Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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---uns-U-gl v ,V ' x Gil Hill '46 pauses for station identification. The voices of former Network announcers are now heard over many com- mercial stations. Radio Network, Spring, 1947. Bark Row: Robert C. Seaver '50, David P. Kni ht '50, Robert W. Hall '49 fClar.riml MllJiL',,JOhD S. Kornfeld '49, Theodore Storfdard '50, Robert L. Wechsler '49,,Iohn V. Bouyoucos '49, Gerald E. Weller '49, Arthur S. Bunker, jr. '49. Third Row: Melvin H. Gordon '48, Alfred L. Cotcher '48, Lawrence Creshkoff '46, Hallowell Bowser '44, Andrew R. Baggaley '45, Theodore L. Rowland '48, William R. Chanderl '46, Harold C. Fleming '44, Gilbert S. Hill '46 CPnblirityD. Serond Row: Leonard M, Passano, Ill '46, Harold per, Guthrie McClintic, Margie Hart, Carol Bruce, Ann Corio, Pete Seeger, Charles Bolte, and numerous others. Members of the Harvard Faculty have also been regular per- formers, especially during 1946-1947, Armchair Audit, a program of repeat performances of popular course lectures, brought many professorial voices to the air. On another oc- casion, President Conant spoke on the need for Federal aid to education. The Apron Strings Are Cut In 1945, when Shepherd Hall was torn clown, the Net- work moved to new studios in Dudley Hall, and began using call letters WHCN on the air. But, by spring 1947, the Net- work had freed itself from the Crim.ron'J apron strings, and existing confusion among both advertisers and students sug- gested deleting Crimson from the station's name. So, in the fall of 1947, the Harvard Radio Network went on the air for the first time, with call letters WHRV. Simultaneously with the change of name there began an expansion program designed to give the Network complete coverage of the col- lege. A new transmitter was built and wires laid to Yard dormitories, so that thereafter lowly freshmen as well as elite House-dwellers might hear the strains of Fair Harvard every evening at 7:30, when the Network resumes broadcasting activities. Continuing to grow under its new name, the Net- work is still planning more and better entertainment for its listeners and offering increased possibilities for training, ex- perience, and camaraderie to its members. L. C. P. Field '46, William F. Clark '48 fPf'0gl'tHll Mur1agerD,,Iord1ln L. Golding '48, fBu.rineJJ Munagerj, Gerald Y. Genn '48 fPre.ri1lenlj, Albert F. Feldman '48 fPro- duction Directorj, T. M. Sanders,jr. '48 fTt'L'hIlifdl Directorj, Philip M. Stern '47, Ray A. Goldberg '48, From Row: john Kunz '49, Louis I. Egelson, jr. '48, Clifton R. Wharton, jr. '47, john C. Fraser '50, M. Matthew Lynch, jr. '50, Alfred G. Redheld '50,john A. Magnuson,jr. '49. 12711

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The Radio Network No Longer Comes Through the Radiators In December, 1939, seven undergraduates, bitten by the college radio bug let loose three years before at Brown, got together to found a station at Harvard. Ideas were plentiful, experience was adequate, and financial backing was eventually negotiated with the Crimson, interested in controlling adver- tising competition. The Crimson Network began broadcasting on April 15, 1940, operating from modest studios in now- razed Shepherd Hall with a low power transmitter connected to the University heating pipes. When fan mail began to come in from Belmont and Newton, however, since the FCC takes a dim view of unlicensed radiation, operations were sus- pended until December 2, 1940, by which time a new type of transmission using the House electric light wires had been developed. By 1942, the Crimron was able to call the Network Harvard's fastest-growing undergraduate organization, and the entering Class of '46 began to play a leading part in its growth. Out of 32 Network men from '46 came Presidents H. P. Field, Richard L. Kaye, and Carl H. Reynolds, Produc- tion Directors Bradbury Clark, james A. Harper, and Lewis Weinman, Program Managers Robert A. Green and L. Ma- gruder Passano, Technical Directors john R. McGrew and Charles A. Shaw, and Business Manager Kenneth Frankl. Crimson Network, 1943-44. Back Row: Robert A. Green '46, S. Arthur Boruchoff '45, Lawrence Creshkoff '46,John M. B. Churchill,jr. '47, Howard L. Poss '45, George M. Sokol '45, Frederick W. Roe '45, Bernard Bisgeier '46, SL't'IIlN!RII1U.' Robert Krones '45, Sherwin D. Smith '44 fBn.rff1rr.r Munagerf, Richard I.. Kaye '46 CPrngram Dirermrl, Richard M. Brown '45 fPreJidenrj, Philip M. Stem '47 fl'rnffm'li0r1 Dirtwtorj, Harold P. Field '46 Cferlmiml Directory. Fran! Row: john W. Guinee, jr. '47, William M. Flook, jr. '44, Bernard L. Klionsky '46 Richard H. Thurm '-16. Y. 'ffgffi . L11 X sal H. P. Field '46, former Network president and engineering mas- termind behind much of its transmitting equipment, prepares to record a live program for later broadcast. Among their first additions to the Network was a station in the Radcliffe Field House, built by Reynolds, Field, and McGrew. Direct lines between Radio Radcliffe and the Network permitted the interchange of programs, adding to the variety of each station's offerings and, occasionally, to the headaches of the Radcliffe deans. Regular Network programs reach the College at 8OO on Your Dial Monday through Friday evenings throughout the academic year, but special events have varied from on-the- spot coverage of Winston Churchill's honorary degree on September 6, 1943, to the twenty-four houriand longer- jazz, ballad, and symphonic orgies Enterprising Network members rose with the birds to put on Sunrise Serenade, a short-lived musical clock program designed for early-rising V-12's, and have ranged as far as New York City, to cover the 1946 Ivy League basketball playoffs, and Hanover, N. H., to report the 1946 Dartmouth game. From Margie Hart to Armchair Audits While classical music has formed the largest part of Network programs, popular music and jazz have held their own. During the spring of 1947 Harvard instituted a midnight to one a.m. disc-jockey show, Midnight Merry-Go-Round. In addition, specialty shows such as interviews, lectures, guest artists, quiz programs, and dramas have been featured. Guests have included Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator Claude Pep- 12701

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,sp . ,-. X LQJ, 'f l f., .P ' 'vi 'L ' T' .1 1' NLIKE most activities, which folded up under the exigencies of wartime or barely limped along with a skeleton membership, dramatics at Harvard grew and flourished while Dramatic Club, 1945. Burk Rozosjulian H. Ellner '45, George H.jantzen '45, Virgil Gore '46, Martin Shwartz '44, Adams H. Nickerson '46, William F. Di Pesa '45. Frou: Row: Earl M. Wedrow '45, Nicholas C. Gilles '45 U'rear1n'crJ, Charles R. Dean, Ill '46fPre1irlw1fD, Donald S. Gair '45 fVirc' Prerirlenlj, Gerald E. Maslon '45 Q5'vcretm'yj. Harvard Has Three Major Drama Groups '46 was in College. Not only did the Harvard Dramatic Club score impressive successes with new and original plays, not only did the Hasty Pudding Club's annual hilarious musicals, after a short wartime interim, play to packed houses and pop- ping flash bulbs, but a new dramatic organization, the Harvard Theatre Workshop, was formed by returning war veterans and staged productions of Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw which won acclaim from some of the nation's foremost dramatic critics. Plaudits For a Rough Translation For forty years, in the absence of a drama department at Harvard, the Dramatic Club provided the only opportunity for serious dramatic training and expression, and has included among its members such famous names as Robert Benchley and john Mason Brown. But none of its productions achieved greater success than Murbcnko, the first major HDC effort in which '46 participated. A rough translation from the Russian play by Alexander Afinegenov, Marlaenka played to standees and drew Hollywood offers for ingenue Anne Put- nam, Radcliffe '46. In the spring of 1943, Charles R. Dean '46 was elected president of HDC, and several members of the Class helped put on Lorca's Dom: Rorim, and in the fall Barrie's Azlminzblc Crichton with the Beaver girls' school. Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, a former Abbey player, directed the successful produc- Dramatic Club, 1944. Barb Row: Peter V. Poor '47, Seabury G. Quinn '47, Crai f P. Gilbert '47 Qlixemlioe Boardj, Gerald E. Maslon '45 fE.'W'Cllli1'c' Boarflj, Hibbard G.james '45, Nicholas Viek '46, Edmund R. Davis '46. Sc'comlRo1u.' William F. Di Pesa '46 fTrcarrn'erD, Martin Shwartz '44 fVire Prariflmtj, Charles R. Dean '46 QPrt'riflrwtj, William B. Dubey '46 fSccrclar-yj. Front Rozwjolmn U. Lemmon, III '47 fE.W'L'lllillL' Boarzll, Morton B. Hamilton V-12, Theodore P. Allegretti '47 fE.vefutizfe Boardj. 12721