We're pleased to introduce a new volunteer to Portsmouth Community Radio: our first Office Manager, Jeanne Danilczuk. Jeanne will be volunteering five hours a week at the station, with an objective of introducing more organization into this creative world of ours.

In announcing the new appointment, Board Chair Ann Bliss pointed out that, "In an all-volunteer operation such as ours, it's a real challenge to maintain an 'institutional memory,' meaning a collective set of policies and practices that remain in place even as volunteers come and go. But that's an important part of this new position. What's involved here is developing and managing the radio station's records, documents, various databases, and files. So it'll be a full five-hour week for Jeanne."

Jeanne was formerly Planning Board secretary for the town of Acton, Massachusetts. She also worked with upper management on annual appeals and fundraising projects at Elliot Hospital and Derryfield School, both in Manchester, and the New Hampshire Association for the Blind in Concord. She was also the long-time Office Manager for Erickson Construction and a volunteer for numerous non-profits.

Welcome to Portsmouth Community Radio, Jeanne!

Readers of the past few issues of Tidings have witnessed the implementation of a new logo for Portsmouth Community Radio. "It's more than a new look for the radio station," reports Board Chair Ann Bliss, "it represents a strategic decision that returns the radio station to its roots, underscoring our commitment to serving the listening community."

The new logo puts the emphasis on "Portsmouth Community Radio," moving the station's call letters, WSCA-LP, to the sidelines. "We will always announce our call letters at the top of every hour, consistent with FCC regulations," says Bliss, "but our call letters don't communicate anything about what kind of radio station we are, while 'Portsmouth Community Radio' says clearly that our focus is on Portsmouth and the surrounding Seacoast community. It communicates exactly what distinguishes this radio station from every other one. So that's where our emphasis belongs.

"Community service is our reason for being," she says. "And that takes two forms, the primary one being to offer a diversity of radio programming that reflects the varied interests of the listening community. Importantly, another objective of community radio is to provide volunteer opportunities for community members who would like to get involved in radio, helping to bring our listeners programming they won't hear on commercial radio. So we're a community of volunteers serving a community of interested listeners."

Heading up the development of the station's communications strategy and the new design system is Communications Director Terry MacDonald. Before retiring after a long career in the advertising business, MacDonald was President and Creative Director of MacDonald Boyd White, a prominent Boston agency. The design of the logo itself was created by Art Director Oliver White, a former partner in that same Boston agency, who donated his professional services.

"Oliver's design captures the quality of a Seacoast cultural institution, combining old with new, formal with fun," says MacDonald. "And, of course, the tugboats, featured prominently in the logo, resonate with everybody on the Seacoast."

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• May 10: The first of a two-part program on Senior Dating 
• May 17: Senior Dating, part two: Senior Sexuality  
• May 24: The first of a two-part program about "downsizing" your home and lifestyle
• May 31: Downsizing, part two, deals with professionals that are of help and service to those downsizing