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produce an annual two-day IRTS Minority Career Workshop that is about to enter its20th year. The program includes a one-day conference, followed by an opportunity tointerview with major companies from throughout the business. Recruiters have labeledthis workshop one of the best places to find outstanding job applicants. On average,twenty percent of those who attend the workshop are hired as a direct result of theevent.Whenever possible, Tudryn has extended a hand to other organizations that reflectthe ideals of the IRTS mission. She forged a two-year partnership in 1999 with theNational Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho, donating full-time administrationby IRTS personnel, a fully-programmed membership database, and underwriting forconvention travel grants to this 90-chapter student organization. Ms. Tudryn coproducedthe 1999 and 2000 IRTS-NBS national conventions, and directed IRTS Dayat the NBS Convention in 2001. She was responsible for the National ProductionAwards Competition in 2000. She was named NBS National Advisory Board Memberof the Year in 2001.Serving as Vice Chairman of Education for the iEmmy Festival produced by theInternational Council of NATAS, Tudryn was responsible for the administration of agrant that provided underwriting for professors from across the nation to attend thisevent for the first time.Tudryn began her career as a member of the editorial staff in the Radio Departmentat the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC. She has been a trademagazine columnist, as well as a video producer for the public affairs department in theOffice of the Secretary of Defense.Today, Tudryn frequently gives lectures to students and has authored and/or editedarticles in industry-related periodicals and books. The Broadcast Education Associationhas named Tudryn the 2003 recipient of its Distinguished Education Service Award.Tudryn is an Advisory Board Member of her alma mater—the Newhouse School atSyracuse University, where she was inducted into the Professional “Wall of Fame”Gallery in 2000. She is a member of New York’s Media Roundtable and a formerofficer of the Corporation for Educational Radio and Television. She is listed in“Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in the World”.As First Vice President of the PTA at her daughter’s elementary school this past year,Tudryn staged a fall fair for fundraising, established and edited a school newspaper, andgarnered regular publicity of activities in the local press. She resides in Union, NewJersey, where she was honored as a member of the town’s Family of the Year in aproclamation presented by the mayor.An accomplished photographer, Tudryn had a solo exhibition at the New York Citygallery “Synchronicity Space” and has been a featured artist at events ranging from theCentral New Jersey Railroad Festival to the Potlatch Annual Design Show. Once amonth she joins Dominic “Uncle Junior” Chianese of HBO’s Sopranos to entertain ata local nursing home; and she occasionally gets into full clown makeup (complete withmagic tricks) to perform at charitable events.NEWS & NOTESFarber Delivers KeynoteErica Farber is the Keynote Speaker of the BEA 2003, 48th Annual Convention &Exhibition.BiographyERICA FARBERPublisher and CEO, Radio & RecordsErica Farber, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of Radio & Records, climbed theropes throughout her career in the radio business, becoming one of the industry’s mostrespected and influential businesswomen.As head of the industry’s leading trade publication for business information andmarketing innovations, Erica is the driving force behind the delivery of crucial newsreflecting the trends and tremendous growth of an industry which is now the darling ofWall Street.With offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Nashville, Erica oversees operationsfor the company’s daily and weekly information sources read worldwide by decision-makersat all levels of management in the radio and music industries.During the early years of her career, she held positions at KRTH-FM, KABC-FM,KABC-TV, and KIIS-AM in Los Angeles. Her advancement grew quickly when inJanuary of 1975, she was appointed General Sales Manager of WROR-FM in Bostonand was promoted to General Manager in June of that year. Her success then led to anappointment as Vice President/General Manager of WXLO-FM, New York, in 1976.In January of 1980, she joined McGavren Guild Radio as Director of PromotionalSelling and was soon named Director of Business Development and Promotion. In1983, she was appointed Vice President/General Manager of the Radio MarketingDivision for the parent company, INTEREP, one of the radio industry’s leadingnational rep firms.Two years later, Erica was named Vice President/General Manager of INTEREPMarketing Systems and in 1986 was named Executive Vice President/RadioDevelopment of INTEREP. She also acted as INTEREP’s Industry AssociationSpecialist, ensuring the active involvement of the company at various broadcastingconferences.In 1992, after 12 years, she left the INTEREP companies to join Radio & Records asExecutive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. In April of 1994, she was promoted toChief Operating Officer, and then assumed full publishing responsibilities in January,1995, and formally changed to Publisher and Chief Executive Officer.Erica has been, and continues to be, a major presenter and speaker at hundreds ofbroadcast meetings and seminars around the world. Recipient of the SouthernCalifornia Chapter of AWRT 1996 Genii Award for Radio, and a 1994 AWRTIndustry Award.She is a Past Chairperson (1992-1993) of the Broadcast Promotion and Marketing98Feedback February 2003 (Vol. 44, No. 1)BEA—Educating tomorrow’s electronic media professionals 99