Ray Gladfelter helped maked several of the shows seen on various of these pages - here is some info I found on him:
Ray V. Gladfelter was a native Nebraskan. He graduated from high school in Columbus, Nebraska in 1950. He received a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in speech, radio and television from the University of Nebraska. From 1957-1961 Ray worked for television station KUON-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska and from 1961-1964 he was employed by KCSD-TV in Kansas City, Missouri as a producer/director. Ray left KCSD-TV to join the National Instructional Television Center in Bloomington, Indiana. He was appointed Director of Programming after six years with the organization.
In 1973, Ray became the Director of National ITV Development
for WETA, the public television station in Washington, DC. In 1976, the ITV
Co-op started at WETA and became the International Instructional Television
Co-operative, an independent non-profit organization serving more than 120 educational
television agencies in the US and Canada. In 1979 the ITV Co-op became Children's
Television International. Ray served as its president from 1979 until the time
of his death in March of 2002.
During his career, Ray personally produced and directed more than 3,000 programs
for both commercial and public radio and television. He served as the executive
producer for twenty national ITV series, which continue to be viewed by students
in schools and colleges across the nation
Ray's television series have won the Gold Hugo, two gold, three silver and one bronze medals from the New York Film Festival, a bronze medal from the Virgin Islands Film Festival, three Ohio State Awards in broadcasting and the coveted Action for Children's Television award. In addition to receiving recognition, Ray Gladfelter honored Professionals for their contributions to Children’s Television with the William E. Fegan Award and the CTI Apple Award.
Ray served as a consultant to state broadcasting authorities, school systems, federal agencies and several public television stations. He also served on the faculties of Norfolk Junior College, Kansas City Junior College, Kansas City University, the University of Missouri, Kansas State College in Pittsburgh and Indiana University.
CTI distributed the WVIZ production “Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright"
