Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1958)
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of director, exhibits, RCA. Named to assist Mr. Dollar were RICHARD H. HOOPER, as manager, special exhibits; RICHARD F. NORDHORN, as manager, RCA Chicago showroom; HARRY P. O'BRIEN
as manager, RCA Exhibition Hall. N. Y., and JOHN H. SCHAAF as manager, RCA Camden showroom.
Marshall A. WILLIAMS, formerly with Philco Corp., appointed director of marketing for Farnsworth Electronics Co., Fort Wayne, Ind.
GEORGE O. CROSSLAND, formerly manager of distributor development and trade relations at General Electric's Owensboro, Ky., plant appointed central regional equipment sales manager in Chicago for GE's receiving tubes.
PERSONNEL RELATIONS
MARY ELIZABETH MITCHELL. 50, membership secretary of Chicago chapter of American Television & Radio Artists, died following heart attack May 8. She had entered Henrotin Hospital, Chicago, for physical checkup three days earlier.
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WALTER L. WEST, formerly with RCA government service department, joins Page Communications Engineers. Washington, as head of its new Land and Structures Dept.
PROGRAM SERVICES
WILLIAM P. GALLAGHER, national sales director of Columbia Records, named director of sales for company, succeeding HAL COOK, who joins Warner Bros. Records, Burbank, Calif., as v.p. and director of sales. Other personnel changes announced involved WALTER L. DEAN of company's legal department, appointed director of business affairs; ROBERT EARL, St. Louis branch manager, promoted to merchandise manager, and DALE PEYTON, salesman in St. Louis, named branch manager there.
DON BLOCKER, formerly with Hart Distributors, joins Liberty Records as national promotion director.
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FOR a "decade of dedication," Mark Evans, WTOP-AM-FM-TV Washington personality, was given a scroll and testimonial dinner on this tenth anniversary as director of WTOP Washington Area Housewives' Protective League. At the pressentation (1 to r): Lloyd Dennis, WTOP vice president; Ed Wood, general manager of the Housewives' Protective League, New York; George Marshall, owner, Washington Redskins football club; Mr. Evans; Jules Dundes, vice president, CBS Radio, and Gordon Hayes, general manager, CBS Radio Spot Sales. A group of business, civic and government leaders saluted Mr. Evans as "broadcaster, businessman, church member, citizen, club man, director of the HPL program, family man, foods man, lecturer, reporter, salesman and traveler . . . [and] friend."
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LOUIS BENITO, Tampa (Fla.) advertising agency president, elected to governor of fourth district Advertising Federation of America.
ROBERT GAGE, art director, Doyle Dane Bernbach, elected second v.p. of Art Directors Club, N. Y., WILLIAM DUFFY, tv art director, McCannErickson named ADC secretary and LOUIS DORFSMAN, art director, CBS Radio, appointed member of executive committee.
ARNOLD KATINSKY, promotion writer at Radio Advertising Bureau since February 1956, named assistant to member service director. Mr. Katinsky will be responsible for processing requests for information, research and other data for RAB's membership.
UPCOMING
INTERNATIONAL
WILLIAM JEYNES, chief engineer of CHCH-TV Hamilton, Ont., won Col. Keith S. Rogers Memorial Award for "his contribution to the technical advancement of television, for the development of an excellent and inexpensive special effects generator for tv picture mixing." Presentation was made at annual dinner of Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters at Montreal on May 12 by Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd., Toronto.
DON SMITH, All-Canada Radio & Television Ltd., Toronto, elected treasurer of Advertisers' Guild of Toronto, for 1958.
CLAY HAWKINS, 39, sales manager of CKNW New Westminster, B.C., and formerly of CKY Winnipeg, Man., died April 17 of pneumonia.
J. ALAN SAVAGE, radio-tv director of Cockfield Brown & Co. Ltd.. Toronto advertising agency, elected director, along with ROSS W. BOOTH and HARRY C CLARKE, account group managers at Toronto office, and R. H. COOPER and J. McBRIDE, account executives of Montreal office.
JOHN G. BUTLER, formerly with MacLaren Adv. Ltd., Toronto, to advertising manager of Philco Corp. of Canada Ltd., Toronto.
ARTHUR C. HARRISON to manager of Toronto office of Jos. A. Hardy & Co. Ltd., station representative, and GUY DAVIAULT to manager of Montreal office.
JOSEPH G. MORGAN, formerly with Columbia Pictures Inc. distribution organization in Britain, appointed sales representative of Fremantle of Canada Ltd., distributor of tv film programming in Britain.
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May 26, 1958
May
May 26-28: American Management Assn., annual packaging conference, Hotel Statler, New York.
May 26-28: Conference on Educational Tv and Related Media, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington.
May 26-30: National Packaging Exposition, New York Coliseum, New York.
May 28-29: Kentucky Broadcasters Assn., Sheraton-Seelbach Hotel, Louisville.
June
June 3-6: 36th annual conference, National Industrial Advertisers Assn., Chase and Park Plaza Hotels, St. Louis.
June 4-6: Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn. Exhibit, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.
June 5-7: Western Assn. of Broadcasters, Banff Springs, Hotel Banff, Alta.
June 6-7: Colorado Broadcasters Assn., Hotel Antlers, Colorado Springs.
June 7: UP Broadcasters of Connecticut, Colonial House, Hamden.
June 7-8: Broadcasters Assn. of Texas, Town House Hotel, San Angelo.
June 8-11: Advertising Federation of America, national convention, Statler-Hilton Hotel, Dallas.
June 14: UP Broadcasters of Pennsylvania, Holiday Motor Hotel, Mechanicsburg.
June 19-20: Virginia Broadcasters Assn., Tidewater Inn, Irvington.
June 19-21: Maryland-D. C. Radio & Tv Broadcasters Assn., Stephen Decatur Hotel, Ocean
City, Md.
June 19-21: Florida Assn. of Broadcasters, Colonial Inn, St. Petersburg Beach.
June 22-28: Advertising Assn. of the West, annual convention, Vancouver, B. C.
July
July 19: Conference on Tv for Women in Home Economics, Business and Education, UCLA, Los Angeles.
July 21-25: National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, seminar, Allerton House, Monticello, 111.
August
Aug. 1-2: Oklahoma Broadcasters Assn., Lake
Texoma Lodge, Lake Texoma. Aug. 4-23: Summer Tv Workshop, College of
Communication Arts and WKAR-TV Michigan
State University, East Lansing.
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