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Jjempo Du Pago 2 Section 17 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, September 28, 1997 DuPageNotebook Fine-tuning wasn't enough to save WORD By Mary Breslin Special to the Tribune Yesterday vangelism was the primary mission at radio station WORD, broadcasting from a small building on Max Mel- broadcasting. Listeners regularly complained that WORD'S religious evangelism pre-empted stations that carried some of their favorite mainstream radio shows, such as soap operas, prize fights and livestock reports. WORD left its Batavia studio in 1929 and moved to Chicago, changing its call letters to WCHI and its slogan to "The Voice of Chicago." It couldn't survive in the competitive market and signed off in 1931. One of the towers remained in Batavia until 1969, when it was destroyed, bringing down the final remnant of WORD'S radio days in Batavia. the Jehovah's Witnesses, who used this relatively new communication medium to share their beliefs.

The Melhorn family even installed a loudspeaker on the side of the studio building so folks without receivers could hear the "good word" from WORD, according to John Russell Ghrist's "Valley Voices." Those were the days when frequencies were often shared by stations, so others grabbed the airwaves when WORD wasn't horn's farm in Batavia during the 1920s. Agriculture shows, news and some music were also part of the format at the station, which boasted two towers erected in 1924. A few shows were broadcast from a makeshift one-room studio in the Melhorn home. The station was owned by the People's Pulpit Association and Try on the StarTAC wearable cellular phone and experience the huge power of Motorola in the smallest way yet. Clip it to your belt.

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Isidore students know to look twice at the spelling words stuck to the refrigerator. Even the exposure, we feel, students can make a better choice when choosing a language later on." Japanese may not be repeated because of difficulty in getting language help. But starting next year, foreign language will be for 4th, 5th and 6th graders, rotating each year so that by junior high the children have had a full year of each language. Of course, a little knowledge can be fun. The students had a Japanese tea ceremony, made piflatas in their study of Spain and last year celebrated Mardi Gras.

This year they hope for a German Oktoberfest. with students learning Japanese. The next year all the students studied Spanish, then French and this year German. They will sing German songs in music and study German history, geography and art. And for a half-hour each week, the children will learn basic conversational German.

"We live in a global world," said principal Sandy Renehan, who founded the program. "We wanted exposure to a foreign language to be our goal. By getting early I LJ Li UJDLjU elementary words may be challenging for a parent who doesn't speak German. Common German words like guten tag will be snuck in among the common spelling words this year as Stlsidore's 4th through 8th graders in Bloomingdale incorporate the German language into the curriculum. The school's foreign language program started four years ago "With new CellularOne Activation.

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