my interview with Donna Halper today

[A Joseph Ross]

On 1/7/2013 2:18 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:

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

I think it depended on the college.  I certainly heard female voices on 
WBUR and WERS in those days.  On the other hand WAMF at Amherst College 
(now WAMH and shared with Hampshire) had no female voices, probably 
because Amherst was an all-male school at the time.

> 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?

Janet Baker-Carr on WXHR, Nermal Daniere (sp?) on WBCN, Robin on WHDH on 
Sunday morning.  And in the early 1950s, I remember Kate Smith with a 
daily show on one of the networks.

I suspect Donna can rattle off every one of the women on the radio in 
those days.  In fact, since I'm posting after midnight, she probably 
already has done so.

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