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...same unique informal spirit pervaded the folk concert Wednesday night in Quincy. Although the program was being taped for WHRB rebroacast, students and their dates sat in chairs and on tables around the crowded dining hall...
...WHRB likes it controlmen, and they like their job. The members have no desire to replace men with machines. There are many WHRBies, in fact, who know very little about music, (at least when they come, and before they have spent hundreds of hours in a controlman), but whose interest is purely technical. Bob Kalayan '67, this year's head controlman, does nothing but technical work, and, he says, "the more complicated it is, the more fun." It takes only five or six hours to train a controlman to minimal standards, but beyond that, there is all kinds of scope...
...esoteric life, and they are extremely popular with both listeners and the members. As Webb puts it, "Orgies are a chance for CM's like me to let their hair down." He is responsible for the orgy of War Horses--classical music other stations might play, but which WHRB would never touch on a regular show--Beethoven's Fifth, perhaps the Ninth, Dvorak's New World Symphony, and "almost all of Tchaikovsky." Other members offer orgies of "Mothers Day request music," Bossa Nova, Muddy Waters, Mozart, or "Music in E flat...
...their college careers, there is a steady procession of candidates who want to work and who have real technical skill and who have real technical skill and musical interest. The station has both devoted members and devoted listeners, and if it does not have a large Harvard-Radcliffe audience, WHRB considers that one of its minor worries. The college is there, but it is incidental...
Strange things do happen on the AM circuit to the College, though. A Cliffie once picked up her phone to make a call, and was slightly suprised to hear music coming out of the receiver. It turned out to be the same music WHRB was playing, so the Cliffie hastened to call the men who live under Mem Hall. "Do you know," she said, "that I can hear WHRB on my telephone?" The WHRB man did not know this, but he was equal to the occasion: "Turn on your radio and you can hear us even better," he retorted...