Bruce Gregory "Greg" Temple
135 North Honeysuckle Lane
Post Office Box 535
Nashville, IN 47448-0535
Office telephone: 812/988-7521
Cellular telephone: 812/345-6715
FAX: 812/988-0879
E-mail address: BGregT@yahoo.com
On the Internet:
       http://www.oocities.org/bgregt/index.html
Date of birth: October 10, 1941
Family: married, two grown children

 
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Objective

Although semi-retired after more than 30 years of owning, managing and operating a print-and-electronics-communications business, I seek opportunities for challenging and rewarding assignments, with limited term and tenure, that could (1) benefit from and improve my demonstrated communications and management skills and could (2) allow me to share my experience and knowledge with others and (3) learn from theirs.

General Skills

Inter- and intra-personal communications in all forms, including oral, written, broadcast and electronic (cable television and Internet); business management at all levels, including production, sales, creative, personnel, administrative and corporate, and fund-raising on corporate and foundation (charity) levels.

Office/Computer Skills

MacIntosh newspaper-publishing system, Appleworks, MicroSoft Office suite, HTML and Internet site design and management (file-transfer protocol).

Education

Indiana University/Bloomington School of Journalism
Graduate course in Electronic Journalism, Autumn 1980; admitted to Master's degree program with advance placement; Summer 1982

Indiana University School of Law/Indianapolis
Autumn semester 1963

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
A.B. with major in Government, minor in English Composition and four years of public speaking, May 1963

Indiana University/Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences
Beginning courses in French and U. S. History, Summers 1959-60

The University School/Bloomington, IN
High school diploma with honors, May 1959

Experience (work/employment)

Sycamore Valley , Nashville, IN, September-December, 2003
Ninety-day appointment as interim director of a community center operated by Aging & Community Services of South Central Indiana, Inc. and charged with providing a variety of services -- including transportation, nutritional, financial, educational, recreational, social and health-referral -- to groups and individuals; prepared for serving at the center and to homebound clients weekday lunches from frozen stock, including inventory management and ordering; supervised home deliveries and staff; co-ordinated bus transportation of clients to and from center for lunches, field trips and shopping excursions; completed forms as required by state and federal regulations and grants; responsibility for public relations, fund-raising, staff payroll and reimbursements, liaison with central-office administration and site board of directors, and site management, scheduling and use, including security, maintenance, upgrading and rental-booking.

Brown County Career Resource Center, Nashville, IN, November, 2002
Presenter of a three-week workshop called "Get a Job!" and designed to help adults secure good, rewarding positions in the current employment market.

WFHB-FM, Bloomington, IN, July 2002-present
Regularly-scheduled content programmer, on-air host and control-board engineer for "Golden Age Radio" twice-weekly, one-hour programs and for "All That Jazz" weekly, three-hour programs; substitute content programmer, on-air host and control-board engineer for "The Headphone Tourist" weekly, three-hour programs; member, News Initiative Advisory Committee; producer, Public Service Announcements.

Visiting professional journalist and adjunct instructor, Franklin (IN) College Pulliam School of Journalism, 1988-1990
Mentored journalism majors and taught courses in newspaper management and advanced copy-editing.

Developer and partner, Omega Cable Television of Brown County, September 1980-July 2000
Negotiated franchise contracts with local-government legislators as a prerequisite for constructing a cable-television system to serve Nashville, the Cordry-Sweetwater Conservancy District and other unincorporated areas of Brown County, Indiana; located and partnered with management firm to build and operate the system.

Editor, publisher and corporate president; Brown County Democrat weekly newspaper, Nashville, IN, September 1970-April 2002.
All phases and types of work in newspaper journalism, both management and production; business modeling, planning and executing; research and development of new communications products and services such as magazines, cable television and the Internet, etc. etc.

Disc jockey, WHAS-FM, Louisville, KY, January 1969-August 1970
Content programmer and on-air host for "Jazz Directions" thrice-weekly, one-hour programs.

State editor, assistant city editor, assistant managing editor/administration, Courier-Journal daily newspaper, Louisville, KY, August 1967-August 1970
Supervised news staffs, manpower-labor reporter, feature writer, copy editor, book and music reviewer, contributor to Sunday Magazine, planned creation of weekend edition and of syndication service.

Managing editor, The Courier-Tribune daily newspaper, Bloomington, IN, July 1966-July 1967
Recruited entire 20-member professional news staff for a startup daily and managed and directed that staff in the first year of publication.

Reporter, writer, re-writer, assistant city editor, The Northwest Indiana Times daily newspaper, Munster, IN, February 1965-June 1966
Covered local government, public education, federal government and labor unions; weekend assignment and copy editor for local news staff; book and music reviewer; member, American Newspaper Guild Local bargaining committee.

Reporter-writer, The Indianapolis Star daily newspaper, Indianapolis, IN, June 1963-January 1965
Summer news intern, covering police beat and state criminal courts; staff writer, covering police beat, state criminal courts, city government, public education, high-school sports, federal-government offices and civil and criminal courts, general-assignment features; photographer and music, movie and book reviewer.

WHCL-FM, Clinton, NY, September-May 1959-1963
Content programmer and on-air host of "Jazz Directions" thrice-weekly, one-hour programs.

Sales clerk, The Turntable record store, Bloomington, IN, Summers 1959-1962
Opening, closing, cash-register reconciliation.

Pre-Press Department, The Herald-Times daily newspaper, Bloomington, IN, Summers 1957-1958
Printer's Devil and apprentice type-compositor, working in hot-metal production.

Accounts receivable, The Herald-Times daily newspaper, Bloomington, IN, September-May 1955-1958 and Summers 1959-1962
Visits, first using bicycle transportation, to businesses and individuals to serve notice of and to collect delinquent accounts.

Newspaper delivery route, The Indianapolis Star daily newspaper, 1951-1954
As a classic "little merchant," received newspapers from a wholesale supplier, distributed them to residential customers, solicited new customers, collected accounts receivable weekly and, from the collections, paid weekly wholesale bills to supplier.

Activities

Member, Steering Committee, Brown County Community Foundation 2002 "Century to Century: The Brown County Legacy Lives On" fund drive.

Member, National Newspaper Foundation Journalism Education Committee, March 1988-February 1990

Member, International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, June 1986-present

Director, Brown County (IN) Big Brothers/Big Sisters, October 1985-September 1987

Member and elected chairman, Indiana Newspapers-in-Education Advisory Committee, June 1982-May 1988

Indiana Weekly Newspaper Chairman, National Newspaper Association, March 1982-February 1988

Member, Nashville Town Council ad-hoc advisory committee on historic preservation, February-June 1977

Member, Bloomington (IN) Press Club, 1977-1980

President, Country Club of Brown County (IN), January 1977-December 1978

Co-Chair, Hoosier State Press Association Annual Convention, March 1976

Chair, Citizens Party, non-partisan political party formed to slate and elect candidates for the Nashville Town Council, April-June 1974

Director and Secretary, Hoosier State Press Association, March 1974-February 1978

Co-Chair, Hoosier State Press Association Annual Better Newspapers Conference, November 1973

Member, Brown County (IN) Lions Club, August 1973-present

Coach and sponsor, Brown County (IN) girls softball team, Summers 1973-75

Member, Brown County Area Plan Commission (elected vice-president) and Brown County Area Board of Zoning Appeals (also elected vice-president), January 1973-December 1974

Chairman, Nominating Committee, Brown County (IN) Chamber of Commerce, November 1972-October 1976

Member and on-stage actor, Brown County Community Theatre Troupe, September 1972-October 1977.

Chairman, Community Service Committee, Brown County (IN) Jaycees, January-December 1971

Director, Louisville (KY) Jazz Society, January 1968-December 1969

Member, Indianapolis (IN) Press Club, 1963-1967

Member, Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi, 1963-present.

Senior class president and alumni agent, graduating class of 1963, Hamilton College, March 1962-July 1967

Member, Student Senate governing body; member, Student Senate Social Court, and chairman, All School Social Committee, Hamilton College, October 1961-June 1963

Vice-president, Gryphon Society social fraternity, Hamilton College, April-September 1962

Alumni Corresponding Secretary, Gryphon Society social fraternity, Hamilton College, September 1961-September 1962

Editorial editor, The Univee Quad, The University School, January-June 1958

Founding Fellow and Bursar, AEL, The University School, October 1957-present

Member, Student Council, The University School, September 1956-June 1959

Recognition

By Inland Press Association, 2000
National Best Weekly Newspaper, sixth place.

By Hoosier State Press Association Annual Better Newspaper Contests, 1971-2002
Scores of personal first, second and third place awards, including best community-service coverage, best editorial column, best columnist, best news story under the pressure of deadline, best news story with no deadline pressure, best photographer, best photo-layout designer, best page designer, best headline writer, best editor; Indiana Blue Ribbon (best) Weekly Newspaper, 1972 and 1982; Best Weekly Newspaper Webmaster, 1999, 2001 and 2002.

By Jordan Jesters drama club, The University School, May 1959
Best actor.

By National Honor Society, The University School, Bloomington, IN, April 1958
Elected, as a high-school junior, by senior faculty, to membership most-often reserved for members of the senior class
 

 

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