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Afaganis golfed at Eastern and graduated in 1952 before embarking upon a Hall of Fame broadcasting career in Canada that spanned 50 years from 1953-2003. Most recently, he was selected for the inaugural class of inductees into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Hall of Fame in 2007. He was elected to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, the Helenic World Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Lethbridge Hall of Fame in 1991, and is also a member of the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame. In 1976 he became one of the early winners of the ACTRA Award for Broadcasting. He also received an Achievement Award in 2001 from Sports Media Canada, and was selected to that organization’s Honor Roll. Born and educated through high school in Lethbridge, Alberta, Afaganis graduated from Eastern and then returned to Canada to work at CFRN in Edmonton in 1953. Eight years later he moved to CBC Edmonton and was soon one of Canada's most popular and most versatile radio and TV sports broadcasters. He was a prominent voice in the coverage of the CFL from 1955 to 1980, and served as president of the CFL Writers and Broadcasters Association. He covered winter and summer Olympic Games from 1968 to 1996 and from 1974 to 1994 he was also a fixture on the broadcast crews of the Pan Am Games, Commonwealth Games and Canada Games. The list of his broadcasting endeavors also includes international hockey, World Track and Field Championships, World Basketball Championships in Finland and Colombia, Canadian Open Golf from 1961 to 1986, World Curling Championships from Scotland, Switzerland, France, Germany and the USA, the Calgary Stampede from 1979 to 2000, Montreal Expos baseball and the NHL Playoffs in the 1980s. He also hosted the popular Par 27 Golf Show for 26 years. While in Cheney, he was one of Eastern's most outstanding golfers, and was selected in 1950 to the Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.