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VOLUME 15 | ISSUE 11 NOVEMBER 2013 From the Chief Executive Officer NOVEMBER 2013 s regular readers complaining that they hadn’t received VOLUME 15 | ISSUE 11 of this column Dimensions. During the entire 2012 calendar know, I like year, we received only 84 such calls and A publication for the WHRO community in Hampton to use this emails. Roads, VA Aspace each month to feature a new, really Our staff members immediately attempted We appreciate the support of all of our members, to reach the Sandston Distribution Center to and thank each and every one of you! special program, or Bert Schmidt to invite you to an inquire about the cause for the delay, and to WHRO maintains an open meeting policy for our upcoming community try to find a workable solution. I’m sorry to Board of Directors and Community Advisory Board. event, or just tell you something interesting report that thus far, they have received no Members of the public are welcome to attend and ob- response. In fact, they have yet to reach a serve these meetings. To find out when and where these you might not know about WHRO. meetings are held, consult the “Inside WHRO” section live employee. of our website, whro.org, or call 757.889.9420. This month, I want to let you know about a problem we’ve been having, and what we’ve Preparing Dimensions two weeks earlier isn’t PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER been doing to try to correct it. an option, as the majority of the information Bert Schmidt 757.889.9410 comes from our national program partners A bit of background: last year, the US Postal – PBS and others – who provide their DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Service announced that it would close the schedules as close to air time as possible, to Jan Johnson 757.889.9358 processing center in Norfolk, and process ensure the programming is as current and DIRECTOR, CORPORATE SUPPORT Hampton Roads’ mail at the Postal Services timely as possible. Diane Rogic 757.724.4423 center in Sandston, just outside of Richmond. Despite assurances that our mail would not We have taken the step of writing to our CREATIVE SERVICES OFFICER be delayed by even so much as a day, we Congressional representative, informing him Daniel Harrell 757.889.9491 were apprehensive. WHRO depends heavily of the potential for very real hardship unless the problem is resolved, not just for WHRO CONTENT OFFICER on the mail, both to communicate with Heather Mazzoni 757.889.9396 potential and current members, and to raise but for everyone in Hampton Roads who and receive much needs funds. depends on the Post Office to be efficient and CONTRIBUTING WRITERS responsive. Jan Johnson, Kelly Jackson, Anthony Dimensions is one of the most important McSpadden,Whitney Raymo, Dwight Davis and pieces of mail we send. It contains In the meantime, please know that we are Dr. Raymond Jones scheduling for all of our radio stations and aware of the situation, and that we’re doing TV channels. This is timely information, everything we can, and we will continue VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES MANAGER to do everything we can to make sure you Sharman Goode-Hurd 757.889.9379 and it’s not available anywhere else in print. So a few months ago, when we started are getting the best and most accurate AUDIENCE SERVICES | 757.889.9499 receiving complaints that it wasn’t being information – on time. delivered on time, we began to worry. Dimensions (ISSN 1047-5532. Publication No. 190-200. And as it turns out, we had good reason. Copyright 2004) is published monthly by the Hampton Some members have reported receiving Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc., a non-profit corporation, licensee of WHRO TV Dimensions not just a few days late, but as 15, Public Television, and 89.5 WHRV FM / 90.3 much as two weeks past the first of each WHRO FM, Public Radio. Distributed to WHRO month. Thus far, in the last two months, members who contribute $48 or more annually. we have heard from dozens of members BERT SCHMIDT DIMENSIONS: 5200 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, President & Chief Executive Officer VA 23508 Phone: Southside 757.889.9400; Peninsula 757.881.9476; Williamsburg 757.903.2302 FAX: 757.489.0007 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.whro.org Periodicals postage is paid at Norfolk, VA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to DIMENSIONS, c/o WHRO, 5200 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23508. Locally owned by 19 regional school systems, Inside this issue WHRO is a public service institution of education, culture and citizenship utilizing its communication Letter to the Members.................................. 2 resources to serve and interact with the Hampton On the cover.................................................. 3 Roads community. TV Highlights........................................... 5,7 WHRO in Education................................. 10 Defenestration............................................ 11 Radio Highlights........................................ 13 On the cover JFK: American Experience Coming November 11 & 12, 2013 o many people who are alive missile crisis, was apparent, today, John Fitzgerald Kennedy the potential legacy of the New is the President who will be Frontier will forever be left to forever enshrined in myth by speculation. Without the years Tan assassin’s bullet. But for those who promised to one so gifted, we remember exactly where they were on will never know what he might that cold day fifty years ago, the events of have accomplished in this November 22, 1963 will always burn hot country he loved, and throughout the world. in our memories. John Kennedy was the President whose youth and vigor promised There will be those who view this program We invite you to share an evening of a New Frontier, a new opportunity, a break with the dispassionate eye of a student of remarkable programming with your family from the monochromatic years of the fifties. history – and there will be those of us who and friends. Sit together, watch together and will watch, grieving as we see our youthful contemplate the legacy of John Kennedy – John F. Kennedy’s presidency long defied dreams die with the larger-than-life young and share your reflections on our Facebook objective appraisal, but recent assessments Prince of Camelot. page facebook.com/whropublicmedia have revealed an administration long on promise and vigor, while somewhat lacking But no one who watches these programs will in tangible accomplishment. His proposals for be unmoved and uninspired by this man who a tax cut and civil rights legislation, however, asked us to look inside ourselves to our better promised significant gains in the months angels – this young man who asked us to before his assassination. 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