logsheet 12/25
These video tributes were recorded at the time of the Richard Yoakam Tribute Dinner/Technology Fund Launch on June 13, 1998
00:12 Yoakam alum tribute video ???
He was offered the job by John Stempel years before Yoakam came to campus
-at NBC for 30 years
00:42 Yoakam alum tribute video Terry Oprea
-you have inspired
-69-71, crazy wild man that Yoakam turned into a journalist
-years at Post-Newsweek, public TV, privafe business
01:40 John Johnson alumni tribute
Broadcast journalist, Yoakam was one of the brightest spots in it
-Been meaning to talk to you before I left Channel 6, but haven’t gotten around to it.
2:11 -business is going to hell, been that way since I got out of it
02:38 Cynthia Bryant Foster …graduated in ‘63
Radio sales and other jobs
03:50 Byron Smith always will call you Chief
-always use the skills you taught me
-got in trouble for calling Anchorage, AK. Working with Bob Jenkins on a senior
project about earthquakes
-indoor football breaking windows
-producing election coverage w Yoakam as EP
05:13 -Yoakam voiced an audio tour of IU campus
-May 1969 event
05:52 Jim Opsitnik
Energy and joy you brought
WFIU ..started w/ 5 min newscast, then got to 15 minute newscast…. 10pm
Six writers, engineer and this guy reading the news
-one Friday, he had few beers before newscast, Queen Elizabeth visit to Canada
-mispronounced some words
07:43 woman, gray hair, big smile
1965, not sure what to do in college, sorority sister to Marilyn Schultz
Marilyn convinced her to try broadcasting & it started a lifetime love affair with the
Business
-worked in commercial advertising, then switched to acting
-she sings “Happy tribute, Mr. Yoakam” ala Marilyn Monroe to JFK
09:08 Ann Blackmore (sp)
-my career has been in print, but learned so much from you
-ethics
09:50 Ken Beckley Class of ‘62
-I owe all of my success to my parents, wife….. Yoakam gave him his start
10:40 woman ? red dress
-part of the committee
-recorded on night of tribute
-you have really helpd me along the way
11:25 Tom Newby (sp) Class of ‘72
-didn’t do much in broadcasting
-got his law degree, work for appellate judge in Indy, get to write court decisions
-you gave me the writing skills that have carried me through my career
12:16 Bonnie Rollins, class of 1970
-can’t call you Dick, always Mr. Yoakam to me
-remember all your stories about NBC…that’s where I work now, work with many of
the people you worked with
-her colleagues talk about “Bonnie’s rules” that she learned from Yoakam
13:46 Donna Beeker
-class of 1969
14:10 Dwight Smith -class of 1971
Fall of 67 as a freshman, Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher… Smith is covering Hatcher
In Gary… was on phone live to WFIU as Hatcher came off podium and walked by
-Football season 1968… Smith got national attention for his coverage of the football boycott… when the black players walked off the IU team…interviewed Coach John Pont
16:40 Doug Huber, ABC
-Yoakam ran out of gas when they were lost
-you have done so much for all of us
17:23 Mike Rogers, Class of 1964
-35 years late in saying thank you
-gave me a certain set of values I used day in/day out in the broadcast business
-he was also in the state legislature, house and senate