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Show SUCTION B SEPTEMBER 16. 1986 Load bof$ now known around the world By JOYCE WINTERS KSL radio to work on Saturday afternoons. A full time job became available shortly thereafter, so on June 10, 1965, J. Spencer Kinard became a full time employee of KSL radio, in charge of all the evening news at 5 and 10 p.m. In July of that year, Paul James and Bob Welti joined the KSL TV news team. Spence became involved in television at that time because of his photographic background, so his years of journalism and broadcasting melded, and he KAYSVILLE It happens all the time. Wherever Spence Kinard goes, someone is sure to recognize him, even if it does take them a minute or so to place him. The Fruit Heights resident of seven years is so visible that wherever he goes throughout the world, theres always at least one person who either recognizes his distinctive, famous voice, or realizes that the face theyve met greets them each Sunday morning from the Crossroads of the West. J. Spencer Kinard is the voice for CBSs "Music and the Spoken Word, and has been for over 14'2 years. That voice is broadcast world-wid- e over CBS radio each Sunday, as well as our KSL-Tlocally, and runs on many other TV stations throughout the nation on a taped delayed basis. Once when in Alaska with a friend, the friend was getting a little frustrated with the interuptions in their visit because of Spences fame. So the two of them went into the mountains to hike. Out on the trail the friend said, Well at last we re in a place where no one will recognize you. Just then three people came down the path and one of them looked up and said, Oh my goodness, youre Spence Kinard. She was a stewardess with Western Airlines and had remembered him being on her flight. This kind of visibility has not come about by accident, but through a diligent, sacrificing effort to gain a vast education in journalism and broadcasting. Its a career that started his sophomore year at V Davis High School in Kaysville. As a sophomore, he was interested in photography. He was a free lance photographer who covered sports events and sold his photos to the Ogden Standard Examiner. He also contributed to the year book that year. His junior and senior years saw him working on the yearbook and the school newspaper, as the only photographer at Davis High, covering all the events. During those years he also chased stories for the Salt Lake Tribune. In 1958, his senior year, he entered the professional sports photo contest at the Utah State Fair and won first place. The winning picture was taken during a Davis High football game, he kept so busy with his photography that there was little time to play sports, but he did manage to participate enough in track, under Jerry Purdy, that he earned his letter. After graduating from Davis in 1958, he covered a major boxing event and took pictures for the Associated Press. Spence enrolled at the U. of U. that fall, working as a copy boy at the Salt Lake Tribune and doing photo lab work for the paper on weekends. After just one quarter at the U Davis High School gave him a contract to do all the photo work for the school. He dropped out of college to help with the various school projects, one of which was the yearbook. Lynette Layton from Layton was on the staff. It was at this time they started dating, and would eventually be married almost four years later. In I960, he accepted a call from the LDS Church to serve as a missionary in Samoa. Upon his return, he enrolled at Weber State College and attended for one memorable quarter. It was here that a new dimension was added that was to change his lifes direction. He decided to bring his grade point up and needed an easy A so he enrolled in a speech class. He felt after speaking a foreign language, he needed to get back to articulating in his own language. The instructor was Leonard Rowley. It was this visionary man who first suggested to Spence that a career in radio and television would be good for someone with his voice. The seed was planted. The year of 1963 turned out to be an important one in Spences life, with several major events that became turning points. He married Lynette and that summer his father died, and he had to decide between being drafted or going back to the U and into the ROTC program. He chose the U and ROTC over Weber State and his job at Ogden Standard. He enrolled in journalism classes and later saw an ad for a brown bag lunch to be held at came into television. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1966, and started anchoring on KSL news. In 1968 he moved into a news manager position. In April of that year, Ted Capener told Spence that CBS news had a fellowship program for eight promising journalists whod already proven themselves. The fellowship would allow them to attend Columbia University for one year, along with working with CBS news. With encouragement, Spence went for an interview in New York and was later given the prestigious fellowship. He and Lynette and their two babies packed up and moved to Queens, New York. That year was an exciting one, full of school and travel, an education in people and cultures as well as journalism and broadcasting. At the end of the year at Columbia, CBS news offered him a job SPENCE KINARD, ALONG with wife Lynette, as he leaves the podium after received the gavel as the newly inaugurated president of RTNDA, the association of the nations television and radio news directors. rents and relatives. Even though hed made the prestigious big time of the network and had reached what most journalists would consider their greatest achievement, the call to come home outweighed that success. That step backwards would launch him like the rockets hed witnessed into fame and recognition that neither he, nor his collegues could ever imagine. In 1971 as a news reporter back in Utah, one of his assignments was to cover church news. He accompanied many of the LDS Church leaders to the very first area church conferences, the first held in Manchester, England. Ironically, one of those leaders was Richard L. Evans. It was later that November that Richard L. Evans became ill and died. Spence covered the death and funeral of Elder Evans, the That may change now. When Spence accepted the assignment to give an inspirational message each week to the world, he knew that part of his journalism career would have to be given up. He could no longer cover murder and mayhem during the week and then work on The Spoken Word on Sunday. So those assignments in the news that conflicted were given to someone else. At about this time, Ted Capener, the news director, left Salt Lake to go to Washington D.C. as the Washington correspondent. After a few weeks, Spence Kinard became the news director for KSL radio and T.V. For five years he nearly killed himself with being news director and writing his weekly Sunday sermons. He finally went to Gordon B. Hinckley and explained the problem. He was given three writers at that time, and ht household after divorce, that traumas often magnified. many fold. Thrust into a new role where shes forced to provide for her family, often the single head of homehousehold or displaced maker is faced with some tough de- cisions: what am I qualified to do and how do I go about finding a job, for starters. A new class starting Sept. 29 at 30-ye- ar Directors of the Childrens Museum of Utah, a trustee on the board of Humana Hospital, a member of the Davis County Informa- - Even on a remote hiking trip, Spence Kinard was easily recognized. J. SPENCE AND LYNETTE KINARD KUER for anyone interested in radio. The seed that had been planted by Leonard Rowley began to sprout. At the luncheon, Spence met Rex Campbell, who had Spence read some news copy. That very day, Spence Kinard read news over KUER. That beginning at the U brought to Spence a Presidential Scholarship in speech, and the change from journalism to broadcasting was complete. Through the help of Rex Campbell, a job offer came to broadcast on a Salt Lake City rock station. That lasted six weeks until he transferred to Centerville station KBBC, owned by Pappy Pingree, Spence went to school in the mornings and worked at the station in the afternoons. He started the news on that station, and the love affair with news was born. After one year he was hired by as a news writer, and then later he produced some newscasts. He wrote hourly news for Douglas Edwards, Richard Hatelett, Alan Jackson and Walter Cronkite. He also did special features, and helped cover the Apollo mission with Neal Armstrong on the moon. He covered Appolo flights 12, 13 and 14, and witnessed first hand the success and failures of those first flights. During this time, Bonneville International Corporation had approached Spence to come back to Utah, and then KSL asked him to come back as a reporter for radio and television. Spences voice over the air waves had been silenced for three years while he was in New York. Their oldest child was ready to start first grade, and another child had been born in New York. The family was growing, up and away from grandpa- - voice of the Spoken Word. In January of 1972, Spence was asked by Gordon B. Hinckley, advisor to the Tabernacle Choir, to audition for the spot left vacant by Elder Evans. He was one of a dozen or so who auditioned. A man by the name of Alan Jensen had been filling in the previous three months. He had also substituted for Richard L. Evans over the previous ten years. Because Spence was the KSL reporter over church news, he had a double interest in knowing who the permanent new host of Spoken Word would be. In February, Spence arrived at work on a Monday morning and was told that Alan Jensen had bid his farewell to the choir the previous day. Since this was a news story that KSL felt they should have first dubs on, Spence got on the telephone. He spoke to Gordon B. Hinckley, who put him through to Pres. N.- Eldon Tanner. Pres. Tanner asked J. Spencer Kinard if he would take the somewhat temporary assignment of being the voice for Music and the Spoken Word. That temporary assignment has lated through l4Vi years, with never a Sunday seeing him absent because of sickness or accident. Over his segthat time hes ment only about a half a dozen times, or used a substitute as often because of other commitments. pre-tape- d now has five. Each takes a week to write his message, then Spence rewrites and edits. He still writes his own message occasionally. In 1972, Spence also joined the International RTNDA (Radio, the Davis Area Vocational Center is geared specifically to those women (or men) finding themselves in that situation. Running for six weeks, two hour sessions will deal with: and positive communications, life management, resources available self-estee- m for help, parenting, career de- velopment. The sessions are free to those meeting income guidelines and a minimal charge will be asked of others, says Linda Stevens, class coordinator and Human Rsources Coordinator at DAVC. Classes will be open to anyone in Davis County and will run from 8:45- - a.m. in the center. We will offer training in preemployment skills to help students get their self esteem back, she says. Theyve been through some real tough times. They have to get feeling good about themselves. In addition to many sessions on 10:40 positive communication, other classes will deal with: coping, problem solving, stress management and relaxation and time techniques; decision- -making; goal-settin- g management, budgeting, legal rights and issues and safety. The majority of them (displaced homemakers) dont have formal job skills," Ms. Stevens says. They figure theyve been working in the home or else only in a minimum wage-typ- e job. They dont know their potential. Jobs not traditionally held by women are explored, she says, emphasizing that people such as those involved in the class too often tend to narrow their scope rather than looking at the higherpaying fields. Women tend to think they can r'r,lv nerform in the lower-payin- g t they may do perfectvocauv ly well as mechanics or in some field, she other al continues. tion Referral Service, and in his own ward, shares a Sunday School teaching responsibility with Lynette. His work day begins at 8:30 a.m. and runs late into the evening. A father who loves to hunt and who Television, News Directors Association) and became a member of finds fixing things around the the Board of Directors. house relaxing, he also found great Last year in Nashville, Tenn. , he joy in a comment made to him was elected by over 3,000 colwhen his son David, a football star at Davis High, made an impressive legues to be their president-elec- t. This Aug.. 29 during a convention play. The man next to him turned held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake and asked How does it feel to be City, he was inaugurated before a David Kinard's father?" On the wall of the Kinard's living crowd of 2,000 as national presiroom hangs a beautifully framed dent of RTNDA, a most prestigift from a friend. The gift reads as gious office and one that will necessitate some travel this year. With follows: that illustrious group in Salt Lake, They are idols of hearts and of households: news media persons were introduced to all the culture of Utah, They are angels of God in disguise. including J. Spencer Kinard doing His sunlight still sleeps in their the announcing and Spoken tresses. Word in a special concert by the His glory still gleams in their eyes; Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Those truants from home and Choir. Never was Spence or the heaven choir received any more enthusiasThey have made me more manly tically as they were that night, by and mild; the nations leading news people. A step backwards, never, but a step to fulfillment in job and family in Spences mind. Their family consists of five beautiful, talented, achieving children, plus one grandchild. They include Mrs. Dan E. (Holly) Horton, David, serving a mission in the Kentucky Louisville mission; Jef-- And I know now how' Jesus could liken The Kingdom of God to a child." Charles M. Dickinson That's what it's really all about for J. Spencer Kinard, to be Holly, David, Jeff. Heidi and Melissa's father and to be friend, companion and sweetheart to Lynette. Cited by HAFB Rejoining job market? Join class KAYSVILLE Breaking into the job market can be frightening, even down-rigdiscouraging. Its hard enough for the new college graduate, but for a single parent whos suddenly heading a frey, a junior at Davis; Heidi, an eighth grader at Farmington Jr. High, and a surprise and great joy for all, three year old Melissa, who really doesn't care that her dad does The Spoken Word. J. Spencer Kinards life at age 46 is busier than ever. As he looks back on his beginnings as the son of a Naval officer who traveled all over the country, a man who never embraced the LDS faith himself. Spence views the years from Layton Elementary through Davis High, and he's very much aware of a guiding hand in his busy and full life. That guiding hand has led him to positions of prominence in his profession and in his church. He also serves as President of the Board of emA HILL AFB ployee of Hill has been honored for his work in the Directorate of Con29-ye- We set up tentative goals and then they go on to training or to get a job, Ms. Stevens explains. Classes will include both lecture and discussion-interactio- n by classroom members. Speakers will be drawn from various agencies across the country. A support group will be formed for those who wish to continue their association after the class ends. Further information and preregistration may be completed by calling Ms. Stevens at 546-413- 4. tracting and Manufacturing. Maj. Gen. Charles McCausland, commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center, presented the Air Force Award for Meritorious Civilian Service to Gary H. Hazelgren. He is chief of the Contracting and Manufacturing Branch in the Directorate. The award recognizes Hazelgren for outstanding performance as branch chief and says his performance within the complex arena of defense acquisition has resulted in substantial savings for the Air Force. He is also credited for amplifying the managerial posture of his organization." |