WTRN STAFF MEMBERS

Current and Past, tell the story

Thanks to Virgie Werner for these excellent photos of the program

at the Tyrone Area Historical Society, Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Will Walk, the first WTRN Program Director, tells how it all began.

Gretta Rorabaugh Czap (Red With Records) and Bill Duey

talk about the Dairy Dip broadcasts, when hundreds of kids would

gather to make requests, dance to the music, and enjoy delicious treats.

As Cary Simpson was introducing them, Grets told an amazing story

about how earlier that day, she'd been in Altoona shopping, and a

woman in a wheel chair asked her to help get her sweater off, when the woman

asked, "Are You 'Red With Records'?"  A fan remembered her so many years later!

Ann Searer smiles as Joyce Nowlin recalls one of the many funny

and heartwarming memories of the WTRN staffers over the years

Don Igou, who broadcast the Sunday Night Hymn Time program for 18 years,

was introduced by Dave Kaup, the current host.

Ted Simpson, right, introduced two of his fellow deejays from the 80s,

Dave Snyder and Matt Swayne.  Their stories delighted the audience

Dad and son.  Ted Simpson recalls some incident as Cary holds the mike

Jean Dixon and Betty Rodgers talked about WTRN today

Bob Johnson ("BJ, The DJ") told a heartwarming story of how, one day

shortly before Christmas, he heard of a family whose kids weren't going

to have any Christmas toys or presents.  He asked listeners to bring gifts

to the radio station, and by the end of his program, he had two cars full to

take to the family.

Roy Goshorn, the Dean of Blair County Radio News Reporters, paid tribute

to WTRN for its continuous service.

Cary Simpson thanked the Tyrone Area Historical Society for the opportunity

to tell the story of WTRN, through the minds and voices of those who had made

it "live" and important.