Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

Dr. Zworykin Receives Poor Richard Club Award Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Vice President and Technical Con- sultant of R C A Laboratories, Princeton, X. J., has been named by the Poor Richard Club of Phila- delphia to receive its 1948 Award for Achievement, an honor given annually "to the most deserving of contemporary American citizens." Dr. Zworykin will receive the award at the Franklin Institute, on .Janu- ary 17, at ceremonies highlighting the annual Franklin Day celebration which will be attended by the Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania and other state officials. After selecting television as the most timely subject, the Club's members, composed largely of exec- utives of newspapers, magazines, advertising agencies, printing con- cerns, and radio and television sta- tions, unanimously voted that Dr. Zworykin, in developing the all- electronic system, was mainly re- sponsible for bringing television out of the laboratory and making it commercially practical. In addition to his invention of the iconoscope, television's first elec- tronic "eye". Dr. Zworykin devel- oped the kinescope, electronic pic- ture tube of the television receiver. Presentation of the award coincides with the 25th anniversary of his invention of the iconoscope. Additional citations have been received by Dr. Zworykin for his research and developments in the video art. In 19.34, he received the Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize from the Institute of Radio Engi- neers. He was given the Overseas Award of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1937 for a paper on the iconoscope, and in 1938 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the Brook- lyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1940. the National Association of Manu- facturers presented him with the Modern Pioneers Award, and in 1947 Dr. Zworykin was awarded the Howard X. Potts medal of The Franklin Institute. His most recent citation was the Chevalier Cross of the French Legion of Honor which he received from the French Gov- ciiinient in 1948. Past recipients of the Poor Rich- ard Club award include Brig. Gen- eral David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board, Radio Corporation of Am- erica, who received the medal in 1939 for outstanding achievements in radio; Will Rogers; Walt Disney; Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker; Will H. Hays, and Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and H. H. Arnold. Changes in RCA Management (Coiititiued from page 8) Election of Mr. McConnell as Vice President in Charge of Finance of the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica was announced on .Januai-y 7 by Frank M. Folsom, President of RCA. In 1941, Mr. McConnell joined the Legal Department of the RCA Manufacturing Company, now the RCA Victor Division. A year later, he was named General Counsel of that organization, and in 1945, he was elected Vice President and General Attorney of the RCA Victor Division. He has been Vice Presi- dent in Charge of Law and Finance of the RCA Victor Division since April, 1947. Mr. McConnell, who is a native of Davidson, N. C, was graduated from Davidson College in 1927, and in 1931 received a Doctor of Laws de- gree from the University of Vir- ginia. He practiced law in West Palm Beach, Fla.. and in Charlotte, N. C, then in 1933 joined the legal staff of the National Recovery Ad- ministration, serving part of the time as head of one of the three sections of the NRA legal depart- ment. Upon leaving the NRA in 1935, Mr. McConnell became an associate in the Xew York law firm of Cotton. Franklin. Wright & Gordon (now Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel), where he specialized in legal phases of government regulation of corpo- rate enterprise. Mr. McConnell is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Alpha, and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. Announcement of Mr. Buck's election as Operating Vice Presi- dent of the RCA Victor Division, Radio Corporation of America, was made by .John G. Wilson, Executive Vice President in Charge of that Division on .January 7. Mr. Buck, a retired Rear Admiral of the U. S. Xavy, has served since March 15. 1948, as President of Radiomarine Corporation of Amer- ica, a service of RCA. In retiring from the Navy last March, Mr. Buck ended a distinguished career of 30 years in the Navy, the last two of which he served a.s Paymaster Gen- eral and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For his wartime services he was awarded the Legion of Merit. A native of Oskaloosa, Kan., Mr. Buck wius graduated from Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engi- neering in 1913, and received a Master of Science degree from the same college in 1916. He was commissioned an Ensign in the Navy on July 30, 1917, and served in World War I as supply officer on the USS Cannndaigua. After the war, he received a variety of assignments, including four years in the Planning Division of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. In World War II, he rose from Commander to Rear Admiral, serv- ing with distinction on the staff of Arthur L. Bristol with the Atlantic Fleet, and later with the Office of Procurement and Materiel in Wash- ington. In 1945, he was named Director of the Navy Materiel Re- distribution and Disposal Adminis- tration and then Chief of the Prop- erty Disposition Branch, Materiel Division. Before his promotion to Paymaster General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, he served for seven months as As- sistant Chief of that Bureau. Wins H. P. Davis Award Howard Reig, staff announcer of WGY. Schenectady, New York, has been named national winner of the H. P. Davis National Memorial Announcers' Award for 1948. He received a gold medal and a cash prize of $500. [RADIO AGE 31]