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
Contains a few offair audio recordings from the 1940s and 1950s and a more significant collection of pre-1960s print material about the broadcasts, including scrapbooks and some biographical information about performers. For more information about the audio recordings contact the archives. Audio recordings beginning with mid-1960s are more generally available.
Contains papers relating to Rabbi Feinberg's radio career, 1932-1972, including Message of Israel, 1937- 1969, Brotherhood Hour (broadcast in Canada), 1947, Grey Lib, 1972, and his career as the singer Anthony Frome on the Poet Prince on NBC, 1932-1935.
Includes papers relating to Bettman's career as the moderator for the radio forum, What's on Your Mind? Also includes radio addresses Bettman delivered in 1944.
Includes transcripts, tape recordings and correspondence pertaining to The Words We Live By, a series of conversations on the Bible between Samuel and Mark Van Doren that were part of The Eternal Light. Also includes scripts and notes for other programs by and about Samuel that were broadcast on The Eternal Light.
Includes correspondence and transcripts of Lazaron's sermons on many programs, 1926-1946, including Church of the Air, 1931-1939, Message of Israel, 1934-1946, Town Hall Meeting of the Air, 1938-1954, and Wheel of Life.