Art gallery
looks for
recognition
By Tonya Cross
Staff Reporter
Most people don t know about the
art gallery on East Campus.
But a gallery on the second floor of
the Home Economics Building exists
— and right now, it’s featuring work
by graduate and undergraduate stu
dents in the College of Home Econom
ics and Human Resources.
“This is a way for students to sub
mit their work and have it evaluated
and juried into an outside exhibition,”
said Barbara Trout, associate profes
sor of textiles, clothing and design.
The pieces range from beginning
classes to advanced apparel and tex
tiles classes in such topics such as
basketry, two-dimensional art, fash
ion illustration, weavings and screen
printings.
The Annual Juried Expedition is
sponsored by the College of Home
Economics and Human Resources.
The juror, Bonnie Lucky, a weaver
and textile artist from David City,
evaluated more than 88 submissions,
selecting 44 for the show.
Amanda Hoke, a junior merchan
dising major, said a team of visual
merchandising students arranged the
artwork based on themes, colors and
dimensions. i 1
Trout said the exhibit’s annual open
ing April 12 was attended by a wider
variety of faculty, students, parents
and friends than last year.
The juror’s choice for undergradu
ate work went to Deb Witschi for her
“Silk Chibori Vest,” and the winner
for graduate work was Cheryl Tuttle
for her wall hanging entitled “Shirt
Tails.”
The exhibit will continue through
April 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday and is open to the pub
lic.
“Mainly it’s just people in the col
lege that look at the pieces, but we’d
like others to see it too,” said Tara
Erwin, a sophomore merchandising
major. “What we need is more public
ity-” \
Hoke agreed.
“If people realized there was an art
gallery, they’d really enjoy it,” Hoke
said.
Passing the torch
McBride retires after 43 years at NETV
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Reporter
After 38 years as director of the
Nebraska Educational Television
Network, Jack McBride will be
signing off this summer.
“This July I’ll be turning the
reins over to someone else,”
McBride said. “After all this time,
I’ve finally hit the 70-yard line this
February, and I thought it would
make sense to turn this over to some
one else.”
McBride, 70, has been doing
various jobs at the network for 43
years. He said he had seen the
changes in television and broadcast
history.
When he first started in 1953,
television was still anew concept in
most American homes, he said.
His first job at the network was
producing programs for television
stations in Omaha and Lincoln.
Shortly after, McBride said, he got
involved in the operating side ofthc
station.
Then, in 1954, the station began
national programming,and it’snow
the seventh oldest educational tele
vision station in the nation, McBride
said.
“The national programming al
lowed us to move forward and de
velop educational and public broad
casting services,” he said.
McBride said he “wears many
hats” in the world of television. He
is also general manager of KUON
TV — the flagship station of the
network — and secretary of the
Nebraska Educational Telecommu
nications Commission.
That commission has had im
portant implicationson educational
television, he said.
The commission was established
by the Legislature in 1963 to ex
pand statewide services for public
television, lie said, and is a state
agency that cooperated with the
university in that expansion.
“That was important for us be
cause Nebraska has such a dense
population and has so much geog
raphy to cover,” McBride said. “It
made sense to see the university
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Jack McBride, director of the Nebraska Educational Television Network, stands outside
the studio on the UNL East Campus. McBride, who is retiring this summer, said he had seen
television and broadcast history in the making during his 43 years at NETV.
and the commission come together
and pool resources to develop the
ETV Network.”
One major change he has seen in
his career has been in equipment.
“In the early years, most pro
grams were produced live and from
studios,” he said. “Now, with ex
tensive equipment, most of the pro
gramming is done in the field and
brought back in bits and pieces to
be developed and edited.”
The development of satellites
also has been a bigehangc, McBride
said.
“Addi t ional di stribut ing systems
available now were not even a dream
in 1953. Nebraska is a national
leader in public satellite develop
ment.”
Technology has made his job
better, he said, but the best part of
his job has been his co-workers.
“I’m proud to have worked with
a number of creative and talented
individuals in developing programs
and seeing them provided in Ne
braska.
“It takes a number of people in a
team effort to develop and distrib
ute what we do.”
But there has been a down side
to the job, too.
“We’re constantly striving for
additional funding and resources,”
McBride said. “We have so many
ideas for a variety of programs, but
it’s a struggle to gel additional fund
ing.”
The network is funded by state
appropriation through the univer
sity and through the commission,
federal funds and private donations.
The funniest part of his job
comes when he and others look
back at the first programs of the
network.
“Some of the early programs
were so simple in terms of content
and production. We take a look
now at the state-of-the-art programs
and gel a chuckle out of the early
ones.”
When he’s not at the studios on
East Campus, McBride can be found
spending time with his family.
He and his wife Jean will cel
ebrate their 45th wedding anniver
sary this fall. He has two children
who live in Lincoln, a son and a
daughter.
As he looks back on his career at
the university, McBride said, it’s
hard to find words to describe how
he feels about his job.
“It’sdifficulttosumup43 years.
It’s been the most interesting, chal
lenging, exciting and frustrating
years. Those feelings parallel the
history of educational and public
television nationally.”
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