"Our entry in Category 7 illustrates a body of work achieved in 1994 which we feel exemplifies meritorious service to the community. Building on our 33 year history of education and public service, we are utilizing the latest technologies to provide community-wide outreach and access to education, information and culture. In addition to the 230,000 households that watch our TV stations, the 140,000 radio listeners and the more than 200,000 students and the 17,000 teachers who use our educational TV services weekly, WHRO helps geographically disadvantaged nurses on the eastern shore earn college degrees, brings daily newspapers via audio to the print handicapped, operates a higher educational channel by [microwave] links, allows students and educators daily access to the internet via our Learning Link, and sends staff members for personal appearances in classrooms, civic meetings and concert appearances. Colleagues and Community leaders view WHRO as a model public telecommunications center for the 21st century. Please find enclosed notebooks on (1) a General WHRO Overview (2) Educational achievements (3) Informational achievements and (4) Cultural achievements. Marked videotapes and audiotapes accompany the printed materials."--1994 Peabody Awards entry form. This program features discussion on issues facing young African American males in society. Participants discuss challenges that they face in schools and in the church. Those interviewed include professionals and guests in the live studio audience. The program also features the work being done to provide an education for inner city youth at the Piney Woods Country Life School. Those interviewed include Angela Greene, Bill Jones, Bill Thomas, Charles Beady, Corey Hughes, Don Roberts, Earl Washington, Earnest Edwards, Floyd Nedab III, Herbert Denmark Jr., Jack Howard, Joe Anderson, John Coats, Kurt Williams, Larry Gibson, Marilyn Lovett, Milton Irving, Richard Wilson, Rosa Edwards, Stan Jones, Stan Verrett, 'Tech, Unka Wolf.
