WGSF Television

Robert Michael McDaniel
June 6, 1920 - April 4, 2008

Funeral services for Robert Michael McDaniel, 87, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church, 76 E. Main St., Newark, with the Revs. Kathryn Clausen and Steven Carroll officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Robert passed away April 4, 2008, at the Selma Markowitz Care Centre operated by Hospice of Central Ohio.

The obituary in the April 9, 2008, Newark Advocate is at:
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080409/OBITUARIES/804090318/1023

Although not one of the original group of teachers, Robert taught the Summer school TV course for several years.
Leland Hubbell

Link: http://wgsf.oldgleaner.com/

Robert McDaniel taught the Summer School Television course at WGSF for several years.

A veteran of World War II, Robert served with the 4th Army as an infantry sergeant, then in the Morale Division (USO), writing and directing shows that toured many service bases.

Robert graduated from Denison University, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He received his M.A. in rhetoric from The Ohio State University. A master of the classics, he taught at all educational levels in Licking County, including Granville and COTC.

Several of his students at Granville High School came to WGSF.

He delighted in British phrases and names, such as, "Pop the bonnet and check the petrol." To make a phone call was to "ring up" someone. He claimed to be proficient in several languages, but most of us were at a loss to check, as we had enough trouble understanding the "British," let alone Greek and Hebrew.