my interview with Donna Halper today

[Kevin Vahey]

WMUA may have been the exception to the rule back then.

MIT's WTBS which in 1967 was open to anybody who wandered in had no females
at all. I don't think there was a policy against women but there was
no recruitment either. Honestly if you look back at mid 1960's Boston radio
women had almost no presence at all. WNAC had Louise Morgan but who else?

*Tracy Roach at WBCN finally got a chance as did Robin Young at WBZ but it
was very slow in coming.*



On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:49 PM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 1/6/2013 5:34 PM, Bob Nelson wrote:
>
>> http://jukejoint.freehostia.**com/Interviews/Halper2013.mp3<http://jukejoint.freehostia.com/Interviews/Halper2013.mp3>
>>
>> It's a Sunday and Donna Halper is talking about radio, on the radio,
>> with someone named Bob.
>>
>> --Bob Nelson
>> WMWM
>>
>
> Very nice interview.
>
> I've always been surprised whenever I hear Donna's story about women not
> being allowed on the radio at Northeastern.  I'm a couple of years older
> than Donna, but in 1963 when I got to WMUA at UMass as a freshman, there
> were already a lot of women on the air there.  What surprised me at the
> time was when I was told that there had recently been a woman station
> manager.  I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, since my mother was a
> doctor, but I was.
>
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