Richard Yoakam Tribute Dinner
Radio-TV Collection
Department of Telecommunications held a tribute dinner for Richard Yoakam to commemorate the start of the Richard Yoakam Technology Fund. The dinner was held in the Radio-TV studio and recorded.
June 13, 1998
00:30 Music starts, wide shot of RTV studio w guests
00:45 Ken Beckley at the lectern, Yoakam sitting at a table to his left
John Gutowsky & Ken covering an IU football game for Yoakam to critique
Beckley says he was describing queen and court at halftime
Yoakam said “Jesus Christ Beckley, I asked you to cover a football game, not a
fashion show.”
02:16 -that ended my sports career
-Ernie Nims, Bill Orwig, and Bill Cameron
03:02 Ernie Nims, at lectern speaking
(Chip Drake in audience)
06:23 (Mary Bob Yoakam in audience)
06:50 (Legene White in audience, she set up the event)
07:30 Legene White at lectern, Dept. of Telecommunications Alumni Affairs
She thanks the alumni committee
09:40 Legene introduces Telecommunications Faculty & staff
10:57 (Margaret Joseph & Barrie Zimmerman in audience)
11:05 (Betsi Grabe & Eric Bucy in audience)
11:40 Legene introduces School of Journalism faculty
(Dan Drew, Will Counts in audience)
14:00 Ernie Nims back at lectern
14:50 Nims talks about sports remote w/ Dwight Smith
-don’t say what you don’t want on air
16:02 Next up are tributes on tape for Yoakam
16:55 Dick Enberg audio tribute to Richard Yoakam
-they both arrived in 1957. Yoakam changed his life
-hanging out at Nick’s
-hero is someone I would like to be
19:30 John “Gordon” Gutowsky, NBC Sportscaster audio tribute
21:10 Jane Pauley video tribute to Yoakam from NBC Time & Again Studio
-she says she started the phrase “bad hair day”
-crazy makeup when she worked at WISH-TV, w/ chroma key
-Thanks to Yoakam for helping her get to NBC New York
23:26 parody video of Bill Clinton honoring Yoakam
24:42 Phil Jones, CBS Correspondent video tribute
-I wouldn’t be at CBS without you
-teacher and even agent, and good friend
26:00 Steve Smith, KHOU TV news anchor in Houston video tribute
-thank you for my career
30:10 Joe Angotti, NBC News, Class of ’61 talking from lectern
-couldn’t make it to Yoakam’s retirement because of Tiannamen Square
32:16 watching “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” movie while a grad student, so Joe had his own
party & invited Dick & Mary Bob Yoakam
-I wish your news judgment was as good as your party judgment
-worked at WMAQ in Chicago. He met Keith Klein there
34:40 Keith Klein, Cook Group PR, talking from lectern, Class of ‘66
-talked about Arnie Hahn (sp ?) who they worked with
-Byron Smith
-Flash documentaries,
(shot of Byron Smith in audience)
39:40 -talking about Adlai Stevenson death and getting a recording
40:45 -Yoakam throws a milkbone at Klein and told him to chew on it.
41:41 talking about Dwight Smith covering Gary mayor race w/ Hatcher
(Dwight Smith in audience)
43:00 Bill Orwig & Ernie Nims doing IU basketball games
44:40 covering Little 500 race w/ telex
45:50 Marilyn Schultz was in the pace car w/ wireless transmitter
But signal got crossed w/ construction crew building library
47:10 Huntley-Brinkley Report -Marilyn Schultz working on newscast
49:00 Marilyn Schultz & Playboy Playmate
49:30 Marilyn Schultz, UT-Austin Professor at lectern for tribute
-got first job at NBC thru Russ Tornabene
-Vietnam war protests. Student shaved his head and had an American flag around
his naked body, Yoakam asked him if he got glasses
51:40 -facts & truth of story aren’t always the same
52:00 Yoakam has always been a technological visionary
-Tell them a story.. no matter what you’re doing
53:30 John Butte, Ohio News Network at lectern for tribute, Class of ‘70
57:03 -looking for files from his Yoakam’s classes for memories
-can’t find his notes
1:00:00 -Yoakam’s stories taught him everything
-news religion -preacher in the church of news
-the stuff of news & journalism
1:02:45 TAPE ENDS -during Butte talk