Historian and biographer.
Mr. Carlisle had a diversified career in the media, served in the Army twice, found time to sit on not-for-profit boards for an aggregate of more than 50 years and, on leaving his job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in March 1973, moved on to write a series of more than 28 books, government texts and narrative poems.
He graduated from Deerfield Academy, then from Princeton in its accelerated wartime program in 1943. After leaving CPB, he attended Montclair State College, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1977. In earlier years, he was a field artillery junior officer during World War II, assigned to a medium artillery battalion in the European Theater. After the outbreak of the Korean War, he was recalled as a Reserve officer, on duty in Tokyo. He received a Bronze Star medal on returning to the States.
At the end of World War II, Mr. Carlisle joined the daily paper in his hometown of Passaic as a neophyte reporter. In 1949, Newsweek hired him, and in 1950 sent him to Detroit as a bureau chief. That experience was interrupted by orders for duty in the Korean War. Returning from Japan in 1952, he stayed with Newsweek until 1954, when he joined CBS News as a writer of TV copy, writing initially for Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. Over the next four years, he worked for all three networks as a writer; his final job, at NBC was as associate producer on the live, biweekly "Wide Wide World."
This stage was followed by a succession of other positions — as a senior producer at the nation's first videotape studio, as producer and executive producer at WNDT (now WNET) in New York City, as director of network operations for SUNY's new, central educational communications office, and then as director of special (and thereafter, educational) projects at CPB in the months following its organization in 1968.
Moving from New Jersey to Cape Cod in 1989, he wrote several books about the Cape, including a 20th century history of his town, Chatham, a biography of Chatham's Admiral Charles H. Rockwell
, and two long narrative poems, one involving a glider flight over Cape Cod to consider the threat of over development.
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father-John H Carlisle-New Jersey
mother-Olive G Benson-New Jersey
wife-Joan Denney
Mr. Carlisle had a diversified career in the media, served in the Army twice, found time to sit on not-for-profit boards for an aggregate of more than 50 years and, on leaving his job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in March 1973, moved on to write a series of more than 28 books, government texts and narrative poems.
He graduated from Deerfield Academy, then from Princeton in its accelerated wartime program in 1943. After leaving CPB, he attended Montclair State College, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1977. In earlier years, he was a field artillery junior officer during World War II, assigned to a medium artillery battalion in the European Theater. After the outbreak of the Korean War, he was recalled as a Reserve officer, on duty in Tokyo. He received a Bronze Star medal on returning to the States.
At the end of World War II, Mr. Carlisle joined the daily paper in his hometown of Passaic as a neophyte reporter. In 1949, Newsweek hired him, and in 1950 sent him to Detroit as a bureau chief. That experience was interrupted by orders for duty in the Korean War. Returning from Japan in 1952, he stayed with Newsweek until 1954, when he joined CBS News as a writer of TV copy, writing initially for Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. Over the next four years, he worked for all three networks as a writer; his final job, at NBC was as associate producer on the live, biweekly "Wide Wide World."
This stage was followed by a succession of other positions — as a senior producer at the nation's first videotape studio, as producer and executive producer at WNDT (now WNET) in New York City, as director of network operations for SUNY's new, central educational communications office, and then as director of special (and thereafter, educational) projects at CPB in the months following its organization in 1968.
Moving from New Jersey to Cape Cod in 1989, he wrote several books about the Cape, including a 20th century history of his town, Chatham, a biography of Chatham's Admiral Charles H. Rockwell
, and two long narrative poems, one involving a glider flight over Cape Cod to consider the threat of over development.
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father-John H Carlisle-New Jersey
mother-Olive G Benson-New Jersey
wife-Joan Denney
Historian and biographer.
Mr. Carlisle had a diversified career in the media, served in the Army twice, found time to sit on not-for-profit boards for an aggregate of more than 50 years and, on leaving his job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in March 1973, moved on to write a series of more than 28 books, government texts and narrative poems.
He graduated from Deerfield Academy, then from Princeton in its accelerated wartime program in 1943. After leaving CPB, he attended Montclair State College, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1977. In earlier years, he was a field artillery junior officer during World War II, assigned to a medium artillery battalion in the European Theater. After the outbreak of the Korean War, he was recalled as a Reserve officer, on duty in Tokyo. He received a Bronze Star medal on returning to the States.
At the end of World War II, Mr. Carlisle joined the daily paper in his hometown of Passaic as a neophyte reporter. In 1949, Newsweek hired him, and in 1950 sent him to Detroit as a bureau chief. That experience was interrupted by orders for duty in the Korean War. Returning from Japan in 1952, he stayed with Newsweek until 1954, when he joined CBS News as a writer of TV copy, writing initially for Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. Over the next four years, he worked for all three networks as a writer; his final job, at NBC was as associate producer on the live, biweekly "Wide Wide World."
This stage was followed by a succession of other positions — as a senior producer at the nation's first videotape studio, as producer and executive producer at WNDT (now WNET) in New York City, as director of network operations for SUNY's new, central educational communications office, and then as director of special (and thereafter, educational) projects at CPB in the months following its organization in 1968.
Moving from New Jersey to Cape Cod in 1989, he wrote several books about the Cape, including a 20th century history of his town, Chatham, a biography of Chatham's Admiral Charles H. Rockwell
, and two long narrative poems, one involving a glider flight over Cape Cod to consider the threat of over development.
***
father-John H Carlisle-New Jersey
mother-Olive G Benson-New Jersey
wife-Joan Denney
Mr. Carlisle had a diversified career in the media, served in the Army twice, found time to sit on not-for-profit boards for an aggregate of more than 50 years and, on leaving his job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in March 1973, moved on to write a series of more than 28 books, government texts and narrative poems.
He graduated from Deerfield Academy, then from Princeton in its accelerated wartime program in 1943. After leaving CPB, he attended Montclair State College, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1977. In earlier years, he was a field artillery junior officer during World War II, assigned to a medium artillery battalion in the European Theater. After the outbreak of the Korean War, he was recalled as a Reserve officer, on duty in Tokyo. He received a Bronze Star medal on returning to the States.
At the end of World War II, Mr. Carlisle joined the daily paper in his hometown of Passaic as a neophyte reporter. In 1949, Newsweek hired him, and in 1950 sent him to Detroit as a bureau chief. That experience was interrupted by orders for duty in the Korean War. Returning from Japan in 1952, he stayed with Newsweek until 1954, when he joined CBS News as a writer of TV copy, writing initially for Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. Over the next four years, he worked for all three networks as a writer; his final job, at NBC was as associate producer on the live, biweekly "Wide Wide World."
This stage was followed by a succession of other positions — as a senior producer at the nation's first videotape studio, as producer and executive producer at WNDT (now WNET) in New York City, as director of network operations for SUNY's new, central educational communications office, and then as director of special (and thereafter, educational) projects at CPB in the months following its organization in 1968.
Moving from New Jersey to Cape Cod in 1989, he wrote several books about the Cape, including a 20th century history of his town, Chatham, a biography of Chatham's Admiral Charles H. Rockwell
, and two long narrative poems, one involving a glider flight over Cape Cod to consider the threat of over development.
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father-John H Carlisle-New Jersey
mother-Olive G Benson-New Jersey
wife-Joan Denney
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