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Our purpose...

"To have fun with colleagues from
the years when broadcasting was fun!"

Join the Broadcast Legends
on Thursday, June 19,
from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.
as we celebrate

Women In
Broadcasting

Hosted By
Rosie Allen of
KGO Radio 810

Did you know that the first female disc jockey in the history of radio got her start right here in the Bay Area ... in 1912! Did you know that one of the very first radio announcer training schools anywhere in the United States was founded right here ... by a woman! Do the names Evangeline Baker, Wanda Ramey, Edna Fischer, Helen Troy, Natalie Parks, Belva Davis, Bea Benaderet, Helen Bentley, Evelyn Winters and Ann Holden ring a bell? We'll celebrate them -- and all of the great women of Bay Area radio and television, past and present -- as part of the next Broadcast Legends lunch on Thursday, June 19.

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Legends Gather As
"We Remember When..."

The quarterly gathering of Broadcast Legends for Spring 2008 featured a rollicking discussion of broadcasting's "young adult" years as recalled by five men who were there to witness it firsthand.

Fred LaCosse and the Legends panel

The panel discussion, moderated by Fred LaCosse, was filled with reminiscences by Ken Ackerman, Aaron Edwards, Bill Evenson, Don Mozley and Dave Parker, who recalled how they broke into the industry, the jobs they performed early in their careers, their greatest and most embarrassing moments on the air, and the most memorable people they met along the way.

Homage was paid to several notable Legends that recently became Silent Mikes, as the assemblage celebrated the lives and careers of Bob Glassburn, Bob McDonald, Ray Jacobs, Rufus Pederson, Rod Sherry, Harry Martin, Sy Mouber, Brian Connolly and Ron Boltz.

Messrs. Ackerman, Edwards, Evenson, Mozley and Parker

David Jackson of the Bay Area Radio Museum, with the help of Legend Norm Howard (Lehfeldt), presented the rare video of KSFO's 1961 "Great Race" between popular disc jockeys Don Sherwood and Jim Lange from Stinson Beach, across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco and the finish line at the Ferry Building. Norm's vantage point was second-to-none during the race: he was the young man toting the camera that captured the action.