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Broadcast Tape 1.  (Originally labeled Dudley Master #5)

Date:  ca. 1983

Duration:  00:24:68

Reporters: Chris Dudley and Rose Marie Van Camp.

A collection of 19 news and public service announcements regarding research and people at the University of Florida.  The date of 1983 was arrived at because of the students who appear in the various segments. 

News reports were broadcast on WUFT-TV.

Originally produced on ¾” u-matic.  Reformatted to Betacam SP in 2003 and MPEG2 in 2005.

 

Tape contents

Segment 1

Title:  [Horizontal Lightning Research]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:05

File name: NPA0101

Electrical engineering professor Ewen Thomson’s research (funded by both NASA and NSF) with horizontal lightning fields is shown.  Nearby lightning strikes can cause more damage than direct hits and the research might aid in better protecting power lines and electronics.

Segment 2

Title:  [Spanish Florida Alliance Conference]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:07

File name: NPA0102

A conference sponsored by the Spanish Florida Alliance provides for a dialog regarding the trade deficit between Spain and the United States.

Segment 3

Title:  [Solar Powered Refrigerator]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:15

File name: NPA0103

Money from the Agency for International Development helps students from around the world to improve life for people in their own countries.  Dr. Charma came from India to participate in the Alternative Energy and Technology Program at the University of Florida.  He is developing a solar powered refrigerator which will aid in preserving medicines in rural areas in India where there is no electricity.

Segment 4

Title:  [Southern Honor]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:15

File name: NPA0104

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, who holds the eminent scholar’s chair in History, relates the parallels between the southern enthusiasm for battle and the football playing field and why southern fans are more exuberant during football games.  Mr. Two-Bits is briefly shown cheering during a football game.

Segment 5

Title:  [Ronnie Williams]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:57

File name: NPA0105

Ronnie Williams, a forward and high scorer on the basketball team, is profiled.   Norm Sloan and some of the team are shown during a game in the Florida Gym.

Segment 6

Title:  [Study of Florida Lakes]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:18

File name: NPA0106

An extensive study of Florida Lakes, using the Tropic State Index (TSI), was conducted by Environmental Engineering professor Wayne Huber and his graduate student Bob Dickinson.  Twenty five percent of the lakes in Florida were found to be unhealthy mainly due to runoff from farmland and agricultural areas.

Segment 7

Title:  [Vernon DeLancy]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:23

File name: NPA0107

Gator basketball player and senior Vernon DeLancy is interviewed.  His role as a team player and his major in criminal justice are discussed.

Segment 8

Title:  [Eugene McDowell]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Christ Dudley

Duration:  00:02:24

File name: NPA0108

A profile on Eugene McDowell a broadcast major and a center on the UF basketball team.

Segment 9

Title:  {Bioglass ear implant]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:26

File name: NPA0109

A report Dr. Larry Hench’s development of an ear bone made of Bioglass which enabled a woman patient to hear again.  The materials scientists at the University of Florida developed Bioglass in the macro fabritech program. Dr. June Wilson, Hench’s colleague and wife is the program director for Bioglass research which is funded by Lark International.

Segment 10

Title:  Nuclear Waste Conference

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:03

File name: NPA0110

Forty scientists came to the University of Florida to attend a conference on how to dispose of nuclear waste.  Some promise is shown by the development at UF of a special glass which may allow for storing nuclear waste underground.

Segment 11

Title:  [Alfalfa Nutrition]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:38

File name: NPA0111

A report on the UF volunteer program to teach children in the schools about nutrition.  Alfalfa was studied in a third grade classroom and a cartoon character “Alfie Alfalfa” was even created.

Segment 12

Title:  [Lynne McDonnell]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:00:57

File name: NPA0112

A brief commentary about accomplished member of the UF gymnastics team and microbiology major Lynn McDonnell.

Segment 13

Title:  [Archie Carr and sea turtles]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:10

File name: NPA0113

The study and research being conducted by Archie Carr and his students on sea turtles and their efforts to learn more about their behavior and how they can be saved.

Segment 14

Title:  [Donation from J.C. Penney]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:09

File name: NPA0114

J.C. Penney retail stores are donating $600,000 with State matching funds of $400,000 in order to establish an eminent scholar chair in retail management at the University of Florida.  The goal is to attract more students to this area and to eventually have more efficiently run retail stores.

Segment 15

Title:  [Robert Marston spoof]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Rose Marie Van Camp

Duration:  00:04:13

File name: NPA0115

A spoof of University of Florida President Robert Q. Marston using film clips and insertion of Marston’s voice.  At the conclusion Rose Marie Van Camp shows the “new” station wagon,  purchased from the Army Navy Depot in Starke, which is to be presented to President Marston.

Segment 16

Title:  [All Terrain Car]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:00:51

File name: NPA0115

University of Florida mechanical engineering students developed an all terrain vehicle, costing $2100, which will be entered in an endurance race against 40 other colleges and universities.  Developing the car, which can travel on land as well as in water, provided the students with practical experience not found in the classroom.

Segment 17

Title:  [Metal developed using levitation]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:00:59

File name: NPA0117

Dr. Gholamreza Abbaschian and his graduate student Joseph Patchett work on developing a new metal material which is produced in a lab situation which simulates the weightless condition found in space.  The molten material is levitated and a stronger, lighter materials is the result.  The research, which is part of the microfabritech program is funded by the Navy.

Segment 18

Title:  [Anthropology research on an Indian trash heap]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:10

File name: NPA0118

Dr. Barbara Purdy and her students rummage through an Indian trash heap on Ponten Island (near Deland) in order to learn more about how the first Floridians lived hundreds of years ago.  Once the materials are back in the lab two years will be spent analyzing them.

Segment 19

Title:  [Adopted grandparent program]

Date:  ca. 1983

Reported by:  Chris Dudley

Duration:  00:01:28

File name: NPA0119

A report about the adopted grandparent program, founded by second grade teacher Toy Whitley, at P.K. Yonge Laboratory School.  Each day children in her class visit a nearby nursing home and interact with the elderly patients.  The program has had a lot of success and after Mrs. Whitley’s retirement the program will continue in hundreds of schools around the country.

 

 

 

 

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