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Lee Hunter gets an assist from his twelve-year-old son Stephen as he prepares What's News, one of WFIL's shows slanted for in-school listening.
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Dr. Armand Lee Hunter is a combination radio actor-teacher and to many Philadelphia school children, he's as well known as Dick Tracy. Weekdays, he's the guiding spirit of the awardwinning WFIL Studio Schoolhouse, a series of daily programs designed for inschool listening. On Sundays he becomes "Uncle Lee" and turns up on WFIL-TV to read the comics on television.
Equipped with a frightening array of academic titles, Lee Hunter — A.B., M.A., PH. D. — spent some four years in Chicago as a radio actor-director. He appeared on such shows as Author's Playhouse, Doctors At War, Hot Copy, the Betty Crocker and Hildegarde shows and many others.
In Chicago, he was Chairman of the Radio Department of the School of Speech at Northwestern University and subsequently became co-director of the NBCNorthwestern Summer Radio Institute. In January, 1947, he arrived at Temple University in Philadelphia as Chairman of the Department of Radio, Speech and Theater and, in addition, he became Educational Director for WFIL and WFIL-TV.
A teacher who gets fan mail instead of apples, Lee Hunter appears on four of the five WFIL Studio Schoolhouse shows. (The fifth is a musical program.) Intensely interested in the possibilities of education by radio and television, Lee is active in many nationwide steering and planning committees, among them the Educational Standards Committee of the National Association of Broadcasters. He is also Chairman of the Standards Committee of the University Association for Professional Radio Education.
When the question of radio versus television arises, the actor-educator says, "Both mediums will continue to develop and expand because there is a place for both in the social, educational and recreational needs of the audience."
Lee Hunter is married and the father of Stephen, twelve, and Katherine Ann, six. He is an avid reader and an off-hours photographer of no mean talent.
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