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NBC TRANSMITTER
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# There’s considerable behind-thescenes activity at NBC to aid America’s victory effort. Employees throughout the organization are not only doing their hit in efficient handling of their jobs, but have volunteered for several extra-curricular wartime tasks as well. Air-raid precautions, first aid and Army and Navy entertainment are included in the wide-range of Radio City’s “win-the-war” efforts.
An elaborate Air Raid Precautions organization has been set up in the NBC studio and office section which is a selfcontained official sector in the Rockefeller Center zone. V. J. Gilcher, of NBC General Service, is sector warden, and his alternates are W. G. Martin, of Guest Relations. and Joseph D’Agostino, of Engineering. The senior post warden roster includes : Clav Morgan, assistant to the president; \\ illiam Burke Miller,of Program; Thomas H. Belviso, of the music library; William Clarke and Eerdinand Wankel, of Engineering; N. E. Kersta, of J'elevision, and \\ . H W ehh, of (ieneral Promotion. These wardens are responsible for organizing and training NBC’s ARP jiersonnel and directing safety activities.
(doselv allied to the ARP efforts is the extensi\e training jirogram in first aid undertaken hv 7,5 women of the network staff. J he entire roster of the course organized by Helen M. Korday, of Personnel, received Red Cross certificates for proficiency in first aid upon the recent comple
tion of twelve weeks’ intensive study and drill.
Mrs. Arthur Brothers, of the American Women’s Volunteers Services, was the NBC instructor at the two-hour Tuesday night classes held in the studio section. The three-month course covered full require
ments outlined in the Red Cross Textbook on Eirst Aid, and the ladies are now qualified for resuscitation work considered vitally essential to ARP activities.
Of a radically different nature— but just as important in helping America’s victory effort— is the membership of 50 NBC girls in the Rockefeller Center hostess unit of the New York City Defense Recreation Committee— a USO unit providing entertainment for American and Allied soldiers and sailors in the New York area.
NBC’s girls on the hostess staff represent ten per cent of the 500-girl Rockefeller Center contingent headed by Lucille Claus, of the Blue Network Company Stenographic Department. Hostess duties require the girls’ presence at organized entertainment given at defense centers, homes of prominent welfare workers, cooperating restaurants, night clubs and theatres. The committee is no mere “date bureau”; it is assigned the morale-building task of brightening the New \ork furloughs of service men through cheerful companionship.
The girls have let ye olde editor of NBC Transmitter in on the fact that most service men are shy, and that they like to establish correspondence with the hostesses. And one girl is proudly displaying an engagement ring— the result of a romance that started with a USO date.
AN ISTHMICr RHYTHMIC SERENADE: These W SM (Nashville) stars, all heard on NBC
REl) shows, recently returned to Tennessee after a “Camel Caravan" trip to Panama where they entertained our Armed forces. Left to right are Kay Carlisle, Ford Rush, Minnie Pearl, and Dollie Dearnian.