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 - Everard Davy
Technical Director - Keith Brown
Ordinary Members: Chris Cook, Hugh Butterworth (Assistant Technical Director), Gerald Main, maybe some others?

Everard 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

John Oxenford becomes Director on the 28th of November. Dave Thomas becomes Station Manager in 5th December 1978.

Sue Reeve becomes board member.