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JACK GROGAN
FROM NEW YORK CITY, where he is program manager of NBC's flagship stations WNBC and WNBC-FM, John M. Grogan wrote on WHB's 30th birthday:
"Six of WHB's 30 years— from 1934 to 1939 — represent some of my happiest and most productive. The twelve years, 48 states and eight countries I've gone through since haven't dimmed my memories of wonderful people and experiences I knew while on the staff at the old Alma Mater.
with DIXIE'S LUMBERJACKS
"Every day was a new experience — some startling, some screwball, some tragic, some hilarious — but most of them unforgettable. I remember a March day in 1939 when I was the first male ever to broadcast from the swimming pool of the Y.W.C.A. . . . Ydouble-yuh, that is!'
"And the characters who crowded into our 'Man-on-the-Street' mikes at the Midland Theatre — the merchants, housewives, judges and bums who all wanted to get their twocents-worth said! Like the kindly, sweet-faced, white-haired old lady who latched onto the mike and flailed a local politician in language qualifying her for membership in the Truck Drivers' Local.
"I remember the WHB Christmas Cupboard programs where we pulled in carloads of canned foods for needy families. And broadcasts from the 'glass bowl studios' — window remotes from John Maguire's store on Grand Avenue, with crazy, wonderful Les Jarvies! I remember
and the STYLE AND SMILE LEADERS Andy Anderson Les Jarvies Jack Crogan Lou Kemper
Charles Lee and the Kiddies' Revue . . . the 3,971st Staff Frolic . . . and the incomparable Virge Bingham. First-timers to the Frolic were hard to convince of Virge's blindness because he was so uncannily at home on the 12th floor, and never fumbled or stumbled . . . And the American Royals we covered! — the parades — the sports — and special events of every hue and color!
"But I remember best the spring day in 1934 when my home telephone rang, with Jack Todd calling to tell me I was to start at WHB next week, on the staff! It didn't matter that it was for $10 a week ... or that I was to make my air debut as 'Melody Mike and His Mountaineers' ... or that the sponsor was Feenamint. At last I was a radio man and my future lay brightly ahead of me! Thanks for everything, and an even happier sixtieth anniversary!"