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Ed and Jinny Curtis posted a condolence
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Jinny and I send our condolences to you and your family. Bill was a great friend. I have many memories of our time at Milton High and UVM. He will be missed.
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Mike Ellis & Cindy Gibbs posted a condolence
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Dear Lucy,
Cindy and I wish to send you our prayers and condolences over Kip's passing. He was a friend to both of us as we both worked with him at UNC-TV. Kip was such a good friend, whenever I had any need for anything at work, I knew that I could call on him and he would help me through any difficulty or problem that I was facing.
As much as we will miss Kip, I know that you and your family will miss him even more, so please know that you all are in our prayers, prayers for God's Peace, Comfort, Strength, and Love to surround you all and lead you in your grief now and in the days and weeks to come.
Sincerely,
Mike Ellis & Cindy Gibbs
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Harvey Arnold posted a condolence
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
I had the pleasure to work with Kip for 17 years. Kip was a good friend. He put up with me and all my qurks. He showed me how to use WordStar on the stations first TRS 80 computer, with 8 inch floppy disks (that's how far back we go!).
Kip was a great TV systems guy. He had a special understanding of television and how things worked. Most importantly, he know how to make anything work better.
Kip was my mentor. I know he was a mentor to many. He ALWAYS treated everyone with great respect and listened when they talked. Everyone liked Kip.
Rest peacefully, my friend!! And thanks for looking out for me...
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Sheila Sprano posted a condolence
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Lucille and family:
So sorry for the loss of your dear husband, father and to all the family.. May your memories help with the loss. Sheila Sprano
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Patsy Trudell Bedard posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
Dear Lucille
I am so sorry for your loss. Going to parties with my sister Maryjane I have gotten to know you and Bill. Seeing both Mary and I are widows we are here for you.
Patsy Ann Trudell Bedard
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Sylvia Jackson retired receptionist at UNCTV posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
My heart goes out to you and your family. Kip was a wonderful teacher of Powerpoint and other computer needs for me at the front desk. Regardless of the question asked he always had an answer. He was loved and respected by all who knew him.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
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Nancy Beach posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
My condolences to the family. My husband Ben Beach worked with Kip from for many years until he passed away in January of 2001.
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Dan Dunlop posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
I am so sorry to learn of Kip's death. I was probably 10 years old when I first met Kip, at Vermont ETV. My dad, Jake Dunlop, worked with Kip for many years in Vermont and later at the UNC Center for Public Television in North Carolina.
My family always thought the world of Kip. My thought are with Kip's family. I'm sorry for your loss. We were all fortunately to have Kip in our lives.
Dan Dunlop
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Mary Cay Corr posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
It was a pleasure to know and work with Kip at UNC-TV. He definitely was a pioneer as the technology continually changed.. As we developed the offerings in the Education Department he worked closely with us and allowed his men to assist teachers across the state as they learned how to integrate these new technologies.
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Ronnie Evans - UNC-TV translator engineer (retired) posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
It was my pleasure to know and work with Kip when he first came to UNC-TV up until I retired in 2004. He was a mentor, friend, and good engineer. My condolences.
Ronnie Evans
Franklin, NC
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Maryjane Trudell Parry posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
Dear Lucille and family
I send my prayers and condolence during this time.
I considered Bill a great friend and classmate of Mine, as well as yourself.
My prayers are with you.
Love,
Maryjane
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James McGurk & Elizabeth Thomposon posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
Kip had a great sense of humor and inevitably almost every conversation I had with him contained some kind of joke. Reading the obituary, I did not know he was a Bronze Star recipient, but that figures as he was not one to brag. We surely missed him at UNC-TV after he retired, looking back I guess it was the beginning of a new era. He obviously had both a personal and work life impact on so many people. Much love from all of us.
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Esther Blow posted a condolence
Monday, June 5, 2017
I am sending my Sincere Condolences, along with my thoughts and prayers to you and your Family! Know that I am here if you need anything, or just someone to talk to! Esther Blow
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Ingeborg Wobig posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Dear Lucy, Todd, John and Beth,
Stephen called me this evening to share the sad news of Kip's passing... I send you my love and pray for you all to draw strength from each other and your fond memories.
As a child and teen spending every summer on Lake Champlain then visiting as an adult, I had the great privilege of getting to know and to learn from Kip. His hearty and infectious belly laugh is one the best I have ever heard! Kip's sense of humor, no-nonsense approach and positive attitude toward challenges, great and small, are the most inspiring memories of him I forever will cherish.
This Inuit Blessing was shared with me many years ago and helped me when my mom passed away.
"Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."
I hope the night skies will bring you comfort as I feel confident Kip's will be brightest star shining for all of you!
With love and condolence,
Ingeborg
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Sunday, June 4, 2017
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Kip with John Humphrey and John Luff at his retirement in 2010
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John Luff posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
I first saw Kip's name on an RFP in 2000 or 2001 for a large project that my company wanted to complete for UNC-TV. I was used to boring an inadequately drafted RFPs from public broadcasters, so I laid it aside at first thinking this was more of the same. Later that afternoon, and into the evening, I dove into it. It was voluminous, thoughtful, complete, and buttoned up. No faking it would be possible, it required a thorough and thoughtful response. When I attend the pre-bid meeting, I recognized Kip immediately from PBS TechCon meetings, and went to introduce myself to him. He was gracious and thoughtful in his responses to all of my questions, most of which elected a response, 'Your answer is in the RFP." It was, of course. He knew every word and what was intended and what would be accepted in the response. We won that business and I started a 15 year relationship with a man I consider to be the best television engineer I ever met.
His ability to 'teach without preaching', and the long pauses while he thought up just the correct rejoinder, his smile and deep laugh, his concern for people, and his deep technical knowledge simply amazed me, and everyone who knew him. On the rare occasions when he asked for my advice my ego jumped. Though we were of the same generation, with parallel backgrounds in many ways, I looked up to Kip and sought HIS counsel so many times I can't count them.
As he approached retirement I had the pleasure to work with Kip on a presentation for the national PBS technical conference in Las Vegas on one of the projects I managed for him at UNC-TV. He gently corrected my grammatical and technical errors (I think I scored an 85...). When we jointly presented the paper he announced to the group that this was his last TechCon. When the session was over the crowd around Kip made my heart sing. No one wanted him to leave public broadcasting, for they all knew how much he would be missed by all of his peers. But more importantly, they all wanted to tell him how much they appreciated his technical guidance and help over the years, and his insightful 'BS filter', generously applied when appropriate. One person remarked to me that it must have been nice to work with Kip on the presentation...my response was that it was actually a privilege. He was my friend, a mentor, a colleague, and a client, and I along with so many others in his beloved profession will miss him deeply.
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Tom and Carol Racine posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Lucy, I am so sorry for your loss. Bill was such a great guy and a kind soul. Our prayers go out to you and your children. God bless you with His peace and comfort.
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Ilene Morgan posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
So very sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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Larry and Dorothy Adams posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Lucille and family our thoughts and prayers are with you so sorry for your loss .
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Jacqueline Delormier-Blow posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Lucy and family:
Sorry to get word of your loss. God Bless to get you through these tough times. Only time will heal your heart. Take comfort that Bill lead a wonderful life and career.
Love
Jackie (Class of 1962)
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Kim S. posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
If not for Kip, UNC-TV would never have reached the generations of North Carolinians it has, with a blanketing signal over nearly the whole state. His groundbreaking work as an Engineer and a leader put "Big Bird" on the TV's of millions of children. Television is something that takes the work of many people to accomplish. Everyone's work matters. But in some cases, it is very easy to say "if it were not for THIS person, we would have gone dark." Kip was very much THAT person.
Others can speak to Kip's work in the early years of "WUNC-TV" expanding from a handful of college-based stations to a network, to a beloved signal that supported the state through Fran, Floyd, and any emergency that came at us. A reassuring presence. A source of learning for children who had literally no other resources before they started school.
I can speak to Kip's heyday. When the entire television industry was hit with the requirement to go digital. To transition from familiar tapes and analog that had worked for many decades, to computers and applications that had not yet been invented. At a time when many television Engineers chose to hang up their hats rather than enter a "brave new world," Kip dived in with ENTHUSIASM.
As "Director of New Technologies" at UNC-TV (which really meant "Director of Figuring Everything Out"), Kip architected that transition. Kip set out an ambitious plan. Kip guided television suppliers to create what was needed, as the industry sold products that often hadn't even been beta-tested before going into production. Kip spent months with others at the state Legislature supporting UNC-TV's place in the Higher Education bond that would be the difference between survival and the loss of public television in North Carolina.
Speaking personally, Kip has been one of my greatest mentors. I spent uncountable hours in his office learning how to do my job, asking for his help. Of course many of those hours could be attributed to the fact that once you'd asked Kip a question, you could write off any plans you might have had. Kip was infamous for "telling you how to build a watch when asked for the time."
But Kip was also nearly always right. Everything he said was worth hearing. Kip was amazing because he thought both broadly and deeply. He could keenly analyze a technical glitch out of systems too complex for most people to manage, and could keenly analyze a thorny personnel issue just as easily. Kip was a dear friend who supported me through fourteen years at UNC-TV, and who will be a lifelong influence whenever I need to figure out how to solve any problem.
But I wasn't any particularly special person. Kip reminds me of Mister Rogers in a way. Because to him, every person he interacted with was special. Kip mentored everyone. His own employees, everyone else at UNC-TV, Engineers all over public television, and in his private life, he patiently and forcefully fought for justice and understanding and was esteemed by people of all viewpoints. Every person who knew him respected and trusted him. I can think of no exceptions. From interns and Engineers, to executives, to legislators on both sides of the aisle. Everyone who had the incredible privilege of knowing Kip Campbell gave him the credit of listening when he spoke.
The ripples Kip created in the world through his incredible work, his integrity, his brilliance, his compassion, his sense of humor, and his untiring curiosity will live on in those fortunate enough to know him, and in every child who benefitted from public television in North Carolina. All of us, every one of us in North Carolina, owe Kip a debt of gratitude that can never be payed other than forward.
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Amy meiggs posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
I was so sadden to hear of Kip's passing. I had the pleasure of working with him at UNCTV. He was a great teacher and a kind soul. He will be missed by many. My deepest condolence to the family.
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Gary & Betty Bluto Sr. posted a condolence
Sunday, June 4, 2017
We are sad to have the news of Kip's passing Lucille and family please accept our heart felt condolence you are in our prayers.
Gary and Betty St. Albans, Vt
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