Beryl Pfizer

Beryl grew up in Mt. Lakes, NJ, graduating from Mt. Lakes High School in 1945 and from Hood College in 1949, with a BA in music. She always wanted to live in the city, and moved to Manhattan after college to begin a long and varied career in the radio and television industries. She worked for the Arthur Godfrey Show on CBS-TV, wrote for NBC TV's The Home Show and worked with Dave Garroway on NBC TV's The Today Show, where she was a "Today Girl" feature panelist (1960-61). She received three Emmy Award nominations (1980-82), and won an Emmy in 1980, for producing "Ask NBC News, with John Chancellor." She wrote for NBC TV's broadcasts of The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (1987-89), for NBC's MONITOR Radio, and for Edwin Newman; imagine the challenge of writing for the author of "Strictly Speaking!" She worked for NBC News at many Democratic National Conventions, including 1968 in Chicago. She produced "The Women's Program" series for the NBC Radio Network, which received a commendation fro