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Howard Stern
Howard Stern | |
Howard Stern in May 2012.
Born | Howard Allan Stern January 12, 1954 Jackson Heights, New York City, United States |
Alma mater | Boston University |
Occupation | Radio personality, television talent competition judge, author, actor, photographer |
Years active | 1975–present |
Political party | Libertarian during 1994 Governor of New York campaign |
Spouse(s) | Alison Berns (1978–2001; divorced; 3 children) Beth Ostrosky Stern (2008–present) |
Website | |
www.howardstern.com |
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television show host, author, actor, and photographer, whose radio show was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s and is labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to SiriusXM, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since January 2006. Since 2012, he has served as a judge on America's Got Talent.
Stern wished to pursue a radio career at the age of five. While at Boston University, he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts. He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, and WWWW in Detroit, Michigan. In 1981 he paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C., before working afternoons at WNBC in New York City in 1982 until his sudden firing in 1985. He reemerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the country's most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. He became the most-fined host after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern won Billboard's "Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year" award eight times, and became one of the highest-paid figures in radio after signing a deal with Sirius worth $500 million in 2004.[1] Though critical of the organization, Stern was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2012.[2]
Stern describes himself as the "King of All Media" for his ventures outside radio. Since 1987, he has hosted numerous late night television shows, pay-per-view events and home video releases. He embarked on a five-month political campaign for Governor of New York in 1994. His two books, Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995), entered the The New York Times Best Seller list at number one. The former was made into a biographical comedy film in 1997 that had Stern and his radio show staff play themselves; it topped the box office chart and grossed $41.2 million domestically. Stern performs on its soundtrack which charted at number one on the Billboard 200. Stern's photography has been featured in numerous magazines including Hamptons and WHIRL.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 2.1 Early professional radio career (1976–1981)
- 2.2 Washington and WNBC New York (1981–1985)
- 2.3 K-Rock, early television endeavors, and Fartman (1985–1992)
- 2.4 Private Parts, E! show, and run for Governor of New York (1993–1994)
- 2.5 Miss America and Private Parts film (1995–1997)
- 2.6 CBS show and productions (1998–2004)
- 2.7 Satellite radio and America's Got Talent (2004–present)
- 3 FCC fines
- 4 Personal life
- 5 Filmography
- 6 Discography
- 7 Bibliography
- 8 References
- 9 Sources
- 10 External links
Early life[edit]
Stern was born on January 12, 1954. His parents, Bernard (Ben) and Ray, were both Austro-Hungarian Jews.[3][4] He has a sister Ellen, who is four years older.[5][6] Stern developed an interest in radio at five years of age.[7] Ray was a homemaker and later an inhalation therapist,[8][9] Ben was a co-owner of Aura Recording, Inc., a recording studio in Manhattan where cartoons and commercials were produced.[10] When he made occasional visits with his father, Stern witnessed actors Wally Cox, Don Adams, and Larry Storch voice his favorite cartoon characters,[11][12] which influenced him to later talk on the air rather than play records.[13] Ben was also an engineer at WHOM, a radio station in Manhattan.[10] Upon completion of sixth grade, Stern left Washington-Rose Elementary School for Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School.[14] In June 1969, the family moved to nearby Rockville Centre and Stern transferred to South Side High School.[15][not in citation given]The school's yearbook in 1972, the year he graduated, lists only one student activity, Stern's membership in Key Club.[16]
Stern spent the first two of four years at Boston University in the College of Basic Studies.[17] In 1973, he started to work at WTBU, the campus radio station where he spun records, read the news, and hosted interviews.[17] He also hosted a comedy program with three fellow students called The King Schmaltz Bagel Hour.[18] Stern gained admission to the School of Public Communications in 1974[19] and earned a diploma in July 1975 at the Radio Engineering Institute of Electronics in Fredericksburg, Virginia which allowed him to apply for a first class FCC radio-telephone license.[20][21] With the license, Stern made his professional debut at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts, performing airshift, newscasting, and production duties between August and December 1975.[22] He graduated magna cum laude from Boston University in May 1976 with a degree in Communications[23][17] and in 2010, was funding a scholarship at the university.[24]
Early professional radio career (1976–1981)[edit]
After graduating in 1976, Stern declined an offer to work evenings at WRNW, a progressive rock station in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York.[25] He was unsure of his talent, and questioned his future in the professional industry. Stern took creative and media planning roles at Benton & Bowles, a New York advertising agency, followed by a job in selling radio time to advertisers.[26] He soon realized the mistake of declining on-air work and contacted WRNW a second time where he agreed to work covering shifts over the Christmas holiday period.[22][27] Stern was hired full-time in 1977 and worked a four-hour midday shift, six days per week, on a $96 weekly salary.[20] He subsequently worked as the station's production and program director for an increased salary of $250.[22][28]
In 1979, Stern spotted an advertisement for a "wild, fun morning guy" at rock station WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut.[29] He submitted a more outrageous audition tape with Robert Klein and Cheech and Chong records mixed with flatulence routines and one-liners.[30] Stern was hired with no change in salary and a more intense schedule. After four hours on the air he voiced and produced commercials for another four. On Saturdays, following a six-hour show, he did production work for the next three. As the station's public affairs director he also hosted a Sunday morning talk show, which he favored.[31] In the summer of the 1979 energy crisis, Stern held a two-day boycott of Shell Oil Company, which attracted media attention.[32] Stern left WCCC a year later after he was denied a pay increase.[33] Fred Norris, the overnight disc jockey, has been Stern's writer since 1981.[34]
According to Paul D. Colford, a former writer for Long Island Newsday, Stern listened to tapes of Steve Dahl and Garry Meier sent from Chicago by a friend of the chief engineer at WCCC Hartford. Colford claims Stern eventually developed his on-air style as a result of these tapes. Dahl had previously worked at WWWW before leaving for Chicago. [35]
Management at rock outlet WWWW in Detroit, Michigan, praised Stern's audition tape in their search for a new morning man.[36] Stern was hired for the job which he started on April 21, 1980.[15] He learned to become more open on the air and "decided to cut down the barriers...strip down all the ego...and be totally honest", he later told Newsday.[37] His efforts earned him a Billboard award for "Album-Oriented Rock Personality of the Year For a Major Market" and the Drake-Chenault "Top Five Talent Search" title.[38][39] The station, however, ran into problems after Stern's quarterly Arbitron ratings had decreased while it struggled to compete with its stronger rock competitors. In January 1981, WWWW switched to a country music format much to the chagrin of Stern, who left the station soon after.[40] He received offers to work at WXRT in Chicago and CHUM in Toronto, Canada, but did not take them.[39][41]
Washington and WNBC New York (1981–1985)[edit]
Stern moved to Washington, D.C., to host mornings at rock station WWDC on March 2, 1981.[42][43] He wanted to develop his show further, and looked for a co-worker with a sense of humor to riff with on news and current events.[44] The station paired Stern with Robin Quivers, a newscaster and consumer affairs reporter from WFBR in Baltimore.[45] Though he felt restricted and controlled by management who enforced a strict format, Stern had the second highest rated morning radio program in January 1982.[46][47] Impressed with his ratings success, NBC approached Stern with an offer to work afternoons at WNBC in New York City. After Stern signed a five-year contract worth $1 million in March,[48] his relationship with WWDC management worsened,[49] and his contract with the station was terminated on June 25. He had more than tripled the station's morning ratings during his stay.[50] In its July issue The Washingtonian named Stern the area's best disc jockey.[51] Stern released 50 Ways to Rank Your Mother, a comedy album of his radio bits. The record was re-released as Unclean Beaver in November 1994.[52]
On April 2, 1982, a news report by Douglas Kiker on raunch[clarification needed] radio featuring Stern aired on NBC Magazine.[53] The piece stimulated discussion among NBC management to withdraw Stern's contract. When he began his afternoon program in September,[54] management closely monitored Stern, telling him to avoid talk of a sexual and religious nature.[55] In his first month, Stern was suspended for several days for "Virgin Mary Kong", a segment featuring a video game where a group of men pursued the Virgin Mary around a singles bar in Jerusalem.[53] An attorney was hired to man a "dump button", and cut Stern off the microphone should potentially offensive areas be discussed. This became the task of program director Kevin Metheny, who Stern nicknamed "Pig Virus".[53] He was portrayed by Paul Giamatti as a composite character under the name Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton in the 1997 movie, Private Parts. On May 21, 1984, Stern made his first appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, launching him into the national spotlight.[15] A year later he claimed the highest ratings at WNBC in four years with a 5.7% market share.[56]
On September 30, 1985, Stern and Quivers were fired for what management termed "conceptual differences" regarding the show.[57] "Over the course of time, we made a very conscious effort to make Stern aware that certain elements of the program should be changed...I don't think it's appropriate to say what those specifics were",[58] said program director John Hayes, who Stern nicknamed "The Incubus". In 1992, Stern believed Thornton Bradshaw, chairman of WNBC's owner RCA, heard his "Bestiality Dial-a-Date" segment and ordered him to be fired.[55] Stern and Quivers kept in touch with their audience throughout October and November where they toured club venues with a stage show.[57]
K-Rock, early television endeavors, and Fartman (1985–1992)[edit]
Stern signed a contract with Infinity Broadcasting worth around $500,000[59] and returned to afternoons on its New York rock station WXRK on November 18, 1985.[57] The show moved to mornings on February 18, 1986, and entered national syndication on August 18 when WYSP in Philadelphia first simulcast the program.[57] In October 1992, Stern became the first to have the number one morning radio show in New York and Los Angeles simultaneously.[60] In the New York market, The Howard Stern Show was the highest-rated morning program for seven consecutive years between 1994 and 2001.[61] In 1994, Billboard magazine added the "Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year" category to its annual radio awards based on entertainment value, creativity, and ratings success.[62] Stern was awarded the title from 1994 to 2002.[63][64]
In May 1987, Stern recorded five television pilots for Fox when the network planned to replace The Late Show hosted by Joan Rivers.[65] The series was never picked up; one executive having described the show as "poorly produced", "in poor taste", and "boring".[66] Stern hosted his first pay-per-view event on February 27, 1988 named Howard Stern's Negligeé and Underpants Party.[57] Over 60,000 homes purchased the two-hour special that grossed $1.2 million.[67] On September 7, 1989, over 16,000 fans packed Nassau Coliseum for Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores, a live event that featured a tennis match between Stern and his radio show producer Gary Dell'Abate.[57] Both events were released for home video. From 1990 to 1992, Stern was the host of The Howard Stern Show, a Saturday night program on WWOR-TV. The series ran for 69 episodes to 65 markets nationwide.[68] In February 1991, Stern released Crucified by the FCC, a collection of censored radio segments following the first fine issued to Infinity by the FCC over alleged indecency.[69] He released a third video tape, Butt Bongo Fiesta, in October 1992 that sold 260,000 copies for a gross of over $10 million.[69][70] He returned to Saturday night television that November with The Howard Stern "Interview", a one-on-one celebrity interview series on E!.[citation needed]
Stern appeared at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards as Fartman, a fictional superhero that first appeared in the National Lampoon humor magazine series. According to the trademark he filed for the character that October, he first used Fartman in July 1981.[71] Stern rejected multiple scripts for a proposed summer 1993 release of The Adventures of Fartman until a verbal agreement was reached with New Line Cinema.[72] Screenwriter J. F. Lawton had prepared a script before relations soured over the film's rating, content, and merchandising rights and the project was abandoned.[73][74]
Private Parts, E! show, and run for Governor of New York (1993–1994)[edit]
In 1993, Stern signed a $1 million advance contract with publisher Simon & Schuster to write his first book.[75] Co-authored with Larry Sloman and edited by Judith Regan, the release of Private Parts on October 7, 1993 saw its first printing of 225,000 copies being sold within hours of going on sale. It became the fastest-selling title in the history of Simon & Schuster in five days.[76] In its eighth printing two weeks later, over one million copies had been distributed.[70][75] Private Parts entered the The New York Times Best-Seller list at number one, and spent 20 weeks on the list during its first release.[77] Stern's book signing tour began with a signing in New York City that was attended by an estimated 10,000 people.[75]
Stern hosted his second pay-per-view event, The Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant, on December 31, 1993. It broke the subscriber record for a non-sports event, previously held by a New Kids on the Block concert in 1990,[70] with around 400,000 households purchasing the event that grossed an estimated $16 million.[78] In early 1994 the program was released on VHS entitled Howard Stern's New Year's Rotten Eve 1994. Between his book royalties and pay-per-view profits, Stern's earnings in the latter months of 1993 totalled around $7.5 million.[79] In its twentieth anniversary issue issued in 1993, Radio & Records named Stern the most influential air personality of the past two decades.[80]
During his radio show on March 21, 1994, Stern announced his candidacy for Governor of New York under the Libertarian Party ticket, challenging Mario Cuomo for re-election.[81] Stern planned to reinstate the death penalty, stagger highway tolls to improve traffic flow, and limit road work to night hours.[82] At the party's nomination convention on April 23, 1994, Stern won the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, receiving 287 of the 381 votes cast (75.33%). James Ostrowski finished second with 34 votes (8.92%).[83] To place his name on the November ballot, Stern was obliged to state his home address and to complete a financial disclosure form under the Ethics in Government Act of 1987. After declining to disclose his financial information, Stern was denied an injunction on August 2, 1994.[84] He withdrew his candidacy two days later. Cuomo was defeated in the gubernatorial election on November 8, 1994, by George Pataki, whom Stern backed. Pataki signed The Howard Stern Bill that limited construction on state roads to night hours in New York City and Long Island, in 1995.
In June 1994, Stern's radio show began to be filmed for a half-hour television show on the E! network.[85] Howard Stern ran for eleven years until the last taped episode aired on July 8, 2005.[86] In conjunction with his move to satellite radio, Stern launched Howard Stern on Demand, a subscription video-on-demand service, on November 18.[87] The service relaunched as Howard TV on March 16, 2006.[88]
Miss America and Private Parts film (1995–1997)[edit]
On April 3, 1995, three days after the shooting of singer Selena, Stern's comments regarding her death and Mexican Americans caused an uproar in the Hispanic community. He criticized her music and gunfire sound effects were played over her songs. "This music does absolutely nothing for me. Alvin and the Chipmunks have more soul...Spanish people have the worst taste in music. They have no depth".[89] On April 6, Stern responded with a statement in Spanish, stressing his comments were made in satire and not intended to hurt those who loved her.[90] A day later, Justice of the Peace Eloy Cano of Harlingen, Texas issued an arrest warrant on Stern for disorderly conduct[91] but Stern was never arrested on this warrant.[92]
In 1995, Stern signed a deal with ReganBooks worth $3 million to write his second book, Miss America.[93] He wrote about his cybersex experiences on the Prodigy service, a private meeting with Michael Jackson, and his obsessive-compulsive disorder.[94] Released on November 7, 1995, the book sold 33,000 copies at Barnes & Noble stores on the same day which set a new one-day record.[95] Publishers Weekly reported over 1.39 million copies were sold by the year's end and ranked it the third best-selling book of 1995.[96] Miss America spent a total of 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.[77]
Production for a film adaptation of Private Parts began in May 1996 with all shooting complete in four months.[97] Its premiere was held at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden on February 27, 1997, where Stern performed "The Great American Nightmare" with Rob Zombie.[98] Making its general release on March 7, Private Parts topped the box office sales in its opening weekend with a gross of $14.6 million, and went on to earn a total of $41.2 million in domestic gross revenue.[99] The film holds a "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that aggregates film reviews. 79% of critics gave Private Parts a positive review based on a sample of 48 reviews, with an average score of 6.6 out of 10.[100] For his performance, Stern won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Male Newcomer" and was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy)" and a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst New Star".[citation needed] The soundtrack to Private Parts sold 178,000 copies in its first week of release, topping the Billboard 200 chart.[101]
Stern filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against Ministry of Film Inc. in October 1997, claiming it recruited him for a film called Jane starring Melanie Griffith while knowing it had insufficient funds. Stern, who was unpaid when production ceased, accused the studio of breach of contract, fraud, and negligent representation.[102] A settlement was reached in 1999 with Stern receiving $50,000.[103]
CBS show and productions (1998–2004)[edit]
In August 1998, Stern returned to Saturday night television with The Howard Stern Radio Show,[104] an hour-long program broadcast nationwide on CBS affiliates featuring radio show highlights with material unseen in his nightly E! show. The show competed for ratings alongside Saturday Night Live on NBC and MADtv on Fox. Concerned with its risqué content, affiliates began to leave the show after two episodes.[105] Making its launch on 79 stations on August 22, 1998, this number was reduced to 55 by June 1999.[106] A total of 84 episodes were broadcast.[citation needed] The final re-run aired on November 17, 2001, to around 30 markets.[107][108]
In 1998, Stern wrote forewords for Steal This Dream, a biography of Abbie Hoffman written by Sloman, and Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book by Jackie Martling.
In 1994 Stern launched the Howard Stern Production Company for original and joint production and development ventures. He intended to make a film adaptation of Brother Sam, the biography of the late comedian Sam Kinison.[109] In September 1999, UPN announced the production of Doomsday, an animated science-fiction comedy series executively produced by Stern.[110] Originally set for a 2000 release, Stern starred as Orinthal, a family dog.[111] The project was eventually abandoned. From 2000 to 2002, Stern was the executive producer of Son of the Beach, a sitcom which ran for three seasons on FX. In late 2001, Howard Stern Productions was reportedly developing a new sitcom titled Kane.[112] The pilot episode was never filmed. In 2002, Stern acquired the rights to comedy films Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) and Porky's (1982). He filed a $100 million lawsuit in March 2003 against ABC and the producers of Are You Hot?, claiming the series was based on his radio segment called "The Evaluators"; a settlement was reached on August 7, 2003.[113]
Stern announced in early 2004 of talks with ABC to host a primetime interview special, which never materialized. In August 2004, cable channel Spike picked up 13 episodes of Howard Stern: The High School Years, a second animated series Stern was to executive produce.[114] On November 14, 2005, Stern announced the completion of episode scripts and 30 seconds of test animations.[115] Stern eventually gave the project up. In 2007 he explained the episodes could have been produced "on the cheap" at $300,000 each, though the quality he demanded would have cost over $1 million.[116] Actor Michael Cera was cast as the lead voice.[117]
Satellite radio and America's Got Talent (2004–present)[edit]
On October 6, 2004, Stern announced the signing of a five-year contract with Sirius Satellite Radio, a medium free from FCC regulations, that started in January 2006.[118] His decision to leave terrestrial radio occurred in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in February that caused a crackdown on perceived indecency in broadcasting. The incident prompted tighter control over content by station owners and managers, which Stern said made him feel "dead inside" creatively.[119] Stern hosted his final broadcast on terrestrial airwaves on December 16, 2005.[120] During his 20 years at WXRK his show had syndicated in 60 markets[121][122] across the United States and Canada and gained a peak audience of 20 million listeners.[123][124][125]
With an annual budget of $100 million for all production, staff and programming costs, Stern launched two channels on Sirius in 2005 named Howard 100 and Howard 101. He assembled the Howard 100 News team that covered stories about his show and those associated with it. A new studio was constructed at Sirius' headquarters in New York dedicated specifically for the shows.[126] On January 9, 2006, the day of his first broadcast, Stern and his agent received 34.3 million shares of stock from the company worth $218 million for exceeding subscriber targets set in 2004.[127] A second stock incentive was paid in 2007, with Stern receiving 22 million shares worth $82.9 million.[128] In the same month, Time magazine included Stern in its Time 100 list.[129] He also ranked seventh in Forbes' Celebrity 100 list in June 2006,[130] and reappeared in 2011 at number 26.[131] As of August 2013, Stern earns $100 million a year from his radio show.[132]
On February 28, 2006, CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting) filed a lawsuit against Stern, his agent, and Sirius, claiming that Stern misused CBS broadcast time to promote Sirius for unjust enrichment during his last 14 months on terrestrial radio.[133][134] In a press conference held hours before the suit was filed, Stern said it was nothing more than a "personal vendetta" against him by CBS president Leslie Moonves.[135] A settlement was reached on May 25, with Sirius paying $2 million to CBS for control of Stern's 20-year broadcast archives.[136] In December 2010, Stern re-signed his contract with Sirius to continue his show for a further five years.[137] The new contract allowed Stern to work a reduced schedule from four to three-day working weeks.[138] Following the agreement, Stern and his agent filed a lawsuit against Sirius on March 22, 2011, for allegedly failing to pay the stock bonuses promised to them from the past four years while helping the company exceed subscriber growth targets. Sirius said it was "surprised and disappointed" by the suit.[139] On April 17, 2012, Judge Barbara Kapnick dismissed the lawsuit and prevented Stern and his agent from filing lawsuits for similar allegations.[140]
In 2011, it was announced that Stern would replace Piers Morgan as one of the judges on America's Got Talent for its seventh season[141][142][143][144] He was also a judge in the eight and ninth seasons.
In August 2013, Stern and Simon Cowell shared first place on Forbes' list of America's highest-paid television personalities with $95 million earned between June 2012–13.[145]
FCC fines[edit]
From 1990 to 2004, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined owners of radio stations that carried The Howard Stern Show a total of $2.5 million for indecent programming.[146]
Personal life[edit]
Stern married his first wife, Alison (née Berns),[147] on June 4, 1978, at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts.[148] They have three daughters: Emily Beth (b. 1983) Debra Jennifer (b. 1986), and Ashley Jade (b. 1993).[149] On October 22, 1999, Stern announced their decision to separate.[150] The marriage ended in 2001 with an amicable divorce and settlement.[147] In 2000, Stern began dating model and television host Beth Ostrosky.[citation needed] On February 14, 2007, Stern announced their engagement.[147] They married on October 3, 2008, at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City.[151]
Stern revealed in 2006 that he had rhinoplasty and liposuction in the 1990s to change the shape of his chin.[152] Stern's parents developed an interest in Transcendental Meditation in the 1970s, which they shared with their son. Stern credits it with helping him to quit smoking and achieve his goals in radio,[153] and practices the technique to this day.[154] Stern plays on the Internet Chess Club, and has taken lessons from chess master Dan Heisman.
In 2011 he took up photography and shot layouts for Hamptons magazine that July.[155][156] Stern has also shot for WHIRL magazine and the North Shore Animal League.[157][158]
In May 2013, Stern bought a beachfront home in Palm Beach, Florida, for $52 million. The home contains 12.5 bathrooms and five bedrooms with over 19,000 square feet of living space.[132][159]
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
1986 | Ryder, P.I. | Ben Ben Wah - T.V. Commentator | |
1997 | Private Parts | Himself | Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favourite Male Newcomer" (1998)[citation needed]
Home video releases[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1988 | Howard Stern's Negligeé and Underpants Party | Himself/Host | |
1989 | Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores | ||
1992 | Butt Bongo Fiesta | ||
1994 | Howard Stern's New Year's Rotten Eve 1994 |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1987 | The Howard Stern Show | Himself - Host | Series of 5 pilot episodes that never aired |
1988 | The New Hollywood Squares | Announcer - Guest | |
1990–1992 | The Howard Stern Show | Himself - Host | |
1992 | 1992 MTV Video Music Awards | Fartman | |
1992–1993 | The Howard Stern "Interview" | Himself - Host | |
1993 | The Larry Sanders Show | Himself | Season 2, episode 18 |
1994–2005 | Howard Stern | Himself - Host | |
1997 | Saturday Night Live | Himself | Season 22, episode 14 |
1998–2001 | The Howard Stern Radio Show | Himself - Host | |
2001 | The Concert for New York City | Himself | |
2005–present | Howard TV | Himself - Host | Known as Howard Stern On Demand before March 2006 |
2012–present | America's Got Talent | Himself | Judge, replaced Piers Morgan |
Year | Album | Label | Notes |
1982 | 50 Ways to Rank Your Mother | Wren Records | Re-released as Unclean Beaver (1994) on Ichiban/Citizen X labels |
1991 | Crucified By the FCC | Infinity Broadcasting | |
1997 | Private Parts: The Album | Warner Bros. | Billboard 200 Number-one album from March 15–21, 1997 |
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- ^ Kaplan, Jason (14 November 2005). "Howard Gets Animated". howardstern.com. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
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- ^ Tucker, Ken (March 3, 2006). "Communication Sharpens Syndie Sword". Billboard Radio Monitor.
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- Stern, Howard (1993). Private Parts (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-88016-3.
- Colford, Paul (1997). Howard Stern: King of All Media (2nd ed.). St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-96221-0.
- Lucaire, Luigi (1997). Howard Stern, A to Z: A Totally Unauthorized Guide. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-15144-7.
- Luerssen, John (2009). American Icon: The Howard Stern Reader. Lulu. ISBN 978-0-557-04204-3.
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Curriculum revisions are necessary In order to remain up to date with the healthcare environment and the evolving responsibilities of the registered nurse role. The changes being implemented over the next year and half also support safety competencies called for by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN). The population of patients that we serve today and in the future is vastly different than the patients of the past; we must train the next generation of nurses to meet these new needs.
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Do I need to have my CNA to validate?
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If I held a CNA previously, but it has since expired, do I need to recertify?
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Do I need my CNA if I have other health care experience?
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What would you do if someone handed you a glass of water seasoned with vinegar? Would you crinkle your nose?
Not Susan Alexander. From the moment she was first handed a glass of switchel a quarter-century ago, at a family gathering, she was in love. The tangy blend of honey, apple-cider vinegar, ginger and water left such an impression that she made many batches of it over the years since. "I liked everything about it," Alexander recalls, including that the beverage had historical resonance in her family: Both her husband and her sister-in-law could remember their grandparents making batches of switchel to keep themselves energized and refreshed during haying time — hence the drink's other name, haymaker's punch.
In the back of her mind, Alexander thought it was something she might someday bottle and sell. Yet two careers and two children took precedence — until this month. After years of honing her formula, Alexander has launched her own amber-colored brew, Vermont Switchel [1].
Switchel's roots stretch back to a time in colonial New England when drinking cold water was considered almost suspect (it could harbor bacteria, or was thought to be a shock to the system). Rum, cider and beer were plentiful, but not exactly ideal for manual labor. Switchel offered late-summer hayers a buzz-free, zingy pick-me-up, with apple-cider vinegar subbing for often-scarce citrus juice. "A hundred years ago, people didn't have access to a lot of fresh ingredients, so they used what they had in their kitchens," says Alexander. "Those haying days were long and hot, and you needed a lot of energy."
They also needed nutrients and electrolytes. Though our forebears were probably unaware of the specifics, the ingredients in switchel — ginger, vinegar and sweetener, whether honey, maple syrup or molasses — are all high in potassium. Those invigorating electrolytes might also account for switchel's popularity, in various forms, across time and culture; it's similar to the ancient Greek medicinal oxymel, also a blend of vinegar, honey and water.
About four years ago, Alexander got serious about switchel and began experimenting with a commercial version. Working with a base of spring water and cider vinegar, at first she adhered to the traditional recipe, but found her early efforts "subpar." So she began tweaking them. She eschewed honey in favor of her own maple syrup, as well as some from Butternut Mountain Farm in Morrisville. Alexander played with various spices, eventually adding a touch of molasses. She tried carbonation but didn't like it, and also avoided oatmeal, which some people add for extra bulk and nutrition. Along the way, Alexander introduced a flavor that was inaccessible in colonial times: lemons.
I tried an earlier incarnation of Vermont Switchel at the cheese-makers festival last year and found it to be immensely quenching on a hot day: sweet swirls of maple, the slightest traces of vinegar sizzling on the palate and a long finish. It tasted fresh and alive.
Yet Alexander didn't think it was quite ready, and spent the next few months fine-tuning her formula. She finally launched Vermont Switchel during a tasting at Dealer.com earlier this month and has begun selling it at farmers markets. She hopes to be in a few brick-and-mortar shops soon.
"A lot of people just smell it, and the idea of drinking vinegar is off-putting," concedes Alexander. But if they push beyond their preconceptions, they'll find beguiling, unusual flavors, and some may even become hooked.
Find Vermont Switchel at the Richmond Farmers Market on Fridays, 3:30 to 7 p.m. facebook.com/thevermontswitchelcompany [2]
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With the many changes to the American healthcare system comes an opportunity for scammers looking to cheat you out of money.
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The left´s story continues to be about taxes, but the real problem continues to be Obama´s wild spending.
All spending must be approved by the Congress. All spending measures must originate in the House. (This is for the evasive and appeaser, Mr. Boehner). The GOP controls the House and was elected to bring spending into line with our means. Obama must be put on a tight spending leash and the credit cards cut up. Obama has no authority over spending that the Congress has not pilfered to him. Congress needs to stand up and assert their constitutional power.
Silly pundit, the tax rate is a sideshow. Social Security/Medicare were already in the red and Obamacare shifted 500 billion out to fund its start. Medicaid is supposed to be insuring an increased number of Americans the states aren´t lining up to bear the new load. Every conceivable tax will be consumed by entitlements if they aren´t limited.
What Chait can´t explain is his and scumbama´s sadistic punitiveness towards anyone making "too much" money. Hmm, I wonder how much Chait makes? But that´s OK, of course, because his heart is pure, and I´m sure he gives it all away to deserving charities like Apple, Le Bernardin, and BMW.
Why are the lefties so obsessed with taxes on the "rich?" It won´t solve our deficits or our debt. And the reality is that while the Democrats won the Presidency, they didn´t win the House. Yet O wants everything he could have gotten if he had won both houses of Congress--and sometimes, it appears as if the Republicans want to give it to him!
Reading the comments posted by the New York rag, makes one believe those folks perhaps spent 3 years in the 3rd grade and stilled flunked basic addition. Or perhaps they come from a family who had an accountant do all the "budget" issues and haven´t a clue as to what a budget really is. Read my lips "it´s the spending ,stupid!!"
Wonder if this author believes that the increase on those making over $250K will solve the deficit problem when it would barely cover 8 days worth of Obama´s spending.And Obama is asking for an increase in spending so that increased revenue would vanish into new debt in a heartbeat.
Not holding my breath, #2, since zippy just bypasses congress whenever he feels like it and they just sit back and assume the position when he does it. Now that he has given them a raise without their approval do any of us really expect them to challenge him the next time he circumvents them?
Bo don´t know math. It´s all a game to him.Watch for the midnight hour.


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The booty was unearthed some 300 years after the infamous "Queen Anne's Revenge" sank in the waters of Beauport inlet.
Each of the guns once fired six-pound cannonballs.
Edward Teach - better known as "Blackbeard" - was the notorious pirate who terrorized the Atlantic in the 18th century.
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"What would you do? Then I'd have to stay in the house all the time when the wind blows," said Zona Larsen, a Utah resident who uses the sprays.
Utah has to improve its air quality or risk losing its federal highway funds. A spokesperson for Utah Division of Air Quality says the state is 90 percent there, but has more work to do to meet the Clean Air Act standards by the 2014 deadline.
Last month, state regulators okayed several new rules to clean up the air. Now, Tooele, Box Elder and Cache counties will be included in the mandatory no wood burning days. Also, for the first time vehicle emissions tests are required in Cache County.
Simple steps, to clear up a complicated problem, but not everyone is convinced it'll work.
"I don't think it'll make any difference, when I first came to Salt Lake it was like this," said Larsen. "It seems like it's the same since I moved here in 1948."
An aerosol ban is just an idea at this point. State regulators are hoping to have a set plan for the EPA by August.


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Mr. Welch, a native of Salem, Massachusetts, served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric (GE) from 1981-2001. During his 20 years of leadership in this position, Welch increased the value of the company from $13 billion to several hundred billion.
Mr. Welch was born in 1935. He received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1957 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1960.
In 1960, Mr. Welch joined GE as a chemical engineer for its Plastics division in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was elected the company's youngest Vice President in 1972 and was named Vice Chairman in 1979. In December 1980 it was announced that he would succeed Reginald H. Jones, and in April 1981 he became the 8th Chairman and CEO. He served in that position until he retired in September 2001.
As CEO of GE, Mr. Welch's management skills became almost legendary. He had little time for bureaucracy and archaic business ways. Managers were given free reign as long as they followed the GE ethic of constant change and striving to do better. He ran GE like a small dynamic business able to change as opportunities arose or when a business became unprofitable.
GE saw great growth and expansion under Mr. Welch's leadership. Through streamlining operations, acquiring new businesses, and ensuring that each business under the GE umbrella was one of the best in its field the company was able to expand dramatically from 1981 to 2001.
In 1980, the year before Welch became CEO, GE recorded revenues of roughly $26.8 billion; in 2000, the year before he left, they were nearly $130 billion. The company went from a market value of $14 billion to one of more than $410 billion at the time of his retirement, making it the most valuable and largest company in the world, up from America's tenth largest by market cap in 1981.
In 1999, Fortune named him the "Manager of the Century," and the Financial Times recently named him one of the three most admired business leaders in the world today.
Mr. Welch is the head of Jack Welch, LLC, where he serves as Senior Advisor with the private equity firm, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and is an advisor to IAC (Interactive Corp). He also speaks to business audiences and students around the world.
Mr. Welch is the author of Winning, a #1 Wall Street Journal and international bestseller. In 2001, he wrote his #1 New York Times and also international best-selling autobiography, Jack: Straight from the Gut. He and his wife Suzy Welch currently write a biweekly business column for several Thomson Reuters digital platforms and for Fortune magazine. From 2005 to 2009, they wrote a column, The Welch Way, for Business Week magazine, which was also published by the New York Times syndicate, where it appeared in 45 worldwide newspapers with more than 8 million readers.
Mr. Welch recently launched the "Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University," a unique online MBA and certificate program aimed at giving students globally and at every career level the tools to transform their lives and the organizations of the future. Information about the Institute can be found at: www.jwmi.com.
"What will be expected of managers in the future? Intellectual breadth, strategic capability, social sensitivity, political sophistication, world-mindedness, and above all, a capacity to keep their poise amid the cross-currents of change."
If anyone could have served as a model for this specification for the manager of the future, it is its author, Reginald H. Jones.
Mr. Jones' entire business career was with General Electric. He joined the company's Business Training Course in 1939. Three years later, he began an eight-year tour as a traveling auditor, an assignment that took him to nearly every plant in the company. Then he moved into general management, serving as manager of various company businesses in consumer, utility, industrial, construction and distribution fields. In 1968, he became the company's chief financial officer, and was elected senior vice-president two years later.
In 1972 he became president, then chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric. There he brought fresh vitality and new strategic direction to one of the most diversified enterprises in the world. Most of that diversification came from strong internal growth fostered by research and development, strategic planning and the introduction of the sector structure which, "prepared the organization and the people to meet General Electric's long-range growth opportunities in the decade ahead."
Under Jones' administration, the company's sales more than doubled ($10 billion to $22 billion) and earnings grew even faster ($572 million to $1.4 billion). A major thrust was into international markets. As Chairman of the President's Export Council, Mr. Jones became an eloquent voice for the expansion of world trade and the restoration of U.S. competitiveness.
But Mr. Jones is best known to the public for his role in changing the relationship between business and government. As Chairman of the Business Council and Co-Chairman of The Business Roundtable, he was a leader in the movement to develop a constructive business-government dialogue. Three Presidents and their Cabinets chose to call on him frequently for sophisticated counsel on economic policy. His most significant achievement in the policy arena was recognition in Washington of the nation's capital formation problem, and his important role as spokesman on the issues of tax policy, trade, monetary reform, unemployment, and human rights.
His work as a thoughtful and public-spirited counselor on public policy won him broad acceptance in both parties - a credibility most unusual for a leading business executive. U.S. News and World Report, in its 1979 and 1980 surveys of "Who Runs America," reported that his peers regarded Jones as the most influential person in business. Mr. Jones used this well-earned influence to advance fresh ideas for the solution of economic and social problems of his time.
Chosen Businessman of the Year for 1970 by the Saturday Review (January 23, 1971), Fred Borch received twice as many votes as any other candidate for that honor in American business, finance, or government. He had been elected chairman of the board at General Electric only two years earlier.
Borch was born on April 28, 1910, in Brooklyn, New York, where his father was an electrical engineer with the Brooklyn Edison Company, now a part of consolidated Edison Company of New York.
Most of Borch's schooling took place in Ohio, mainly in the Cleveland area. Schoolboy jobs included two summers as an office boy with The Cleveland News. Later, while a student at Case Western Reserve University, which he entered in 1927, he held a summer job as a timekeeper on a construction project for an electric power transmission line. In 1931, he received his B.A. in economics and went to work as an auditor with General Electric in the Lamp Division at Nela Park.
By 1940, Borch had become manager of the Lamp Division's customer service organization and, in 1947, he was named manager of the Sales Operation Department. In 1952, he joined the administrative department of the Lamp Division, and later the same year undertook a special assignment with the company's Management Consultation Services in New York.
In 1953, he was entrusted with the task of restructuring the Lamp Division into six operating departments as part of the company-wide decentralization program. The following year he was named vice president for Marketing Services, and from there on worked closely with Ralph I. Cordiner, the man he succeeded as chief executive of General Electric.
In September, 1959, he was appointed vice president and group executive for the company's Consumer Products Group, the post he held until his election as executive vice president in July, 1962. In this position he was elected to the Board of Directors and given responsibility for the operating components of the company on a worldwide basis, jobs he continued to handle after he was elected president and chief executive officer in December, 1963, and chairman on December 20, 1968. During his tenure, Borch essentially added another General Electric to the one whose direction he assumed. Sales and earnings of the company almost doubled between 1963 and 1972, the year that he retired. That phenomenal growth was, at least in part, due to Borch's keen judgment and motivation of people - his well recognized ability to choose "the right man for the job, for sizing up people and then getting the best out of them." (World-Telegram and Sun, December 22, 1964). The management team that Borch left in place at the time of his retirement was ample testimonial to this talent.
Gerald L. Phillippe, who became chairman of the board of General Electric in 1963, was widely known for his leadership in the nationwide effort to enlist the support of business in attacking urban problems, and unemployment. He was founder of the Urban Coalition.
Born in Ute, Iowa, September 27, 1909, Phillippe spent his boyhood in Basin, Wyoming. Early in his youth he acquired the nickname of "Flip," by which he came to be known throughout the business and financial communities.
During World War II Phillippe moved into his first managerial position as manager of the Statistics Division, with some 200 people reporting to him. He immediately won their admiration for his managerial skills.
In 1947 Phillippe was appointed auditor for the Apparatus Department, and in 1950 was named comptroller for the department. In November, 1951, he was appointed manager-finance of the Apparatus Sales Division. Two years later he was elected comptroller, chief financial officer of the company. He served in this position and as general manager of the company's Accounting Services until his election as president and a member of the board of directors on August 2, 1961. He became chairman of the board in 1963, succeeding the retiring Ralph Cordiner in that post.
Gerald L. Phillippe's term was cut short by his death in 1968, at the age of 59, but his astute leadership had left its mark on the growth of the company. His service to humanity also left its mark on the spirit of the company.
In honor of his leadership in public service, General Electric established the Gerald L. Phillippe Awards, recognizing outstanding social contributions by the award of a medal and an opportunity to designate a charity or educational institution for a $1000 grant from the General Electric Foundation.
Credited with developing GE's postwar reorganization and decentralization program which brought new flexibility and a sharper focus on specific markets, Ralph J. Cordiner was the fifth president of General Electric.
He was born in 1900 on a 1280-acre wheat farm in Walla Walla, Washington. He worked his way through Whitman College by doing odd jobs and selling washing machines. He graduated in 1922 with a degree in economics, and joined the Pacific Power and Light Company as a commercial manager. Within a year he joined the Edison General Electric Appliance Company, a GE affiliate, where he became Northwest manager and then Pacific Coast division manager in 1930. He transferred to Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1932 and became a leader of the Company's expanding appliance business, rising to manager of the Appliance and Merchandise Department in 1938.
Cordiner left GE in 1939 to become president of Schick, Inc., and is credited by Time magazine with putting that company "back on its feet" in a brief three-year tenure. In 1942, he went to Washington to work with GE president Charles E. Wilson on the War Production Board, returning to GE in 1943 as Wilson's assistant. In 1950, he was elected the Company's president, succeeding Wilson who, at President Truman's request, resigned to become director of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
Cordiner was elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer in 1958, and also served as president of the Company during 1961, prior to the election of Gerald L. Phillippe as president in August of that year.
To better cope with General Electric's burgeoning growth, Cordiner made each of some 120 department general managers responsible for a particular segment of GE business, handling assignments that he described as "not too big for one man to get his arms around." The organization reflected the view that the natural aggregate of many individually sound decisions will be better for the business than centrally-planned and controlled decisions. Cordiner outlined his decentralized management philosophy in the book New Frontiers for Professional Managers in 1956. He also established the GE Management Development Institute at Crotonville, New York, which opened an entirely new approach to the education of personnel for advanced management.
Cordiner was president of the Business Council, a group of business leaders who advised the government on business affairs. He also served as chairman of the Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Compensation in the Armed Forces.
The first Gold Medal Award of the Economic Club of New York City was conferred on Ralph Cordiner in recognition of his contributions to "principles of management and to the strength and prosperity of the nation."
In 1963, Cordiner retired after forty years of service to General Electric. He died in 1973.
Philip Reed attended the public schools of Milwaukee and in 1917 entered the University of Wisconsin, but quit in his freshman year to join the Army. An appendix operation kept him out of the American Expeditionary Forces; when the Armistice came he was at Fort Monroe, training for the heavy artillery.
Reed returned to Wisconsin to complete his degree in electrical engineering. GE, then scouting for engineering talent, offered Reed a job at $115 a month, but he refused it. Instead, he took a $2,000-a-year job with a firm of patent lawyers in New York. By studying nights at Fordham, he got his law degree in 1924, and in due course was admitted to the New York Bar.
In 1926, went to work for Judge C. W. Appleton in GE's law department in New York where he had frequent contact with Swope and Young, who gave him an assortment of special assignments.
Reed was transferred to the Incandescent Lamp Department in 1927 and became its general counsel in 1934. Because he was an effective speaker, he was invited by plant managers to talk on labor relations, company policies and pension plans. In December 1937, he was appointed assistant to the President and two years later was elected chairman of the board.
In February 1941, Mr. Reed began his government war-time service, becoming senior consultant to the Priorities Division of the Office of Production Management, which later became the War Production Board. He was subsequently named chief of the bureau of Industries, War Production Board, and in July 1942, went to London as deputy to W. Averill Harriman who headed a lend lease mission to England. In 1943, the President created the United States Mission for Economic Affairs in London and appointed Reed its chief, with the rank of minister. He returned to private life on January 1,1945.
A month later, Reed, who had resigned all his posts with General Electric when he went abroad, was again elected a director and chairman of the board. In addition, he was elected chairman of the board of the International General Electric Company.
Reed continued to take part in public affairs. In 1945, he was consultant to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization. From February 1945 to July 1947, he was chairman of the U.S. Associates of the International Chamber of Commerce, which submitted the Montreux Plan for Economic stability to the State Department.
Charlie Wilson was born in 1886 on the lower West side of New York. At the age of twelve, he left P.S. 32 to take a job as office boy with the Sprague Electrical Works, a GE subsidiary. He was in the seventh grade. Soon, he was made a factory hand and augmented his on-the-job training with night courses in accounting, engineering and mathematics. By twenty-one, he was assistant superintendent of the plant.
In 1923 he was transferred to Bridgeport, with the title of managing engineer. As Bridgeport became heavily involved in the production of appliances, Wilson's duties expanded. In 1928 he became assistant to the vice president in charge of the Merchandise Department, and in 1930 vice president in charge of all appliances.
In December 1937, Wilson was elected executive vice president of General Electric, a new position involving responsibilities for all company departments. Two years later he was elected president of the company, succeeding Gerard Swope.
For two and one half years, Wilson served as a vigorous and imaginative president. Then, in September 1942, with the United States struggling to increase production of war material, Wilson went to Washington, at the request of President Roosevelt, to become vice chairman to the War Production Board. Mr. Swope came out of retirement to resume the duties of GE president.
As wartime boss of the huge U.S. production effort, Wilson achieved some spectacular successes, particularly in aircraft, shipbuilding and munitions. He served in this capacity until August, 1944 when he returned to GE and was again elected a director and president.
In 1946, President Truman named Wilson chairman of the Civil Rights Committee, whose members studied and recommended new civil rights legislation to protect "all parts of our population."
Because of the worsening international situation, an Office of Defense Mobilization was set up in 1950 and in December, President Truman asked Wilson once again to come to Washington and become its director. Concurrently, Wilson resigned his GE presidency and all his directorates.
After having completed 51 years of continuous service with General Electric, Wilson took on a job which was described in Washington as second in importance only to the Presidency of the United States. His public service did not end with that position. In 1956, he became president of the People-to-People Foundation, a non-partisan program promoting international friendship and understanding.
John G. Forrest, writing in the New York Times, said, "Charles Wilson is a big man by any standard, physical, moral, or mental." Mr. Wilson died in 1972 at the age of 85.
Gerard Swope, who started out with the General Electric Company in 1893 as a helper at $1 a day, became president of GE in 1922, and served in that post for nearly 20 years.
His career and his personality were once summarized by an associate: "Probably no man in his generation has been more ardently devoted to his country and its interests and more willing to devote his great energies and abilities unsparingly to this work than Gerard Swope. These qualities have manifested themselves in everything with which he has come into contact. And in all his activities, whether as business executive or economic leader, his thinking is of a fundamental and analytic quality undoubtedly influenced by his engineering training."
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., on December 1, 1872. As the result of a desire to see the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, he went to that city while still an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became a helper at the GE Chicago Service Shop.
Swope was graduated from M.I.T. in 1895, with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and returned to Chicago, this time in the shops of the Western Electric Company. Four years later, he went to St. Louis as manager of the Western Electric office, and in 1906 was transferred to Chicago. He went to New York as general sales manager two years later.
In 1913, Swope was named a vice president and director. Four years later, he visited the Orient, organizing a Chinese Western Electric Company and promoting trade interests and telephone service in the East.
During the first World War, Swope served on the War Department General Staff in connection with the Army's procurement and supply program. For his outstanding achievements, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the President of the United States and was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.
He was brought to General Electric in 1919, by Charles A. Coffin, then president. When the foreign department of GE was enlarged that year into a new organization, the International General Electric Company, Swope became its first president. He was elected president of General Electric in May, 1922.
Owen D. Young (the "D" signifying no particular name) was born in Van Hornesville, N.Y., on October 27, 1874. He was 16 years old when his parents mortgaged the farm to send him to St. Lawrence University at Canton, N.Y. Upon his graduation in 1894, he turned to Boston University where he completed the three-year law course in two years, while also supporting himself by tutoring and library work.
In 1896, Young joined the Boston Law office of Charles H. Tyler and within a few years became a partner where he came to the attention of Charles A. Coffin, the first president of General Electric. In 1913, he became chief counsel and vice president in Charge of Policy.
In 1919, at the request of the government, Young created the Radio Corporation of America to combat threatened foreign control of America's struggling radio industry. He served as RCA's board chairman until 1929.
The GE Board of Directors elected him president of the company in 1922. Later in 1922 Young succeeded Coffin as chairman of the board of General Electric while Gerard Swope was appointed president of the company. They remained in these roles until 1939, when they both asked for retirement.
Under their direction, GE began the extensive manufacture of electric appliances for home use. The introduction of a host of electrical consumer goods required extensive enlargement of GE's advertising, marketing, distribution and service organizations - not to mention its engineering and manufacturing facilities.
The Depression did not spare GE, but the diversification measures, which Young and Swope had instituted improved the economic security and general welfare of GE workers and helped cushion the blows of the Depression.
Young served as a member of the German reparations commission in 1924. Out of this international conference came the Dawes plan. In 1929, Young was called upon to head another committee of experts to unify further German payments. This group drafted the Young Plan for handling reparation payments on the basis of a new total sum.
From 1924 through 1932, his name figured prominently as a possible Democratic nominee for president, but he refused to encourage the hat-flingers.
In 1942, Owen D. Young returned as chairman of the board of GE. He remained as the chairman of the board until 1945.
Long active in education, Young was a trustee of St. Lawrence University from 1912 to 1934, serving as president of the board the last 10 years. He was a member of the New York State Board of Regents, governing body of New York's educational system, until 1946 when Governor Thomas E. Dewey called upon him to head the state commission that laid the groundwork for a state university system in New York.
In the twentieth century, many technology-based corporations began as "spin-offs" of great research universities. But one of the 19th century's seminal technology-based companies, Thomson-Houston, was a high-school spin-off. Its founder was a professor at Philadelphia's Central High School, Elihu Thomson. Its first engineer was Thomson's star pupil, Edwin W. Rice, Jr.
Coming from a well-to-do family, Rice could have gone on to college in 1880. But the prospect of continuing his collaboration with Thomson attracted him more. "He has been my professor ever since I met him away back in the year 1876," Rice later wrote. "What a mine of knowledge ready to be explored, as willing to give as I was to receive its richness!"
Together, the two young men developed an entire range of electrical equipment, from generators to meters. Their enterprise survived early financial difficulties, and grew to compete on even terms with Edison's. Rice contributed valuable inventions. His voltage regulator was used for years on Thomson-Houston dynamos. But his real talents were in the management of manufacturing. At the age of 22, he became the factory manager of Thomson-Houston's Lynn, Massachusetts plant.
With the formation of General Electric in 1892, Rice got the chance to exercise his administrative talents on a larger stage. He was GE's first technical director, and from 1896, vice-president in charge of manufacturing and engineering.
In this post, he recognized the need to supplant the empirical techniques of the Edison-Thomson era with modern science and mathematics. In 1892, he was favorably impressed by a brilliant paper delivered at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by a young German immigrant named Charles Proteus Steinmetz. He tried to lure Steinmetz away from his employer, Rudolph Eickemeyer, to work for GE. That failing, he convinced GE's president Charles A. Coffin that the combination of Eickemeyer's patents and the genius of Steinmetz ought to be purchased. Under Rice's aegis, Steinmetz rose to the post of Consulting Engineer. And, at the urging of Steinmetz, Rice founded the GE Research Laboratory and hired Willis R. Whitney as its first director.
In contrast to some of the outgoing, dynamic leaders of the early electrical industry, Rice was reserved and judicial in temperament. In 1913 he succeeded Charles A. Coffin as president of GE. Coffin, however, recognized Rice's limitations as a businessman, and continued to hold the company reins as chairman of the board. But throughout the electrical industry, Rice was widely respected as both an electrical pioneer and an industrial statesman.
"A man born to command, yet who never issued orders." This phrase sums up the leadership qualities of Charles A. Coffin, General Electric's first president. His executive skills helped establish GE's place in the front rank of American corporations.
Electrical manufacturing was Coffin's second career. At 18, he moved from Fairfield, Maine, where he had been born in 1844, to enter his uncle's shoe business at Lynn, Massachusetts. He later founded his own shoe manufacturing firm, and by 1883 had established himself as an outstanding success in this line.
In that year, Silas A. Barton, a Lynn businessman, proposed bringing to the city the struggling young American Electric Co. of New Britain, Connecticut, whose major asset was the inventive genius of Elihu Thomson. A businessman was needed to supplement Thomson's technical skills. Coffin was prevailed upon to take the post.
He led the new company, Thomson-Houston, to parity with Thomas Edison's companies, the previous leaders in the field. When negotiations in 1892 led to the formation of General Electric, a key step in creating a viable enterprise was the installation of Coffin as its first chief executive officer.
Coffin's associates (and he always made a point of calling them "my associates," not "my subordinates") knew him as a gracious gentleman and delightful companion. He never ordered one of them to do anything, preferring to rely on his powers of suggestion. In his turn, he graciously sought and welcomed suggestions from those around him and then decisively made up his own mind on key questions.
Customers and competitors knew him as both the outstanding statesman and the outstanding salesman of the electrical manufacturing industry. He took a personal interest in major negotiations, often writing business proposals to important customers in his own hand. At tense meetings, he knew how to relieve the pressure with an appropriate anecdote, and how to add the key words to bring matters to a successful conclusion.
His greatest test came in the depression of 1893. A cash shortage threatened GE's existence. He coolly negotiated a deal with J. P. Morgan whereby New York banks advanced the needed money as payment for utility stocks that GE held. The tactic saved the company and made possible its rapid recovery and growth during the remainder of his tenure. The strength and wide-ranging excellence of the company he passed on to Owen D. Young and Gerard Swope when he retired from the board chairmanship in 1922 was and remains his greatest monument.


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Often referred to as "African Rosewood", Bubinga has become a popular choice for musical instruments and fine decorative pieces. It showcases gorgeous grain patterns and a myriad of reddish brown tones with purple veining.
- Tree: Often reaches a height of over 100 feet, with trunk diameters of 36 inches.
- Sapwood: Whitish.
- Heartwood: Medium red-brown or red to reddish-brown with light red/purple veins.
- Grain: Straight or interlocked.
- Texture: Even grain ranging from fine to very fine.
- Luster: Very lustrous.
- Odor: Emits a pungent odor when freshly cut.
- Movement: Dimensionally stable. Retains its shape well after machining.
- Natural Durability: Naturally resistant to decay and termite attack.
- Cutting Resistance: Bubinga can be readily sawn, but due to its density, a slow feed rate is advised.
- Working characteristics: Responds well to both machine and hand tools, but cutting edges must be kept sharp.
- Polishing: Takes an excellent polish.
- Strength: The wood is extremely strong, with high bending and crushing strength.
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