Background
Powers, Bruce Raymond was born on December 10, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of George Osborne and Gertrude Joan (Bangs) Powers.
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Bruce Raymond Powers
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Education
Student, University Connecticut, 1947—1949. AB, Brown University, 1951. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1965.
Postgraduate, University Pennsylvania, 1961.
Career
Announcer, engineer Station WNLC, New London, Connecticut, 1946—1947. Training officer Central Intelligence Agency, Department Defense, 1951—1955. Television sales/service representative NBC, 1955.
Television news writer and reporter Movietone News Uttar Pradesh Associations, Inc., 1955—1956. Assistant to president Gotham-Vladimir Advertising, Inc., 1956—1957. Assistant account executive D'Arcy Advertising Company, 1957—1958.
Assistant campaign director Community Counseling Services, Inc., 1958—1959. Director fund-raising campaign Tamblyn & Brown, Inc., 1959—1960. Instructor Brown University, Providence, 1963—1965, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Toronto, 1966, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, 1966—1967.
Assistant professor English and communications studies Niagara University, Lewiston, 1967—1986, chairman permanent curriculum committee English department, 1970—1971, associate professor, 1986—1992, professor, 1986—1992, professor emerito, since 1992. Director Film Repertory Center, 1971—1992, director communications studies program, 1973—1987. Producer, managing director Experimental Film Retrospective, New York State Council Arts, Buffalo, 1972.
Narrator (documentary) Niagara: Fading in the Mist, 1996. Panelist, judge Artists Committee 2d World Festival Animated Films, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1974. Lecturer, visiting artist ARTPARK, Lewiston, 1975.
Project director Bicentennial Symposium, New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, Buffalo, 1975-1976. Research associate Center Culture and Technology, University Toronto, 1977-1981. Keynote speaker Dupont de Nemours & Company Health and Safety Conference, Buffalo, 1990.
Partner Moon Island Documentary Group, since 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Served with Underwater Demolition Teams, United States Naval Reserve, PTO, 1945-1946. Member Modern Language Association, Underwater Demolitions Teams/Seal Association Virginia Beach, Broadcast Education Association, Society Cinema Studies, American Society Journalism School Administrators, Association Education Journalism and Mass Communications, International Experimental Film Society (founding president 1971-1973), Arizona Senior Academy University Arizona, We. New York Audio-Visual Association, New York College English Association, First Folio Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Dolores Anne Dawson, July 25, 1969. Children: Christopher, Patricia.
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Religion
Roman Catholic
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