Webber, Gordon

Gordon Webber (full name Royal Gordon Webber) was born in 1912 to Roy Eugene and Dorothea Boyd Webber, and grew up on a farm in southern Michigan. He attended High School in Linden, MI, and worked for two summers on an automobile assembly line in Flint. Webber attended Johnstown College in Johnstown, ND, and graduated with an AB in 1933, as well as a teaching certificate from Johnstown College in 1934. Webber also attended University of Michigan for graduate school, obtaining a Master's of Art degree in Journalism in 1936.

After graduating from Michigan, Webber worked for the Vick Chemical Co. as a traveling salesman for two years, during which time he traveled through 15 Southern and Midwestern states, selling salve to general and drug stores. Eventually Webber was called to the company's New York office to do advertising and sales promotion work. In 1938 he was hired at the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Webber worked in the NBC Press Department as a publicity writer until 1940, and from 1940-1942 he worked as a scriptwriter and director in the NBC Radio-Recording division.

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