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Today and Yesterday
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He interviews a visiting guest star, tenor James Melton.
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WHAM's News Chief, Commentator and sports enthusiast has more interests and activities than his day has hours.
He joins Bob Turner for a U of R football broadcast.
PERHAPS WHAM listeners know David E. Kessler, best as the voice of Today and Yesterday, commentary on the news broadcast weekdays at nine in the morning. Day after day, Dave comments on current events, recapitulates events leading up to the news and indicates what possible reactions might spring from current developments.
Kessler is really a "jack of all trades" in the radio business. He is a veteran newsman. Consequently he is the ideal person to guide and propel the activities of the WHAM News Bureau. His appreciation and understanding of sports makes him a competent spotter to assist WHAM Sportscaster Bob Turner in covering such prominent sporting events as the Rochester Royals Basketball games, prize fights and the U. of R. football games. A long association with the newspaper business has given him the background and analytical ability to handle his own WHAM commentary.
Dave was born in Millheim, Pennsylvania. As a lad, a favorite visiting place after school was a small printing concern operated by a friend of the family. The smell of ink, clatter of presses and excitement of meeting delivery deadlines seeped into young Kessler's blood. From High School Dave went to work on a small country newspaper. His first assignment was the unromantic task of writing the obituary column.
After a summer of general newspaper experience he entered Pennsylvania State College. Graduation of Dave's senior class came at the time of World War I so he and his classmates walked off the campus and into the recruiting stations. Twenty-eight months later he returned and tried the quiet, secluded life of the teaching profession. Three years of academic work proved sufficient. Dave was convinced his life had to be one of action so — back to the newspaper world.
Assignments with the biggest newspapers in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Rochester and the Hearst chain eventually brought Dave back to Rochester. His WHAM association which began in 1941 as a free-lance proposition and is now a major responsibility, by all indications is Dave's idea of journalistic Utopia.
A glib delivery and ready command of the King's English helped him develop an ability for extemporaneous interviewing. Many of Rochester's famous guests have been introduced to WHAM's far-flung listeners through Dave's on-the-spot interviews.
In 1946 WHAM decided to organize its own news gathering bureau. Dave was appointed WHAM's first News Director. One of his innovations was a plan by which all persons who present news on WHAM also take an active part in gathering news and preparing it for presentation. In other words, all of Dave's staff are comipetent newsmen in their own right.
Mrs. Kessler, the former Kay Shearer, is a writer in her own right with a weekly women's column on a Rochester publication to occupy her spare time.