NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

4 NBC TRANSMITTER NAMES IN THE NEWS NEW YORK Promotions Frank W. Nesbitt has been transferred from the guide staff to the International Program Division. He entered the Company as a page two years ago. i i 1 Miss Dorothy Michel has been transferred from Sales Traffic to the Traffic Department. She is replacing Miss Mary Louise Field who resigned as secretary to Steere Mathew in order to go to the West Indies where she is now visiting her brother who is in business down there. Miss Virginia Kelly who joined the Stenographic staff last March has taken over Miss Michel’s desk in Sales Traffic. i i i Thomas Severin has been transferred from the guide staff to the office staff of Guest Relations to replace Francis Koehler who resigned last month in order to become a member of the sales department of WRTD, NBC associated station in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Severin came to NBC almost five years ago, starting as a page and subsequently rising to higher positions in the uniformed staffs. r i r Theodore H. Hahn, who has been with the Company almost eleven years, has been appointed senior supervisor of the Master Control Room, replacing J. R. O’Kelly who was transferred to NBC Hol Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Sauer photographed shortly after their wedding in Brooklyn on September 4. Mr. Sauer is a member of the Traffic Dept. lywood in August. Theodore T. Clements has been promoted from relief control supervisor to junior control supervisor, replacing Mr. Hahn. Studio Engineers Henry E. Kenny and John J. Kulik have been promoted to the Master Control staff as relief supervisors. Mr. Kenny is replacing E. P. Kampf who resigned from NBC to become associated with E. V. Brinckerhoff, recording company. Mr. Kulik, who has been with NBC nine years, was studio engineer for the NBC Symphony Orchestra last winter. i i i Miss Lucille Lizotte has been appointed secretary to Vincent J. Gilcher, head of General Service. Her former job in the department is being filled by Miss Dorothy Lewis from the Stenographic Section. Miss Lizotte, who has been with NBC one year, was formerly associated with the Pinaud Corporation in New York as secretary to the vice president. Miss Grace Johnsen has been transferred from General Service to Program where she will continue as secretary to Walter G. Preston, Jr., former head of General Service and now assistant to Vice President John F. Royal as head of the Educational Division. iii Wilfred S. Roberts of the Production Division was appointed to the Commercial Program Division last month to act as assistant to Miss Bertha Brainard, manager, and to work with Assistant Commercial Program Manager Norman Morrell in the handling of NBC’s contacts with clients and advertising agencies. Mr. Roberts has been with the Company two years. Formerly he was associated with the Aluminum Company of America as a member of the sales and advertising departments of one of its subsidiaries. He also has had some experience in the theatre as an actor. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, class of 1928. iii Newcomers Adolph J. Schneider, formerly of WHO, NBC station in Des Moines, Iowa, has joined NBC as a member of the newsediting staff in News and Special Events. He has been assigned to write the material to be used on the new Goodyear Farm Service program which includes weather, crop and marketing news. Mr. Schneider was in the news bureau of WHO and was also in charge of the station’s experimental facsimile broadcasts. Previous to that he was with the Omaha W orld-Herald where he was employed for ten years during which he worked in every department of the newspaper. Thomas A. Styles, formerly associated with oil companies in New York City, has joined the International Program Division as secretary to Vice President Frank E. Mason. His work will be connected with the Spanish broadcasts of NBC’s shortwave service. Mr. Styles is a native New Yorker. He is a graduate of Columbia University where he majored in History, Economics and Spanish. He also did graduate work in Hispanic-American history and is a member of the Instituto de las Espanas, a Spanish cultural society at Columbia. He has just returned from Venezuela where he traveled for several months. 1 1 i Miss Ethelen Van Port, who joined the Stenographic staff last month, is now in the Traffic Department as an assistant to Miss A. M. Caramore who is in charge of Sustaining Traffic. Miss Van Port comes to NBC from the newspaper business. She was formerly with the New York JournalAmerican where she was an assistant to one of the editors. In Boston, her home city, where she studied drama at the Henry Jewett College of Fine Arts, she worked as a reporter for the Boston American. She has also worked for the Long Island Daily Press. Her chief hobby is writing feature stories for newspapers and magazines. She is also interested in playwriting. i i i Miss Francis Estelle Thomson, who joined the Stenographic staff last month, has been chosen to replace Miss Doris Ruuth, resigned, as secretary to R. M. Morris, development engineer. Miss Thomson formerly did stenographic and sec (Continued on next page) George DePue, guide, and the former Miss Alice Emerick who were married on October 3. Mrs. DePue was chosen Miss America in 1937.