The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 44

Jonuory 27 1963 Sunday Post-Crescent 4 WLFM Turns 'Shoe-String' Operation Lawrence Station Hopes to Launch Stereo Broadcasts HHMBMHHBHI ix it JL 55 A til BY MARK OLIVA Post-Crescent Staff Writer Appleton's only FM radio station, WLFM, Lawrence College, 91.1 has turned what was a "shoestring" operation only a tew years ago into a fine music station. WLFM brings Fox Cities listeners classical music, Broadway tunes, jazz and folk musicf all without commercial interruptions. The station is entirely student operated. Students experimenting with closed-circuit AM radio in dormitories were responsible for the birth of WLFM. One of them, Donal Sieb, formerly of Wrights-town, now with a Madison radio station, learned that WJPG Radio in Green Bay was willing to relinquish its old FM transmitter.

Sieb recruited the help of Frederick Hervey, engineer with WHKW-FM, Chilton, a station of the State FM Network, and school authorities. Through their intercession, WJPG donated the transmitter to Lawrence. Installed Transmitter Hervey and Sieb wired the studio, then in the basement of the old gym, and installed the transmitter. Hervey volunteered his spare time to rebuild and modify the transmitter. Finally, on March 10, 1956, Hervey "fired up" the WLFM station manager Dudley foreground, U34V2 W.

Spencer A ppleton, handles the engineering end of a program of Lawrence College minstrels being taped in the station's main studio. Singers are, from left, P. K. Allen, Andover, Elizabeth Zethmayer, LaGrange, 111, Dusty Rhodes, Princeton, N.J., and Virginia Allen, Douglas, Mich. The program will be broadcast on WLFM at 7 p.m.

Sunday night, Feb. 3. (Post-Crescent Photos by Mark Oliva) :1 i-i in jXf cvA i --fV WW 1'3 of? t'r. I Mi; tan 111 ii fluiL IgWWX' 1 lllllil I V- -i I Mil I "Oh Shiner Man, Where You Gonna Run To?" Lawrence students P. K.

Allen, left, Andover, and Virginia Allen, right, Douglas, not related, sing the chorus of the old Southern Appalachian gospel song while taping a program of on campus minstrels to be broadcast next Sunday at 7 p.m. on WLFM, 91.1 Post Crescent Photo) Betty Bradford, 721 E. Dennison Appleton, background, prepares to tape a station break being made by program director Elliot Bush, 1221 Ontario Oshkosh. in the control room of WLFM's studios in the Lawrence College Music-Drama Center. (Post Crescent Photo).