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WHEN Edmund Dawes, generally addressed as "Skipper," graduated from Swarthmore College in 1932, he formed an orchestra of former college students, spotting himself where he could do the most good — at the piano. The group soon had a job with the Holland-America steamship line.
Skip saw no future in entertaining tourists, so he became, successively, a cheese salesman and then an insurance investigator. Neither job held much promise either, so Skip went back to school. In 1938 Temple University gave him a master's degree in music education. He became music supervisor in Bangor, Pennsylvania, and then supervisor of elementary school music in Haverford Township.
In August, 1942, the father of one of his pupils named Skip for a WFIL opening. Inside of one month's time, Mr. Dawes had gotten himself a new job, a new house, and a new baby.
One of his first assignments was to record a short program to be replayed in Philadelphia schools to stimulate a scrap metal drive. It was good enough to move Dr. Philip A. Boyer of the Board of Education to suggest that WFIL start a series of educational programs for classroom use.
The 'idea caught, and with Skip at the helm, WFIL began broadcasting Quaker City Scrappers, the first radio program designed for in-school listening produced by a Philadelphia station. With Skip as educational director for the station, that single program grew to five programs a week — the most popular of all Philadelphia's school series.
In 1943, Skip began the Magic Lady programs, which were designed chiefly to appeal to children. In that same year, Skip formed an all-teen-agegirls chorus, The Choraleens, and the 22-voice group became ABC network stars, broadcasting a series of weekly programs coast-to-coast. That same chorus forms the backbone of another Dawes' production, Teen Age Time, broadcast Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. in Philadelphia. Skip directs The Choraleens in two other weekly broadcasts and handles a weekly television program in addition.
His wife, Betty, and his two sons, Edmund, 12, and Robert, 6, think he's a pretty clever guy.
The Skipper pours for Candy, Eddie and Angie.
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