NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

FEBRUARY, 1938 5 gie Black in Poughkeepsie, New York, on December 31 last. The wedding was followed by a small informal reception at the home of Mr. Deming’s parents in New York City. Mrs. Deming is a teacher in the Walden Public School. Mr. Deming has been with NBC for four years. His associates in the Mail Room presented him with an electric toaster and breakfast set as a wedding gift. ill Another Radio City romance came to a happy climax in The Little Church Around the Corner on the morning of December 31 last when a member of the NBC guide staff, Richard D. Barron, married Miss Virginia Cameron who recently came to New York from her native San Francisco. The young couple first met when she took a studio tour conducted by the young man who is now her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Barron are now at home to their friends in their apartment at 348 East 50th Street, New York City. i i i Oscar C. Turner of the production division of Electrical Transcription Service and Miss Grace Allen Toucey of New York City were married at St. James Church on January 6th. The wedding ceremony which was attended by the families and a few intimate friends of the couple was followed by a small reception at the Carlyle. The bride’s only attendant was Mrs. Carleton Young, wife of a well-known NBC actor. Edward Barret, associate editor of News-Week and a friend of the bridegroom since their boyhood days in their native Birmingham, Alabama, was best man. Reginald E. Thomas, director of production in Electrical Transcription Service, was an usher. Mr. Turner, a graduate of the University of Alabama, has been with NBC almost two years. i i i Resignations: Theodore Church has resigned from the Press Division to become associated with Ted Collins, personal representative of Kate Smith. Before joining NBC in December 1936, Mr. Church was a member of the Republican National Radio Committee and before that he was associated with Station WJSV, Washington, D. C. i i i Read Wilson, who joined the Mail and Messenger staff last September and later became a member of the announcing class, recently passed an audition for an opening on the announcing staff of WAIR, Winston-Salem, N. C. He resigned from NBC on January 31 to go to his new job at WAIR where he will find two other graduates of Dan Russell’s announcing class, Don Gardiner and Roger Von Roth. Mr. Wilson takes with him many years of experience as an actor on the stage and in radio to his announcing assignment in Winston-Salem. His home is in Springfield, Massachusetts. Harry Weir who went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 24 last to be married to the former Miss Alba Cremonesi of New York City has resigned from the page staff to go on a honeymoon trip to Europe. After their honeymoon, Harry plans to stay abroad to do newspaper work. / A / At 1:00 A.M. on Saturday, January 15, the announcer signing off WJZ concluded with “. . . Charles Tramont saying goodnight and bidding you all goodbye.” It was Charles Tramont’s last sign-off after eleven years of broadcasting, and we want to join his many friends and listeners in wishing him good luck as he begins practice as physician at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. For the past five years, Dr. Tramont has been heard only at night over NBC networks. Days were taken up with studies at the New York Medical College and subsequent work at the Fifth Avenue Flower Hospital. ill Miss Elisabeth Woodard who had been with the Company three years resigned from the Central Stenographic Section on January 31 to go abroad on a pleasure trip. i i i Stork News: 1938 brought a six-and-a-half pound baby girl to Page Supervisor Jack Wahlstrom on January 2. Mother and child are doing very well, Jack reports. i i i Miss Doris Steen (Mrs. David Williams! who took time out for a blessed Mr. and Mrs. George Watkins are photographed leaving the Little Church Around the Corner where they were married last month. The bride is the former Miss Evelyn McKibbon of the NBC Civic Concerts Service. (See Marriages.) event has returned to her desk in Guest Relations. It was a girl, according to Walter Winchell’s column. i i i Sick List: J. Foster Dickey, guide, who was confined to the Morrisiana Hospital in the Bronx, following a serious automobile accident last month, is now recuperating in his home. i i i Miscellaneous: A. A. (Abe) Schechter, director of News and Special Events, sailed from New York City on the Conte di Savoia January 15 enroute to Cairo, Egypt, where he is making arrangements for the coronation of King Farouk. Mr. Schechter is expected back in Radio City the latter part of this month. Milton Burgh is in charge of the division during Mr. Schechter’s absence. i i 1 George Engles, director of Artists Service, returned to his office, January 25, following a month’s absence caused by an appendectomy. i i i William C. Roux, formerly of the Promotion Division in New York, is now associated with Hearst Radio Inc., as promotion manager. i i i Pat Kelly, chief announcer, was given a surprise party by the members of his staff on the Saturday following his birthday January 4. The party was given in his home in West Hempstead, Long Island, where the announcing staff and their wives and others had congregated while he was in town keeping a dinner engagement which had been staged to delay his homecoming. Mr. Kelly was really surprised when he opened his front door and was greeted by a collective shout of “Happy Birthday” from the merry crowd within. There was music by an orchestra, dancing and special entertainment. The party lasted until five in the morning when some of the boys had to take the milk train into town to start another day of broadcasting. ill Norman Morrell, assistant commercial program manager, left late last month for the West Coast to confer with program officials in the Western Division. He is not expected to return to Radio City until next month. i i i Jack Wyatt, former NBC guide who made his debut on the NBC networks last winter as master of ceremonies of the (Continued on Page 14)