NBC Transmitter (Mar-Oct 1941)

4 NBC TRANSMITTER NAMES I N T H E NEWS Radio City Juan de jara Almonte has been named Night Program Manager of NBC. Mr. Almonte has long been a gracious host to the distinguished guests who have visited Radio City. Gilbert Martyn has been appointed to head the announcing school conducted by NBC according to Pat Kelly, Supervisor of Announcers. Martyn succeeds Dan Russell who resigned to become assoc i a ted w i th Pan-American Grace Company. Martyn, member of the New York announcing staff, has as his assignment the training of NBC’s future announcers, and takes over his new duties with a formidable background 'n the educational field supplementing his A.B. and M.A. degrees with a course at Columbia University leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He is also director of the newly organized Inter-College Faculty and Student discussion group which embraces colleges of seven states, the purpose of which will be to afford opportunities to members of the groups to exchange visits with the respective colleges and to air their views on modern day education in relation to its effect on economic developments in the future. Hudson Hawley, news editor of the International Division, and Fernand Auberjonois, chief of its French section were due to appear before the members of the Honors College of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, on Wednesday, March 26, to tell of the Division’s work in shortwave broadcasting of news and opinion. In late January. Mr. Hawley spoke before the Faculty Discussion Croup of Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, on freedom of radio and the press, and later before two classes of students at that institution on International’s personnel and problems. On April 8, he is due to address the Bronxville, N. Y. Post, American Legion, again on NBC’s “Tower of Babel.’’ Mr. Franklin Butler, graduate of Dartmouth, AB, and the University of Michigan Law School, LLB, has GILBERT MARTYN recently been added to the legal staff, replacing Henry Howard, Jr. resigned. Mr. Butler studied in the Sorbonne in France and has been admitted to practice in the State of New York. Mr. E. Gardner Prime resumed work as a member of the New York Legal Department on Monday, January 6th. Marks Levine, NBC Concert Service, returned Monday, March 3rd following a long and serious illness. Married: Janet Fitch (Con tinuity Acceptance) to Edwin C. Beal, Jr., October 5. Mr. Beal is struggling for a Ph.D. in Far Eastern studies at Columbia University, after several years of teaching in Japan and China. Graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, member of Phi Kappa Psi. Miss Ann Morgan has been engaged as Secretary-Stenographer to Mr. A. L. Ashby, Vice President and General Counsel. Miss Olive E. Binz, who was temporarily assisting in that capacity, is presently acting as Secretary to Mr. E. Gardner Prime. Mr. Everett K. Deane, Columbia College, ’39, has been engaged as law clerk. Mr. Deane is a second year student at the New York Law School. Robert “Bob” Baldwin, assistant to Harold E. Bisson, Manager of (CONTINUED ON SEVEN) th tranzmiter, atenshun editer. deer ed, you probly think that i am stuk bak heer in th infermashun divishun wachin over my milyuns an all an sort uv out uv tuch with goinz-on aroun guess relashuns an th male rum. well, such iz not th case, so, bizzy as i am, ill relate sum uv the stuf ive herd brooted abowt. for th benifit uv thoze uv yoohoo seldum get into th offis sekshun, its reely not so bad, watt with beootiful blons wawkin aroun an coca-cola masheens an all. uv corse we dont hav ar-condishunmg, but i ges yoo cant hav evrythin. well, as i started to say befor i inerupted myself, an awful lot has happend lately, flash! a comunikay frum th hi coman sez that do to th increest yoos uv metal by th guverment, all bras buttins on uniforms will be replayst by lether ones, unflash. heer we go. amung thoze hoo hav discarded there uniforms an will hav to ware out there own cloze frum now on ar TOM (greatstuff) DE HUFF, hoo haz gawn up into saylz promoshun. th uther day he calld down to see if we new watt size elephant cud be put on th rapper uv a candy bar. it makz yoo wunder watt they spen there time doin up stares. ED NELSON will now x-cept continuity frum eny one hoo haz eny. HARRY BLACK iz in script, so if yoo hav eny complaynts, see him. GEORGE WALLACE, hoo yoost to beet peepil off with a club on the g.r. control desk, is now up in saylz selling spotz an locals, wattevr that meens. taking his place on th desk is JACK NEHER, hoo haz discarded th club idea, he will now shoot on site enyone hoo asks for a tikit. JOHN KENNEDY, manestay on th mez desk for nye on sixteen yeers, left it for teknikul servis, wich iz a fancy name for enjineering, i ges. frum the male rum ELDRIDCE PACKHAM jumpt aroun like one uv thoze mexican beens, firs to th muszik divishun then up to muzik libry. heerz a hot one: BILL ORANGE replacez JOE JENKINS in genrul servis, hoo replacez JACK LEONHARDT, hoo resined,az asistent pos-master genrul with GENE KENNEDY in th male rum. phew! JIM GUIDER haz taken up rezidense in the awditing dept, he al(KONTINYOOD ON SICKS)