Author Archives: Tom Shakely

Rob Stoner produced this short feature on Shyam Sundar and The Jazz Spectrum in 2006:

“I found the attached pictures of WDFM from 1971 while going through boxes in the office. I was a student in Electrical Engineering at Penn State from 1967–1971 and Chief Engineer of WDFM from 1970–1971. At that time our faculty manager was Dr. Harold Nelson, the station’s General Manager was another EE student, Paul Heimbach, …

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Roger Silverberg, Class of 1974, reminisces: One of my lasting memories from my 4 year tenure at WDFM was one wee hours air shift when, alone in the studio, I put on one of those go-to sides that were nice to have at the ready for when nature called. About 17 minutes was good enough. …

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I joined the staff at WEHR as a freshman in 1974. We were just a hole in the wall in Johnston Commons with a wall of just a few hundred vinyl albums. We had two turn tables and a very small, sound mixing board.  I remember Russ, the engineer, maintaining transmitters in several of the …

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Steven Weisberg, Class of 1972, shares a photo and a story: I wish I had, or more accurately, wish my parents had, more space to save my WDFM college era stuff but one of the surviving photos I found from December 1968 shows me in a “See-Me- See-Me” WDFM Exhibitionist Team T-Shirt that we sported …

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I was on staff at WDFM probably beginning about 1967 for at least two years, ending with my graduation in 1969 with a degree in journalism. I was assistant news director, had a live interview show in the arts and also DJ’d a music program focused on Broadway. I would promote on campus events, such as …

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