Broadcasting Telecasting (Jan-Mar 1962)

FATES & FORTUNES Mr. Trahan BROADCAST ADVERTISING Edward Trahan, director, radio-tv department, W. B. Doner & Co.. Baltimore, elected vp of company. He will continue to direct broadcast activities on all commercial and show production. Mr. Trahan joined agency's Detroit headquarters in 1955 in present capacity. He was transferred to Baltimore branch that year. Brereton Hall, account executive, Young & Rubicam Inc., New York, on General Electric portable appliances, and William M. Richardson Jr., account supervisor on A. G. Spalding, Royal McBee Corp. and Henredon Furniture Industries, elected vps. Paul Walsh, copy group head, creative department, Compton Adv., New York, elected vp of agency. Beverly Smith, director of radio-tv services, McCann-Marschalk Co., New York, and Harry Thompson, account supervisor at agency, elected vps. R. A. McDowell, vp, Stockton, West, Burkhart Inc., Cincinnati advertising agency, elected senior vp with added duties in account management. He has been with agency for 14 years. Leo F. McMullin, SWB's media and research departments manager, elected vp in charge of administration, media and research. John L. Southard, vp and management supervisor, Benton & Bowles, New York, joins Papert, Koenig, Lois, that city, as account supervisor. Pauline Lybeck, formerly with Television Bureau of Advertising, New York, joins PKL as manager of research information services. Philip S. Beach, account supervisor, J. Walter Thompson Co., New York, joins Fletcher Richards, Calkins & Holden, San Francisco, in similar capacity. Ransom P. Dunnell, formerly with programming department, WBKB (TV) Chicago, appointed broadcast supervisor, Clinton E. Frank Inc., that city. Mr. Dunnell, who previously served as vp for radiotv activities, Potts-Woodbury Inc., Kansas City advertising agency, earlier held similar post at Humphrey, Alley & Richards Inc., New York, which in 82 Mr. Dunnell 1959 merged with Reach, McClinton & Co. James W. Packer, vp, Arthur Meyerhoff & Assoc., Chicago, to John W. Shaw Adv., that city, as vp and account supervisor. J. Brooks Emory Jr., in charge of drug division, BBDO, New York, joins executive staff of Donahue & Coe Inc., that city, in account analysis and development. Emmet J. O'Connell, western manager, Machinery Magazine, joins Howard H. Monk & Assoc., Rockford, 111., as account executive in metalworking and industrial field. Richard A. Winternheimer, account executive, Potts-Woodbury Inc., Denver advertising agency, joins William Kostka & Assoc., that city, advertising and pr firm, in similar capacity. Ray Robinson, director of research, Hixson & Jorgensen Adv., Los Angeles, and earlier, vp of marketing research, Foote, Cone & Belding, that city, named research director at Research Inc., Sherman Oaks, Calif. Mr. Robinson will continue in present capacity at Hixson & Jorgensen. Mary R. Wilson and Daniel Tamkus join N. W. Ayer & Son Inc., Philadelphia, as copywriters. Mrs. Wilson is former divisional advertising manager, Macy's, New York. Mr. Tamkus is former technical writer and editor for U. S. Army Ordnance Corps. Mary Clare Spelic, continuity director, WOW-AM-FM-TV Omaha, joins copy department, Allen & Reynolds, advertising agency, that city. Albert Van Hooren joins Zimmer, Keller & Calvert Inc., Detroit advertising agency, as assistant treasurer, succeeding M. J. Denomme, retired. Robert W. Rawson, manager, radiotv advertising for tires, U. S. Rubber Co., elected vp, with responsibility for special projects in advertiser services, Advertising Radio & Television Services Inc., New York. Sam Tarricone, group supervisor, Doherty, Clifford, Steers & Shenfield Inc., New York, appointed assistant media director. Hal O'Halloran, former vp and genmanager, KOME Tulsa, joins White Adv., that city, as account executive. Daniel R. Schein, account executive, radio-tv department, Hal Phillips & Assoc., Los Angeles pr firm, promoted to director of communications. Before joining Phillips, Mr. Schein was account executive with Dave Herman & Assoc., Washington pr firm. Mr. David Miles David, vp and director of promotion, Radio Advertising Bureau, New York, promoted to vp for administration. Mr. David, who now supervises activities of RAB's member service department, retail selling unit and development services unit, will also continue overall supervision of promotion and research. Mr. David joined RAB in March 1958. Robert P. Ames, vp in charge of marketing, W. D. Lyon Adv., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, named marketing director, Bozell & Jacobs Inc., Omaha. Norman Fitzgerald, production manager, Aves, Shaw & Ring, Chicago, joins Olian & Bronner, advertising agency, that city, in similar capacity. James J. Angarola to Waldie & Briggs Inc., Chicago as assistant production manager. Walter C. Fay, for two years manager of marketing, research and advertising for Wrisley Co. division of Purex Corp., Chicago, and before that on marketing staff of Toni Co., to Clinton E. Frank Inc., Chicago, as research supervisor. Robert W. Bartlett Jr., analyst in media planning department of North Adv., Chicago, promoted to agency's account group as account director. THE MEDIA Mr. Campbell Mr. Moler Wendell B. Campbell, general manager, KGBS Los Angeles, and vp, Standard Broadcasting Co., wholly owned subsidiary of Storer Broadcasting Co., elected vp of parent company. He will continue to manage Los Angeles station. John C. Moler, general manager, WMGM New York, elected president of Storer Radio Inc., also wholly owned subsidiary of Storer Broadcasting Co. He will continue to manage WMGM. Mr. Campbell joined Storer organization in 1959 when it acquired KGBS. Formerly he was vp in charge of Pacific Coast sales for RKO owned and operated radio and television stations. Mr. Moler joined Storer in August, 1959, when he accepted appointment as general manager of WIBG Philadelphia. Previously he BROADCASTING, January 29, 1962