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Girls Come Through Splendidly Handling Station's Wartime Technical Assignments
• PITTSBURGH, PA.-KDKA is amply prepared for the day when more male members of its staff go marching off to war. In fact, a bevy of 20 girls, including members of the office personnel and the wives of several announcers, are ready to step into their shoes.
Under the supervision of KDKA Program Manager Robert E. White, the girls have undergone intensive training as announcers, continuity writers, and producers. Today White has termed them as “competent and qualified” to assume staff responsibilities without jeopardizing KDKA’s lofty standards.
In the meantime Chief Engineer Ted Kenney has groomed and placed KDKA’s first “engineeress.” For more than two months, Dorothy Grant, former manager
of the mail room, has been doing a daily stint at the controls of KDKAs busiest studio.
As extra-curricular work. Dorothy now is preparing to take the FCC examination by which she may become a licensed operator. Meanwhile Kenney expects to train other girls who show interest in technical subjects.
Foreseeing an eventual scarceness of men, White launched his intensive and comprehensive training program in the several radio phases on April 12. Originally, instruction started with one general class weekly in which the feminine aspirants were familiarized with the detailed activities of KDKA s studios.
Later the girls were divided into three groups including announcers, continuity
writers and producers, in accordance with their respective talents and preferences. Thereafter each group was given specialized training and practice relative to the duties for w hich they w ere being groomed. Eventually the three groups collaborated in originating and consummating hypothetical programs in their entirety.
Elated with the progress the girls have made White says: “Frankly I was surprised. Not from the standpoint of voice and reading. But to learn that all the girls had some definite, practicable ideas— not theories— about radio programming. They amazed me.”
He adds they need only a minimum of experience to assume staff responsibilities at the pioneer Pittsburgh broadcast station during the wartime period.