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Don Dahlman<\/p>\n

\"\"Don Dahlman – 1942<\/p>\n

My Dad would have turned 100 tomorrow.\u00a0 He left us in 2016, \u00a0two days before his 98th\u00a0<\/sup>birthday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDon Dahlman\u201d — that was how my Dad answered his business phone for forty years.\u00a0 The phone was pivotal to my Dad\u2019s career; when I think about him at work (as I write sitting at his \u201cexecutive desk\u201d) I think about Dad with a phone at his ear, getting facts, making decisions, and encouraging, directing and sometimes swearing at his employees (that\u2019s where I learned that particular \u201cart\u201d.)<\/p>\n

Don Dahlman was a child of the Great Depression.\u00a0 Born and raised in Cincinnati, his father was the Sports Editor for the Cincinnati Post.\u00a0His mother went to work as a real estate agent when the stock market crashed, and while the family lost a lot of their income, they were able to weather the economic storms without too much disruption.<\/p>\n

Don was a product of Cincinnati; of Walnut Hills High School and the University of Cincinnati.\u00a0 He co-opted in the UC Bookstore, and graduated from college in 1941 with a Business Administration Degree. He took a job in advertising with Beau Brummel Ties, but the clouds of World War II were already swirling. \u00a0By November he was enlisted in the Army; the December 7th<\/sup>attack on Pearl Harbor found him on leave in a bar in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The Army got it right \u2013 they put Don in finance, making sure the troops were paid.\u00a0 He was sent to London, running an office in the middle of the Nazi bombing attack called the Blitz.\u00a0 There, he went on a blind date with an English girl.\u00a0\u00a0 They quickly went from strangers to lovers; that’s when Don and his English girl Babs started a lifelong love affair, walking the blacked-out streets of London.<\/p>\n

As Don made sure the Army was paid, Babs was a secret operative going in and out of Occupied Europe.\u00a0Her code name was \u201cVirginia;\u201d Don really never got used to high-level officers coming up to \u201chis girl,\u201d calling her Virginia, and having secretive conversations. \u00a0He wasn’t allowed to know. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t until years later, when the Official Secrets Act expired, the Babs was able to tell him the extent of her secret life.\u00a0 Despite this, Don and Babs got married in 1944, moving the wedding date up to avoid the D-Day Invasion.\u00a0 Their honeymoon was still cut short, Don to go to join the invasion Army, Babs to land in France to work with the Resistance.<\/p>\n

After a year of missing each other in France as the war in Europe concluded, Don and Babs were back together in London again.\u00a0 The decision was made:\u00a0 Babs would come to America, to Cincinnati, to start a new life with Don.\u00a0 She would leave the nation of her birth, the nation she defended, for the man she loved.<\/p>\n

But she was not \u201cfollowing\u201d Don home.\u00a0 It was a partnership from the beginning.\u00a0 When they arrived in Cincinnati, they decided to start a bottling company.\u00a0 Babs made the \u201cpop,\u201d pouring sugar and syrup into giant mixing vats.\u00a0 Don marketed, going store-to-store in the truck, stocking them with the \u201cUS Bottling Company\u201d product.\u00a0 A flood of the Ohio River damaged the \u201cplant,\u201d and they soon sold out to bigger bottlers.<\/p>\n

Don entered a new industry that would shape all of our lives:\u00a0 television.\u00a0 He went to work as a salesman for Crosley Broadcasting\u2019s WLW-T.\u00a0 In those early television days everything was live, and Don (and Babs from time to time) worked beside future stars like Rod Serling and Ruth Lyons.\u00a0 When Don wasn\u2019t moving up as quickly as he liked he jumped to a new phase of the industry, syndication.<\/p>\n

Syndication is marketing television shows station by station, without using a \u201cnetwork.\u201d\u00a0While the big three, CBS, NBC and ABC offered a package of programming, syndicators offered individual shows for sale.\u00a0The biggest innovator of the time was Fred Ziv in Cincinnati.\u00a0 Ziv developed, and Don sold, iconic shows of the 1950\u2019s and early 60\u2019s:\u00a0Highway Patrol, Ripcord, Sea Hunt, the Everglades and the Cisco Kid.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Babs and Don started a family, with three children by 1956.\u00a0 Don was \u201con the road\u201d Monday through Friday, and after moving to Detroit in 1961, wanted to find a job that kept him closer to the family.\u00a0 In 1963 he returned to Crosley, this time as the sales manager and soon station manager of WLW-D in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Dayton was a booming town in the 1960\u2019s, with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, National Cash Register, Frigidaire and Delco all providing full employment.\u00a0 As Manager of one of the two TV stations in Dayton, Don and Babs played a major social role in town, even representing Dayton to the fiftieth anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight in Le Mans, France in 1968.<\/p>\n

Don believed in \u201clive\u201d television.\u00a0 When Johnny Gilbert (\u201ctell them what they won, Johnny\u201d) left the mid-day entertainment show for Hollywood, Don and his staff developed a new talk show format.\u00a0They hired a young newscaster away from the competitor station, Phil Donahue.\u00a0 They set up a show where Phil would have a studio audience, mostly women (the \u201chomemakers\u201d) and then bring in the newsmakers of the time.\u00a0 Phil soon discovered that the audience had great questions, and added a phone (\u201cIs the caller there?\u201d) \u00a0The Phil Donahue Show was born.<\/p>\n

The Donahue Show brought controversy to Dayton, Ohio.\u00a0 Whether it was atheist Madeline Murray O\u2019Hare, radical anti-war protestor Abbie Hoffman, or the anatomically correct doll, Little Baby Brother; Phil took on issues of the 1960\u2019s.\u00a0 Don soon got the show on the \u201csister stations\u201d in Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis and San Antonio; and with his experience in syndication began to push Donahue sales beyond the Midwest.<\/p>\n

The Donahue Show was exciting, not only for Don, Babs and the station, but for my sisters and me as well.\u00a0In the evenings before the morning show, our family room became the place to be.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 one night, late, Mom woke me up, and told me to \u201cbartend\u201d (I was twelve and talented at mixology, they fired me at fourteen when they thought I might try the product) for Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers.\u00a0 He was a hero of the young; the Brothers had a comedy show on CBS that dared to speak out against the Vietnam War.\u00a0 The show was ultimately cancelled because of their outspoken opposition.\u00a0 Tommy spent the evening at our house, and Dad\u2019s sales manager Chuck McFadden and I spent the evening behind the bar, listening to Tommy\u2019s dirty jokes and wondering how his girlfriend\u2019s dress was staying up.<\/p>\n

By the early 1970\u2019s, Donahue was bigger than the station.\u00a0 The show was moved to production in Chicago, and Don and Babs returned to Cincinnati with Don becoming the President of Syndication for the new owner, Multimedia Broadcasting. \u00a0Ultimately Dad got the show into 225 markets in the US, and it ran for twenty-six years.\u00a0 \u00a0Multimedia Syndications also created and marketed the Sally Jesse Raphael Show, Young People\u2019s Specials, and originated the Jerry Springer Show.<\/p>\n

Back in Cincinnati, Don and Babs led a busy social life, with an eclectic group of friends.\u00a0 Some were Don\u2019s old Cincinnati friends and some were business friends from companies like Proctor and Gamble, but others were from England, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, India, Brazil, and other places around the globe.\u00a0 Dinners at the Dahlman\u2019s were always interesting, with conversations around the table going on until late at night.\u00a0 All of the issues of the world were up for discussion \u2013 except for religion and \u201cthe Queen\u201d (Babs wouldn\u2019t have that.)\u00a0 And the kids, who had grown up taking part in the discussion, were able to get a world perspective.<\/p>\n

Those friends, many younger than Don and Babs, regarded them as a second family.\u00a0 For some, the Dahlman\u2019s became their surrogate parents.<\/p>\n

It was always a partnership, Don and Babs.\u00a0 It was always a love affair as well, as they lived an active life into their nineties.\u00a0Mom and Dad taught us how to live and how to love.\u00a0 And when Mom passed away, five years before Dad, he continued to teach us how to live by his example. Dad began to lose his memories; life has a way of cushioning some of the worst losses.\u00a0 But while in his business life no one would have described him as \u201csoft;\u201d Dad, even to his last hours, never lost his kindness and courtesy and love.<\/p>\n

Two years ago I had the privilege of being able to have a last conversation with my father.\u00a0 We were able to say we loved each other one last time.\u00a0 While I was saddened to see him go, it was his time.\u00a0 And they, Mom and Dad, aren\u2019t really gone at all.\u00a0 They live on in the memories and lessons and love they taught us all.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Babs and Don Dahlman – 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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