NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1948)

THE BEAM OF THE ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BROADCASTERS The National Association of Broadcasters Vol. 6. No. I January. 1948 Rutti Crane, WMAL Acting President Marie IIoulahan, WEEI Editor Alma Kitchell, WNBT Assistant Editor Dorothy Lewis, NAB Assistant Editor OIHror> Ruth Ckanr. Actinn I’rcKidctit WMAL. Washington. D. C. Nell Daughekty. Sccrcturii WSTC. Stamford. Conn. Norma Richards. Treasurer WSPD. Toledo. Ohio Eleanor Hanson. 'i'iec-TrrsirIriil WHK. Cleveland. Ohio Ann Holden. Viee-Presidinl KGO. San Francisco. Calif. Dorothy Lewis. Vice-President and NAP Coordinator 535 Fifth Ave., New Y'ork. N. Y. District Chairiiicii Fay Clark. 1st district WIIRY'. Waterhnry. Conn. Gertrude Grover. 2nd district WHCU. Ithaca. New York Kay Witmer. 3rd district WKBO, Harrisburg, Pa. Elinor Lee. Ith district WTOP. Washington. II. C. Dorothy Horsfall. 5th district WPDQ. .Jacksonville. Florida Marjorie Cooney. 6th district WSM. Nashville. Tennessee Katherine Fox. 7th district WLW, Cincinnati. Ohio Mildred Grace. 8th district WELL, Battle Creek, Mich. Nancy Grey. 9th district WTMJ. Milwaukee. Wis. Anne Hayes. 10th district KCMO. Kansas City. Mo. Darragh Aldrich, 11th district WCCO. Minneapolis, Minn. Julie Benell. 12th district WKY, Oklahoma City, Okla. Violet Short, 13th district KTSA, San Antonio, Texas Louise Hill Howe, 14th district KSL, Salt Lake City. Utah Frances CJuinn, 15th district KFRE. Fresno. Calif. Martha Gaston. Kith district KFOX. Long Beach. Calif. Vernicb Irwin. 17th district KVI, Tacoma. Washington President's Message GreetiiiKS, AWB members! Wash¬ ington welcomes you. We’ve had glamorous, exciting times at our An¬ nual Conferences in New York . . . and against the unique setting of the Nation’s Capital, we believe you’re going to find our Fifth Annual meet¬ ing equally thrilling and rewarding. It was with some timidity that the Board decided to move the Conference to Washington this year . . . we felt that many members may have com¬ bined station business with their yearly trips to New York and we wondered if you might find the pros¬ pect of a trip to Washington of equal convenience and interest. The re¬ sponse in registrations and in en¬ thusiasm on the part of the member¬ ship has dispelled any doubt; we know that your anticipation will be fully rewarded for we are proud of the schedule we have been able to set up. Where but in Washington can you be the guest of the First Lady at tea, in the White House; where else could you hobnob with the heads of Gov¬ ernment, visit Congress and the Em¬ bassies, dine with the country’s num¬ ber one party-giver, hear topics of current national interest discussed by the ones who make the news’.^ If we have packed the schedule rather tightly, it is because we want to give you as complete a picture as we pos¬ sibly can of the Washington scene, and because leaders in business and official¬ dom have been so cordially cooperative and interested in meeting you. We feel sure that you will go back to your radio audiences with days and weeks of material for broadcast and that your listeners will find the stories as enthralling as the experiences here will have been to you. Elinor Lee, AWB Chairman for the 4th District, and Nancy Osgood, AWB Chairman for the District of Colum¬ bia, urge all AWB delegates to re¬ member that absolute promptness is required at the White House, the Em¬ bassies, and all affairs at which official guests are present. Have a good time — we love having you — and along with the fun, let’s all be making the most of the opportunities our Annual Convention provides to strengthen and further the effectiveness of the AWBNAB. Ruth Crane (WMAL Washington) Acting President AWB-NAB. Congratulations to Convention Planning Committee Orchids from all of us to the hard woi'king Planning Committee, who have been busy night and day making the 1948 AWB convention a memorable one. Efficient Ruth Crane, WMAL, Acting President, has parcelled out assignments to most of the active and associate Wash¬ ington members. Together, they have rounded up a brilliant array of speakers and engineered many of the special features. Working with AWB head¬ quarters in New York from day to day, the Committee hopes to make each and every delegate happy. When you see these Washington gals give them a bigsmile and try to drop off a note when you get home. We know at AWB headquartters how much it means, after the shout¬ ing dies, to read messages of apprecia¬ tion. Hats off to Ruth Crane, Elinor Lee, WTOP; Nancy Osgood, WRC; Hazel Kenyon Markel, WTOP; Mary Beth Rolfs, WOL; Jessie Stearns, WEAM; Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, WWDC. Dorothy Lewis, FYc President & NAB Coordinator. ]New State Chairmen Named The New York Conventions have hypoed AWB Districts over the nation, with the result that the following State Chairmen have been named: Fay Clark, Chairman of the 1st Dis¬ trict named Helen Hope of WHYN, Holy¬ oke, for Massachusetts; .J alie Blake of WMUR, Manchester, for New Hampshii-e; Dorofhg Wadman of WGAN for Maine; Una King of WTHT, Hartford, for Connecticut; Claire Wood of WJAR, Providence, for Rhode Island; and Jean Whitcomb, of WCAX, Burlington, for Vermont. Gertrude Grover, Chairman of the ‘2nd District, named Sally Work of WBEN, Buffalo, New York State Chairman. Named to Program Post Hazel Kenyon Markel, dliector of edu¬ cation and community service for WTOP, has been named acting program man¬ ager. This unique distinction was conferred on Mrs. Markel after but two years of service with WTOP. Before going to WTOP she had served 39 months as director of network radio in the Women’s Reserve of the U. S. Navy. Earlier radio experience was gained at KBPS in Portland, Ore., and KIRO, Seattle, Wash. Hazel is an active AWB member, and Chairman of our Educational Committee.