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| Industry | Telecommunications |
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| Location | westport, massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | Ward B. Chamberlin Jr. is a graduate if Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University and Columbia Law School. During the Second World War, a visual impairment disqualified him ffor service in the United States Armed Forces so in 1942 he joined the American Field Service (AFS) as a volunteer ambulance driver. The AFS at that time was attached to the British Eighth Army in the Middle east and North Africa. He served with the AFS in Africa, Italy and India until discharged in November 1945 at which time he had the rank of Major in the AFS. After law school he joined the Marshall Plan in positions in the US, France and England. After many years practising corporate law, he became one of the founders of public broadcasting in the U.S.--in 1968-70 as the chief aide to Frank Pace, the first Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. From that time on his career has been in public television and radio, mainly at the New York station Thirteen/WNET and the Washington station WETA and as consultant to various public tv organisations. |