DALE CRIPPS, FUHS 1957
E-mail message from Louise Phelphs Shamblen, FUHS '57
We are very honored to have Dale Cripps inducted into the "Wall of Fame". Below is the notice sent to Dale and information for reservations. If you think you can attend please notify Linda Kay Gluhak and also let Dale know. (Email Connie for Kay's phone number and Dale's email address. CVANHORN@PACBELL.NET )
Also attached is the write up that Judy Eberhardt wrote on Dale.
Click on "Comments" below to get information about reservations.
Judy's write-up was too long to put in one comment. I am going to try to break it up, but if that doesn't work you can email me to get a copy.
posted by Connie @ 12:41 AM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
September 4, 2009
Dear Dale,
Congratulations on your selection as inductee for the Fullerton Union High School “Wall of Fame.” FUHS has planned a special evening for you and 10 or more of your guests. You are invited to festivities in your honor on the evening of Homecoming, October 2, 2009.
The agenda for the evening of October 2, Homecoming, is as follows:
Ø 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Reception in the Academic Court
Ø 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Induction of the “Wall of Famers”
Ø 6:30 – 6:45 p.m.
Viewing of Plaques in the Administration Office
Ø 6:45 p.m.
Walk to the Football Game (FUHS vs. Brea Olinda High School)
Ø 7:00 p.m.
Seating of Inductees and Guests – Reserved 50 yd. Line Seating
Ø Halftime
Introduction of Inductees during the Halftime Program
The FUHS PTSA and Fullerton Union High School will be hosting the reception in the Academic Courtyard with our own Culinary Academy catering the event. After the induction, we will move into the Administration Building and have the viewing of the inductees’ plaques on our “Wall of Fame.”
Special reserved seating at the 50-yard line will be available for you and your guests. You will be introduced to the fans at halftime prior to the homecoming coronation festivities.
Fullerton Union High School is very proud of its graduates and I am delighted that you will be honored. All of us at FUHS hope that you and your guests will enjoy the evening and take away many memories.
Sincerely,
Catherine L. Gach
Principal
Judy Rockwell Eberhardt's nomination:
In October 2007, the Fullerton Union High School Class of 1957 gathered in Fullerton for our 50th reunion week-end. We all marveled at how very lucky we were to grow up during that era and to have attended such a wonderful high school. Some of our most vivid memories were of the incredibly supportive faculty who inspired and influenced us in so many positive ways. Thanks to them, a good many of our classmates went on to enjoy success in diverse fields, and that is why I was shocked to see that not one 1957 Alumni was featured on the FUHS Wall of Fame. I would like to rectify that void by nominating Dale Cripps for this distinguished honor. He has excelled in his chosen career and is viewed by his peers as being a model citizen who has made a huge contribution to the global community. Dale continues to support today’s youth through his on-going efforts to help fulfill their highest calling,
Dale Cripps, FUHS Class of 1957
After completing his education in business, Dale served two years in the U.S. Army. In 1964, he formed Cripps and Associates which operated as a market-development service in Aerospace. In 1983, he turned to his first love, television, and began what is now a 24-year campaign to pioneer High-Definition Television (HDTV) around the world. Dale is generally credited with being among the 100 most influential men in modern communications, and referred to by those in the consumer electronics industry as the “spiritual head” of this multi-billion dollar movement. His journalism skills most assuredly facilitated what was, at times, a highly contentious movement.
A little history about our most popular pastime may help to illuminate the scope of Dale’s contribution. In 1926, the first public demonstration of television with its blurry black and white images took place in London, England. It would take until 1954 (our freshman year at FUHS) to invent a color television set fit for consumers. Not until the 1970s and 1980s did Americans take down their TV antennas and replace them with cable TV boxes, giving them a multitude of channels to flip through. Using this measure, technical advances in the television industry happened about every twenty years.
Yet for 68 years (1970-2008) the advent of a truly amazing communications technology struggled to reach the consumer. This new advancement would switch analog broadcasts to digital (DTV), creating stunning images with life-like depth and realism. It has just now been proposed that by Feb. 17, 2009 all “over-the-air” analog broadcasts will be shut off completely, finally making way for digital broadcasting. In uncomplicated terms, the lowest quality digital format is about the same as the highest quality of analog, and HDTV is simply the highest of all the DTV standards.
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It all began in 1970 when the Japan Broadcasting Corporation started researching high definition television. Not to be outdone, the United States began their research in 1977 when the SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), of which Dale is a life member, formed the HDTV Study Group. From 1983 on, Dale was determined to keep open the often faltering communication link between the many opposing and competing factions, the regulators, and the consumer. For twelve of those years, Dale published the highly-regarded HDTV Newsletter (a 44-page monthly written for international television professionals that wisely came to be called the “bible of HDTV”). He served as the HDTV-Technical Editor for the prestigious Widescreen Review Magazine where he connected HDTV to its first consumer audience. He wrote over 40 seminal articles on the subject of HDTV for 20 other magazines and journals, as well as edited the popular HDTV for Dummies book for Wiley Press.
In his newsletter, he sponsored and programmed the four largest international conferences on the subject of HDTV to ever be held, and he participated as speaker or advisor for a dozen similar conferences. By November 1998, he had launched the consumer oriented Internet distributed HDTV Magazine, which, until recently, was the only consumer publication devoted exclusively to high-definition television. A few years later, he co-founded, with foremost telecommunications lawyer Tedson Meyers, the High-definition Television Association of America (just recently re-christened the First International Academy of High Definition Television Arts and Sciences). Dale was honored in 2002 with the coveted DTV Press Leadership Award (other nominees were Wall Street Journal, USA Today, BusinessWeek).
When I proposed the Wall of Fame nomination to Dale, he accepted on the basis that it might honor the unsung heroes who sacrificed more than will ever be known in order to deliver a new electronic future to the world. He also hopes that his quest will be a tribute to the importance of perseverance and patience, something we learned at FUHS was indispensable for big works. To Dale, the important lesson to be drawn from the HDTV story is that “a complete revolution is not to be feared as long as the vision pursued contains an enriched standard of living for all.”
As Dale’s publishing activities wind down later this year, he intends to devote his life to helping young people fulfill their highest calling. His first endeavor has been to establish the Ray, Frances, and Dale Cripps Student Support Endowment fund, College of Science, Oregon State University that gives scholarships to those who have a promising career in DNA packaging and research on how stem cells become specialized cells. On a more personal level, you will find Dale opening his ranch doors to cell phone, iPod toting teenagers interested in learning a little something about television. So far, the biggest draw has been his PS3, XBox 360, not to mention his dedicated theater with 200-inch viewing screen!
I believe Dale’s unique gift to the HDTV movement was to have a deep understanding and appreciation for what this revolutionary change in communications technology would mean to the world. Through his many endeavors, he was able to articulate that vision so that those who needed a cause to live by then had one.
I thank the committee for their consideration of this nominee.
Best regards,
Judy Rockwell Eberhardt
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