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June Newsletter June Newsletter June Newsletter June Newsletter Issue 10 June Meeting Reception 12:00 noon Lunch 12:30 pm Bala Golf Club Ratecard $18 Members / $20 Non-members June 19, 2002 Phone 610-436-4217 Inside this issue: It’s June, and along with of the Go Patrol for 16 years. brides, flowers and warm He was one of the first of the Happenings 2 weather, the Broadcast Pio- helicopter-born traffic report- neers on the 19th will cele- ers. John will speak on his brate John Carlton’s 60th year experiences at the Bala Golf More Happenings 2 in broadcasting. John and Club where you can get the wife Gen operate the Commu- full Carlton story. And More... 2 nications Farm in Schwenks- ville, their own advertising agency. He is also still on Please join us but call for the air on WPEN. John will reservations 610-436-4217. be remembered as the voice John Carlton Ed Papazian and Board News We had a rather sad board cast Pioneer found a “dream which about fifty members The Broadcast Pioneers meeting as Ed Papazian, our come true” summer intern- and friends enjoyed with web site will have President, announced that he ship. It has been suggested Lucille Luongo, President reached 1,000,000 hits will be unable, due to his that a way be found to name and CEO of the Library of during the month of health, to continue. Ed, a these summer internships for American Broadcasting at the June. Have you tireless worker for the club, Ed Papazian since without University of Maryland. A checked it yet. It is was given a standing ovation his efforts (working with thoroughly engaging speaker www.broadcastpioneers.c by the group as he left early Frank Hogan) they would she told of her career as Sen- om. from the luncheon. As his not be a reality. ior Vice President of Katz last act in office, Ed led the Media Group, and showed most successful of our new artifacts from those collected As a result of these efforts, Don’t forget to send your ventures the symposium at the Library. items for inclusion in the which was held at WCAU. BP of Philadelphia will be newsletter to Paul Nor- Many comments from the forming a Student Broadcast ton, 205 Ocean View students who loved it and our Pioneers group which will Bill Webber, long time mem- Blvd., Lewes, DE 19958. members who made it happen continue our outreach efforts. ber and in our Hall of Fame, Phone Paul at 302-645- on its success. Fifty to sixty It is planned in this regard to has accepted the nomination communications majors had have a student newsletter and as President. Frank Hogan, 8910, or e-mail at nan- an on-site learning experi- web page. More later. a recent nominee for the [email protected]. We need ence, and one of them who board, will become Vice your help. made contact with a Broad- President. Thanks to all in- We had a wonderful program volved for their hard work. Happenings John Roberts has heard from past presi- along a major recapitulation celebrating the who worked for many years with Dorie dent Bob Smith. Bob retired from his job fiftieth anniversary of the ‘Bandstand’ Lenz at Channel 17. We welcome Bob as Dean of the Temple School of Commu- show from the Philadelphia Inquirer. It Hamilton who is program director of nications some years ago and moved to includes mention of Bob Horne the first Magic 102.7, Oldies Radio, in Miami, FL. Plimpton, MA, a town of 2500 which he bandstand host, Charlie O’Donnell, band- Bob has had a long career working on the loves. It is a half hour north of Cape Cod. stand announcer, then news director at East and West coasts in broadcasting since Bob, who is active in the community, says WIBG-A, and now announcer on Wheel of 1963. A Philadelphia native, he misses politics there makes Philadelphia politics Fortune. For nostalgia buffs those were cheese steaks. look orderly. great days with the Bandstand phenomena at 46th and Market. We note with considerable sadness that one Secretary-Treasurer Shirley Morris, and of our past presidents Shelly Gross is mov- member Vicky Benedict Farber both ad- Welcome new members Mike Brooks of ing. He has put his home on the market vise of the death of Bill Berry, 68, an ac- WMGM in Atlantic City where he is an air preparatory to moving to the Devonshire count executive at WFIL-TV and several personality and salesman. He began his Retirement Community in Palm Beach, FL other local TV operations. He was a Blair career, and still lives, in Philadelphia where on September 1. We wish him all the best TV rep for Channel 6. Shirley also sent he was at WUSL. Also, Bobbie Glessner in his new community and hope he comes back often to visit. More Happenings It was our pleasure to talk to Dick Coving- he can for dinner, etc. He was at WCAU Dick will be remembered for his disc ton who has recently joined the Pioneers. many years ago when Herb wore the gas jockey and program director work at WIP Dick, who has one of the great broadcast station attendant’s uniform (which I’m sure when it was at its peak in the 60’s. He voices, is still heard on KYW. He spent 25 Herb misses) while doing the weather. wants to be remembered to all his old years with the news operation at 1060 be- CBS sent Dick to Boston to be PD at WEEI friends and associates. Perhaps he’ll join fore retiring 13 years ago. He spent some and then he came to KYW. us at lunch one day. time in Morris, NC near Raleigh and would go to a studio in Raleigh to record his We also heard from Dick Carr who is a “Bob Dole KYW announcements. He moved back to new member. Dick joined Park Communi- Injured Veteran be near his daughters, one of whom works cations in 1991 and now manages Park Soft on Corporate Controls as a right hand of Nancy Glass who has an Outdoor Advertising with divisions in Hard on a new drug.” independent production company. Dick, Syracuse, Binghamton, Elmira and Utica. now 75, belongs to St. David Golf Club Dick also hosts the ‘Big Bands and Blues’ and plays there as often as he can. He says each week on WAER, Jazz 88, the Syra- Haiku in the Washington Post he ‘hooks up’ with Herb Clarke whenever cuse University public station. Locally, Style Section And More…. Edna Whittington Cathcart reports a service, enterprise reporting, daily news would like you to know that he’s alive and chance and happy meeting with Ronnie writing, weekly news, headlines, photogra- well and living in Phoenix. After spending Snowden. Edna retired from WCAU in phy and others are all categories that re- 15 years as GM of a hotel in San Francisco, 1973 and had not seen Ronnie since. They ceive distinctions. An excellent magazine he moved to Arizona and plays golf when- recognized each other! Holy Moley. It saluting the awards is produced. ever he can. He says he’s just like a kid was a joyous encounter. Ronnie was the again. A co-founder, with former Good producer and right hand of Ed Harvey. Morning America weatherman John Cole- We note with sadness the passing of a for- man, he designed the weather channel, but mer president of the Philadelphia Pioneers. some missteps caused them to lose their Pioneers Chairman of the Board Pat Delsi Warren Kraetzer, 80 a broadcast pioneer control in that operation. ABC sent him to in his other job as President of the Philadel- who saw both great growth and great disap- Hollywood to do Hard Copy type shows phia Press Association has been laboring pointment while serving as GM of WHYY- but he couldn’t stand all day in a trailer with a group of other judges to produce the TV, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Kent cutting T&A shorts for ‘those miserable 57th annual awards for local press, TV, and County Hospital, RI. shows’ so he quit. He can’t stand what radio news operations. There are many they’ve done to TV these days. “The categories and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes and dumbing of America.” says Pete. honorable mention are awarded. Public Former WFIL-TV 6 Director Pete Kouris Page 2 June .
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