7 opportunity asa the information age — SK: Probably. Marketing director, to me, i a good job and I’m grateful to have it. But my profession is still journal- TRACKING RC: What happens in the meantime? ism. Being a marketing director has some aspects of jour- — nalism, such as telling a story, but it’s not public media. SK: I've had a sense recently that it’s time formeto When the IRS asked on my 1040 form about o ne ae reestablish myself professionally. I haven't sought any tion, Tput down “journalist.” | work that would put me in the public eye, but lately I’ve ‘started to let people: know that r d like to dooS narRC: Have you had ay a basing offers o since= ou left KSL- Vg es a H ai rationsis and voice- “over work. _ cy SK: I hive t been deluged. The : closest thing to a specific offer\was from a recruiting company inLos KINARD Angeles that was trying to filla news — - director’s job in the Midwest. Itold them I wasn’t interested in leaving Utah. Friends in the industry have told me to letthem know if T change es “my mind, | RC: Thee were oon last year ‘that : you might join the Fox station — So (KSTU-TV, Channel 13)i in et | Lake City. SK: They talked teto me at frst a anchorman. After three meetings, I never heardfrom them again. RC: Were. you disappointed? KSL J. Spencer Kinard, 52, joined KSL radio and TV in 1965 as a news reporter. He left the station from 1968 to 1971 to accept a fellowship at Columbia University and work as a writer for CBS News in New York City. He rejoined KSL in 1971 and held positions as reporter, anchorman, news director and Hr ~ two jobs— news director and news i anchor. Then they decided to bring a “news director from their Los Angeles operation and asked ifI would talk to them about being the & vice president. Mr. Kinard and his wife, Lynette Layton Kinard, celebrated 29 years of marriage earlier this year. They are the five grandchildren. | Hoi! I’ve done half: ee oe industrial UE _ recordings for companies in other states, plus a training tape: for the ! ites in 1952. sss e state of Utah. In July, I was master of ceremonies for the annual would you consider? SK: The information business is changing. | think rll : doing something in a related field — news and information — — but not necessarily using a television transmitter. The — work I’m doing now is preparing me to have a greater understanding of the world of computers. The two of them together — my previous experience and my new experience — may lend themselves perfectly to some future The class of 1952, known as Herd” on campus CON has been very good about— oe allowing me to do thesethings. because of its unity ea RC: Does that mean you're on the d determination ae road to being acelebrity again? — se Except for my work in Las _ _ Vegas, nothing I’ve done since the © last choir broadcast (in October i 1990) depended on my name or noto- _ — Tiety. I’ve just | been an unidentified ie face and voice. a ee on Feb. 26, 1991, on months aa Spencer Kinard resigned as ~ announcer of “Music and the Spoken Word,” the Mormon Tabernacle sing efforts and SK: When I read that they ‘d hired Nick Clooney as anchorman , oy =! Choir presented him with a plaque feeling was one of relief. I felt a 3 : commemorating “18/2 years of ser- slight disappointment that they hatredsomeone Se was | | ve : He remembers telling the choir: “I talked a lot over the years about being valiant. Tomorrow would have been better. But, with that one exception, it was a relief to real- — ize I wasn 1 going back on the air so soon. oa | my 19th anniversary with the choir. I almost made it to 19 het you ever return tobroadcasting, vwhat kind ofooh & “The Thundering American Academy of— : | Achievement i in Las Vegas, RED- parents of three daughters and two sons. The Kinards have THE | years. Twas almost valiant.” | . helped pass state legislation impor- Oakey tant to Weber State's future. V. Nelson & “We were taught at Weber College that the "Reflecting on his final meeting wth choir members, Mr. Kinard says, “It was wonderful to feel their love and extremely painful to acknowledge my mistakes. It was a community had an investment in us and we, in turn, had to return some- uniquely emotional night as I felt their compassion for the and president of Myers Mortuary. | situation I was in, asa _ of spoken words.” as their appreciation for 18 years | Ronald D. Cantera, APR serves as ae of Public’ Pu ~ Communications for Weber Ee University. thing to them,” says Richard Myers, cha “Our class was very talented th had a tremendous amount of motivation. President (William P.) Miller said to me one