The LuLac Edition #3882, September 23rd, 2018

WRKC FM 50 YEARS ON!!!

Last night was a wonderful gathering of King's College WRKC FM alumni. Students and radio station personnel from 5 decades stopped by Karl Hall for a celebration of memories, tributes and just plain catching up with one another.
WRKC FM started in a small room at Holy Cross Hall in 1968.
When I joined the station in 1973 it was in the Sheehy Student Center broadcasting at 440 watts.
By 1980 the station had gone Stereo. A few years back, the wattage was at 1000 and currently is at 1500.
The relationships built there have stood the test of time. Radio people catch the bug and it never leaves you.
Some have stayed in broadcasting as a career, some have come, gone and then come back again, others moved on to other media but always stayed on the fringes of radio.

In the first photo, front row me, Bob Manfre Station Manager from 74-76, Pat Padden (P-Fadd) and Jill Wollett who worked at WILK, later owned a station in Jersey Shore with he late husband and a hell of a scrap book keeper. Back row, John Flynn and The Mad Drummer.
The next photo below features Attorney and former Congressional staffer (to two of them no less) Ron Ungvarsky and Pat (P-Fadd) Fadden who after 50 years all of a sudden finds himself with a nickname courtesy of the Drummer. 

We are holding a special license plate made especially for Father Thom Carten who was an inspiration to all of us and a person who started the longest running reading service for the blind in the country (44 years). 

The third photo features Mrs. Drummer, me and Sue Henry who played a pivotal role in getting this thing together.

Here's Jill Wollett with Karen Dolan. Karen actually did political ads for me in the 1970s for Scranton City Councilwoman Grace Shimmelfinig and Tom Lehman's Senate campaign in 1978. She traveled all the way from New Orleans.  

Bill Gall was from The Class of 1970 at King's. He was one of the first students to broadcast on WRKC FM in 1968. Here he is with his wife Sylvia. 

Brian Carey a former WRKC FM broadcaster was with WNAK, WILK, WINS in New York and later ABC Network news. 

From left to right, Borys Krawczeniuk of the Scranton Times Tribune, Magic 93's Frankie Warren and Stan Phillips.
Like the ink on those damn FCC Third Class Licenses we all had to pass back in the day, the imprint of our time here is indelible.