WILLIAM LEWIS HAZELWOOD, JR.
Award Winning TV Producer/Director, Athlete, Scholar
William (Bill) Hazelwood Jr. (1948-2009) grew up at 37 Jefferson Park with his two younger sisters and their parents, Emily and William Lewis Hazelwood Sr. Bill Jr. attended the Fitzgerald and Agassiz (now Baldwin) elementary schools and graduated from Cambridge High and Latin in 1965; his class voted him Class Secretary and Best Dancer. He was an outstanding athlete who played basketball and football and ran both indoor and outdoor track. He taught sailing at the Charles River Community Boathouse and became their dockmaster.
Bill also developed a passion for rowing and, during his brief attendance at Northeastern University, rowed on one of their winning crews. He transferred to Emerson College when it offered him a basketball scholarship. He graduated from there in 1970 with a B.A. in Speech and was listed in the 1969-1970 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
Hazelwood subsequently left for the West Coast to pursue a broadcasting career. He produced and directed shows for the PBS affiliate KQED and CBS affiliate KPIX, including Yan Can Cook, Weekend Evening News, and People Are Talking. In 1973 he won a Regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement, Special Programming, as the producer of KPIX’s primetime program All Together Now. Later he became the manager of Electronic Media Communications for the paper conglomerate Crown Zellerbach; was an instructor in San Francisco State University’s Broadcasting and Electronic Communication Arts Department; and founded his own media company, Sojourna Productions, a pioneer in distance-learning. Bill Hazelwood died in San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico, aged 61.
Regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement, Special Programming