NBC transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

MAY, 1938 5 ager, has returned to NBC to assist Vice President Frank E. Mason in the handling of program traffic for NBC’s international short wave stations. i i i Engineer Robert Thatcher of the Radio City staff, who has been in Philadelphia, supervising the installation of the eouipment in the new KYW studio building, recently underwent an appendectomy. V 1 i Miss Janet MacRorie, head of Continuity Acceptance, is at her home, recovering from a major operation. i i / Sports Announcer and Mrs. Bill Stern have returned from a brief vacation in Bermuda. i i i A group of about 90 members of the New York Filing Association and students of filing from Columbia University came to NBC on May 3 to inspect our filing system as part of an educational course. The NBC Central Files, which is considered one of the most modern filing systems in the city, is headed by Mrs. Myrtle Wesenberg. i i i Charles Anderson, former announcer and director at KOA, Denver, is in Radio City with a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship for advance study in radio broadcasting. He is concentrating on the educational phases of broadcasting and expects to be with us several months. Mr. Anderson is well-known to readers of the Transmitter as their former correspondent for the NBC studios in Denver. iii Miss Edna Swenson and Murry S. Harris, both of Continuity Acceptance, won the tintype contest conducted at the Athletic Association Dance on April 22. For having posed in the funniest tintype taken that night. Miss Swenson and Mr. Harris each will be presented with an album of Victor records, donated by the RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc. Transfers: Miss Katherine B. Sturgess, who came to NBC from her native Vandalia, Illinois, in February has been transferred from Central Stenographic to the Personnel Office staff. Before coming to New York, Miss Sturgess taught high school in her home town. She received her college education at Webster College, St. Louis, and the University of Illinois and took a postgraduate course at Cornell University. Miss Sturgess attended business school for a short period after she gave up school-teaching and while she looked for a job in New York City. i i 1 Miss Lisa Lundin, formerly of the Personnel Office, is now secretary to Wayne Randall, director of publicity. Since she joined NBC a year ago Miss Lundin has worked in Central Stenographic, and in the offices of W. G. Preston, Jr., head of General Service, and Dwight G. Wallace, personnel manager. i i i David B. Van Houten has been appointed manager of the Building Maintenance Division in General Service. He has been with NBC almost eight years. 1 1 i Miss Dorothy Jorgensborg, who has been in the Traffic Department almost two years, is. now secretary to Roy H. Holmes, supervisor of the Program Transmission Division. Miss Claire Conway was transferred from the office of Douglas W. Meservey, Program Department, to that of Ernest La Prade, director of Music Research, on April 15. Miss Conway is filling the post vacated by Miss Eleanor Kent (Mrs. G. T. Duane) who resigned from the Company to devote more of her time to her home. An accomplished pianist, Miss Conway has been with NBC since last August. Miss Helen B. Mescal, from the office of C. W. Fitch, business manager of the Program Department, is now secretary to Mr. Meservey. Mrs. Dorothy O’Neill replaces Miss Mescal as secretary to Mr. Fitch. A native of Cleveland. Ohio, Mrs. O’Neill is a graduate of Western Reserve University and was formerly associated with the Chicago world’s fair, A Century of Progress. i i 1 Miss Dorothy Allred has been transferred from the General Service Department to the Production Division of Program where she will act as secretary to program directors. i i i Miss Helen M. Hedeman, formerly of the Production Division, is now secretary to Thomas H. Hutchinson, director of television programs. Her place in the casting and booking office is being filled by Miss Harriet Holiday. ill Miss Laverne Heuer of Stenographic is replacing Miss Marguerite Loubiere as secretary to Frank Vagnoni, assistant manager of the orchestra division, until Miss Loubiere returns from a six-month leave of absence. Miss Loubiere plans to go to Europe during her leave. Newcomers: Lathrop Mack, formerly with the Associated Press in various American cities for eight years, has joined the Company as a member of the news editing staff in News and Special Events. A graduate of the University of Illinois, he also has had two years’ experience in the entertainment field as booking agent for the Music Corporation of America. Mr. Mack is a native of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, is married and his avocation is music — especially if it swings. i i i Newcomers to the Mail and Messenger staff: Robert Day, a graduate of Harvard College, comes to NBC with some experience in the real estate business. His home is in Laytonsville, Maryland. Edward Shippen Geer, who is interested in scriptwriting, is a graduate of Princeton, class of 1937. In college, he wrote for the “Teatre Intime,” a dramatic group. i i i A newcomer to the uniformed staff in Radio City is Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 19year-old son of the famous violinist. Mr. Zimbalist comes to us directly from Yale University where he has been majoring in English for the past two years. He was born in New York City and but for two short trips abroad has been a steady resident of New York. Before entering Yale, he attended St. Paul’s Preparatory School at Concord, New Hampshire. He says his interests have always inclined to the theater and he is here at NBC to try to get a broad understanding of the radio business as a whole, with his ultimate aspiration the production staff. Except for one summer job with Time, Inc., this is his first real job. Asked the ever-present question, he said he is not musically inclined and will not attempt to tread in his father’s footsteps. i i i John C. Corbett, a graduate of St. John’s College in his home city, Brooklyn, and a student at New York University’s School of Law (evening course), has joined our Legal Department. He has had some experience with other law offices in New York. y y y J. E. Burrell comes from the NBC engineering staff in San Francisco to join the television staff in Radio City. Gustav F. Hettich, formerly with the Mack Truck Corp., has also been added to the television group as mechanic and driver of the new RCA-NBC telemobile unit. , , , Miss Alice Purvis, although a newcomer to the Central Stenographic Section, is not a stranger to NBC. She comes to NBC from the Certified Contest Service where she worked on the NBC Tenth Anniversary Slogan Contest. Miss Purvis is a native of Monticello, Illinois. She came to New York after graduating from high school.