Burton Paulu

Background

Paulu, Burton was born on June 25, 1910 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Emanuel Marion and Sarah Marie (Murphy) Paulu.

Education

Bachelor cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1931, Bachelor of Science, 1932, Master of Arts, 1934, postgraduate, 1934-1938. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1949. Manager Station KUOM, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1938-1957, professor, director radio andTV, 1957-1972, professor, director media resources, 1972-1978, retired lecturer School Journalism and Department of Speech, 1951-1978.

Visiting professor University of Southern California, 1958, Los Angeles State College, 1961.

Associate director study of new educational media in Kennedy Cultural Center, Washington, 1949-1952. Senior Fulbright lecturer faculty of journalism Moscow State University, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1980-1981, 86-87, 91-92;lecturer United States Information Agency, Spain and Federal Republic Germany, 1983.

Distinguished professor, lecturer Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, 1988.

Career

Based for five decades at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Paulu was the author of five books and dozens of articles on radio and television in Great Britain and on the continent of Europe. His work introduced American scholars and the interested public to broadcasting systems in Eastern and Western European countries where the role of the government and of advertising contrasted sharply with United States practices. He taught and lectured widely in the United States and Europe and held three appointments in the journalism department of Moscow State University, the first at a time when academic contacts between the United States and the then - Soviet Union were rare and the last, when he was 81 years old, as the Soviet Union was collapsing.

Paulu became manager of University of Minnesota radio station KUOM in 1928, in the early years of broadcasting, and participated in the development of public radio and television in the United States, presiding as the University of Minnesota expanded its broadcasting activities to include short-lived innovations such as the use of closed circuit television to teach college courses and permanent changes to the American broadcasting landscape such as the introduction of educational television to the general public.

He taught classes on American and international broadcasting until he retired with the title of professor and director of the University"s Media Resources Department in 1978. Born in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, and raised in small towns in South Dakota, Paulu developed an early interest in classical music as a result of hearing the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra perform when he was a boy.

His broadcasting career began in 1929, when he was working toward a degree in music at the University of Minnesota and took a part-time job as a student announcer at the university"s young radio station WLB (later KUOM). He earned a Bachelor (1931) and Bachelor of Science (1932) in music along with an Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Minnesota.

While stationed in London and Luxembourg with the United States Office of War Information during World World War II he developed an interest in European broadcasting, and in 1949 was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in communications from New York University.

He was a frequent substitute trombonist for the Minnesota (formerly Minneapolis) Orchestra from the 1940s to the 1960s and contributed significantly to the Orchestra"s oral history project through a series of taped interviews with performing artists. Among Paulu"s numerous awards were five Fulbright Scholarships, three Ford Foundation grants, and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for journalism research. Paulu was married for 60 years to the former Frances Tuttle Brown and was the father of three.

He died at age 92 of Parkinson"son

Achievements

• Burton Paulu has been listed as a noteworthy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Radio and Television Broadcasting on the European Continent (Minnesota Archive Editions)

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  • Radio and Television Broadcasting on the European Continent

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  • British Broadcasting in Transition
  • British Broadcasting in Transition
  • Radio and Television Broadcasting in Eastern Europe
  • British Broadcasting: Radio and Television in the United Kingdom
  • British Broadcasting: Radio and Television in the United Kingdom

Membership

Served with United States Office of War Information,1944-1945. Grantee Rockefeller Foundation, 1942, Ford Foundation, 1958-1959, 64-65, 70, 78, University of Minnesota, 1965-1973. Member Minnesota Fulbright Alumni Association (board directors, president 1985-1989), University of Minnesota Retirees Association (board dirs, president), American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Alpha Theta, Sigma Delta Chi (Research about Journalism award 1962).

Interests

• Photography, travel, reading, music.

Connections

Married Frances Tuttle Brown, June 29,1942. Children: Sarah Leith, Nancy Jean, Thomas Scott.

Father:

Emanuel Marion Paulu

Mother:

Sarah Marie (Murphy) Paulu

Spouse:

Frances Tuttle Brown

child:

Thomas Scott Paulu

child:

Sarah Leith Paulu

child:

Nancy Jean Paulu