NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

APRIL, 1938 3 ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES Center Bowling League With the close of the season of the Rockefeller Center Bowling League this month, tentative plans for the expansion of NBC’s activities in the League during the 1938-1939 season have been announced by George 0. Milne, Eastern Division Engineer and chairman of the NBC bowling group. If the proposed line-up materializes according to Mr. Milne’s plans, there will be a consolidation of eight or ten NBC teams competing in the League instead of two as now. At present NBC bowling activities are divided among the Rockefeller Center League on Friday nights, and the NBC Bowling League (intra-company) on Wednesday nights. A consolidation would mean greater and stronger NBC representation in the outside league. As the season of three series of nine weeks each nears its close, NBC’s record is as follows: In series one. Team Number Two, captained by Operating Engineer George McElrath, tied with three others for second place; in series two, Team Number One, with Captain Milne, tied for fourth place; and at present, as series three draws to a close, Team Number One is in third place, just a few games behind the league-leading RKO team. Individual records ran high with Alexander D. Nicol, Accounting, and Magnus Opsal, Engineering, each achieving a season average of 176; and with Joseph D’Agostino, G. 0. Milne, M. Opsal and A. D. Nicol among those bettering the 200 mark. Nicol’s 243 is “tops” for single scores. iii The Last Round-Up The last round-up of the Winter season for NBC’s “horsey” set, held Wednesday night, March 23rd in the ring at Aylward’s, proved to be only a teaser. The dozen-odd equine enthusiasts who were to complete a series of ten jumping lessons at that time, clamored so insistently for more that the activity was extended two more weeks, to April 6th. The final celebration was postponed, but at a pre-celebration held at Child’s, 59th Street, NBCites in full riding regalia startled the orchestra by prancing around the floor a-shaggin’ and a-truckin’, just as though they hadn’t just finished a full hour of a-postin’ and a-cluckin’. The final ride on Wednesday, April 6th, brought to a close a most successful season. NBC's Jersey riding group inaugurated its summer season with an outing held at Closter, April 2. The riding enthusiasts of Long Island have found the Sunday morning breakfast ride most popular, and expect to start an evening group shortly. i i i Telegraphers Beat Traffic The crack bowlers of the Telegraph Room gave the Traffic Team another thorough trouncing in a return match at the Radio City Academy on March 5th. The Teletypists won all the three games of the series. The total score in games now is, 6-0, the Traffic Team having also lost all the games in the first encounter last December. L. A. Zangaro, lead-off for the Telegraphers, took high honors by scoring 247. A1 Schneider, team-mate, ran a close second with a score of 217. Both higli scores were made in the first game of the return match. Total scores for each of the three games in their order were: 992-707, 768-752, 860-759. The lineup: TELEGRAPH: L. A. Zangaro, A1 Schneider, J. S. La Touche, C. A. Kelly, H. A. Purse. TRAFFIC: W. B. Frederick, Steere Mathew. B. F. McClancy, E. B. Lyford, T. J. Dolan. NBC ACE REPORTER Max Jordan, NBC European representative, who, last month, thrilled American listeners with descriptions of Chancellor Hitler’s coup in Austria and climaxed a special short-wave broadcast with the voice of Der Fuehrer making his first victory speech on Austrian soil in Linz on Saturday afternoon, March 12. NEW MEMBERS OF N. Y. GUEST RELATIONS STAFF Five new men have joined the uniformed staff in Radio City to fill vacancies made by recent promotions. The new pages are: Alfred H. Temple, A. Ward Fenton, William H. Kennedy. Jr., Richmond L. White and Raymond H. Rheaume. Alfred H. Temple, possessor of a deep, pleasant southern voice, comes to us from Newport News, Virginia, where lie announced for Station WGH. Before that he had been salesman for an ice cream concern in Norfolk. Virginia, and guide and lecturer at Natural Bridge, Virginia. He was graduated from the Cocoanut Grove. Florida. High School in 1931. Ward Fenton, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was educated in New York City schools, at the Macjannet School in Saint Cloud. France, and at Lenox Preparatory School, in Massachusetts. He has worked in the export business both at home and abroad, and here at NBC he aspires to the announcing staff. William H. Kennedy, Jr., another young man with announcing ambitions, was born in Indiana and attended Princeton University. He also has travelled and studied in Europe where he learned to speak French. German, and Italian. Richmond L. White, born in Utica, New York, and graduated from preparatory school in Berkshire. Massachusetts, comes to NBC with some experience in stock companies. He is primarily interested in sound effects. Raymond H. Rheaume worked in the acoustical department of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., before coming to Radio City. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering. Eight Pass Audition For Announcing School The Spring term of the NBC Announcing School in Radio City, conducted by Dan Russell, began on April 1 with eight students enrolled. The members of the announcer’s training class were picked from over twenty applicants from different departments of the Company who were auditioned by Chief Announcer Pat Kelly on March 23. All those who passed the audition are members of the Guest Relations staff. They are. Roderick Mitchell. Richard Hogue. Albert Roraback. George Brengel. Alfred H. Temple. Paul Owen, A. ard Fenton, Jr., and William H. Kennedy, Jr. iii Buy your tickets and make your table reservations for the NBC Dance NOW. Hotel Roosevelt* New York City, April 22.