Theme: New Media Communications
Jodie Davaz Oral History Interviews
Two life history interviews conducted by Chris Petersen.
May 2014 - May 2015
Jodie Davaz (class of 2015), a Digital Communication Arts major and student in the
University Honors College, spent the 2013-14 academic year as Station Manager at KBVR-FM.
She is also the first editor of Beaver's Digest, successor publication to the Beaver Yearbook. Her first interview is devoted to the inner-workings of OSU's student
radio station, her ambitions for Beaver's Digest and her sense of student culture on campus and within the community as it stood in
2014. Her second interview, recorded almost exactly one year later, focuses on the
first year of Beaver's Digest and Davaz's broader reflections on her rich undergraduate experience.
Dick Weinman Oral History Interviews
Two life history interviews conducted by Janice Dilg.
October 2014 - January 2015
Dick Weinman (b. 1933) was a Speech professor at Oregon State from 1967 to his retirement
in 1998, and also the on-air voice of Oregon Public Broadcasting's Morning Edition for nearly twenty-five years. During his career at OSU, Weinman played a fundamental
role in the creation and growth of KBVR-TV as well as the Broadcast Media Communications
program, which he led until its dissolution in 1992. An influential and innovative
teacher, Weinman also spearheaded a number of workshops and campus events meant to
improve the quality of education for the university's aspiring broadcasters. Among
many topics discussed over two interviews, Weinman reflects on his life in broadcasting;
his involvement with a wide array of documentary films and campus events; the evolution
of KBVR-TV; and the creation of the New Media Studies program.