Roske, Peggy L

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College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU Archives History Lessons Archives 2019 Wireless at St. John's: The Early Days of Radio on the Campus Peggy L. Roske proske@csbsju.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/archives_history_lessons Recommended Citation Roske, Peggy L., "Wireless at St. John's: The Early Days of Radio on the Campus" (2019). Archives History Lessons. 98. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/archives_history_lessons/98 This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Archives History Lessons by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@csbsju.edu. Wireless at Saint John’s---The Early Days of Radio on the Campus “Colored by Fr. Alban Gertken.”1Nothing on the roof…“Sience” ??!!On back: “Welle.” (?)   “SIENCE” Hall?!?2On back of photo: “Before 1927” – radio tower(s) in evidence!“Before 1927.”31920s1920s (between 1922 and 1928) aerial view, http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/6307 The Old Gym (Guild Hall) sits in its original location directly in front of Simons Hall, the original Power Plant sits directly north of the laundry building (later the Paint Shop), and Benet Hall (opened in 1922) is in place, but the main Auditorium (1928) has not yet been built.4http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/2102http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/2103p.35Fr. Gunther, 1917-2004A great resource!:http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/2102http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/2103 Scriptorium cover  https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/2098p. 39-40 has a great accounting of the wireless being used to "show" a MN-Iowa football game to the student body. Photo Abbey Quarterly spring 1996 p.9  https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/20026/rec/875Image: 1926 SagataganScriptorium Dec. 1944 p. 38-39Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-39Photo from 1926 Sagatagan, p. 19 http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/18893/rec/25Doerfler text box is from the 1923 yearbook p. 17 http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/17213/rec/206The Record May 1915Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-39The Record May 1915 p.363  https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/18500/rec/17“Erecting radio tower, 5-26-1915.”8“St. John’s radio tower, 1915.”9Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-3910Text: Scriptorium Dec. 1944 p. 38-39Image: O:\Archives\SJUArchives\Images\Buildings\CAMPUS SITES\Farming & Ag SJAA photos scanned 2017Farm Photos 35 Dairy barn 1910-1919 & radio tower111912??Photo: PC06 v.1 p.38  Text from Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-39121.2.13Post card.  On back: “Old St. John’s radio tower (about 1930)”Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-3914Scriptorium Dec. 1944 p. 38-39Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-3915“Radio station in Science Hall 1915."16Scriptorium Dec. 1944 p. 38-39Photo:  Wireless PC06 v.1 p.36c.  “2/29/20  Clockwise: Aske, Fleckenstein, Picotta, “Dick” Richter (in chair) and Mener (?)  Text:  Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-39171915“1st radio station 1915.”181920Wireless PC06 v.1 p.36a19The Record, December 1922, p. 482 Text from 1922-12 The Record, p. 482  https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/23124/rec/41Image from the 1923 Sagatagan, p. 91 https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/17246/rec/6  20(The future Angelo Zankl OSB, ‘23, is on the right.)Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-39  (5) The blow-down was on Thanksgiving Day: The Record  Dec. 1922 p.484http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/23124/rec/41Photo: 1920s.  The future Angelo Zankl OSB is on the right.21Wireless PC06 v.1 p.36b1920s. Herbert Richter “St. John’s high school & 2 yrs. College. An interesting character, he belonged to the first Wireless Club…In the novitiate almost a year, built up Electrical Dept. for Montgomery Ward in St. Paul & Chicago. About 1941 with D. Onan co., Midway – Minneapolis St. Paul. Retired.  ‘An electrical whiz came from Sykston, ND.’  Fr. Othmar Hohmann.”22Wireless PC06 v.1 p.36b1920s. Herbert Richter “St. John’s high school & 2 yrs. College. An interesting character, he belonged to the first Wireless Club…In the novitiate almost a year, built up Electrical Dept. for Montgomery Ward in St. Paul & Chicago. About 1941 with D. Onan co., Midway – Minneapolis St. Paul. Retired.  ‘An electrical whiz came from Sykston, ND.’  Fr. Othmar Hohmann.”231923 Sagatagan yearbook, p. 122The RecordOctober 1923, p. 3291923 Sagatagan yearbook, p. 122  https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/17263/rec/6The Record October 1923, p. 329https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/23943/rec/1024This photo is from the 1923 tower raising:…but it sure looks a lot like the ones shown earlier that are supposedly from May 1915:“Radio Tower raised…Raised Aug. 8, 1923”251915?Note this gentleman:“St. John’s radio tower, 1915.”26Same guy? I think so! “Radio Tower raised…Raised Aug. 8, 1923”27The earlier photos of the tower going up probably date to 1923, not 1915.In 1915, when the tower first went up – and came crashing down! –they probably didn’t take photos.My guess:  the second time it went up, in 1923, they made sure to take photos –just in case!(And the 1923 photos were incorrectly labeled as “1915” in the Archives.  It happens…)“Radio Tower raised…Raised Aug. 8, 1923”2819151923Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 38-39The Record May 1915 p.363  https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/18500/rec/1291923The RecordOctober 1923, p. 329“radio tower 10 a.m. 1923”30Dec. 1923 Record, p. 425Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 39-40The radio football game broadcast story is from the Dec. 1923 Record, p. 425.http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/23548/rec/1331The Record Nov. 27, 1924, p. 3 The Record Nov. 27, 1924, p.3 (not 4) http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/30013/rec/4532The Record Nov. 27, 1924, p.1 & 3 The Record Nov. 27, 1924, p.1  http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/30011/rec/45…and p.3 (not 4) http://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/CSBArchNews/id/30013/rec/4533Scriptorium Dec. 1944 p. 38-391925 Sagatagan yearbook, p. 100 Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 401925 Sagatagan yearbook, p. 100 https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/17431/rec/8341925 Sagatagan yearbook, p. 100 Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 40 1925 Sagatagan yearbook, p. 101 https://cdm.csbsju.edu/digital/collection/SJUArchives/id/17431/rec/835ScriptoriumDec. 1944 p. 38-39Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 40-41“Year 1918 Science Hall SJU.”36Scriptorium Dec. 1944 p. 38-39Image: Post card.  Text:  Scriptorium 05/1 : 1944 : p.035  ROLFSON, GUNTHER -- OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR p. 40-4137An undated photo shows the complexity of the “wireless” wires:In the SJU Archives, Box1048:2 College Radio Club38In the SJU Archives, Box1048:2 College Radio Club39College Radio Club’s Minutes, 1919-1928, 1948-1965They skip from 1928 to 1948 without missing a page!In the SJU Archives, Box1048:2 College Radio Club (Minutes) 1919-1928, 1948-1965They skip from 1928 to 1948 without missing a page!401961…but the tower on the Science Hall remained.St. John's Original Science Hall- July 23, 1961 – from SJAA 2014 10 1641And then, in 1966, radio returns to campus in a grand way…“The arrival of FM radio made big waves on the St. John’s Campus in the summer of 1966. Bill Kling, Dan Rieder, John Hovanec, Mike Obler, and Nancy Unger are pictured here on the cover of the Summer 1966 edition of The Off-Campus Record.”42Bill Kling, MPR founder…and a new radio tower goes up at Saint John’s.SJU Archives, in folder: Collegeville MPR images from M Fiala"Engineer Dan Rieder takes a break from assembling an antenna tower in the early 1970s.“On right:  SJU Archives, in folder: Collegeville MPR images from M Fiala"Bill Kling, MPR founder and President Emeritus, on a radio tower near St. John's University, ca. 1968."43Radio – and other media –flourish on campus again44Compiled in 2019 from resources in the archives of Saint John’s Universityby Peggy Landwehr Roske, CSB/SJU ArchivistAll rights reserved.“Colored by Fr. Alban Gertken.”45

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