NBC chimes (Jan 1955-Oct 1956)

bara Owen, a former member of our department, on January 16. Public Affairs — We are. in every sense of the word, a department "on the go." With Rooms 457 and 458 now occupied by "Weekday." Public Service Programs Department is now temporarily located in Room 906. Our friendly neighbors are the staffs of the Information Department and part of Advertising and Promotion. But before we move back to a new spot in the studio section (in the not-too-distant future) we want to take time to enjoy our bird's-eye view of New York: the Empire State and Paramount buildings, the weather report on the MONY building and the CBS clock on the opposite corner of 50th street. You see. we've never had windows before! Belated but hearty hellos to Dorothy Culbertson, who will be supervising special religious events for the radio network now that Marilyn Kaemmerle is supervising television's "Zoo Parade" and "Watch Mr. Wizard," along with regularly scheduled religious radio programs . . . and to Edith Martin, formerly Hal JamV secretary, who is now assistant to Doris Corwith. Edith replaced Gloria Goodman who is with "Weekday" as a production assistant. And, almost simultaneous with Gloria's promotion, she announced her engagement to Bill Adler. a former NBCer, now program manager for DuMont. They'll exchange vows on February 26. Betty Ivory, formerly Bill Parish's secretary, has become a production assistant on "Children's Corner" which Doris Ann is producing, and Flo Reif. Marilyn Kaemmerle s secretary, has also been promoted to production assistant. We all enjoyed the Public Affairs Christmas party, especially Kay Stewart, who came away with a bottle of champagne. TV Sales Traffic Operations — We first want to place the welcome mat for the following people: Diane Wisseinann. Peter Chase, Bob Williams, lit Johnston. Rod Guerdan, Bob Shenton and Timothy O'Keeffe. Best of luck to George Skiff, who moved out to Detroit to work with // alia Gross and the rest of the crew out there. Also Louise Esposito, who was promoted to Spot Sales, Russell Benedict, promoted to contact in the T-H-T office, Mort Dillon, promoted to head-statistician, Joel Stivers, promoted to contact, Diverra Ryan, promoted to be Tony Cervinis secretary and Anne Blake, now official as contract clerk. A gold watch was given to Harvey Gannon, for 25 years with NBC. Congratulations! A terrific time was had by all at the Christmas Party. We wish to extend our best wishes to Dick Soule, who is recuperating from hepatitus. We welcome back to the fold Bayard Robb, who changed his marital status from single to married last November, when he married Miss Cordelia Reid of Long Island. They spent a glorious two-week honeymoon in Jamaica. TV Technical Operations — Welcome to our newcomers, Patty Morrill who joined us just in time for the Christmas rush and Sally Wisemon who came in time to let us help celebrate her birthday on December 2. Congratulations to Howard Eitelbach and Tom Smiley who were recently promoted to Technical Supervisors, and Neel McGinnis and Joe Waag who took their places as Technical Directors. Our new papas are Bill deLannoy. whose wife had a baby boy just about two hours short of the New Year, and Ray Colins, Hank Isaac and Tom Gallagher, all very proud of their new baby boys. Our late vacationer, George Graham. returned from Florida with a nice red sunburn and right in the middle of January, too. What a lucky man; but he deserved it for all the hard work he put into our successful Christmas party for our employees and their families. This Christmas w as a very merry one for Rosemarie Sweeney, who became engaged to Harold Ehrenberg. and Walt Isbert, who also picked that day to give Liz Morrison her ring; but Ralph Dichter waited for New Year's Eve to capture Sandy Kucher for his own. Charles Kirnard will always remember January 21 as the day he and Rose Malleo said "I do." Walter Velter left us tor a while to undergo surgery and George French, who has been out for some time, should soon be back with us. Hurry back, Walter and George, we miss you. We very reluctantly bid farewell to Andy Harnmerschmidt. who moved up to the sixth floor to become Chief Engineer, but we soon saw his emptj chair occupied by Reid Davis who has promised me to adorn his new office with a fish tank filled with various species of fish and plants. Come on, "boss", I can"t wait to start raising those little fish. John Rogers has taken over Reid Davis' duties, and we all wish the three of you the best of luck in your new endeavors. Joan Ellis' eyes really lit up when she saw the beautiful cake given her by her bosses for her birthday on January 4. Congratulations to John Aram for his worthy praise by the director of the "Home" show. Bill Patterson and his crew for the good work they did on the A&S remote pick-up, Frank McArdle and crew who pleased the director of the "Montgomery" show with their excellent work, and to the boys in Studio 6B for the good job they did on "World of Mr. Sweeney" that merited a letter from Charlie Ruggles himself before he departed for California. Thanks for the good work, "fellas" — we're very proud of you. Unit Managers — The department enjoyed a bang-up Xmas party at the Hotel Pierre. We had everything you could think of to get us hungry; then the curtains opened, and food, food! This year's holiday season came and went, leaving us all happy but broke. Three of our members have become fathers, all boys; unfortunately, only Fred Eberstadt and Ed Watson were able to get the stork landed before the end of the year. Bill McCauley will have to do without the extra tax deduction for 1955. Just to keep you posted, we still have two storks listed for early arrival; this being leap year, at least one should be a girl. Bob Johnson has joined us to help shape up the team before spring training. Judy Gordon has gone on to bigger and better things in Employee Relations. NBC Chimes 23