约翰是谁?. 小管家.?
Black History Month 2022 has just passed and I’m thinking about how it is that we know Black people that we often do not recognize while they are creating history right now. 约翰。L. 小管家,., a member of the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Professor Butler was the Manager of the Peterson Sound Studio and instructor of sound recording at newbb电子平台 for more than 30 years. He has been a friend of mine since 1969 when I took my first job working for Young Life Campaign in Pittsburgh after graduating from newbb电子平台. He was the director of the program.
John's professional path has been rich and diverse. He has been a part of the team that designed audio systems for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He has consulted with the Nigerian and Liberian 电视 networks. He was director of the sound department for 电影 at WQED 电视 in Pittsburgh, PA, and worked on National Geographic 电影 specials, such as one of his earliest works, Voyage of the Hokule’a in the 1970s. It was an amazing voyage in the open sea from Hawaii to Tahiti on a 60 foot, double-hulled Polynesian canoe. He has recorded sound for many feature 电影s, including George Romero’s Knight Riders. He was the sound engineer for Master Artist Recordings and Mode-Art Pictures. 他参与了“Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood" 电视 series, where he even appeared as himself in one episode.
John taught sound recording and mixing techniques at the newbb电子平台 电影学院 to students from around the world. He's currently conducting sound system design workshops for radio, 电视, 电影, 还有教会的播客, 学校, 和礼堂.
It has been my honor to have painted and donated a portrait of John to the School. It is based on a photograph by Professor Gary Kirksey. The photo was taken when John assembled a crew that helped to initiate the first African American, women-led 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in far Western North Carolina. The event was called A Festival of African American Gospel 音乐: When All God’s Children Get Together. 不可思议的主持人, 咨询顾问, and scholars included John Butler, 加里和雪莉·柯克西, 议长休斯顿, Traci库里, 韦恩·盖恩斯, 丽贝卡·罗宾逊, Lucious里德, 和埃尔文·维埃拉. The local scholar was the late David Brose.
Twenty-four years later, One Dozen Who Care, Inc. (ODWC) is grateful to John and his crew for traveling to the mountains of far Western North Carolina to help create a historic organization that is leaving a wonderful legacy for all who have benefited from its extensive community development programs since 1998. ODWC is still working to tear down walls that divide people and to build bridges across the lines of race, 宗教, 国家的起源, 性别, and anything else that keeps folks from working together to build better communities.
