On Audition
October 29, 1956
Joel Albert is probably the best waiter on MUSIC A LA CARTE. We wonder if he's as good as serving food as he is music. ---------- Last week's edition of Alumni Antics was not published because the copy was misplaced by Lou Zimmer. The reason stated in last week's edition of ON AUDITION was erroneous and any inferences from the excuse are, of course, wrong. ---------- ...Steve Cohen was the second manager of WRTI-FM and the first of our faculty assistants, along with Paul Jeffers. Steve started learning all he could about the workings of 'RTI as a low freshman. By the time he reached the second half of his first year, he was music director. After that he was program director of AM and FM. Steve felt that FM was the place he could best give vent to his creative interests, while still developing the high levels of technical skill that was such an important part of his ideals in Communications. During the next year and a half, therefore, Steve managed our growing FM station.
During that time, FM grew from boyhood to strong youth. Our listeners increased, our broadcast day was lengthened and the number of new programs mounted rapidly. Steve is personally responsible for the Little Bookshop. Meet The Faculty, News Magazine, Evening at the Opera, Open House, which was the first live music and comedy show on FM, Keys to Music, and, a show that won an award: Only Yesterday.
While busying himself with all of this, Steve managed to spend time with other branches of communications. He spent many hours writing features for the Temple News, and during his last year, he was senior editor of the Templar.
As a high senior, our busy Mr. Cohen took on the job as Faculty assistant. He helped the new faculty members acquaint themselves with 'RTI and he was the person, young people turned to for advice in working out ideas, the guy would could be counted on for objective, healthy criticism.
Oh yes, Steve also edited and produced our FM program guide.
Quite a busy boy, and if this isn't enough, when Steve was graduated in February of 1956, he had the highest scholastic average in our division. Quite an acoomplishment!! Steve is out in the business world now, in advertising. He is director of Radio and TV for Robinson, Adleman and Montgomery Advertising. Then reflecting upon his student days, Steve remembers most, his efforts to make radio at Temple a living, growing thing, characterized by a willingness to take the new and give it a chance to become an accepted part of our programming, while, at the same time, trying to raise the technical level of our presentation. Steve feels most strongly that all out concentration on announcing is a very bad thing for 'RTI. Most of our young people will have jobs in other phases of Communications. Our young people must learn the importance of the behind-the-scenes work and must be able to handle that work with ease. Radio and TV depends on it.
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