OBITS
Dr. Laurence C. Blenheim Sometime after February, 1980 Professor Joe Carter Coleman Cohen Ted DiRenzo Steve Eisenthal Warren Exmore Dr. Marguerite Farley Norman Feld Bob Feldman Bob Gitler Ethel Goldberg Ellie Kurtz Barbara Nalven Sheryl Nathans Dean of SCAT, J. Douglas Perry Marty Pincus Renee Putz (Jim's wife) Date given - 1995 ---------- Tall Paul Rilling ---------- Ben Selisker Charlie Shaffran No date given Bruce Smallwood Herb Smith Jay Strassberg Ron Tindiglia ---------- Steve Waldman ---------- John Wright Date Given: About 1993. WRTI-FM (when they went Jazz) This is the WRTI Old Gang Web Site.
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson)
(confirmed by Mike Biel & Mike Muderick)
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August 28, 1999
(reported by Lenore Patterson)
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No Date given
(reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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"Several years ago"
(reported by Marty Kreiner)
Marty says: "Coleman died several years ago after recurring bouts of hepatitis."
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"March 2002"
(reported by Jan Stevens, visitor to our website)
Jan says: "I was a music student of his in the early 1960s, and attended the memorial service for him this past Monday in Springfield, PA."
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No Date given
(reported by Al Maslin)
Al says Steve was at WRTI in the early 60's.
He had been with Channel 17 for quite a while.
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No Date given
(reported by Mike Muderick)
Mike says that the December 20, 1998 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports the death of Nathan Exmore, father of the late Warren Michael Exmore.
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head of the Communications Dept. at Villanova University
known for her work on the WFIL Studio Schoolhouse
Date given - "Recently"
(reported by Al Maslin)
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(a.k.a. Norman Fell)
WRTI Chief Announcer in 1948
Date given - December 14, 1998
(reported by the Associated Press)
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(a.k.a. Bob Graham)
WRTI Station Manager in 1950
Date given - None
(reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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(a.k.a. Bob Gale)
Date given - early to mid 80's
(reported by Dick Cooper)
(confirmed by Fred Bauers)
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Date given - early 70's
(reported by Dick Cooper)
Dick says, "Dale Zaris had told me that back then when we met while she was on a Philadelphia Zoo group outing."
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Date given - no date given
(reported by Jon and Judith Bogdanove)
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Date given - early 80's
(reported by Marty Kreiner)
Marty says, "Barbara Nalven was manufacturing children's jewelry and I bought her products for my duty free shop on the island of St. Kitts where I have lived and worked for the past 24 years. I have reason to believe she passed away shortly after that."
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Date given - April 9, 2002
(reported by Jim Prioletti)
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February 24, 1986
(reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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"a few years ago"
(reported by Jay Welsh)
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February 18, 1999
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson)
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(reported by Gerry Wilkinson and Ed Cunningham)
Date given - January 25, 1999
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson)
Stan Saltzman, a WRTI G.A. (circa late fifties)
Later became head of Medical Communications at TU Hospital.
Date Given: A few years ago
(reported by Norm Childs)
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1982 or so
(reported by Mike Muderick)
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(Reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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(a.k.a. Bruce Wood & Eric Smallwood)
June 14, 1988
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No date given
(reported by Spring 1998 issue of the Temple Review)
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July 16, 2000
(reported by his daughter, Miryam S. Roddy)
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November 10, 1997
(reported by Joe Ryan)
(husband of Sharon Waldman)
Date given - September, 1997
(reported by Sharon Waldman)
(reported by Bob Cirillo)
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June, 1969
(reported by Mike Biel)