my interview with Donna Halper today

Shawn Mamros mamros@mit.edu
Mon Jan 7 08:11:00 EST 2013


>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. [...]

As far as I know, there was certainly no policy against women joining
the station.  In fact, the station had at least one female station
manager circa 1960, right before the FM transmitter signed on, when
the station relocated to its current Walker Memorial basement location.
(I know this for a fact because I met her at the 50th anniversary
party we had in 2011.)

If there were no women at the station in 1967, that was more a function
of the relative lack of females at MIT during that timeframe.

-Shawn


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