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Jack Towers (November 15, 1914 – December 23, 2010〔Matt Schudel. "(Jack Towers dies at 96; USDA Broadcaster Won Grammy for Rare Ellington Recording )". ''Washington Post''. 28 December 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2011.〕) was in charge of radio broadcasting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1952 to 1974 and became a noted remastering engineer of musical recordings after his retirement.〔 ==Biography== Jack Howard Towers was born in Bradley, South Dakota in the United States.〔 After graduating from South Dakota State College, he became a cooperative extension service worker at the South Dakota State College extension.〔Martin Fredricks. (The Duke was Here )". ''NDSU Magazine''. Fall 2001. p. 20–25. Retrieved 1 January 2011.〕 He moved to Washington in 1941 to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and then returned to the USDA. Towers was in charge of radio broadcasting at the USDA from 1952 to 1974, where he developed agriculture-related programs for broadcast on American radio networks.〔 He retired from the USDA in 1974 and what had been a hobby of remastering rare recordings, primarily of jazz groups, became a second career.〔 He used techniques such as manually scraping imperfections such as pops and hisses from reel-to-reel tapes with an X-Acto knife.〔 He lived in Hyattsville, Maryland and, from 1991, in Ashton until he died at age 96 in 2010 in nearby Rockville from Parkinson's disease.〔 He was survived by his wife of 70 years, Rhoda Sime Towers, and two daughters and was predeceased by a son.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Towers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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