15481. Ink Spots' Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:32)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Watson, Deek, Fuqua, Charlie, Jones, Hoppy, Kenny, Bill, Daniels, Jerry, Bowen, Billy, Kenny, Herb, McDonald, Adriel
Summary:
Video bio of Ink Spots, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2006. Writer/Producer: Howard Caldwell; Post-Production: DreamVision Media Partners; Some Photos Courtesy of: The Indiana Historical Society; Duncan Shiedt; The Ink Spots vocal group had its origin in the early 1930s in Indianapolis and appeared regularly on WLW-AM in Cincinnati. The group bolted to national popularity with its recording of the ballad “If I Didn’t Care” in 1939. Between 1940 and 1949, The Ink Spots had more than 30 hits on the pop charts. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

15484. Target for tonight (48:28)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Watt, Harry, 1906-1987
Summary:
Presents an account of an actual air raid by the Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force. Aerial photographs disclose the objective to be raided. Then staff planning, routine preparations, and the tension of the evening take-off are shown. Follows a big Wellington bomber through its bombing of the target, engine trouble, the wounding of its wireless operator, and finally its report back to headquarters.

15485. Wausau Homes "Custom Built" (01:05)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
Wausau Homes
Summary:
A man talks about the different types of suburban homes that Wausau can make. Wausau can also build a family a home that reflects their needs and price.

15486. Wausau Homes "Looks" (00:33)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
Wausau Homes
Summary:
A man explains that Wausau homes are built with quality products and are priced fairly.

15487. Wax, Amy (27:54)

Date:
2018-04-11
Main contributors:
Wax, Amy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 88, Dean James Shanahan interviews Amy Wax, who recently visited IU Bloomington as a guest of the Tocqueville Lecture Series.

15488. 2010 Indiana State Fair Master: Wayne and Helen Drake, Hog Breeders (Wayne County) (05:35)

Date:
2017-08-01
Main contributors:
Wayne and Helen Drake (Masters), Jon Kay (Director), Joe Martinez (Videographer), The Woodstove Flapjacks (Music) Thomas G. Richardson (Project Coordinator), Traditional Arts Indiana
Summary:
Starting with only 30 sows, Wayne and Helen Drake built what would become a multi-generational family hog breeding business now involving thousands of pigs. Far from being an isolated practice, Wayne says he learned a lot from other hog farmers. “I learned a lot from the old people, that’s what I called them. You’d sit around the pens, and chew the fat with them, and you pick up a lot of ideas, and exchange ideas. It was really educational for me as a 4-H kid.” Both Wayne and Helen Drake began showing at the State Fair in the 1940s and have continued nearly every year since. Their children, now running the family business, Drake Purebred Farms, have also been showing hogs their whole lives, and have amassed numerous awards and accolades themselves. For the Drakes, hog breeding and showing has turned into a family tradition with no signs of slowing down.

15490. David H. Weaver, BA'68, MA'69 (01:32)

Date:
2012
Main contributors:
Weaver, David H. (David Hugh), 1946-
Summary:
IU journalism Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Weaver has been connected with IU nearly all of his academic life, but acclaim for his work comes from across the globe. A native Hoosier, Weaver, BA’68, MA’69, left the state briefly to earn his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of North Carolina. He returned that same year to join the IU journalism faculty, embarking on a 38-year career as a researcher and professor. Weaver quickly gained recognition for his work, especially in agenda setting, which explores media’s effects on the public, and studies the influence of news sources, other media and journalistic traditions on the news agenda. He has applied the theory to such topics as the relationship among media bias, public opinion and Congressional policy in one 58-year time span. Weaver is author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning American Journalists series, which he initiated in the 1970s with his mentor, journalism Professor Emeritus Cleve Wilhoit. Taking the pulse of journalists to gauge what they think about their jobs and their industry produced information no one else was collecting. Collaborating with other professors at the school, he conducted subsequent surveys in 1982, 1992 and 2002. The most recent, The Global Journalist in the 21st Century, was published this year with journalism professor Lars Willnat, one of Weaver’s former students. From 1988 until his retirement in 2011, Weaver was the IU Roy W. Howard Professor. In 2009, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, an organization he had served as president. Weaver also has served as president of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. In 2010, IU named him Distinguished Professor, the first journalism faculty member to achieve this honor. Earlier this year, he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.