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Home My WebLink AboutDick Bolin Recollection Transcription, WTAW First 100 YearsProject HOLD WTAW Interview Dick Bolin | Former A&M Student & WTAW News Reporter Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Laura Quezada | Transcriber 00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from the Associated Press… [Unintelligible news broadcaster speaking] 00:00:11 Speaker 2 Aggies win 74-72! Here's your right… 00:00:16 Speaker 3 …1620 WTAW. ------------------------------- 00:00:18 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. It was the war years, and Dick Bolin was an A&M student, pulling double duty as a reporter for WTAW and a writer for The Battalion. His radio reports ranged from the war news to entertainment news. 00:00:38 (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Perry Gomo is going to be a judge in Sammy Kay's 1947 search for the best amateur band leader in the land. The contestants have been graded for many consecutive weeks and finals will be held in Carnegie Hall on June 30th. Regional winners will travel to New York from the West, Midwest, South and East; all expenses paid to compete for the national title and $1,000 in cash. And that's the music news till now. 00:01:07 (TT) And then one day, a phone call and a really big break. 00:01:11 (DB) John Rosser called me from Dallas, and I was a freshman in my dorm, so it was pretty hard to get to a phone in those days. But they called and said there's a phone call for you; so, I went and he called, he says, “you're going to do the Texas Farm and Home Program tomorrow morning at 6 ”. I had never done it before, and, uh, it originated, as you know, in the YMCA building in those days. But I remember it is something that, for me, relieved the, uh, the strong, hard military life of the time on the campus. It was a way I got a break to do something different, completely out of this world. 00:01:49 (TT) Dick Bolin died in 2013, but what priceless memories he left of WTAW. The First 100 Years.