Tyro to speak at Pachyderm meeting
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POLSON — Frank Tyro, an award-winning filmmaker, general manager and chief engineer of KSKC and a professor at Salish Kootenai College since 1984, will be the featured speaker at the Friday, July 26 meeting of the Lake County Pachyderm Club. He will present a brief history of television, public and educational television in America with comparisons to other countries.
Frank brought local public television to the Flathead Reservation in 1987. His background includes 44 years in broadcasting, producing television documentaries and teaching. Frank is a recurrent visitor to Churchill, Manitoba with the Great Bear Foundation and leads field trips as a volunteer.
Frank teaches photography, TV production and mass communication. He has a bachelor’s degree in Film and Television from Montana State University, a master’s degree from Temple University, Philadelphia in mass communications, and an interdisciplinary doctorate from the Union Institute and University, Cincinnati in Distance Education with a focus on Internet-based coursework for American Indians.
Anyone interested in learning is welcome to attend the meeting in the Polson Rural Fire Hall on Regatta Road. Social time begins at 11:30 a.m., and the one-hour meeting starts at noon.
