Evening star., 1924-09-07
WHAz TO OBSERVE
SECOND BIRTHDAY
Special Program by Domino
Novelty Orchestra Arranged
Tomorrow Night.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special D!spatch to The Star.
TROY. n. Y, September 6.-Radio-
phone WHAZ, at the Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute, will celebrate it's
second anniversary Monday evening
with a program by the Domino Now
city Orchestra. the same group which
presented the first program from this
station September II, N922, and the
frst anniversary program September
10, 1928. DIR. Palmer c. Ricketts,,
president of the institute, will deliver
a brief address.
This is the centennial year of Rens-
Selaer Polytechnic Institute the first
school of science and engineering
established in any English-spea
country. which will celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of it's found
ing October ,, and with a notable
&atherlng of educators, engineers and
alumnl, not only from the United
states, but many foreign countries.
Although WHAZ broadcasts for the
public only one evening a week. Mon
days, it has established many records
unique in the annals of radioca sting.
Installed through a gift of RoeblingS
gradual te$ of the institute famous as
the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge
primarily for experiment and inStruc-
ton in connection with the electrical
engineering course of the college, dur
ing more than nine months of the
wear its hroadcaStS are heard over
more than one-third of the world
WHAZ still holds the long distance
record, made in February, 1929, when
test programs were picked up on four
successive days at Invercargill, New
Zealand, a distance of nearly 10000
miles from Troy, farther than the
human voice has ever been carried
otherwise. From September, 1923, to
.~y.a Il
up every week on the Pacific coast,
sometimes at as many as % different
points from Alaska to Panama. veri-
flying its familiar app citation of the
tranScontinental and international
radiophone." More than $4,000 letters
from listeners attest to the fact that
WHAZ programs are found of enter
tanning and educational value in
every State in the Union, every prov
ince of Canada, Mexico. Central
America, Cuba. Bermuda, Hawaii, on
SHIPS at sea, overseas in the British
isles and frequently in Continental
Europe. Letters have come to this
station in seven different foreign Ian
guages.
Pioneer In Features.
WHAZ was the pioneer in introduc
ing many unique features in radio
broadcaStS. including ringing again
after nearly a century the tiny bell
which first responded to the electro
magnetic impulse in the experiments
of Prof. Joseph Henry. giving the
first all-Spanish program from
United States station. the first pro
gram in their native tongues by stu
dents from the Far East. the first
program by blind performers. the
first complete minstrel show. the first
Boy Scout program. the first all
children'S program, the first Armistice
day program, the first Rotary Club
night, beside all the usual concerts
by leading artists. orchestras, bands
and musical organizations.
a student body of about 1900, in
Guiding their orcheStraS, musical and
siee clubs and individual entertainers.
provide two characteristically college
programs monthly, midnight pro-
gram on the second Monday and an
early program on the last Monday Of
each month in the college year. Mem
bers of the faculty of the Troy Tech
give frequent educational lectures and
Instructive talks. which are supple
mented by addresses by leading edu-
Gators and authorities upon a variety
of subjects of timely interest. The
Rensselaer, Polytechnic students
orchestras are known to listeners
from coast to coast Every enter
tainer. artist and speaker from sta
ton WHAZ contributes his or her
services for the entertainment of the
radio audience, thus dissolving effec-
lively that bugbear Of the air as to
who is to pay for broadca sting"
During this centennial year many
features of outstanding significance
in addition to more purely entertain
ing programs, will be presented not
only for those interested in electrical
and engineering education, but in
unique forms of radio entertainment.