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

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Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom Ewen C. Anderson 41k Dr. Irving Wolff m m Dr. D. H. Ewing O. B. Hanson Five Executive Promotions Announced by RCA Promotion of five executives to new positions of responsibility was announced last month by Brig. Gen- eral David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board of RCA — four of them named at a meeting of the Board of Directors on June 4. Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, Executive Vice-President, RCA Laboratories, was elected Executive Vice-President, Research and Engineering, continuing at the same time as head of RCA Laboratories. In his new position, Dr. Engstrom has been given broad responsibility for all research and engineering activities of RCA. Ewen C. Anderson, Vice-President, Commercial De- partment of RCA, was elected Executive Vice-President, Commercial Department, with responsibility for all patent license matters for RCA. Both Dr. Engstrom and Mr. Anderson will have their headquarters in the RCA Executive Offices in Radio City, New York. Dr. Irving Wolff, previously Director of Research, was appointed Vice-President, Research. RCA Labora- tories, Princeton, N. J. Dr. D. H. Ewing, who had been director of the RCA Physical and Chemical Re- search Laboratory, was appointed Administrative Direc- tor, RCA Laboratories. O. B. Hanson, previously Vice-President and Chief Engineer of the National Broadcasting Company, was elected to the RCA staff as Vice-President, Operations Engineering. In his new position, he has been given responsibility for engineering matters pertaining to broadcast and communications operations and for direct- ing the activities of the RCA Frequency Bureau. The promotions of Drs. Engstrom, Wolff and Ewing and Mr. Hanson were designed to coordinate the re- search and engineering activities of the RCA organiza- tion as part of an over-all plan adopted earlier this year to meet the needs of the Corporation's steadily expand- ing business. 28 RADIO AGE