Obituaries 2012

Wilbur Herrington, founding station engineer in 1972 of the University of Georgia’s WUOG-FM, died March 29 of a malignant brain tumor. He was 83.

Stanley Harrison, 81, who served as CPB’s communications director from 1976 to 1985, died of cardiac arrest on April 5 in Miami Beach, Fla. He had suffered a stroke in November. 

Jane Krutz, 86, an advocate for Arkansas Educational Television Network for nearly 50 years and winner of a PBS National Volunteer of the Year award, died March 25 in Little Rock.

Vern Coleman, also 86, who worked 14 years as an audio engineer at WGBH, handling shows such as The French Chef, died March 18 at his home in Marstons Mills, Mass., of leukemia.

John B. Roberts, 94, a founding board member of Philadelphia’s WHYY and founder of the Temple University's WRTI-FM, died March 8 of a spinal infection.

Bruce Harrison Beale, 82, who spent some 20 years at WHYY and 26 years at WHRO in Norfolk, Va., died March 8 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Norfolk.

Daniel del Solar, 71, former CPB training chief, manager of KALW-FM in San Francisco and WYBE in Philadelphia, died Jan. 13.

Mike deGruy, 60, a cinematographer who shot for Nature, died Feb. 4 in a helicopter crash in Australia.

Jeff Kaye, 57, journalist who recently joined Current, died Feb. 11 of a heart attack.

Elliott Mitchell III, 67, died Feb. 1; he worked in pubcasting stations in Florida, New York and Tennessee, and advocated for public access programming.

Gerald Poulsen, 78, who hosted bluegrass music as Jerry Gray, died Feb. 2; he had suffered complications from a heart transplant.

James A. Fellows, 77, former NAEB and CEN president and founder of Current, died in his sleep Jan. 6, at a nursing home in Millville, N.J.

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