American television directory (1946)

Chairman, Finance and Budget Committee 1945-46 ARCHIBALD U. BRAUNFELD is a gradu¬ ate of New York University, a Certified Public Accountant, and a member of the New York State Society of CPA’s. He is also a member of the Radio Ex¬ ecutives Club of New York and New York University Commerce Alumni. Chairman, Reception Committee 1945-46 STERLING E. NORCROSS attended the School of Civil Engineering at Cornell University and since then has been engaged in industrial sales engineering and advertising. He has been particu¬ larly interested in the visual sales po¬ tentialities of television and has created many slogans, trade marks and mailing pieces to capitalize upon them. Chairman, Directory Committee 1945-46 RICHARD P. STEINER is director of market research for General Cable Cor¬ poration. He acquired a B.S. at South¬ western and took post-graduate work at Kansas University. He has served as assistant treasurer of Theatre Serv¬ ice Corp. and Fashion Creators Guild and also as manager of market research for Darco Corp., a subsidiary of Atlas Powder Co. He served as chairman, ATS Research Committee, 1944-45. Chairman, Program Laboratory 1945-46 RAYMOND E. NELSON is vice president of Charles M. Storm Co., New York, in charge of radio and television activities. He has produced over 100 television programs, including dramatic, variety, musical, fashion, educational, demon¬ stration and spot news presentations. These programs have been presented for Tintex, Alfred Dunhill of London, Park & Tilford, Fawcett Publications, Hillman Publications, Esquire , Conover Models, U. S. Army, American Red Cross, and others. His pioneering in¬ cludes production of the first original full-length musical comedy written for television, “The Boys from Boise”; a full-length musical, “The Television Follies of 1944,” and a continuous threehour spot-news show on presidential election night. Co-Chairman, Panel Discussion Group 1945-46 FREDERICK ALLEN KUGEL is publisher of Television which he founded in May 1944. He was educated at the Uni¬ versity of London’s School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Com¬ merce. Mr. Kugel has served as adver¬ tising manager of Carbona Products Co.; was in charge of prewar sales of DuMont television receivers in metro¬ politan New York, and, in 1941, launched the Review of Recorded Music, which he distributed through music dealers. His chief interest is the prac¬ tical application to education of films and television. Mr. Kugel, a charter member of ATS, is one of the country’s youngest publishers. Television, first launched as a quarterly, quickly won recognition with the industry, and ex¬ panded to a monthly. In it, Mr. Kugel emphasizes his own factual, practical approach to all phases of television. Chairman, Committee on Education 1945-46 DR. LEONARD POWER is an independent educational consultant. He was former¬ ly Coordinator of Radio Research for the Federal Radio Education Committee, and assistant to Dr. John W. Stude BY-LAWS OF Article One: Organization 1 — The name of this organization shall be American Television Society, Inc. 2 — The organization shall have a seal which shall be in the following form : 3 — The organization may at its pleas¬ ure by a majority vote of the mem¬ bership body change its name. Article Two: Purposes The following are the purposes for which this organization has been or¬ ganized : 1 — To advance, promote and foster the study, understanding and apprecia¬ tion of television as a cultural, educa¬ tional, entertainment and advertising medium. Photographs of Messrs. Steiner, Kugel and Rockafellow by Larry Colwell: of Dr, Power by Pach Bros. 74