WTAR 790

Norfolk

THE HISTORY

at the Beginning...

the following text was adapted in part from the 21 September 1963 40th anniversary supplement appearing in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

"What its future will be, no man can tell, except that the most impossible of all dreams seem to be daily coming true in radio. So as this station, meriting the well-earned approval of every loyal citizen launches out, we bid it Godspeed and wish for it a 'Bon Voyage' for its future."

                              from an address by then

   Lt. H.H. Lippencott, Ch. USN

      at the dedication of WTAR

           radio on 21 September 1923.

TO TELL THE HISTORY OF WTAR RADIO

IS TO TELL THE HISTORY

OF RADIO IN VIRGINIA

What was in 1923 only a dream with an uncertain future became a reality... a reality that far exceeded the expectations of the most imaginative thinker of the time. The year 1923 was not only the beginning of a radio station in Virginia, it was the start of a nation coming into its own as a world power. The story of the radio industry begins here, and the history and acheivement of WTAR parallels the growth of a great communications medium and the rise in stature of a great country.

America grew... and felt growing pains. There were laughter and tears... success and tragedy. Through economic depression and inflation, wars, scientific and artistic acheivement... through all the many complexities of "just living", radio has been a prominent player. The growth and history of a nation is, of course, its people... people who, as they progress, need to be entertained and informed. There has been a story to be told, and radio told it to more people more quickly than ever before.

This tells the tale of WTAR Radio. It relates how it served the people of Virginia, and how it earned the title, "The Voice of Tidewater... One of America's Great Radio Stations"

"The Voice of Tidewater" was not always the powerful resonant voice it eventually became. Its first cry of life was a weak one... one that reached out a scant ten miles. But for those who had a set, it caused a considerable stir in the community. A short time after the initial broadcast from the Reliance Electric Company in Norfolk on 21 September 1923, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported with some amazement that WTAR could be heard "...even as far away as Virginia Beach..." a total of eighteen miles."

But WTAR was a precocious infant. In a short time the voice had a large vocabulary and it seemed rather large for its age. In May 1924, Virginians heard their first remote control broadcast when WTAR carried a Norfolk church service. In June of the same year another milestone was reached. For the first time in history Virginians were able to hear firsthand how the political world functioned, when via shortwave rebroadcast WTAR brought the sounds of the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden.

The autumn of 1924 was, like Septembers for years' past, World Series time. Baseball fans of Tidewater rejoiced; for the first time in their lives they were able to listen to a play-by-play of the National Pasttime. In case you don't recall, it was the Senators vs. the Giants, and Washington won four games to three, over the New Yorkers.

Three years passed, and WTAR added to its staff and equipment. It also picked up its first sponsor, a Norfolk jewelry firm. Then in 1927, the focus of the country was on a man named Lindbergh and a thing called the airplane. At the same time, Virginians were forming a pride in their great shipbuilding industry. WTAR combined these two topical issues and on March 20, transmitted the first air-to-ground description of a big news event... the launching of fourteen ships in one day at Newport News.

The 1920's ended on a high note for WTAR. With its typical insight into future developments, it joined a national network. On 8 January 1929, it became affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System.

1935 broadcast trade advertisement

In the 1930's, radio began to reach fruition. Tidewater heard the sound of aerial bombs as U.S. Army pilots proved an airplane could sink a battleship. It heard President Hoover during the Cape Henry Pilgrimage, and the Wright Brothers Memorial dedication at Kitty Hawk. Famous aviator Wiley Post flew into Norfolk in the "Winnie Mae" for a broadcast from the WTAR studio, and the actual drone of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's airplane motors in his epochal flight to the South Pole was transmitted. FDR gave a fireside chat to the nation and some new names in the world of entertainment became household words...
Rudy Vallee, Jack Pearl, Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny and a fellow named Hope.

For WTAR, the 1930's was a decade of major technical and business growth. In 1931, a new transmitting plant with two one-hundred fifty foot towers and a five-hundred watt transmitter was dedicated. In 1932, the station was taken over by the Ledger-Dispatch

evening newspaper, which was eventually sold to the Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers Corporation publisher of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star. In 1934, WTAR moved to the spacious quarters on the thirteenth-floor of the National Bank of Commerce building in downtown Norfolk. New equipment was added and studio facilities were enlarged. In June of that year, WTAR joined the NBC network and on Thanksgiving Day of 1934 increased its power to one-thousand watts on 780 kilocycles.

It was soon realized that the station was growing faster than anyone had envisioned. By 1937, a new transmitter plant was constructed equipped with the tallest flagpole-type radio tower ever constructed. In 1938 the station applied for a further increase in power, and by 1941 WTAR was operating on the frequency of 790 kilocycles with a full day and night power of five-thousand watts from its transmitter site located at Military Highway and Virginia Beach Boulevard.

distant reception stamp 1930's

WTAR early 1940's logo

As the 1930's grew to a close, radio and WTAR were to find the next ten years to be the most successful and yet most trying up to that time. World War II loomed imminent in Europe and electronic engineers were trying to combine sound with moving pictures in a little glass tube.

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Blair Eubanks on D-Day 6 June 1944 (contributed by Joe Postove of Norfolk)

Blair Eubanks in 1941

the WTAR transmitting facility at Glen Rock in 1941

On 7 December 1941, Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor and shortly afterward, Tidewater heard WTAR carry President Roosevelt's declaration of war and promise of ultimate victory. The area found itself one of the world's mightiest military complexes and WTAR directed its activities toward the war effort. The station became the focal point for the dissemination of news vital to its important listening audience.

WTAR was the key control station in the extensive air raid warning net set up by the Eastern Defense Command. The station was understaffed during most of the war period, but it maintained a twenty-four hour schedule and provided expedient coverage of all developments. Many of the control room operators were women.

There were many other worthy functions for a broadcaster to perform, and WTAR was ready. It took a part in every War Loan campaign, co-operated with the USO to furnish programs of entertainment in military installations, and helped to organize and maintain the local units of the Virginia Protective Force. The station also directed efforts to the continuance of programs for entertainment and morale purposes.

Then, almost suddenly, the war was over. On 8 May 1945 President Truman formally announced the cessation of the war in Europe and shortly after, a mushroom cloud appeared over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan capitulated.

WTAR rapidly swung back to peace-time operation. In 1946 it won the Billboard Magazine Award for top public service, and the same magazine later stated that WTAR was showing its heels to all the other top leading stations in the country in delivering both daytime and nighttime audiences.

Early in 1946, WTAR commenced preparation for what was then an entirely new method of broadcasting... FM. On 12 May 1947 WTAR-FM went on the air with a power of three-thousand watts on the assigned frequency of 93.1 megacycles. Shortly thereafter this power was increased to five-thousand watts and the frequency changed to 97.3 megacycles. Daily FM programming consisted of simulcasting the AM schedule. The life of this innovation was cut short and was leap-frogged by the coming of television, and the first FM service was discontinued by 1955.

The 1940's were big years... radio was riding high. But the men in the laboratories had come a long way with their little glass picture tube.

WTAR Radio saw television come on the scene with all the excitement of a circus parade in a whistle-stop town. New names and faces leaped from the flickering electronic box. America heard... and saw... Howdy Doody, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Martin and Lewis, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Uncle Milty... and a New York columnist named Sullivan was saying, "It's a really big shew!"

Radio looked on... stunned and awkward... while "John's Other Wife" and "Ma Perkins" became the butt of TV jokesters and the kids lost interest in "Captain Midnight" and "The All-American Boy".

It all looked pretty black for radio - and then the sound of cannon in a remote place called Korea found radio on the scene with the reputation it had earned and still deserved. Radio was an instant electronic communicator... it always had been. Radio... particularly a network station... was able to instantly bring the voices of vital news from all over the world to anxious listeners at home. TV could carry the pictures, but only days later. Radio began its climb back.

WTAR reorganized. The station moved in 1950 to one of the most modern broadcast facilities on the Atlantic coast at 720 Boush Street in downtown Norfolk. It rejoined the CBS network on 19 September 1953. It stepped up its format of news and streamlined its music policy. Again with foresight, it continued its policy of service to the people of Virginia, with a balanced program schedule of good and lasting music.

May 1949

1950

the WTAR broadcast facility at 720 Boush Street Norfolk built 1949-50

Tidewater became literally wired for sound. The portable and later transistorized radio enabled people to take their entertainment with them. Radio went out of the living room into every segment of outdoor American life... on the patio... to the beach... in the car and on a boat. Americans loved music... they wanted news and weather, and in Tidewater they found it all on WTAR.

A crisis was passed. Though radio was no longer an only child, it was still an important member of the family and did perform a needed service unique only to itself.

March 1956

Fall 1958

1959 format and personalities

In the 1960's WTAR made strides to reaffirm its position. It was never satisfied to be the "first" radio station in Virginia, but maintained the term in the sense of responsible broadcasting which served the public first.

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Law Day promos 1 May 1962 (from WTAR audiodisc)

In 1961, WTAR continued to move further ahead when it revived the FM broadcast service it had discontinued in the mid-fifties. On 21 September 1961 WTAR-FM began sending its signal from the eight-hundred eighty-one foot level of the Driver TV tower. Nine months later, the station initiated full-time stereo multiplex broadcasting on its frequency of 95.7 megacycles. Its power output of forty-thousand watts sent out a signal covering an estimated radius of eighty miles from the Driver tower and reached counties in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. The FM call letters were changed twice, to WKEZ-FM in 1977 and to WLTY-FM in 1982. In the modern day, it's operating with the call letters WVKL-FM.

advertisements in the Norfolk "Virginian-Pilot" September 1961

Also from WTAR, the largest professional broadcasting news staff in Virginia broadcasted thirty-three scheduled newscasts each day and in affiliation with CBS, instituted the famous NetALERT system of instantaneous worldwide news reporting.

In 1962, WTAR moved one step further in the tradition of modern broadcasting. The station acquired a helicopter. Originally, it was intended for use as a traffic safety aid and control. But it became a vehicle to further aid in the acquiring and reporting of news events, served as an "eye in the sky" for Tidewater law enforcement, and helped avoid possible tragedies at sea.

The WTAR - Atlantic Richfield helicopter in the skies over Tidewater 1963

sports time with Stan Garfin and Larry Bonko on WTAR in 1963

The station began its marine patrol service in 1964 with the introduction of the cabin cruiser "WTAR I" (pronounced "wee-tar"). In the years following there succeeded many "wee-tar" craft and they became a familiar and welcome sight to boaters in the Tidewater area, with either La Verne Watson or Jeff Dane aboard, offering fishing reports to WTAR listeners and assistance to small-craft in need.

1964

1952 WTAR lineup

The morning show began as a popular feature in 1946 on WTAR. Marybelle Darden was featured with her "Marybelle's Chickens" program which ran until 1953. Trafton Robertson hosted the morning show until 1959...

October 1951 Radio-TV Mirror article (courtesy of OTRR)

George Crawford came down from northern Virginia to be the morning host in 1959 and stayed on thru the better part of 1960 before moving over to 1310 where he saw his greatest popularity. Jim Stanley was featured in this spot for a short while. And then there was Paul...

who moved to WTAR from the 1230 spot to regale and entertain us for the next twenty-two years. His audience can still recall his intonation of "WTAR time", his following of "little old ladies" and his affinity for the singing "talent" of Mrs. Miller.

Paul Hennings obituary in 1990

Dottie Abbott aka "Dolly Holiday" for Holiday Inns overnights on WTAR 1967 thru 1971

The 1970's saw a change in the music programmed on WTAR, from a middle-of the-road easy listening selection to a more contemporary sound. Artists like America, Seals & Crofts, Arlo Guthrie and even Wings dominated the playlists with personalities like Don Rose, Mort Flohr, Tom Looney, Dale Parsons, Jim Lawrence and Andy Tompkins spinning the tunes twenty-four hours a day for the people of Tidewater.

And it retained its full-service character with local and CBS radio news, weather and sports featuring the reporting talents of Dick McCoy, Charlie Hartig, Nate Custer, Ed Hughes, Mike Rasnick and Stan Garfin.

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1970's air personality montege (contributed by Bruce from Gloucester VA)

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"Spirit of Tidewater" news sounder and promos 1980's featuring Dale Parsons (contributed by Jim Flummer of Virginia Beach)

Virginian Pilot article describing the Glenrock demolition 19 April 1984 (contributed by Dale Parsons "Aloha!")

The 1980's saw Tom Looney moving into the morning show spot, taking over for Paul Hennings who retired in 1982. In the mid-80's the transmitter site was moved from the Military Circle location in Norfolk to a state-of-the art installation south of Grandview on Hall Road in Hampton. Landmark Communications sold WTAR in February 1993 to Benchmark Communications, who changed the network affiliation from CBS to NBC.

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"News Authority" Tom Looney 7-8 am 28 July 1992 (16:10) (KNOWSTON audio archive)

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network switch Tom Looney show 1 February 1993 (KNOWSTON audio archive)

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"Keeping You In Touch" jingle 1992 (KNOWSTON audio archive)

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Tom Looney morning show 3 May 1993 (KNOWSTON audio archive)

Pat Murphy aired as the morning host after this time. Here's a promotional item publicizing him...

In May 1996 Benchmark sold WTAR to Sinclair Communications who in turn moved the call letters to the 850 spot on 17 July 1997, thus bringing an end to WTAR 790 Norfolk.

advertisement in the Newport News "Press" publicizing the odd move

For seventy-three years and ten months, tens of thousands of hours of broadcast service and entertainment was provided to the listeners of WTAR 790 Norfolk, truly one of America's great radio stations. Because it is with us no more, we pay tribute to it here and welcome your input and memories. Connect with us and please visit the other sections of this site.

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see WTAR as it was in 1941 click graphic

This site is a continuing work in progress. We welcome any material addition you may be able to contribute, especially if you had a personal interest in WTAR. Images and anecdotes will find a permanent spot here for viewing.

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THE PEOPLE . . .

Joe Collins has posted an entertaining recollection of his experience at WTAR on YouTube

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here's a word from Fran Bowles of Virginia Beach...

THANKS FOR REMEMBERING....NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE LEFT THAT DO ANYMORE. I ENJOYED THE 60'S AT WTAR RADIO. THE 50'S AND 60'S WERE MORE FUN FOR ME AS A BROADCASTER THAN ANY OTHER YEARS. I CAME HERE FROM MICHIGAN IN THE VERY EARLY 60'S. I LOVED WORKING WITH ALL THE PEOPLE AT WTAR RADIO. IT WAS FUN AND I THINK IT SHOWED ON THE AIR, BUT AS THE 60'S CAME TO AN END RADIO CHANGED. THE PROGRAMS BECAME FORMATED AND MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME AS A DJ TO PLAY THE MUSIC. MANY TIMES I HAD TO PLAY RECORDS THAT I DIDN'T REALLY LIKE. AND SO WHEN I WAS ASKED TO TRANSFER TO TV ENGINEERING I DID. I WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE GREAT YEARS AT WTAR RADIO. THANKS AGAIN FOR REMEMBERING. HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OF PEOPLE WHO JOINED THE STAFF OF RADIO AND TV IN THE EARLY 60'S. THESE ARE NOT VERY GOOD PICTURES, BUT THEY ARE ALL I HAVE.........FRAN BOWLES

WTAR personnel and logos 1962 (contributed by Fran Bowles of Virginia Beach)

more recollections from Fran Bowles...

I JOINED THE STATION IN 1960, I BELIEVE. AT THAT TIME WTAR WAS THE NUMBER "1" STATION IN THE AREA. THE BUILDING ON BOUSH STREET WAS STATE OF THE ART FOR BROADCASTING AT THAT TIME. RADIO AND TV SHARED THE BUILDING WITH RADIO USING MOST OF THE SECOND FLOOR. THE ON THE AIR PART OF THE BUILDING INCLUDED A HUGE CONTROL ROOM. ALL THE SIGNALS WENT THROUGH THAT ROOM. TO EITHER SIDE WAS A VERY LARGE STUDIO BOTH OF WHICH WERE USED EVERY DAY. AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE MILDRED ALEXANDER SHOW WHICH AIRED EVERY DAY. ALSO THERE WERE TWO SMALLER STUDIOS USED AS ANNOUNCE BOOTHS. ONE WHICH SHORTLY AFTER I ARRIVED BECAME THE FM STUDIO. THE OTHER ONE WAS USED FOR MOST OF THE DJ SHOWS, SUCH AS THE PAUL HENNINGS SHOW. ALL RADIO SIGNALS WERE REMOTE CONTROLED TO GLEN ROCK WHERE OUR TRANSMITTER WAS LOCATED. THIS TRANSMITTER BUILDING WAS LOCKED MOST OF THE TIME. ONCE A DAY AN ENGINEER WOULD GO TO THE BUILDING TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL. ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT THE DOWNTOWN BUILDING ON BOUSH STREET WAS THAT THE CONTROL ROOM FOR RADIO ON THE SECOND FLOOR WAS BUILT ON HUGE SPRINGS WHICH WOULD SMOOTH OUT THE VIBRATIONS OF HEAVY TRAFFIC ON BOUSH SO YOU WOULDN'T HEAR THEM ON RADIO. TODAY I BELIEVE TELEVISION USES THAT CONTROL ROOM FOR SOME OF ITS TV CONTROL ROOM DUTIES. I REMEMBER BEING IMPRESSED WITH THE OPERATION OF WTAR RADIO AND TV WHEN I JOINED THE STAFF. I HAD NEVER WORKED IN A BUILDING EQUIPPED AS WELL AS THAT ONE. I ALSO FINISHED MY CAREER THERE.
FRAN BOWLES....RETIRED 1989.

Here's a note from Jim Flummer of Virginia Beach...

Hello, I really enjoyed your site. My name is Jim Flummer, and I worked at WTAR from 1993 to 1999. I was hired by Dan O’Brien. I was an announcer, the Norfolk Tides studio producer, and the Admirals Hockey studio producer. I worked with Jack Ankerson, Pete Michaux, Joe Collins, Steve Kelly, Brian Kelly, Tom Looney, Mort Flohr, and a host of other talented people. I did the local traffic when Brian Kelly was off. I would host the weekend talk shows. I recorded and aired G. Gordon Liddy, Larry King Live, Imus in the Morning, Sports Byline, The CBS Game of the Week, The Cavalier Call-in Show, The Carolina Panthers, Orioles Baseball, The College Football Scoreboard Show with Jack Ankerson, and Virginia Tech Football along with The Hokie Hotline. I am the only person who actually carried WTAR, Virginia’s oldest radio station, in the trunk of my car, the day we switched studios from Boush St. in Norfolk, to Business Park Dr. in Virginia Beach. A board operator remained at the Boush St. studios, with just a few Public Service Announcement carts, while I had all of the commercial carts with me, in the car. I had to make it to the new studio before the network hour-long show we were airing was over, so I could run the commercials at the break. Well, I made it on time, and became the first person to go on the air at the new studio. To this day, I still get a little nervous thinking about if I would have had a breakdown, or accident. I still have that dependable car. WTAR was the last station to be moved to the new studios at Business Park Dr. which were actually the studios and business office of WKOC, 93.7 THE COAST. We had already moved OLDIES 95.7 there about a month prior. After the Boush St. studios, which were on the second floor of the WTKR-TV building, were shut down, I noticed that we were missing some items, so I drove to the old studios one Wednesday, the only day I had off. I worked at WTAR six days a week, and very often seven, when someone wanted off. In addition, I was a DJ at OLDIES 95.7, which, of course was just down the hall from WTAR, and when OLDIES was sold in 1996, I worked as a DJ at 93.7 THE COAST, ( a whole ‘nother story in itself). On Friday nights, I was on two stations at once. Weeknights on WTAR, we would air “Sports Byline” up to one o’clock, then carry the Mutual Network all night to six in the morning. However, on Friday nights, I went on OLDIES at midnight. So, at midnight, I ran down the hall and did a live ID for OLDIES, got the first song playing, then ran back down to WTAR to play the top of the hour local spots for “Sports Byline”. I had to run back and forth for the first hour, until “Sports Byline” was over and I could bring up Mutual. My listeners on OLDIES told me that I always sounded “lively” on the air. Anyway, back to my story. When I arrived at the Boush St. studios, I was surprised to see that the main Studio control board was gone. I looked around and found the missing items, and when I went into the news room, I found a lot of WTAR history in a large trash can. Old record albums from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, stamped WTAR-FM on the covers, old bumper stickers, and my most prized possession from the station, an original 8.5” X 11” piece of WTAR_AM, FM, and TV letterhead, still in an old file, which I had custom framed, and proudly display at my home today as part of my WTAR mini-museum. I rescued all that I could find from the trash, including WTAR cups, letter openers, and a color photo of a billboard advertising “WTAR 790 THE NEWS AUTHORITY”. I was also the lucky main board operator the night that WTAR celebrated their 70th Anniversary, live from the old Cavalier Hotel Ballroom, complete with Jack Ankerson and Becky Livas hosting and interviewing many former “Greats” from WTAR’s past. We ran it like an old live Big Band broadcast from the 1930’s. Our Governor at the time, Doug Wilder, was in attendance, and spoke on the air, congratulating the station for it’s many proud years of service. Both the Governor and later myself, received WTAR 70th Anniversary clocks. Mine ticks today as part of my WTAR museum. I recorded the entire show, and it went off without a hitch. If you’ve worked in radio, you know that live broadcasts can sometimes have many problems. We were lucky that night. I also recorded many Public Service Announcements, commercial, and promos for WTAR, all of which I saved to cassette. In addition, I saved the original background music for the weather broadcasts, and station ID carts from the trash. I enjoyed my time at WTAR, and look back on those years fondly. Sincerely, Jim Flummer

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Jim Flummer at WTAR in 1996 (contributed by Jim Flummer)

these images contributed by Jim Flummer

We also acknowledge...

JACK LIGHT... BERNIE MELTON... ANDY ROBERTS... JOE FOULKES... LAVERNE WATSON... DON ROSE... MILDRED ALEXANDER... JIM STANLEY... JEFF DANE... ANDY TOMPKINS... ART SEBENECK... RAY "THE MONIKER'S" HONAKER... CAMPBELL ARNOUX... DICK FRAIM... CHARLIE HARTIG... NATE CUSTER... ED HUGHES... FRANK BATTEN... JOHN ENNIS... MARV HENRY... LEE LIVELY... PETE MICHAUD... WALLY SALE... DALE GAUDING... JOHN ZAUN... BRUCE GARRAWAY... ZACK YATES... BOB WEST... DICK MCCOY... ART RYERSON... LARRY SAUNDERS... CHARLES BEACH... JACK PRINCE... AL BASNIGHT... MIKE RASNICK... LOU NELSON... BRUCE BARRY... BILL WHITEHURST... RON REGER... BOYD HARRIER... MIKE RAU... DARRYL HOSACK... BRIAN KELLY... JACK ANKERSON... BOB RIDLE... JIM QUINN... MATT TIAHART... MIKE SEACHREST... NORMAN BEASLEY... MITCHELL MILLER... WALLY DOUGLAS... CARROLL JAMES... JOHN GRIFFIN... WADE WILLIAMS... JOHN GARRY... THURMAN WASHINGTON... JOHN CRAVER... AL KNIGHT... CHET BURGESS... HENRY DRIVER... JAY CHARLES... STEVE THOMAS... ROBERT M LAMBE...DR. BILL WHITEHURST... WINSTON HOPE... BECKY LIVAS... PS HUBER... JOHN W NEW... HENRY COWLES WHITEHEAD... RALPH S HATCHER... GARY TREDWAY... JULIUS L GRETHER... FRANCES McLEOD... JOHN C PEFFER... JOEL CARLSON... GEORGE BRANTLEY... FRED N LOWE... RICHARD L LINDELL... GILBERT McLEOD... BETTY B REINECKE... ALICE BREWER WHITE... RUSSELL SEVERIN... WILLIAM JOHNSON... JACK BLACK... DOUGLAS E SMITH... ROBERT DAVIS... PAT ARNOUX... HAROLD SOLDINGER... HAL POWELL... CLAYTON EDWARDS... STEVE KELLY... RAYMOND TURNER... EDWARD M DEVANY... HARRY W MOORE JR... JAMES EVANS... BRICK RIDER... JOHN GRIFFIN... LEE KITCHIN... JIM MAYS... CLAYTON EDWARDS... WILLIAM GIETZ... EDMOND JOHNSON JR... JOE MARTELLE... HAROLD SOLDINGER... SHERRI BRENNAN... PAUL S HUBER... CHARLTON WHITEHEAD... CLYDE MOSER... EMILEIGH WHITEHEAD...JEFF BAKER... BILL SEARLE... JOHN ERIC... JOHN CARL MORGAN... JAY MILTNER... TOM HANES... WINDER HARRIS... BAILEY BARCO... MRS PAUL M KENDRICK "AUNT JANE"... LUCY BROOKE WITT... SANDUSKY CURTIS... MRS DEVELAN COWLES... WD SULLIVAN... JOHN J MURPHY... ALF MAPP... CHESTER SHADDEAU... DIANA GUNN... MRS CHARLES DAY... RALPH HATCHER... JAMES MAYS... JOHN DAVIDSON... JAMES EVANS... RALPH BEAMON... EROLD LOTRIDGE... DON KNOX... NORM FEIN... WILLIAM GASPAR... RAY SHOUSE... RONALD PHILIPS... WILLIAM McLEAN... MARK PRITCHARD... CHARLES KAUFMAN... ORVILLE K GIBBONET...

In rememberence...

Bob West

1 February 2011

Dave Desler

18 September 2010

Joe Perkins

10 April 2010

Ray Honaker

20 August 2009

Marv Henry

16 February 2009

Bill Pulliam