2006 OUTSTANDING PUBLIC BROADCASTING VOLUNTEER
Presented to Charles Boatwright of KAMU
Nomination Narrative
Charles Boatwright is an extremely unique and talented individual who has given, in addition to his major financial gifts, an extraordinary number of hours of his time to KAMU. Charles was instrumental in getting KAMU’s development staff involved in the MGI program, and has been a leader in helping us work through the program. He has attended workshops with us, as well as all of the online classes.
More significantly, Charles has written an entire computerized program to manage the KAMU TV and FM auctions. Charles is a computer professional employed by Texas A&M’s Computing and Information Services Center. Charles has spent countless hours during vacations and Christmas holidays coding the system. He has developed a system that would easily cost $100,000 if we contracted it out. Additionally, Charles manages the volunteers in the bid center during the auction, and insures that all runs smoothly. He continues to push us with new ideas and is currently convincing us to expand our auction to include registered bidders that could bid on items online during the auction broadcast.
Charles is a long time KAMU volunteer. He started as an auction volunteer in 1990 and comes in to answer phones during our pledge drives as well. In 1995 he was a founding developer of a very popular weekly call-in show on KAMU-FM about computers called Gig-A-Bytes, and in 1997 took over hosting/producing duties. The show stayed on the air through March of 2001.
To top it off, Charles is an avid viewer of KAMU-TV and listener to KAMU-FM. He knows a great deal more about our program content than most of us, and is an invaluable resource when we need information about our programming choices.
Clearly, Charles is a one-in-a-million “catch” for our station. I strongly recommend him for this prestigious award.
Presented to Charles Boatwright of KAMU
Nomination Narrative
Charles Boatwright is an extremely unique and talented individual who has given, in addition to his major financial gifts, an extraordinary number of hours of his time to KAMU. Charles was instrumental in getting KAMU’s development staff involved in the MGI program, and has been a leader in helping us work through the program. He has attended workshops with us, as well as all of the online classes.
More significantly, Charles has written an entire computerized program to manage the KAMU TV and FM auctions. Charles is a computer professional employed by Texas A&M’s Computing and Information Services Center. Charles has spent countless hours during vacations and Christmas holidays coding the system. He has developed a system that would easily cost $100,000 if we contracted it out. Additionally, Charles manages the volunteers in the bid center during the auction, and insures that all runs smoothly. He continues to push us with new ideas and is currently convincing us to expand our auction to include registered bidders that could bid on items online during the auction broadcast.
Charles is a long time KAMU volunteer. He started as an auction volunteer in 1990 and comes in to answer phones during our pledge drives as well. In 1995 he was a founding developer of a very popular weekly call-in show on KAMU-FM about computers called Gig-A-Bytes, and in 1997 took over hosting/producing duties. The show stayed on the air through March of 2001.
To top it off, Charles is an avid viewer of KAMU-TV and listener to KAMU-FM. He knows a great deal more about our program content than most of us, and is an invaluable resource when we need information about our programming choices.
Clearly, Charles is a one-in-a-million “catch” for our station. I strongly recommend him for this prestigious award.