Campus Modulation

Back in 1970 Jim Martel and I started the "Campus Modulation" weekly radio program on Hammond's radio station WTGI. We used the radio production facilities of Southeastern Louisiana University to tape the program. Segments included interviews with campus personalities, news announcements and, of course, the required goofy stuff that college students like to listen to every so often to take their minds off college stuff.

This was even before the college broadcasting club was established, so we were really winging it.

When the new humanities building was constructed, it had a elevator in it, but it was to be used only by handicapped students. Since most students would not have access to the elevator, and everybody wanted to know what it was like,  I was assigned the task of tape-recording the sounds made by the elevator as it went from the first floor to the second floor. I set up a large battery-powered reel-to-reel tape recorder, spread out two high-performance stereo microphones, and pressed the second floor button. Up we went. It was not that exciting, the various hums, creaks and clunks that elevators make in their journeys. But it was important, and more than that, it was history in the making, the first elevator on Southeastern's campus. 

Here's a picture of me at the control board while we were making a program.