NBC Transmitter (Jan-Dec 1938)

OCTOBER, 1938 5 retarial work for the Household Finance Corporation in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and the Cutex Nail Corporation. She is a graduate of the New Jersey College for Women, ’35. iii Transfers Reid E. Patterson has been transferred from the page staff to the Legal Department to replace John C. Corbett who resigned from the Company on September 15 in order to continue his law study in the day classes of the Law School of New York University. Mr. Patterson came to NBC in June. He is completing a prelaw course at Columbia University by attending night classes. iii Miss Jean Sherwood and Miss Winifred L. Ross have been transferred from Audience Mail to the Traffic Department. i i i Miss Janet Coulton, who came to NBC from W. & J. Sloane Company two months ago, has replaced Mrs. Helen Mescal as secretary to Douglps W. Meservey, assistant to Vice President John F. Royal. Mrs. Mescal resigned her position, September 30, in order to go to Cleveland where she and her husband are establishing their new residence. iii Marriages Miss Marjorie M. Worth, secretary to George 0. Milne, Eastern Division Engineer, and Joseph W. Pepper, Jr., assistant supervisor of the Program Transmission Division in Traffic, will be married at the Jan Hus Presbyterian Church in N >w York City on October 15. The wedding will be the culmination of a romance which started last year when Mr. Pepper came to NBC and met Miss Worth. Mr. Pepper will have his brother, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, as best man. Following the wedding ceremonies, a reception will be held on board the S.S. Monarch of Bermuda aboard which the bride and bridegroom will sail for a honeymoon trip to Bermuda. i i i George De Pue of the Guest Relations staff was married to Miss Alice Emerick at the Grace Episcopal Church in New York City on October 3. Harvey J. Gannon of the Program Department was best man. Many NBCites attended the wedding which was followed by a reception at Huntington House. After the reception, the newlyweds went on a honeymoon trip to the Pocono Mountains. Mrs. De Pue is a secretary at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. She is from Texas and was Miss Fort Worth at the Texas Centennial. She was crowned Miss America in 1937 after which she attended the Ned Wayburn School of Drama in New York. Then she was heard as a singer on several commercial programs on the air. She is also a model and her pictures have appeared in several national magazines. Mr. De Pue attended Muhlenberg College and New York University before coming to NBC. iii Miss Doris Ruuth, who resigned from NBC on September 30, and Charles L. Townsend, television engineer, were married at the Grace Episcopal Church in Rutherford, New Jersey, on October 7. The wedding was followed by a reception held at the home of the bride’s parents in Rutherford. The newlyweds did not disclose their destination when they left on their honeymoon. They plan to make their home in Bronxville in Westchester when they return. Mrs. Townsend was secretary to R. M. Morris, development engineer, at the time of her resignation which terminated a four-year period with NBC. Mr. Townsend, who came to Radio City from the NBC staff in Chicago last year, has been with the Company since 1931. Esther Koch were married in Brooklyn on September 4. The wedding, a small informal affair, was attended by relatives and close friends of the young couple. Mr. and Mrs. Sauer went to New England on their honeymoon trip and are now residing at 6043 Palmetto Street, Richwood, Long Island. i i i Finn Pederson, electrician of the airconditioning staff, was married to Miss Lily Gustafson at the Swedish Lutheran Church in West New York, New Jersey, on September 23. The wedding was followed by an informal reception. Mr. and Mrs. Pederson are making their home in Union City, N. J., where Mrs. Pederson is employed as a telephone operator. i i i William Burke Miller, night program manager, is no longer one of NBC’s most eligible bachelors. He was married to Miss Alice Reinheart during his vacation last month. The wedding, a civil ceremony, took place in New York City on September 26. Miss Reinheart, well-known radio actress, is often heard on the NBC networks. She plays the leading role in the current serial, Life Can Be Beautiful, on the Red Network. Stork News Carey P. Sweeny of the television transmitter staff at the Empire State Building became the father of a baby boy, Robert Rees, September 26. That makes two for the Sweeny’s— the other is a girl. iii Announcer Stuart Metz was presented with a baby girl by Mrs. Metz last month. The young lady’s name is Alice May. iii Resignations Miss Virginia Blachly resigned from the Press Division where she was assistant to the fashion editor. Miss Amelia Umnitz, on September 30. She was with the Company five years during which she worked ( Continued on page 16) In the swimming pool at the NBC outing last month. L. to R.— Virginia Kelly, Sales Traffic; Peggy Anderson, Stenographic Phoebe Mink Press; Anthony Jimmez, Music; Dorothy Michel, Traffic; Harriette Hr " ' • ’ olenoBraPn,c • rnoeDe [ermann, Program; Jessie Kline, Press.