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By SPARKY NEWSOME
Twenty-seven winners of the coveted George Foster
Peabody awards for meritorious seryice to broadcasting
were announced yesterday by the School of Journalism
which administers the awards
The Peabodys, as they are known in the broadcast
industry, have been given each year since 1939. This year 527
programs were viewed and listened to by faculty committees
at the journalism school Committee recommendations were
then reviewed by the National Advisory Board which made
the final determinations of winners
In 1938, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
decided that the broadcast media needed a set of awards for
outstanding achievement comparable to the Pulitzer Prizes
given for achievement in the print media, according to W.
Worth McDougald, director of the Peabody Awards selection
and head of the radio-tv-film sequence of the journalism
school.
The NAB appointed Lambdin Kay, then general manager
of WSB in Atlanta, to head a committee that would
investigate the possibility of a series of awards to be given
for meritorious service to broadcasting. Kay discussed the
possibility with John E. Drewry, then dean of the Journalism
school, who went to a NAB meeting in San Francisco to
explain the committee’s proposal.
The board agreed to the proposal and beginning with
calendar year 1939 the Peabody Awards were established as
the prestigious awards for accomplishments in broadcasting
George Foster Peabody, for whom the awards are named,
was a prominent benefactor of the University. A native of
Columbus, he was a member of the board of trustees for the
University.
“There are quite a few benefits that the University enjoys
as a result of the Peabody Awards,'' according to
McDougald,
“Because otourconnection with the awards, we are always
in touch with the top people in the broadcast field throughout
the country. This gives us the opportunity to help students
find job openings they might not find otherwise." he added
In addition to contacts with professional broadcasters,
McDougald pointed out that one of the most important
offshoots of the University’s connection with the Peabody
Awards is the high-quality collection of filmed and taped
broadcast programs which the University owns.
Although the programsare not now available for student and
faculty research, there are plans to begin to make them
available within the next year.
Of the 27 awards given this year, 13 went to individual
stations for their program efforts, the largest number of
awards of this nature ever given. Six awards went to
networks, five to producing organizations or group station
owners, and three individuals received awards
Peabody award winners for radio broadcasts this year
are: Jim Laurie, NBC News, for coverage of the fall of
Vietnam after evacuation: KMOX Radio. St. Louis, for an
investigative report series. Sleeping Watchdogs. WGMS.
Bethesda. Maryland, for radio entertainment as in The
Collector's Shelf and 200 Years of Music in America.
The Standard School Broadcast, San Francisco, for
"forty-seven years of continuous educational radio service to
the citizens of the Far West, making this broadcast the
nation's oldest continuous educational radio program ”
WFMT. Chicago, for the musical program. Music in
Chicago: Stravinsky '75: WSOU. South Orange. New Jersey,
for Land of Poetry, a Halloween radio program for young
listeners; Voice of America, Washington, DC., for The
Battle of Lexington, one part of the series, 200 Years Ago
Tonight.
WCBS. New York, for its public service effort in A Life to
Share; KDKB. Mesa, Arizona, lor overall public service
programming; and WMAL, Washington, DC, for overall
radio documentary excellence
Winners for television broadcasts in Peabody competition
are: WTOP-TV, Washington. D C , for overall public service;
WCKT-TV, Miami, for "compiling an envious record of
outstanding investigative reporting during 1975."
Charles Kuralt, CBS News, New York, for a pre-bicenten
nial report. On the liuad to '76; KABC-TV. Los Angeles, for
The Dale Car: A Dream or a Nightmare, a community
service news operation; CBS-TV, New York, for the popular
television program with “first-rate humor", MASH.
ABC-TV, New York,for television entertainment in ABC
Theatre: Love Among the Ruins:. NBC-TV, New York, for
Weekend, a viewer experience program: WCVB-TV,
Boston, for "a viewer-oriented programming package which
exhibits a quality of service too rarely seen in today's
television."
Group W, New York, for its series of children’s programs.
Call It Macaroni; ABC-TV, New York, for The ABC
Afterschool Specials;; Kaiser Broadcasting. San Francisco,
for its childrens educational television program, Snipets
CBS-News, New York, for Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington.
WWL-TV, New Orleans for A Sunday Journal. .CBS News.
New York, for its series. The American Assassins;
WAPA-TV, San Juan, Puerto Rico, for its local television
drama, Las Itosas Blancas; Dr. James Killian, Boston, for
“his outstanding contributions to educational television in
the United States."
The Board also voted to recognize and pay tribute to the
contributions of the late Paul Porter, distinguished
Washington attorney and a member of the Peabody Board
for more than 25 years
The lied and Black. Tuesday. March 30, 1976 Page 5
Title IX report
nears completion
Final recommendations tor
the implementation of Title IX
ai the University are being
returned to subcommittee for
the last time this week, and
will likely be made public
within the next two or three
weeks, according to Dr M
Louise McBee, chairman of the
local Title IX steering commit
tee.
Title IX is part of the 1972
Congressional education bill
Which prohibits discrimination
on the basis of sex in any
educational program which re
ceives federal aid
The initial subcommittee re
ports were compiled last week
by the steering committee and
only relatively minor clarifica
tions and modifications must
lie made before final subcom
mitlee approval and ultimate
enactment under Title IX.
McBee said
A public hearing for local
reaction to the final recom
mendations will also be held
before a report is made to the
academic affairs advisory
committee at its May meeting.
McBee added
The deadline for initiation of
procedures under Title IX is
July 21, 1976
According to McBee the
subcommit'ee re-commenda
tions constitute a type of
self-evaluation. "Generally,
this institution (the University)
looks good," she said "We ll
make a few recommendations,
but they are mostly minor—
and mostly in the area of
athletics."
Other major areas of sub
committee study include equal
ities in such broad fields as
administration, health and
housing practices at the Uni-'
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