Name: Dan Mahoney
Email: dmahoney@thunder-nba.com
Home: Oklahoma City, OK
Station: WVCW
Years: 1978-79
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Comments18 years in TV/Radio news and sports. Richmond, Albuq and OKC. Pr for Governor of Oklahoma 95-03
now VP of Communications for NBA team, OKC Thunder.
Cant wait to catch up. I loved my time and WVCW and have been looking for many of you. Glad I found this site!
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Name: Dan Mahoney
Email: dmahoney@thunder-nba.com
Home: Oklahoma City, OK
Station: WVCW
Years: 1978-79
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Comments18 years in TV/Radio news and sports. Richmond, Albuq and OKC. Pr for Governor of Oklahoma 95-03
now VP of Communications for NBA team, OKC Thunder.
Cant wait to catch up. I loved my time and WVCW and have been looking for many of you. Glad I found this site!
405-474-4406
Name: Jesse Vaughan
Email: jessevaughan1@mac.com
Home: Los Angeles, CA
Station: WVCW
Years: 1976 - 1980
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Comments
Jesse Vaughan live in Shaefer Court '78 (jazz show) I
started as a DJ in the fall of 1976 and the call letters
were WVCW. I worked there until I graduated in 1980 with
my Sunday early evening show "Gentle Thoughts: The Best
In Jazz Music." Charles "Tuna" Robinson got me going. He
was a DJ at the time. I also became Assistant News
Director and Sports Director under Station Manager Brian
Baker. This whole experience changed my life. It was,
still is and will always be the most fun I've ever
experienced in my career. It was the defining moment of
my life - cherished memories I'll never forget, like
when Brian mooned me during a live newscast, smashing
his bare hairy pimple laced butt cheeks right against
the studio window. Sorry Brian, we saw pimples and there
are witnesses :) I laughed so hard we had to go to a
commercial break. And then there was the time tennis
superstar Bjorn Borg was in town, we got the only
exclusive interview with him and all the national
networks were pissed. One guy started screaming at me.
They asked Bjorn why he gave us that interview and he
said it was because we looked like we were 14 years old.
How funny is that. I could go on and on, like when Al
Jarreau spent about three hours with us giving us an
exclusive. He dug our vibe so much he wanted us to go
shopping with his wife! We did and it was an incredible
moment in our lives. Man on man oh man, I'm getting
chills just traveling down memory lane. I love the
station, love the place. Thanks for making me remember.
It always warms my heart.
Jesse Vaughan '76-'80 WVCW DJ, Assistant News
Director, Sport Director Class of 1980
WTVR, TV-6, Richmond, Va. NBC/WRC-TV4, Washington,
DC., NBC Sports, MTV Networks, VH-1, Warner Bros., New
Line Cinema, HBO and Fox TV.
Name: Brian Alan Baker
Email: bab@brianalanbaker.com
Home: Pasadena, CA
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Time: 12:43 PM
Comments
When I started, WJRB was in the basement. I think we
moved two years later (1977). Can’t recall if the name
changed before or after the move upstairs, but I believe
it was before. I was Station Manager for two years (fall
1977 to fall 1979), and I spent considerable time
lobbying the school to apply for a 100 watt FM license.
I reserved the frequency with the FCC (89.9) but could
not get traction within the administration. Even had a
“task force” with students, faculty, and admin, but in
hindsight it was DOA by design. The move upstairs was a
mixed blessing. More space, but removed from the street.
The Commonwealth Times occupied the second floor, and
Reflections in Ink (magazine) shared the first floor
with a housing office and a snack/grill shop. The living
room was empty, and open to anyone who wanted to use it.
All in all, it was a great house to work in, and I
basically lived there for four years. I commissioned
several art students to come up with new WVCW logos. My
17 year old daughter wears one of the t-shirts. She goes
off to Parsons School of Design (NYC) in August…the
exact age I was when I started at WJRB. I lost touch
with most, but would like to catch up with many if
possible. C3 (Charles Robinson III) and I are still in
touch. He went to anchor the CBS station in Boca Raton,
and then weekend anchor BET. Jesse Vaughn is out in LA;
he became the director at WRC in DC, directed TV (Living
Color last 6 episodes), and is writing screen plays. Don
Lee is the CBS pool cameraman at the White House. Johnno
Roberts is still broadcasting Farsi at VOA. I went to
law school on San Diego, briefly back to DC to practice
communications law, and for the past 24 years in LA
(Pasadena) as a civil litigator. I recognize a few of
the names on the site. Ed Hazelwood, Henry Morse, and
Lennaux Cook. Seems that my time started right about
when the list cuts off. I will not be able to make the
40th reunion, but you are welcome to send my regards to
any and all. WJRB/WVCW was, without question, the single
most memorable part of my college years. I learned more
there than in any classroom. I look for memorabilia to
share. Thanks, Brian.
Name: Kevin Connors
Email: netkwaker@optonline.net
Home: Netcong, New Jersey
Date: Monday, May 12, 2008
Time: 11:35 AM
Comments
Hey Cliff... I've ID'd another station member for
you. In the 10th photo down on the "mid-'70's" page
(just below Chuck McGuigan) there's a photo of four
people with only Chuck ID'd on the left. The dude at the
lower right in this photo is Larry Frankel. kc
Name: Dave the Rave - Dave Ruslander
Email: daverulander@hughes.net
Home: Richmond, VA
Date: Friday, May 09, 2008
Time: 05:55 PM
Comments
Hi everybody. It's been such a kick getting back in
touch with radio days gone by :) I did a little of
everything at JRB; personnel mgr, station mgr. and dj. I
hope life has been good to you and that we can remain in
touch. OBTW, I'm still a raving lunatic :)
Name: sher weston stec
Email: sher8@comcast.net
Home: Long Valley, NJ
Comments
HI there, I was a DJ on WJRB in the early 70's, like
'71 and '72. I seem to remember Rick Ward, Bill Byrd, KC
Connors, VD Phillips. There was also a guy named Chuck
McGuiggian (spelling?). I graduated in 1974 with a BFA
in Interior Design. I usually did a late night shift and
remember the "format clock" we had to use for the albums
in the A, B ,C category's. If you send me an email
address I can try and send some pics. cheers
sher weston stec
*originally submitted 1/5/2008
Name: Charles Robinson
Email: crobinson@mail.mpt.org
Home:
Comments
WJRB Lives....I was a member of the Station from 1974
-1979. During my tenure I served as the Production
Direction(one of the few paid staff positions - all of
$25 minus taxes). I like the UGLY name. My on air name
was Charles the Third of C3. It was the begining of the
disco era and yes it survive along side punk, new wave,
jazz, blues, r and b, blue grass, and fusion (And yall
thought you had problems). We tried to format the
station for all listeners. We also had
innovation...there was a live radio drama series,
nightly newscasts, and we had a guy who would come in
over night and read letters from Hustler, Playboy, and
OUI. This innovation was rewarded. We were named by
Billboard Magazine as the most innovative College Campus
Radio Station in nation in 1979. I remember vividly the
battles with the administration over the name change
from WJRB. Those of us who resided in the basement were
happy to get out (the mice and no bathrooms) and move to
the Penthouse (the top floor). Yes I still have a couple
of air checks and damn they still sound good.
Charles Robinson
*originally submitted 1/4/2008
Name: Fred
Whiting, APR
Email: whtngfrd@msn.com
Home: Northern Virginia
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Time: 12:18 PM
Comments
Greetings! I just
happened to find a reference to myself on the [Late
60's] page. It brought back a lot of memories (most of
which I can't repeat for public consumption!). I found
WJRB after I registered at RPI in 1967 as a drama
student because I learned that they didn't offer any
courses in radio. The student radio station was my only
outlet. I ended up spending most of my spare time in the
basement of the Student Center when I wasn't working on
student plays. WJRB gave me the opportunity to pursue a
career in broadcasting at WLEE-AM, WTVR-TV and WXEX-TV
from 1970-77. Because so much news happened on the RPI
campus, I called in my news stories to WLEE and got
hired to work as an "ambulance chaser" (street reporter)
in my senior year and went full time as a newscaster and
reporter after graduation. I will always have fond
memories of my studio audition, when one of the staff
set fire to my copy as I was recording it. I recognize
Jerry Williams (who bugged me for years to contribute to
the alumni fund until he finally gave up), Jim Atkinson,
Frank Minor and Barry Fitzgerald. Does anyone still have
contact with them? I don't remember posing for those
photos, but as they say, if you can remember the '60s,
you probably weren't there! Thanks for the mammaries-uh,
memories. If there are any WJRB alumni who want to
contact me, feel free to send me an e-mail at
whtngfrd@msn.com.
Cheers, Fred Former News
Director and Station Manager WJRB
-Fred Whiting, APR Communications Consultant Society of
Toxicology
*[ Fred submitted this while the Check In
section was being constructed. He has since started a
new job in March 2008 at Booz Allen Hamilton as an
associate in strategic communications in Reston, VA. ]
Name: Cliff
Sleeman
Email: webmaster@wjrb.org
Home: Richmond, VA
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Time: 03:37 PM
Comments
Hey Gang!
We finally got the Web
site up with the help of several folks. Thanks for all
of the submissions. We are still accepting artifacts
that you may dig up so send them along so we can see if
there's a way we can post them (including audio clips -
more are coming).
There was a flurry of
emails starting back in October '07 when folks started
getting re-connected and contacts quickly swelled as we
discovered other former JRB members through the Web.
There has been talk of a reunion (after all it is the
40th anniversary of VCU this summer) so this may be one
likely place for us to start throwing around some ideas
for discussion.
I did my time at WTVR-AM/FM
during school weekends and actually stayed on at WJRB
for an extra year after graduation as sales manager
(thanks to Al Smith for the idea of taking classes to
qualify as a student). Although I didn't head into radio
after school, I did head into television and was in
charge of the VCU campus television studio (in the
basement of Cabell Library) for several years and earned
a Masters before leaving VCU in 1978. I also taught
photography part-time for 10 years (one semester was at
VCU). For the next 20 years I worked at a local hospital
doing audio-visual production and even got to do some
voice-over work. Since 1998 I've been consulting,
designing, marketing and managing Web sites. You may run
into me at a Rams home basketball game.
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