Posts Tagged ‘John Carver’
The Money Room: So What?
John Kerr: The corporate officer I saw was eager to learn about ways to fund PBS programs. John Carver then sealed the deal. That visit led to a grant to WGBH of $300,000 to help fund NOVA.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Cold Calls Pay Off
Sam Tyler: Whom do I call? Why? Is this the right person? Can I wrangle a meeting? That was always the key – get yourself into an office and you might have a chance.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Of Eggs, Sliders, and Gum
John Carver: He got up from his desk, went to his conference table and produced a copy of AD WEEK, the weekly industry rag that we all pretend to read. I wished then that I had read it.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Auction Plays Cupid
Sam Tyler: Companies loved the Auction. Employees answered the phones and the CEO would sell off a table or two. Everyone had a good time.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Wrong Turn in New Jersey
John Carver: I think he took pleasure in my predicament and wanted to see how I handled it.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Fundraising Goes National
John Kerr: The corporate officer I saw was eager to learn about ways to fund PBS programs. John Carver then sealed the deal. That visit led to a grant to WGBH of $300,000 to help fund NOVA.
Read MoreThe Money Room: “Pledging” Begins at WGBH
John Kerr: Jeanne Brodeur called the phone company and bagged a dedicated and easy-to-remember phone number for us — 492-1111.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Singing for His Supper
John Kerr: Having the president of WGBH sing for his supper seemed an idea worth trying.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How I Got Back to ‘GBH
John Kerr: We selected a large, sturdy golf umbrella with a wooden handle. Our brilliant new Yale-trained Design Director Chris Pullman and his colleagues Doug Scott, Gene Mackles and others helped make it distinctive with its blue, green and white panels and WGBH’s new drop-shadowed logo.
Read MoreThe Money Room: A Life-changing Adventure
John Kerr: A viewer called to say that she enjoyed having all of us in her home asking for money on her television, but that we had left the lights on when she went up to bed.
Read MoreThe Money Room: The Ask That Wasn’t
David Ives knew just about everybody in Boston. This made my job coordinating The WGBH Independence Fund much easier than anticipated.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How This Old House Was Built
Russ handed me a one-page sell sheet with no particulars … no real budget or definition, no host, and definitely no house.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How I Got There
John Kerr: Having finished college in 1960, I locked my Ideor racing bike to a post near Tech Drugs and climbed the stairs at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
Read MoreThe Money Room: 1960s – ’80s
Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing a bit of history written by John Kerr, John Carver, and Sam Tyler whose fundraising careers at WGBH spanned three decades.
Read MoreReunion 2015: Here’s your invitation!
We now have a formal invitation and final agenda for the reunion!
Join us at the new WGBH Studios on Saturday, May 2, at One Guest Street in Allston.
Always Charitable, Nancy England Succumbs to Cancer at 57
From Doug Smith I want to let you know that a former ‘GBHer, Nancy England, who worked there in the ’70s in development with Sam Tyler, John Carver, and John Kerr, died last week of cancer. Nancy was close to Christy Moore Millet, Lisa Getman Ellis, Jo Madden, and several others from that period. Christy…
Read MoreThe Party XIV
205. David Atwood and Bruce Bordett. 206. David Atwood shares an affectionate moment with Olivia Tappan. 207. Well….two moments. 208. Yet another shot of Peter Hoving and Chris Sarson. (Do they get residuals on these?) 209. John Henning. 210. John Henning again, POV. 211. John “Rocky” Coe and Faith Nachman Klein. 212. Gene Mackles, John Carver and Paul Solman. 213. Thea Chalow and John…
Read MoreThe Party III
92. Chris Pullman and Tom Sumida. 93. Tom Sumida, Chris Pullman, Paul Souza and Paul Solman. 94. Tom Sumida, Chris Pullman, Paul Souza, Doug Scott and Jeff Dunn. 95. Doug Scott and Paul Souza. 96. John Kerr, Mary Meadows, Hillary Kimmel and John Carver. 97. Debbie Dorsey and Michael Ambrosino. 98. David Atwood and Dick…
Read MoreThe Party II
82. Jo Madden with John Carver. 83. David Atwood and Francis Gladstone. 84. Basil Chigas, Bruce Bordett and Howard Lowe. 85. Dave Elinoff, Eliat Goldman, and Roger Macie. 86. Fred Barzyk, Aida Moreno and Ron Milton. 87. Raquel Ortiz with Lo Hartnett. 88. Ron Della Chiesa and Arnie Reisman. 89. Bob Wilson and Rick Hauser, with a little bit of Nancy Mason Hauser.…
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