Carol Cline Papers (MS-8)

The collection contains a substantial file of notes and handouts on the 1953 NYU Summer Workshop in Television and Radio, which documents guest lectures on topics ranging from an introduction to television production techniques to Radio-Television writing and studio operation. The Carol’s Corner scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, critiques, daily radio schedule listings, fan letter appreciation, news releases, and notes on future interviews for the period between May 1962 and May 1964. Also posted are miscellaneous items, such as a few publicity photographs with entertainment personality, Sterling Hayden, and Dayton summer theater programs. The scrapbook provides the supportive documentation for the WSU Archives’ collection of over 200 unedited, 15-minute interview tapes conducted by Cline throughout the country during the 1960s. Other TV-Radio materials collected are a “Barbour Family Scrap Book” that is a 1946 promotional literature for Radio show, and “One Man’s Family” which was distributed by Standard Brands Incorporated (Fleischmann’s Yeast); and ten captioned publicity stills of the cast of the TV show, “Rin Tin Tin”, dated 1955.

The Travel series is comprised of published articles, diaries, and other notes of Cline’s world tours, and also those of her parents. These describe three major trips: her parents visit to Africa and Australia in spring, 1958; her tour of Europe in summer, 1958; and her reactions to the Iron Curtain countries in summer, 1962. The accounts are written for the tourist point of view, and tend to be judgmental of cultural differences particularly reflective of the Cold War era orientation.

Prominent among the miscellaneous items is a small series of publicity clippings and correspondence concerning the Cornell Glee Club Christmas Tour of 1939-1940, which passed through Dayton via the sponsorship of Council alumni. Two note pads containing World War II vintage Red Cross First Aid course notes are also contained, as well as Cornell alumnus names and plans for senior meetings possibly designed for student recruiting. One personal document is included, which is a letter from Cline’s father, dated March 5, 1965, advising her on stock investment.

The “Carol’s Corner” series is comprised of ¼” open reel audio tapes organized by genre of interview subjects, and then by air date. These tapes contain interviews that Cline did with prominent personalities from 1962-1966. She interviewed people from Miami Beach, Cornell University, politics, sports and science, entertainment, authors, and Dayton, Ohio.