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firm, Stein Communications Inc. Brian J. Bu- Fellowship. chanan, serves as Technology director, media relations, Appointments at newly expanded Washing- acting director, communications. ton office, Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & Mary Kichefski, account executive, Julie Si- McRoberts, St. Louis -based communications mon Communications, Miami -based public law firm: Carl W. Northrop, managing partner, relations and marketing firm, named VP. Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi, Washington, and John Griffith Johnson Jr. Julie Osier, former VP, public relations, The and Jack R. Smith, partners, Kadison, Entertainment Channel, New York, and for- Pfaelzer, to partners. mer head, public relations, Showtime there, joins Cablevision Systems Corp., Woodbury, N.Y., as director, public affairs. Deaths Lisa DeLucia, merchandising -public relations manager, Pentel of America, Los Angeles - Quinn Martin, 65, pro- based public relations firm, joins KCOP(TV) ducer of more than 16 Strange Mason there as media supervisor, creative services hour-long network Appointments at Acrian Inc., San Jose, Ca- department. television series and 20 movies the lif. -based equipment manufacturer: David A. Tom Hayes, senior promotion producer and of week, died Sept. 5 of a Strange, director, program management, assistant to director, creative services, KCST- heart attack at his Ran- Loral Corp.'s Narda Western Operations, mi- TV San Diego, joins KOVR(TV) Stockton, Ca- cho Santa Fe, Calif., crowave equipment manufacturer, Manhattan lif., as promotion manager. Beach, Calif., to director, marketing, ampli- home. Most recently fier division; Stan Mason, director, engineer- president and CEO of ing, Narda, to same capacity, amplifier divi- Quinn Martin Com- Allied Fields munications film pro- sion; John P. Quinn, private consultant and Martin, 1968 company, former group manager, semiconductor mar- duction founded after the 1979 sale of Quinn Martin keting applications, Avantek, Milpitas, Ca- Robert E. Fowler Jr., president and chief oper- Productions, he began his career as editor, lif., to Midwestern regional sales manager. ating officer, Rubbermaid Inc., Wooster, Ohio, joins Josephson International Inc., writer then producer with Desilu Productions Philip J. Levens, VP, broadcast TV oper- which includes Talent Agency Group, New for the 1955 -1958 Jane Wyman Theater. In ations, ABC, New York, retired this year York, as chairman and CEO, 1959, he produced a two-part pilot for The Desilu Playhouse which would become the after 30 years, joins LPL Communications, Megan Hookey, corporate trainer, Philadel- radio frequency equipment leasing company weekly sedes, The Untouchables (with Robert phia -based group station owner and multiple 1959 the there. as VP. radio frequency operations. Stack; ABC, -1963), first of many cable system operator, Harron Communica- one -hour crime shows that would include The Kenneth M. Gores, director, engineering, tions, joins National Cable Television Associ- Fugitive (with David Janssen; ABC, 1963- Harte -Hanks Cable, San Antonio, Tex., ation, Washington as director, industry corn - 67), Dan August (with Burt Reynolds; ABC, named VP, operations and engineering. munications, serving as liaison between 1970-71), Cannon (with William Conrad; and state associ- Mark Bowers, director, engineering, Cable NCTA and cable operators CBS, 1971 -76), The Streets of San Francisco Communications of Iowa, Algona, Iowa, ations. (with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas; joins Centel Cable Television Co., Oak William Lockwood, account supervisor, client ABC, 1972 -77), Barnaby Jones (with Buddy Brook, Ill., as director, technical planning. services, Ehrhart-Babic Associates, Engle- Ebsen; CBS, 1973 -80), The Manhunter (with wood Cliffs, N.J. -based market research Ken Howard; CBS, 1974 -75), Caribe (with Thomas Volpicella, account representative, firm, named VP, corporate director, oper- Stacy Keach; ABC, 1975) and Most Wanted magnetic products division, professional pro- ations. (with Robert Stack; ABC, 1976 -77). Other ducts group, Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Elms- series included Twelve O'clock High (with ford, N.Y., named special accounts represen- Appointments at Corporation for Public Robert Lansing; ABC, 1964 -67), The Invad- tative. Broadcasting, Broadcast Services, Washing- ers (with Roy Thinnes; ABC, 1967 -68) and ton: Lourdes Santiago, manager, special pro- David A. Cortese, program manager, manu- Tales of the Unexpected (with William Conrad; jects, to manager, station relations; Patricia facturing strategies, quality assurance and NBC, 1977). Since 1979 sale of his produc- Wente, general manager, noncommercial plant modernization, Torrington Co., Atlan- tion company and his subsequent move to KGOU(FM) Norman, Okla., to manager, sta- ta, joins Telecommunications Techniques Rancho Santa Fe, he began involvement with tion grant programs; Monica Medina Karpen, Corp., Gaithersburg, Md. -based manufactur- University of California, San Diego, endow- assistant director, publicity, noncommercial er of telecommunications test and simulation ing a chair there, and became president of La KCTS -TV Seattle, to station relations associ- instruments, as director, quality assurance. Jolla (Calif.) Playhouse theater board, before ate; Henrietta Dowling, executive secretary to returning to developing two feature films for VP, telecommunications, to grants assistant. Warner Bros. at time of his death. He is sur- vived by wife, Mullett, daughter and two Appointments at Au- sons. Promotion and PR dience Research & Development, Dallas: Stephen B. Small, 40, former VP, Mid Amer- ica Media, Kankakee, III. -based radio and Appointments at Earle Palmer Brown Public Nancy Quinn, director, cable group, died Sept. 4 in rural area 13 Relations, Bethesda, Md.: Steve Ellis, VP. client services, to tal- southeast of Kankakee after being Communications of GenCorp., Akron, Ohio. ent consultant, talent miles buried alive in wooden box by kidnappers and former general manager, Earle Palmer development division; who had allegedly demanded a $1- million Brown, to president; Bruce M. Odza, execu- Colleen L. Pang, ac- his kidnapping Sept. 2. Begin- tive VP, named executive VP and general count executive, Bo- ransom after in 1972 with Mid manager, Philadelphia office; Michael J. Col- zell, Jacobs, Kenyon ning as program director Cable, he became lins, account executive, Philadelphia office, & Eckhardt there, to America's Kankakee TV VP Mid America to public relations director. director, sales/market- manager of system and of Quinn ing research division. from 1973 until the group's dissolution in ear- Dorothea M. Brooks, business -financial edi- Appointments at Federal Trade Commission, ly 1986. Mid America had owned two AM's, tor, UPI, New York, named director, news Office of Public Affairs, Washington: Susan three FM's and two cable systems including services, PR NEWSWIRE, electronic news Ticknor, public affairs specialist, named news Plantation Cable Inc., Hilton Head Island, release distribution network there. director, assuming duties of deputy director, S.C. Sister, Susanne Small Bergeron, is pre- Marilyn Stein -LeFeber, VP, communications, Barbara Rosenfeld, on leave of absence to sent owner of WKAN(AM)- WLRT(FM) Kanka- Gannett Foundation, Rochester, N.Y., resigns undertake one year as 1987 -1988 American kee. He is also survived by wife, Nancy Pe- to start communications and public relations Political Science Association Congressional dersen, and three sons. Broadcasting Sep 14 1987 1d9 .