Obits............RIP

OBITS

Dr. Laurence C. Blenheim


Sometime after February, 1980
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson)
(confirmed by Mike Biel & Mike Muderick)
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Vic Brody


August 28, 1999
(reported by Lenore Patterson)
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Professor Joe Carter


No Date given
(reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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Coleman Cohen
"Several years ago"
(reported by Marty Kreiner)
Marty says: "Coleman died several years ago after recurring bouts of hepatitis."
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Ted DiRenzo
"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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Steve Eisenthal
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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Warren Exmore
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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Dr. Marguerite Farley
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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Norman Feld
(a.k.a. Norman Fell)


WRTI Chief Announcer in 1948
Date given - December 14, 1998
(reported by the Associated Press)
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Bob Feldman
(a.k.a. Bob Graham)
WRTI Station Manager in 1950
Date given - None
(reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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Bob Gitler
(a.k.a. Bob Gale)
Date given - early to mid 80's
(reported by Dick Cooper)
(confirmed by Fred Bauers)

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Ethel Goldberg
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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Ellie Kurtz
Date given - no date given
(reported by Jon and Judith Bogdanove)

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Barbara Nalven
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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Sheryl Nathans
Date given - April 9, 2002
(reported by Jim Prioletti)

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Dean of SCAT, J. Douglas Perry


February 24, 1986
(reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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Marty Pincus
"a few years ago"
(reported by Jay Welsh)
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Noam Pitlik


February 18, 1999
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson)
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Renee Putz (Jim's wife)

Date given - 1995
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson and Ed Cunningham)

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Tall Paul Rilling
Date given - January 25, 1999
(reported by Gerry Wilkinson)

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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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Ben Selisker


1982 or so
(reported by Mike Muderick)
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Charlie Shaffran

No date given
(Reported by Professor John B. Roberts)
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Bruce Smallwood


(a.k.a. Bruce Wood & Eric Smallwood)
June 14, 1988
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Herb Smith


No date given
(reported by Spring 1998 issue of the Temple Review)
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Jay Strassberg
July 16, 2000
(reported by his daughter, Miryam S. Roddy)
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Ron Tindiglia
November 10, 1997
(reported by Joe Ryan)

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Steve Waldman
(husband of Sharon Waldman)
Date given - September, 1997
(reported by Sharon Waldman)

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John Wright


Date Given: About 1993.
(reported by Bob Cirillo)
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WRTI-FM (when they went Jazz)
June, 1969
(reported by Mike Biel)

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