A 1989 interview with Cavanaugh, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Reams Broadcasting Corporation, Toledo, OH. Cavanaugh worked as a rock 'n' roll radio personality on the air from 1957 to 1978, the majority of the time in Flint, MI at WTAC-AM. Collection also includes newsclippings .
Repository/Collector:
Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University
The collection documents Carol Cline’s interest and acclaim in the Dayton, Ohio radio community and the public relations industry. Also included is documentation on Cline’s international travels and civic commitment. The bulk of materials date from 1939-1966 and include correspondence, notes, news clippings, photographs, public relations materials, audio reels of "Carol’s Corner" radio broadcast interviews of famous and accomplished individuals, and a scrapbook. Cline interviewed high profile individuals from Miami Beach, Florida in 1963, including Mayor Kenneth Oka, and Marshal Wise, Director of the Cuban Refugee Center. Cline also interviewed professors and students from Cornell University, her alma mater. Cline’s interview subjects included several political figures, such as Congressman Robert Taft, Jr., Senator Paul Douglass, and Frances Perkins (former Secretary of Labor from 1934-1945). Entertainers interviewed by Cline included Bob Newhart, Roberta Peters, Helen Hayes, Peter Nero, Alan King, Jimmy Durante, and Liberace. Authors Abigail VanBuren, and Amy Vandervilt were a few of the authors interviewed. Among the Dayton Personalities were Roz Young, S.C. Allyn, Allan Eckert, Si Burick, Phil Donahue, and Dayton Philharmonic founder and director, Paul Katz.
Content types:
Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Acetate open reel tape and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
2.5 linear feet. 155 ¼" reel to reel audio tapes, the majority of which are 3" reels, however 5" and 7" tapes are also present.
Repository/Collector:
Wright State University, Special Collections & Archives Department
A highly prolific poet, translator and prose writer, Corman hosted This Is Poetry, a 15 minute program aired on WMEX, 1949-1951, on which noted poets read their works.
Contains scripts, photographs, publicity material and about 2,000 hours of recordings from WKW, WKRC, WCKY, WSAI, WFBE and WCPO. Although there are no long "runs" of any particular series, the collection does include a "decent" supply of Moon River, WLW, and Canal Days, WSAI. Also includes personal items related to the career of Ruth Lyons and some material relating to Cleveland radio history.
A recording that features 16 different 30-second voiced spot announcements using sound effects to show the value of radio. One side repeats the same sound effects without voice so local announcers can use the copy with a local call letter insertion.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University
Includes several hundred photographs, mainly from WLW, Cincinnati, OH, 1934-1936, taken by Patterson who was an engineer at WLW. Also includes two dozen recordings from World War II era relating to Patterson's work for the Office of War Information.