Committees 1970-1979

Here is a (very sporadic) list of known committees of URY during the disco era.

Note: Much of this has been reassembled from hand-written minutes, and thus some typos and handwriting misreadings may have occurred. Any corrections are welcomed.

Sources

• April 1972 to September 1975 Minutes Book

26th April 1972

• Honorary President: Mr H. Creaser, Audio-Visual Centre
• Director: Gavin Holme, Langwith
• Treasurer: Peter Pinto, Langwith
• Technical Director: Martin Powell, Alcuin
• Secretary: Marie Palahickyj, Langwith
• Secretary: Anna Young, Langwith
• Programme Director: Geoff Kempin, Vanbrugh
• Ordinary Members: Chris Gray, Music; Nigel Silver, Langwith; Clive Fleury, Alcuin; Dave Graddol, Derwent; Pete Cooke, Langwith; Robert Lamb, Langwith; Geoffrey Stretton-Smith, Alcuin.

16th October 1972

• Director: Geoff Kempin
• Treasurer: Dick Moore
• Technical Director: Martin Powell
• Secretary: Marie Palahickyj
• Secretary: Anna Young
• Publicity Officer: Nigel Silver
• Ordinary Members: Clive Fleury, Dave York, Gavin Holme, Rich George, Bob Lamb

Baz Knight may or may not have been Technical Director; H. Creaser may or may not have remained Honorary President.

7th February 1973

• Director: G. Kempin
• Treasurer: D. Moore
• Secretary: A. Young; M. Palahickyj
• Acting Technical Director: B. Knight
• Technician: S. McCafferty; D. York
• News and Sport: A. Wood
• Tapes: D. Daglish
• Publicity: N. Silver
• Record Promotion: C. Fleury

22nd May 1973

• Director: Geoff Kempin
• General Manager: Nigel Silver
• Record Promotion: Clive Fleury
• Treasurer: Dick Moore
• Publicity and News Broadcasts: Alan Wood
• Technician: Mike Prince; Joe Schwager
• Tapes: D. Daglish
• Publicity: Conway P. Lester
• Studio Manager: Dave Gray, Chris Gibson
• Secretary: Marie Palahickyj
• Head of Trailers?: Nick Wapshot
• Graphics Department: Paul Hoskins?

28th November 1973

• Director: Geoff Kempin
• General Manager: Maurice Watson?
• Record Promotion: Pete McCormack
• Treasurer, Head of Drama and Music: Paul Stead
• Publicity: Diana Booth
• Technical Director: Rob Addison
• Secretary: Patricia J. Wilkinson
• Head of News: Dave Cockman?
• Others: Joe Schwager, Michael Bailey?, Andrew Smith, Paul Hoskins, Pauline Saunders
• News Team: Dave Cockman, John Murdock, Isabel Tasker?, Adam S??, Pauline Saunders
• Jingles: Paul Hoskins, Adam S??, John Murdock

Pete McCormack became director at some point in the Spring, as did Dot Smith as Treasurer.

4th June 1974

• Director: Pete McCormack, Vanbrugh
• Station Manager: Richard Pilkington, Vanbrugh
• Technical Director: Rob Addison, Wentworth
• Treasurer: Dot Smith, Alcuin
• Secretary: Isabel Tomlinson, Wentworth
• Publicity: Diana Booth, Wentworth
• Record Library: Pauline Murray, Alcuin
• News: Dave Cockman, Alcuin
• Tapes: Mike Bailey, Derwent
• Top 20: Andrew Smith, Wentworth
• Ordinary Members: Pauline Saunders, Goodricke; Geoff Kempin, Wentworth; Derek Tomlin, Wentworth

5th November 1974

• Director: Pete McCormack, Vanbrugh
• Station Manager: Richard Pilkington, Vanbrugh
• Technical Director: Rob Addison, Wentworth
• Secretary: Isabel Tomlinson, Wentworth
• Treasurer: Dot Smith, Alcuin
• Record Librarian: Pauline Murray, Alcuin
• Publicity: Diana Booth, Wentworth
• Studio Manager: Mike Bailey, Derwent
• Assistant Station Manager: Derek Tomlin, Wentworth
• Jingles/Special Promotions: Terry Kennedy, Wentworth
• Technical Advisor: Paul Nacmanson, Langwith
• Advertising: Dave Crossley, Goodricke

1st January 1975

• Director: Pete McCormack, Vanbrugh
• Treasurer: Dot Smith, Alcuin
• Secretary: Rob Hingley, Wentworth
• Studio Manager: Mike Bailey, Derwent
• Advertising: Dave Crossley, Goodricke
• Technical Director: Paul Nacmanson, Langwith
• Jingles/Special Promotions: Terry Kennedy, Wentworth
• Record Librarian: Geoff Freter?, Wentworth; Richard Kenyon?, Wentworth
• Ordinary Member: Derek Tomlin, Wentworth; Richard Pilkington, Vanbrugh; Dave Cockman, Alcuin

On the 28th January, Terry Kennedy became Director; Dave Crossley replaced Richard Pilkington as General Manager.

Autumn 1975

• Director: Terry Kennedy
• Station Manager: Dave Crossley
• Treasurer: Pete Fox
• Technical Director: Paul Nacmanson
• Record Librarian: Geoff Freter, Richard Kenyon
• Disco Manager: Len Howard
• News Editor: John Carter
• Technical Staff: Phil Culverhouse, Simon Jones
• External Secretary: Sue Illsley (from 14th October, Christina Lane)
• Internal Secretary: Roger Buckland
• Other: Richard Poppe (from 21st October, also Dave Hillam)

11th November 1975

At this point, Dave Crossley became Director; John Tugman became Station Manager; Terry Kennedy became an honorary member.

Some changes occured between now and Oct 1976, but don't seem to be very clear in the minutes!

19th October 1976

Richard Poppe became Director. By now, Jennifer Neber is internal secretary, and Steve Lenton is technical director.

23rd November 1976

• Station? Manager - Everhard Davey
• Technical Director - Keith Brown
• Ordinary Members: Chris Cook, Hugh Butterworth (Assistant Technical Director), Gerald Main, maybe some others?

Everard Davey (or is it Davy?) became Director from 19th April 1977.

(There were probably changes to the committee here, but they haven't as of yet been recovered from the minutes.)

24th October 1978

• Director: Dan Kirkby
• Station Manager: John Oxenford
• External Secretary: Mike Smith
• Treasurer: Peter Neville-Hadley
• Disco Manager: Mark Swarbrick
• Honorary Life Members: Dave Hillon, Everard Davy