD was down to 33, and in theCOTC to 4 officers and 120 cadets.

During the ~te 1940s and 1950s, annualenrollment fluctuated, even duringthe Korean conflict. In 1948, the RCAFAuxiliary Squadron was established,but only. as a lecture program. In 1949,the army requested President Newton

•-.“make a public staten~ent indicatingthat you and the University’s authorities

ln.1960;-President Walter Johns wrote to the student body recommendir]g the opportunities afforded by the- ~COTC and noted that he had himself been a memberof the UofA contingent from 1941 to 1949. He Observed

- that.the prog~am offers ~‘an experience of immense value to future leaders.” . Nonetheless, the 1960s wereyears of uncertainty for Canada’s armed forces. Despite the continuatior of the “Cold War” and rising militarye~énditures, ~n 1964 the ‘University ~eservês, aldng with other reserve -forces, were reduced by 50 percent,and there was talk of further reductions and integ~ation. In October 1967, th~ University was advised that theUNTD, the ~OTC, and theURTP ~ouId be discontinued in 1968: “Although the armed forces have a continuingneed for university-trajn~d officers both in the l~eguIar and Reserve forces, a point has been reached where thediscontinuance of the University Reserve programm~ must be considered.since it-is no longer providing officersfor the Reserves in suffi~ie~,t numbers to-support tl~e cost of the programme.” Johns replied that he was “inclinedto feel somewhat nostalgic about this decision since it means the end of a long tradition of University Reservetraining,” but he accepted that the stepwas inevitable.14’ • -

The University of Alberta’s involvement in military training was long and distinguished — from 1914 through 1968— encompassing two world wars and the Korean conflict. The University viewed such training as part of its effortsto provide students with a well-rounded education, while also serving the nation. From the beginning, prominentmembers of staff, including Presidents Tory, Johns, and Stewart, long-serving librarian Donald Cameron, andnumerous other faculty members, donned uniforms, set an example for the students, and played a prominent rolein the University’s contribution to Canada’s military.

1 Major Vernon Eaton, Report on Military Instruction, University ofAlberta, 14 April 1914, University of Alberta Archives, UAA 69-9-453.

2 Walter H. Johns, A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-1969 (Edmonton, 1981), p.50.

Roderick C. Macleod, All True Things: A History of the University ofAlberta, 1908-2008 (Edmonton, 2008), p.44.

‘I H.M. Tory Papers, UAA 68-9-457.

Acting President WAR. Kerr to Sir Herbert Ames, M~ 25 January 1916, U~AA 68-9-457.

6 H.M. Tory to Major A.C. Rankin, 21 August 1915, UAA 68-9-457.

Johns, History, p.53.

8 Tory to Rankin, bc. cit.

Macleod, All True Things, p.44.

Unsigned memo, 10 September 1941, UAA 68-1-3/4/8/11-7;L.G. Thomas, The University of Alberta in the War of 1939-45(Edmonton, 1948).

11 J.D. Kyle, History of the University Naval Training Division,University ofAlberta (Edmonton, 1963).

2 Dept of National Defense, Headquarters, Western Command .

to R. Newton, 14 September 1949, UAA68-1-3/4/8/11/2. ~ .1

13 WalterJohns papers, UAA68-1-2189. ,.“ , .

14 A Paper on University Reserves; Hon. Leo Cadieux, Minister ofNational Defense to President Walter Johns, 22 September1967; and Johns to Cadieux, 3 October 1967, UAA 71-101-82.

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