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Broadcast Tape 10.  (Originally Van Camp Master #9)

Date:  ca. 1981

Duration:  00:26:57

Reporter: Rosemarie Van Camp

Promotional appearances: Dan Rather, Pat Summeral, Norm Sloan, George Burns, Max Robinson.

12 news and promotional features.  News segments 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, Chapter 1

 

Title:  [Dan Rather Promo for UF Foundation]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Dan Rather

Duration:  00:00:30

File name: NPA1001

Dan Rather of CBS News (shown in the labs of the School of Journalism and Communication) mentions how people donated to get the new facilities started.  He states that people can help higher education in Florida by contacting the UF Foundation.

Segment 1, Chapter 1

Title:  [George Burns Promo for UF Foundation]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  George Burns and Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:00:59

File name: NPA1001

George Burns and Rosemarie Van Camp do a short promo for the UF Foundation.

Segment 1, Chapter 1

Title:  [Max Robinson Promo]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Max Robinson

Duration:  00:00:22

File name: NPA1001

Max Robinson talks about meeting UF national achievement scholar Andrea Pelt and that scholarship at UF can be supported by contacting the UF Foundation.

Segment 1, Chapters 2-5

Title:  [Pat Sumerall Promo of UF Athletic Program]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Pat Sumerall

Duration:  00:09:12

File name: NPA1001

Pat Sumerall commends the student athletes at UF, the “family” atmosphere, the Gator Boosters monetary contributions, Yon Hall and its fine facilities, and extends an invitation to join this family. 

Segment 2

Title:  [Promo of UF academic awards]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:01:30

File name: NPA1002

Van Camp reports on five of UF’s fifteen colleges have achieved a coveted number one ranking.  These include awards won by Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Journalism and Communication, Metallurgical Engineering, and Dentistry.  A promotional video was produced to be shown during the UF vs Georgia football game.

Segment 3

Title:  [Dalrymple and the O’Connell Center]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:01:35

File name: NPA1003

An overview of the new O’Connell facility and its many features.  The director of Student Activities, Jim Dalrymple, is briefly interviewed.

Segment 4

Title:  [Energy Conference and foreign visitors]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:01:33

File name: NPA1004

A dinner given at the conclusion of the energy conference at UF which was sponsored by the Solar Institute with a two million dollar grant from the federal government.  Thirty-four people from twenty-one countries attended.

Segment 5

Title:  [Economic Forecast with Dr. Fishkind]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:07:08

File name: NPA1005

Dr. Fishkind responds to questions from Van Camp regarding the current state of the economy in Florida and the continuing recession.

 

Segment 6

Title:  [Norm Sloan and Sun Bank Promo]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Norm Sloan

Duration:  00:01:30

File name: NPA1006

Norm Sloan (in his car at night) talks about how happy he is to bank at Sun Bank as they keep the same crazy hours he does.

Segment 7

Title:  [Norm Sloan and Sun Bank Promo]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Norm Sloan

Duration:  00:00:32

File name: NPA1007

Norm Sloan stands outside the O’Connell Center and states that Sun Bank has the same commitment to winning that he does.

Segment 8

Title:  [UF Promo]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:02:23

File name: NPA1008

A brief repeat of a scene in Segment 2 and the five areas at UF that won awards.  UF President Robert Q. Marston mentions the five million dollar grant given by the Goodhill Foundation for an endowed chair and also the acquisition of six thousand acres of land to study the environment.

Segment 9

Title:  [Exercise Deters Aging]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:01:43

File name: NPA1009

Dr. Christian Zauner, exercise physiologist, and his co-workers conducted a study of the effects of jogging on sixty men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-five.  They found that exercise helped to deter aging.

 

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