Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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KWSC Bill Rosenberg, Radio Guild director . . . this broadcasting business must be fun, maybe it ' s the script . . . Director Rosenberg points your turn Broadcasting a total of 72 hours each week, KWSC, owned and operated by Washington State college since 1922, is one of the largest and most advanced non-commercial educational stations in the northwest. Facilities of the station are such that convocations, athletic events, faculty and student programs can be broadcast from any point on the campus. Kenneth Yeend, director, and Melvin White, head of production, supervise the station. At the station more than 200 students gain valuable experience in every field of radio broadcasting as continuity writers, sound effect men, entertainers, technicians and announcers. Because of this [ 28 ]

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RALLIERS For encouraging game spirit before athletic contests and for swelling student enthusiasm to high pitch when the occasion demanded, orchids to the Pep Band! Composed of eighteen student musicians and under the direction of Don McCaw, the band not only led rallies to Roger ' s field and gave the football team a royal noisy send-off at the train but also entertained between-halves at basketball games. The band was called upon to entertain for A. S. S. C. W. convcKations and at alumni banquets. Besides promoting Cougar spirit the band took time out to swing for dads and alumni when it supplied the rhythm for the Homecoming Dance. With an extensive and completely revised repertoire, the band featured choral work, trumpet quartets, and a saxaphone sextet. Members of the band were: Trumpets . . . Glen Hopkins, John Harris, Fred Niemann, Mark Van Auken. Trombones . . . Lynn Van Auken, Zane Van Auken, Harold Cady. Drums . . . Robert Wegner, Richard Sanders. Saxaphones . . . Eric Backholm, Mack Hamley, Lawrence Carlson, Ralph Talo. String Basses . . . Edward Hagenau, Charles Theno. i3ass Horn . . . Dale Buckley. Piano . . . Loren Love. Don McCAW. Pep Band leader [ 27 ]

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k4 i z 1 .: i ilf . m li lib 1 1 ML ' ' 1 ' 1 V 1 B A II ■ i M L 1 1 KWSC announcers: Standing, Kuy- kendall. Sater, Scott. Downie. Sit- ting. Warwick, Butherus 1 1 1 I BWE C 3lk4 i ' liijl ' - ' ffi s 1 Stan Warwick murmurs something pleasing . . . Radio Guilders watch cues as Jim Scott takes the mike . . . Rosenberg on the receiving end this time H ■ m ' --« J m ■ 1 training many have obtained positions in stations throughout the northwest. Several have gained success in radio work in the east and in Europe. Veteran announcers with more than one year ' s experience were Stanley Warwick, Radford Kuykendall and Edward Butherus. New last year were Hartley Sater, Richard Downie, James Scott and Hal Byer. Others frequently heard in the role of announcers were Bill Rosenberg, Ed Watson, Dick Ellis, Remo Fausti and Evan Hamley. Letters attesting the reception of the station on DX programs have been received from diverse sections of the United States and from distant islands in the Pacific. [ 29]