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I emailed Jeff, hoping he joins us soon!

Good luck!

Looks like numbers have leveled - good to go!

Ther usually is a way for us to see all the participants on Zoom. Can we do that?

in the top right corner there should be an icon that says "grid view" if you press that you can see everyone!

Thanks

Beat me to it haha

Usually it’s there, but can’t see it now.

these a lot less control on a tablet!

No grid view

Hi Phil. Joe Board was my thesis advisor. Because of you, he suggested my thesis cover an aspect of the film industry which it did. Thank you!!

Nope, thye have taken that choice away

Too bad

I just asked someone who’s watching, they cannot do the grid view for some reason

OK< Thanks

I remember hearing airchecks from those days; *very* impressive commercial operation.

Merlin!

Looking into it now. I have the same issue on my ipad

It is on gallery view on my laptop, so I am going to try to trouble shoot it

thanks Sonia!

Joel Blumenthal here, I don’t see myself

Very surprise to see that there are no panelists from the 1980s and early 1990s - many would argue the height of college radio…

and I don’t even see my picture!

Phil - your comment on sacrificing studying for radio (messed up in Biochem thanks to my late night show) - (I was class of ’77 - at ‘RUC from ’74-‘77

Greetings to all from JB and the Entire Flying Circus, 71-73

We didn’t do college radio in the late 60s, we did radio and happened to be in college

Hi all,

Thank you for attending! If you have any questions, please send them in the Q&A feature! Feel free to make comments and shout outs in the chat as well!

Looks like Jeff is on the wrong link. I think he's in the post-event reception room. Sonia, just CCd you on an email, hoping to get him in the right zoom soon.

A shoutout to Rotten Tom Seem and the Electric Music Machine.....thank God the FCC couldn’t hear us.

little did we know that at the time mornings are $$$$ in radio!!!

great to hear all this history about wruc!

good to see u too! (sorta!)

Everything was dead when I arrived in 2008 too haha

Congratulations to all past and present participants at WRUC from Mark Young, Stonehill College Class of 1983, and former disc jockey at WSHL, Stonehill College radio.

Greetings from the Class of '77! When we went 24/7, I noticed there was a high correlation between those that had the 2:00-5:00 am shifts and those that flunked the school. I still can't believe anyone would want to take those shifts. Michael Roberts, I am glad you didn't have the middle of the night shift, but 11-2 was still pretty difficult. ;)

There were classes, Mike?

Jeffrey Hedquist - I was at Union and WRUC in the late 1980s. I am looking forward to hearing about the work that you and Dick Ferguson did in the 1960s to resurrect the station. I had a "career" in radio from 1990 to 1995 and spoke with Dick on the phone once during that time. Thanks again for your work!

Hello All, In this webinar format you will not be able to see yourselves. You will only see our panelists. Happy viewing!

I went from ‘RUC (class of 78) to United Press International, where I stayed for six years. Wouldn’t have been possible without all the hours I spent at the station.

(hi, Julie!)

Neal - yes I think I followed Dan’s 8-11 on Tues night

Indeed you did.

there’s no way you guys remember that.

Oh man, I wish we were allowed to have advertising

I remember the phone numbers 3938650 from union. 5848390 from skidmore

After JB and the Circus @ WRUC, , went to WHHO , Hornell, NY, made my lunch money for 3 years of college at Alfred University.

Hey Dan, I would love to hear it. My email is sandovas@union.edu if you would like to share it.

I’ll send you (or anyone else) a Dropbox link.

I did 2-5 am. total freedom. I passed. thankful for amigada Davida (sp) iron butterfly

Thank you!

Still have scald "scars" from crawling through Union's steam tunnels to install coaxial cables! "Think WRUC" = Bob '69. "The Brother Bob Night Train Show" - midnight Saturdays to 6am Sunday.

Sure those aren't from the fireworks Bob?

he lives!

Great to hear all your great stories! It’s amazing the common bond we have all shared over the decades, WRUC! It’s a special place that literally changed the course of my life as radio has been my career since the day I walked into the station my first week on campus. And yes, my major truly was WRUC!

pretty sure I slept in the studio once... can't imagine doing it every day

Who us? (electrical engineer geeks?)

bill kern and I completely rebuilt the station one summer...

saltzman! hi! joel

Agree that you're missing something without representation from the 80s. We moved RUC from 90.9FM to 89.7FM. I called well over 100 games (hockey/football) on RUC - other than meeting my wife RUC was the best part of Union!

BTW....that’s message above was from me!

68 or 69 or so

To this day I can't drink Folger's coffee because it was the only stuff in the station when I did all-nighters there...

Scott Wykoff ‘85 Reporter WBAL Radio Baltimore

Coffee? You had coffee?

Tom seem, holy smoke, queen ugly much!

It was awful...

The 190s also saw the station moved out of Carnegie Hall to Old Chapel and then into the Campus Center after that was done being renovated in 1987. Great decade for WEUC

WRUC

those were interesting days... btw, this is the Greek

Yes, streaming must have completely changed the game. We used to worry that we wouldn’t reach up to Potter House.

Because I needed help so badly

it was in bad shape

During the mid-70's we had three studios namely A, B and C. C was the re-production studio and yes, it had a bed and people did sleep over. I don't think that would fly today.....

I got to meet Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, sit in the Yankee dugout for Old Timers Day, and could get free food in the Yankee press room for me and a guest for two years.

Good evening current and former WRUC staff

that's so awesome!

I spent part of a winter break on the couch outside Studio A, finishing up a Music independent study.

1969 was the last all-male class at Union.

Actually 1970.

also, the best suit I had for two years out of college was a commission for selling ads to Dave's Squire Shop

Who’s here from the mid/late 80s?

Women started fall of 1970

when we were back for our 40th reunion a few years ago we weren’t able to get into the main radio station, which was a bit disappointing. Woild

I recall woman started at Union after 70

would love to see what it looks like today!

Hey Bob!!!

Got to go, thanks to all the Flying Circus, best ever, am married to the Secretary of the Circus, lo these many years.

Is that Eric Hornick? Do you keep in touch with Scott Wyckoff?

yes, there were. Diane Empie was GM in 77-78, IIRC.

Hi Bob!

Rathskeller

John!

Soon after the rebuild in 65, we found ourselves doing an air show in A, an interview situation in B, and production in C. Everything running at the same time and running well. Fergie went nuts.

@Bob Goldstein - I”m here!!!

Nancy!

Loved the cabaret and coffee house Julie!!!

Hi Nancy!

John! I was hoping you would be here...

I think you introduced me to sushi shortly before I graduated, Nancy.

Eric and Scott thanks for being amazing!!!

Back in the early 80s WRUC became so popular on campus. We quickly were able to be on air 24/7...prior to that it was tough to find DJs to do the overnight shift.

Greg Pattenaude, Dan Rosenbaum and Neil Schwartz — WOW, names from the past!! This is Joyce Farley Alspach

@John - Yes - and I'm still in touch with Scott regularly. He works for WBAL in Baltimore now.

Hey to JB and the Flying Circus.....I married JB!! Class of 1975. logging in from Cheyenne, WY with my brother, Class of 1979

Joyce — were you Joyce Farley?

Is Fast Ed Koval here?

Hello Joyce!

Music library in 60's/70's was almost all 45's!

hey Joyce!!

@Tim - That's very kind. Thanks. We had a ball -- or a puck!

Eric - do you still do statistician work for the Islanders?

I know Ed spend some time as a commercial DJ after WRUC

Hi all. Any chance we could get a list of who's on this Zoom?

hey, Ira!

A list would be great!

I seem to remember an awful lot of albums in the library and on the turntables back then, Bob.

Yes, Joyce Farley ’77. Ruth Rappaport and I were the first two females who had their FCC third class licenses after we switched over to FM. Don Kaplan was President of WRUC at the time!

By the end, we had better than 50K discs in the library.

We were there when the first CD arrived.

You and I went to a Yankee game , sat in the press box and got asked for autographs when we left because we were the same age as players.

ohmygod, Joyce! Boy, I remember you so well.

Ira Slavit!! How are you??

in the early 90’s we made the transition from albums to CD’s

Still like Fleetwood Mac?

@Nancy Wiest I am on.

Hi Tom

@John - I still do--38 years later. Find me on twitter @ehornick. Scott is @scottwykoffWBAL

Hey Dan, Neal, Joyce, etc. Great to see you all are here!

Dennis and Bob - remember how Rich Gabrielson automated the 45's for all-night play with an old juke box

Hi Rich!

Hello, Rich. Great to see you here.

H Mike, you too!

Bob Goldstein … I drove Anton to Albany to buy the first CD player that he installed in the temporary upper Old Chapel studio. I missed an exit and backed up on the shoulder. He drove in Manhattan his whole life and was horrified.

Lauren Hauser, are you out there?

That jukebox was intermittent at best!

Great to see all, especially some of those around in '77.

Yay Eloise! Thanks for sharing that.

What was that song, Sentimental Woman?

I can still remember the “long” songs that I put on in order to run down the hall, up the stairs, use the bathroom and make the return trip before cueing up the next song!!

Yes - 33's as well. I must have been partial to the single play oldies at the time.

Well said Eloise!

Joyce - yes, there were “bathroom” songs

Trivia Show!!!

Oh, Ira!! Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Sentimental Lady!! How did you possibly remember that??

What Notts

Bathroom or smoking songs … one of the reasons songs like "American Pie" were popular when commercial DJs picked their own music.

Don played Sentimental Lady...always...in the time slot just before me.

Trivia!! (and Glen’s Emelock’s sketch comedy show)

Morning Mouth Emelock!

How long did the Trivia show last? Did it make it into the ‘80s?

Who can name the first song to be played on FM???

Hi Rich! Yeah, Don and I were dating at that time!

Part of the Union: Strawbs.

WRUC was a family, a fraternity, a life experience where we could make magic?

(probably Jackson Browne for me)

YES! Quick answer Dan

It was in 2014 Bob!

@Nancy Weist....yes I am on. Good to see you. Hello Bob and John as well

Hey. Trivia.

Ed!!

have to use the restroom -- be back momentarily

Best bathroom songs: stairway to heaven and Roundabout. I hated when I came back to find out that the record had skipped. And Trivia was the best for years....

I said hello earlier...but apparently that went only to panelists.

Mark Polansky, Class of 968

Hi Ed. I'm surprised that Karen is not here.

Fast Ed?

Yes sir

Karen is here.

We definitely did trivia in the mid 80's -- I ended up rounding up a lot of prizes.

None of us are as fast as we were, though.

Phil - it is wonderful to see/hear you again.

This is great hearing the history and how the stories of love for WRUC parallels through the years

Hi Ed!

I cut a SPA while playing Layla

Trivia nights were the best

Prizes for Trivia? What a concept!

Fast Ed!! Great to see your name, from one half of Eargasm

Bob, what was the gentleman's name that was there in the 1920 and active on the radio station and was on the Union Board of Directors who we met a few times?

Bob Saltzman - Kathy Hughes Baird here...

Fast Ed!! Great to see your name, from one half of Eargasm

I have a digitization of the recording. It should still be available on Soundcloud

great to see the old “good guys” from the sixties!

I just put on one side of Dark side of the Moon for those BR runs

I forget, John

Despite what Pittsburgh's KDKA claims, WRUC beat it on the air by a couple of weeks.

@Jeff Miller...God to see you.

WRUC — The Best … of Everything.

Good as well. 😀

Jeff and Ken!! Speaker's Bureau and Concert Committee!

First Station in the Nation and the City’s Last Hope…

Radio Free Union College, WRUC

WRUC 89.7 First Station in the Nation!

WRUC, “first station in the nation” is what I remember from ‘06

We had news of Tom Bonner’s resignation first. I wrote the article.

Jeff HEdquist! this is you! https://soundcloud.com/user-803858722/wruc-1967-jp-jeffrey-hedquist-show

I have a copy of that program, Phil. digitized and everything.

Hey John Morgan. Where are you these days? I'm in Palo Alto

Hubert Humphrey died during my show. 10 bells on the UPI teletype.

Greetings, thank you for this panel. Phil , I remember when you shared the film Sneakers with us. I’m Michael J Rothstein, on board at WRUC 91-95. Now, after working radio, another career & now an film producer. Love this,

No sadly not Bob, I wish!

@Jeffrey Miller - Midway between Albany and NYC in the Hudson Valley. Programmed two radio stations between 1990 and 1995 - one continues with the same "alternative" format to this day. Then I got a real job!

I was DJ, GM & big part going from vinyl to cd

Phil! Yes - I remember the 50th and can't believe we made it to 100! Never expected it! Kathy Mitchell Mullaney'74

One of the saddest things that happened in WRUC history is the liquidation of the music library in 2008

Liquidation of the music library? NoooooooOOO!

I wondered whatever happened to all those records...

I was on the air at WRUC when John Lennon was shot. That was a tough night.

No....we spent too much time getting that all put together in 1987. Where is Bill Boyd?

I had to catalog all of the records that Meade donated--I think it was for his tax deduction documentation. I almost made it in time for his return to be filed. I have no idea whether any of those classical records were ever given airplay...

The entirety of the Vinyl collection was given away. It happened a few years before I arrived to make from for TVUC which only lasted a few years

Another sad day was when a computer started running things rather than students...

KDKA is still "only" 99; they turn 100 on November 2nd.

Ugh - so sad to learn that the vinyl is gone. Who made THAT regretful decision I wonder?

Had a show '77-'78. Just remembered the 'Born to Run' vinyl album at the station which had people's STRONG opinions about the album scribbled all over the cover.

Fast Ed! From the other half of Eargasm!

Yes - where is Bill Boyd....

Student activities and the administration at the time I imagine

For a while, we nailed the copy of Born to Run to the wall of the record library, so it wouldn’t be played so often.

!! I helped move all those records from Old Chapel to the 'new' station in the Student Center! It took nearly an entire summer.

Phil - you did a

That entire library was moved twice from Carnegie/College Center to upper Old Chapel and then back. Ed Koval and Bill Boyd did a lot of that work.

Dave, the Vinyl Collection is gone

Yes, we will have the chat saved.

In my mind the vinyl collection is still there. With stickers and comments on the covers.

Tom Seem, my late roommate, Roger Miller, did a classical music show on Sundays, so he probably played some of Meade’s records

@Bob - me too…

Yes, record reviews written on those old records

Traffic!! GLAD!!

Mike Roberts, with us tonight must have written to every record company to get comps!

Someone should have kept that one green vinyl song of “Balloon Man”

And holes punched through the record labels so that they would not be resold...

There were stacks and stacks of records left in 2008, but all that was left was more recent and pretty much no name music

Reviews, suggestions, and a stool on wheels generously donated from the top floor of the library.

@Nancy right then. It’s still there! If they show that room I’ll look away.

Phil - you did a morning show in 1969, and I followed you at 9 AM...you did the weather from Tahiti and Bora Bora, when it was 5 below in Schenectady....very funny, except when we went outside... to

During the mid-70's we computerized the vinyl and that was a real _______. We couldn't believe how many records there were.

I remember playing the library by topic:

Rich - I thought that was Dan’s job!

Ed … Sirius XM First Wave plays "Balloon Man."

songs about trains

Dan too! Yes!

I remember that

I was lucky enough to get into WRUC when the music library was a pile of vanilla, totally messed up, disorganized and piled high. I took it upon my self to weed it, clean it, and organize it. and that’s how I became the Music Director for the mid-sixties.

where's Lloyd?

@john I still have that Robyn Hitchcock album

I think Raph was going to be here too (??)

@John & Ed - Robyn Hitchcock!!! I’m having genuine flashbacks

Tonight? No idea. He’s a pain management doc in New Haven. We had lunch a couple of years ago.

I remember digitizing an interview with Patti Smith where she flashed everyone through the window

Who remembers TESTOSTERONE ROCK in the early 2000s? That show ROCKED. The DJs were hilarious too. Best show on WRUC back in the day.

Julie - that is hysterical. I met Mick Jones, from the original Clash, and remember thinking of comments on albums about him being "fired" from the Clash.

@Jacob: what year was that?

And we also had Judy Collins perform in concert.

Hi Rich, Neal, Joyce, Dan

I always loved when groups would come up to the station to record promotional bits - especially during Camp Union and Fitzhugh Ludlow...

Hiya, Lloyd!

In about 1988, U2 formally thanked "college radio" on national television when they won their first Grammy.

I brought the momma & the papas to Union. also The lovin’ Spoonful

Hi Lloyd!

Hi Lloyd!!

Bob- And I remember recording Judy's Chapel concert from the RUC studios with a "secret" line from the Chapel

But, we haven't talked much about the sports side of Union during the re-vitalized hockey years and the competition we faced from WWWD and the "record Hops" where WRUC went around campus for parties and such.

Hey Lloyd, who was interviewed during our time? Springsteen? Billy Joel? who else?

the constant denominator that I hear is passion - for music and WRUC.

Loggins and Messina came up one night with their sunglasses at night, I lived it.

Bob Shages - hi and wow! I have numerous 1/4 inch tapes of concerts that I recorded. Still need to transcript them to digital.

Dean Friedman. Loggins & Messina. Patti Smith. Mel Blanc.

the simulcasting with WWWD for sports was tremendous

We didn’t get Springsteen or Billy Joel on the air. Dammit.

@John Morgan what was the band that just kept coming back tp play in studio… the Cucumbers?

WRUC influenced the "introduction" of several bands to the music world - New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, and Sha Na Na.

Mishaps...streakers!

I interviewed the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

I remember the brou-ha-ha when Harkness gave WWWD the broadcast contact (and ‘RUC pushed the simulcast)

Didn’t Jerry Seinfeld come into the studio whe he performed at Old Chapel?

The Cucumbers, "My Boyfriend" and "Don't Drop the Baby"

Noooooooo

We could not get Jerry to. But we did get Carts from Sam Kinison and Dennis Miller.

Oooh boy I remember that

I do remember The Cucumbers coming in and performing live.

The Cucumbers were not very good. I loved them!!

Rich: the streakers that was an epic show out side of Carnegie

And Stephen Wright … he always listened to WRUC when he was in Schenectady … and when he wasn't it was mailed to him.

Love the cukes....

She was very nice, but sang off key quite a bit.

Mambo-X…..?

Remember the CD "juke box."

Fascinating. The evolution of WRUC after I graduated in 1960 (over modulated rf and all) is something I had not realized in all these years. That it decayed so badly shortly after is a story I did not know. Thanks for its rebirth.

To Charles Cusimano, we had a similar situation with a night DJ who came in drunk and we took him off the air as well. Ironically, the name of his show was "Pickin up the Pieces" and when he realized he had been taken over, he took his plastic cassette, stomped on it, breaking it and left us to "pick up the pieces", classic.

I am in touch with Seth Kaufman from the Mambos. He has written several books.

The jukebox isn’t there but the cabinets we put in in 1987 appear to still be.

@John M - What?!? We will have to take this offline - need to learn more

I got a phone call on the hall pay phone and it was Eddie Money asking me if he could do an interview on WRUC to promote his show but

@John S Morgan it held 100 cd’s

john@morganwealth.net

Hana & Neila- I was chatting with Matt, Lauren, and Shawna - I think it will be great if to invite people to the reception after the webinar. There's a lot of great convos happening and the chat is extremely active, so I think they'd love it.

Curious - Did anyone save any airchecks?

If you want to announce when we are close to wrapping up, I will send it in the chat too

Jose were you responsible when WRGB came to install the filter to prevent the bleed?!

The Mighty Mighty T.R. I remember hearing those guys announce the show and I knew it was time to throw down!

Neal: was this a 2-6am guy? I think I know who you mean; he kept falling asleep during his shift.

Now the problem is that all the commercial stations drown us out

My biggest surprise? Being mooned through the studio glass window at 3 in the morning by 4 brothers of Beta Theta Pi.

Dan: no, it was a Saturday night, I think 11-2

Mooning…that happened a lot

We were heard at the FCC monitoring station in Montauk Point, NY

I think the FM transmitter ran hot most of the time too Jeff. When I briefly was in professional radio, we took readings every two hours. WRUC was not the regular with the readings in the late 1980s.

I gave away a lot of Ben & Jerry's Vermonsters and Wendy's in my day.

Eric, your comment reminds me of the Ben & Jerry's Parents' Weekend Open House in upper Old Chapel.

I have an image of my WR U. C. buttons if anyone would like to see it.

golden anniversary

We tried to give away 50 copies of the awful Evita concept album. Emphasis on the word “tried."

Hello all. We are just about at time. How would you like to proceed?

Hi everyone! Love seeing everyone's excitement and memories from WRUC! We are going to have a reception after the event from 8-8:30pm in another zoom (where you can see everyone!) and hope you can join us. Use this link to join the reception after the webinar ends: https://union.zoom.us/j/91584144527

I grew up in nearby Glenville, NY and remember listening to WRUC and WRPI on my smiley face transistor radio late into the night while in junior high in the early ‘80s. WRUC Introduced me to music that I could not hear on the local commercial radio stations - life changing.

To this day the words in Piano Man "the microphone smelled like a beer" reminds me of that remote from the 'Skellar when the mic ended up in the beer pitcher...5c Genny Cream beers!

@Bob Goldsetein - Tam's Tanning & Laundry was a sponsor of "Lights on, Nobody's Home."

Robinson—Pete Tierney and I sold UC—it was the biggest beer on campus weekends. the beer that made Milwaukee jealous.

:)

That's normal since at least 2008

We used to run an AC 24/7!

There was a lot of creativity back in the day. One morning I was given out to the 10th caller and a local single "townie" woman came up to the station and I had to meet her... talk about awkward...…..I couldn't believe she showed.

hi everyone, Dan Aguirre here, I was a DJ of Spanish tunes from 92-95

Hi everyone! Love seeing everyone's excitement and memories from WRUC! We are going to have a reception after the event from 8-8:30pm in another zoom (where you can see everyone!) and hope you can join us. Use this link to join the reception after the webinar ends: https://union.zoom.us/j/91584144527

oh, i remember that, Neil. You were *very* freaked out.

Hi everyone! Love seeing everyone's excitement and memories from WRUC! We are going to have a reception after the event from 8-8:30pm in another zoom (where you can see everyone!) and hope you can join us. Use this link to join the reception after the webinar ends: https://union.zoom.us/j/91584144527

When the studio was on the 4th floor of Carnegie/Reamer, you could tell is there was a cold beverage available by looking on the window sill for a large mayonaise jar.

To the current DJS - we left an 8 track of our show recorded in 1972 - JB and the Flying Circus and someone there (in 2015) promised to convert it to CD or a more modern medium for us and it has disappeared and we are heartbroken. Has anyone seen it? It still played as there was an 8 track that we had with us but that broke as well.

Jeff, I am recording everything as well.

LOL

Thank you!!!

Thank you!!!

Great panel! Thank you!

RUC OFF

Thanks

Thank you for providing a great time of reminiscence!!

Thank you. this has been great! Kathy Mullaney

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WRUC rocks!

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Reception! https://union.zoom.us/j/91584144527

Don't you have to play the national anthem to get this off the air?

Thank you!

thank you. loved all the stories! thanks panelists and Hana and Neila.

Great Job all!

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