[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 111 (Friday, August 7, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      A TRIBUTE TO IAN B. ZELLICK

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                            HON. BARBARA LEE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, August 6, 1998

  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I am here to share with you the life of a 
legendary Oaklander, Mr. Ian B. Zellick, television pioneer and civic 
leader, who died on July 27 after a brief illness at age 73.
  Mr. Zellick was the first staff member at a local television station 
in the City of Oakland KTVU-TV Channel 2 where he was hired in 1958 as 
employee number 001. He worked at Channel 2 for more than 32 years; 
first as a set designer and artist, but it is for his more than 20 
years as Director of the Community Affairs Department that Mr. Zellick 
is best remembered.
  Under his direction, the Community Affairs Department's share of air 
time at KTVU grew from 30 minutes a week to more than six hours a week. 
Show topics ranged from politics to the concerns of various ethnic and 
minority communities. He opened the doors of the station to all corners 
of the community. If more than two people wanted to debate or discuss 
something, Mr. Zellick gave them air time.
  His enthusiasm for the community also took him outside the station to 
serve on dozens of boards and commissions. One year (1984) Mr. Zellick 
was on 26 community boards and commissions, including The Oakland 
Ballet, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of the West, Booth Memorial 
Home, the displaced Homemakers, the Oakland Symphony, and the Oakland 
Opera. People who knew him described him as a self-styled one-man 
community network, involved in education, music, dance, mental health, 
and pregnant teens. He was able to form links between dissimilar 
agencies. For instance, when an important resident service for pregnant 
teens was threatened, he facilitated an arrangement between Oakland's 
YWCA and the Salvation Army's Booth Center, thus insuring the service 
would continue.
  After he retired from KTVU in 1990, Mr. Zellick concentrated on the 
Philharmonia Baroque, the San Francisco Early Music Society and the 
East Bay Agency for Children. EBAC runs residential and day care 
facilities for disturbed kids and he was honored by them for ``A 
Lifetime of Service to the East Bay Community.'' He received accolades 
and numerous awards, as a founding member of the Philharmonia and the 
Preceptor Award from the annual national Broadcasting Industry 
Conference in recognition of his work encouraging and supporting young 
people in the field of broadcasting.
  Mr. Zellick was born on June 7, 1925 in San Francisco. He got his BA 
from San Francisco State University and his MA from Mills College. As a 
Marine during WWII, he saw action in the South Pacific. He is survived 
by his wife Beverly, a daughter Kate; two sons: Vaughn and Arch; and 
five grandchildren.

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