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CURRENT WRVU DJs The DJs of WRVU. ART ART ZINE. Feb. 14, 2011. WRVU HALL OF FAME Don Benson '74 President and CEO of Lincoln Financial Media Vanderbilt permeated the DNA of Benson’s family. His father, grandfather, uncles and younger brother attended the university and Benson Science Hall was named for his father’s uncle. Benson grew up in Nashville, loved Vanderbilt and developed a keen interest in radio during his teens. He found his way to campus and WRVU, where he began reporting news on a fill-in basis. WRVU became a large part of Benson’s college life. After graduating in 1974 with a B.A. in history, “D.B.” as he was called, began his radio career with Jefferson-Pilot at WQXI AM/FM in Atlanta. Now, with more than 30 years of radio industry experience, he is president and CEO of Lincoln Financial Media Co., the previous owner of Jefferson-Pilot. Benson has overall responsibility for the operations of 14 radio stations in Atlanta, Miami, San Diego and Denver. Benson has been named to Radio Ink magazine’s list of “The 40 Most Powerful People in Radio.” Source: Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame’s 2010 Class Named. Vanderbilt Student Communications. vandymedia.org. accessed Sept. 22, 2010. Ken Berryhill ’55 “The Father of WRVU” Ken Berryhill brought broadcasting equipment home from his DJ job at WMAK. From his dorm room in Cole Hall, Berryhill began spinning danceable Country and Big Band classics for the students of Vanderbilt's campus. When he stretched wires outside the dormitory, Berryhill discovered that his pirate radio signal reached audiences up to a mile away. Through his charming radio personality, great musical taste, and fun record giveaways, Berryhill quickly gained a dedicated following of students and community listeners. Berryhill was encouraged by the popularity of his broadcasts to petition Chancellor Harvie Branscomb for the formation of a student-run radio station. Chancellor Branscomb named English Professor Rob Roy Purdy, Chair of the student radio feasibility committee. After meeting with Dr. Purdy, Berryhill was pulled away from campus to serve in the U.S. military. By the time he returned, two years later, the Vanderbilt student radio station, then WVU, was up and running. Through his continued broadcasts at WVU, Berryhill became a Country Radio legend interviewing the likes of Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Elvis Presley, and Hank Williams, Sr. In 1996, Ken Berryhill returned to WRVU and once again is entertaining Nashville with his hoppin' radio show "Ken's Country Classics". It can now be heard on Tuesdays from 12 - 2 pm on WRVU 91.1 FM. WRVU staff honored "The Father of WRVU" in 2001 by naming Sarratt 182C the "The Berryhill Listening Room". Ken Berryhill is an alumnus of 1955 and he is nominated for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Source: “Radio Days: ‘Father of WRVU' continues legacy begun 50 years ago in Cole Hall”. Skip Anderson. The Vanderbilt Register. Darren Briggs ‘87 VP & Chief Technology Officer of Landmark Digital Services, a subsidiary of BMI. Darren Briggs serves as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Landmark Digital Services. In his role, Briggs creates the business processes, systems and operational structures that support Landmark’s audio recognition technology. Briggs also directs the deployment and implementation of the company’s nationwide music monitoring network utilizing BlueArrow technology. Formerly the Senior Director of BMI’s Department of Strategic Development, he also investigated and projected technological trends in the music industry. In 2000, Briggs stepped momentarily away from the music industry and co-founded Fatbubble, Inc., an innovative and patented technology primarily designed to facilitate and revolutionize the sharing of information through collective pools of data and experience. The development later proved to be a prescient forefather of social networking technology. SOURCE: “Content, Copyright, and Commerce Symposium”. BMI.com. http://www.bmi.com/panel. Accessed 11/12/10 Richard Chenoweth ’79 Architect and Artist Richard Chenoweth is a nationally recognized architect and illustrator who specializes in high design projects and architectural visualization. His award-winning practice blends design, drawing, watercolor painting, digital modeling and rendering, and digital post-production. Chenoweth designed a prototype steel and glass entrance canopy for the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority's Metro system (WMATA), winning a national design competition in 2001. From 2002-2007, WMATA built twenty-eight (28) of the canopies throughout the DC metro region under the aegis of its Metro Canopy Program. Lourie & Chenoweth LLC was Architect of Record and Arup was the Engineer of Record. Grunley Walsh was the builder. 2001, Richard won the Gabriel Prize for the study of French architecture. The Gabriel Prize, a national portfolio competition, funded a three month sabbatical to France. He stayed mostly in Paris, and graphically studied 18th century buildings, especially ones that were known to have influenced Thomas Jefferson, or ones that he may have known. French ideas appear in Monticello, the University of Virginia and the Capitol. Currently, Richard is working on a project to recreate the U.S. Capitol as it was built by Benjamin Latrobe from 1803-1814. Latrobe's client, Thomas Jefferson, hired Latrobe to undertake the biggest and most ambitious construction project on U.S. soil at the time. The initial research for Richard's project was funded by a U.S. Capitol Historical Society Fellowship. Richard began by analyzing Latrobe's original construction documents, which are preserved at the Library of Congress. Source: “Richard Chenoweth AIA”. Chenoweth Architecture. http://www.chenarch.com/. Accessed 11/12/10 Audrey Clarke ‘94 Raido Producer, WGN-720 Chicago Audrey Clarke was the Producer for the Bob Collins Morning show from 1996 2000. The award-winning show was ranked the #1 morning show in the #3 market for all four years that Clarke was producing the program. Among other prestigious honors, Collins won a Marconi while working with Clarke on the show. Adam Dread ‘85 Lawyer, Radio Personality, Metro Council Adam Dread was elected to the Metro Council in December 2002. Since then, he set a Metro record for winning the most county wide races in the shortest period of time (he won 4 in one year, including run-offs.) He was endorsed by every major newspaper, union, and trade organization. He Chaired the Public Safety - Beer and Regulated Beverages Committee and also served as a member of the Public Works Committee and the Traffic and Parking Committee. He was at one point Chair of the Convention and Tourism Committee. He is also known for building the live music stage at the airport, in conjunction with the Convention Tourism Bureau, to welcome visitors and locals to Music City with live music. Popular with the public, in 2008 he was voted "The Best Metro Councilman Out the Door", as he was term limited, and couldn't run again. Adam Dread works as an attorney at Durham & Dread, PLC. His law firm can be viewed at www.durhamanddread.com. They are well-know for being one of the first Tennessee firms to go after the makers of tainted pet food from China. Since 1999, he has worked as a freelance consultant and corporate spokesman for numerous clients including Jack Daniels and Fruit of the Loom. From 1999 until elected for Metro Council, he was on the Metro Beer Permit Board. In 2009 and 2010 the readers of the Nashville Scene voted Adam Dread the "Best Attorney" in Nashville. Adam Dread has called Nashville home for over 25 years. He originally came here to attend Vanderbilt University. While attending Vanderbilt, Dread worked as a DJ and Promotions Director for WRVU. During his tenure, he organized a number of successful benefit concerts for the student-run station. After graduation, Dread toured the world as a professional standup comedian. In 1992, he returned to Nashville to host an award winning morning radio show and to produce television for Dick Clark Productions and TNN. Source: “Adam Dread, PLC.” Linked-In. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adam-dread/a/3/580. Accessed 12/11/10. John Haile ‘67 Editor of the Orlando Sentinel ’85 ’00 John Haile served as Editor and Vice President of the Orlando Sentinel from 1985 until his retirement in 2000. He is a former state and national political reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville. During time as editor in Orlando, the newspaper was recognized with numerous awards for local, regional and national reporting, including its first three Pulitzer Prizes. A new media pioneer who helped build one of the world's first fully integrated, multimedia newsrooms in Orlando with print, Internet, a 24-hour cable news channel, TV and radio all operating from a central news desk. Among the first to recognize that changing the culture of the newsroom was the key to adapting traditional print operations to new media. Later served as consultant to several major newspaper companies and has been a speaker throughout North and South America and Europe on converting newsrooms to multimedia. Also served for several years as a senior fellow in new media at the American Press Institute, on the board of New Directions for News and the board of the Inter-American Press Association. Currently serves on the advisory board of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado; the board and executive committee of Mt. Evans Hospice; the board of Evergreen Trout Unlimited. John Haile served as WRVU GM from 1968 - 1967. He participated in WRVU's first FM broadcast in December 1971. Source: “John Haile: Newspaper and New Media Professional.” Linked-In. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-haile/a/258/8ba. Accessed 11/12/10. James M. Noble MD, MS '98 Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology. Columbia University Medical Center. Jamie Noble completed his undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University. While there, he became active with radio station WRVU and served as General Manager of the station during his senior year. After graduation, he went to medical school at Emory University. He then became a medicine intern and later neurology resident and chief resident in Neurology at Columbia University. He then completed a combined fellowship in neuroepidemiology and behavioral neurology at Columbia University. He then became an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University, primarily based at Harlem Hospital Center, where he is the director of the memory disorders center satellite of the Columbia University Alzheimer Disease Research Center. In addition to patient care of general neurologic patients as well as those with dementia, his research interests include health literacy, vascular risk factors, and systemic inflammatory markers as contributors to stroke and dementia health disparities. While GM of WRVU, Noble got Ken Berryhill back On the Air and helped the organize one of the most successful benefit concerts in station history. In 2006, Dr. Jamie Noble established and endowment for the annual the THE WRVU NASHVILLE AWARD FOR DEDICATION TO EXCELLENCE IN RADIO BROADCASTING. This award was created in order to recognize non-GM/PD e-staff members making significant contributions to the station. SOURCE: “James M. Noble, MD, MS. Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology.” Columbia University Department of Neurology. http://web.neuro.columbia.edu/members/profiles.php?id=208. Accessed 11/12/10. Richard Quest ‘84 CNN Reporter and News Anchor Richard Quest is host of Quest Means Business and one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team; covering an extensive range of breaking news and business stories, as well as feature programming, he has become one of the network’s highest profile presenters. Quest is firmly established as an expert on business travel issues and currently works as a CNN anchor and correspondent. His other regular programme is CNN Business Traveler. Quest’s dynamic and distinctive style has made him a unique figure in the field of business and news broadcasting. During his time at CNN he has reported on many of the major news events of recent years. His coverage of breaking news, which has spanned over two decades, has seen him report on a range of stories from the Iraq War, the death of Yasser Arafat and the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 crash. As a business travel specialist, Quest has become a voice of authority on subjects like the launch of the Airbus A380; as a news correspondent he traveled across the US to gauge public feeling in the build up to the 2004 presidential election. He anchored CNN’s coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, live from Rome. Quest attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, every year, and in this, as with every case, he lends an incredible wealth of modern business knowledge to the coverage, coupled with his inimitable reporting style. Quest has also built up an almost unparalleled reputation in the broadcasting business having been reporting on the international financial markets for the last 20 years, working in both television and radio. Prior to joining CNN he worked with the BBC and WRVU Nashville, where his career in journalism began. At the BBC, his work was mainly focused on business journalism, and he became a part of the Corporation’s Financial Unit in 1987. Later he was appointed to be North America Business Correspondent, based on Wall Street, covering the major financial stories of the 1990s. Richard Quest served as News Director for WRVU during the 1980s. Source: “CNN Anchors & Reporters: Richard Quest” CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/quest.richard.html. Accessed 11/12/10. Dr. Raphael Smith '55 Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Medical Center According to the 1953 Commodore, Smith was among those who began work on a campus radio station, then called WVU. He served as the station’s first technical director and engineer. His activities included laying army surplus field wire through the campus steam tunnels to transmit a radio signal to the dorms and being on call 24/7 for repair of equipment. Smith earned his B.A. in chemistry in 1955 and then went to Harvard, where he received his M.D. He did tours of active naval duty during Vietnam and Desert Storm, where he was deployed to the Middle East. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1969 and directed the Coronary Care Unit and Heart Station. He also became chief of cardiology at the Nashville Veterans Medical Center. Smith was in charge of a series of experiments involving the effect of weightlessness on astronauts’ heart function during the three Skylab missions. He was on the decks of the recovery ships so he could interpret his findings when the astronauts were pulled out of the water. Other research interests include the diagnosis and new forms of treatment for heart failure. The cardiology unit at the Nashville VA Medical Center is named after him. Source: Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame’s 2010 Class Named. Vanderbilt Student Communications. vandymedia.org. accessed Sept. 22, 2010. Sky Yancy ’76 Anchor WTVQ Lexington, Kentucky an ABC affiliate station. Host of daily morning, noon, and evening news broadcasts. ************************** Click Here to see WRVU E-Staff of years past Click Here to learn THE HISTORY OF WRVU |
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