Arch Lustberg

Born: July 1925 Died: February 8, 2013 (Age 87) Married: Jean Anne Bartlett Arch Lustberg was a former television writer and producer for ABC-TV, record producer. He has a Masters degree in Speech and Drama from Catholic University of Washington DC. Lustberg was hired by the legendary Louis Dreyfus in 1965 as Director of Special Products for Chappell Music along with composer-arranger-conductor John Cacavas. Together they were responsible in large part for the boom in spoken word records in the late 1960's. Among many the government work they did together, was the entire Voices of Vista series of promotional radio shows for the Volunteers in Service of America. Lustberg was also the producer of the 4x TONY winning, soul-jazz-gospel musical “Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope". In 1974, he was elected as an alternate director for the N.Y. NARAS(the Record Academy) Chapter. Later in the 1980's, Lustberg became one of the early modern communications professionals, working for the US Dept. of Commerce he toured and taught classes on public speaking. He wrote a number of articles including "Succeeding as Spokesperson(1992)", "Sending the right message when crisis strikes(1995)" "Using the Media to Your Advantage (1996)", he also produced a number of videos on similar subjects.