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Home My WebLink AboutQueen of the Bryan Fireman's Carnival to WWII Nurses Transcript, WTAW First 100 YearsProject HOLD WTAW Radio Queen of the Bryan Fireman’s Carnival to WWII Nurses - WTAW Local & National News Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Laura Quezada | Transcriber 00:00:01 Dick Bolin (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947… 00:00:04 Speaker 2 Now let's go to the bonfire signed where WTAW's Tom Turp in… 00:00:07 Speaker 3 WTAW election night coverage. All 8 voting centers in Brazos County have been counted… [Unintelligible sports broadcaster with crowd of screaming fans] 00:00:14 Speaker 4 Today on WTAW, we're joining with businesses from across the Brazos Valley to support our … 00:00:20 Speaker 5 … 1620 WTAW. ------------------------------- 00:00:22 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. Local, local, local. Whether it's local news or local public service, keeping it local has been a hallmark of this radio station since it became WTAW in 1922. May 13th, 1926, and it's time for the announcement of the Queen of the Bryan Fireman's Carnival, and WTAW was live there for the news. It was Fire Chief C.E. Jenkins and the Reverend S.M. Byrd who made the big announcement that Miss Kate Parker was the winner, the Queen. Now being a radio station owned and operated by the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, you can bet there was lots of farm and ranch news and educational programming, but also programming of national interest, especially during the World War II era. WTAW was indeed a critical source of information during the war years, which was especially important to this all-military college. Fast forward to February 25, 1942, WTAW carried a radio address by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt that followed a dramatic sketch called Night Nurses. The purpose was to recruit young women to consider becoming nurses, because there was a critical need for student nurses to replace the professional nurses who were serving overseas. It was all part of the programming of WTAW in the First 100 Years.