The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-05-02
School Radio Class
To Visit New York
Members Of High School RAJ
dio Workshop To Tour NBC
and CHS Studios This Month.


and CHS Studios This Month.
In exactly Is days, and at 4:30
of May morning, the Radio Work
shop of Hagerstown High School
will take off by chartered bus for
tour of New York, carefully plan
ned to make fitting climax to a
year of successful performance for
the high schools newest and most
modern department.
Chaperoned by Mrs. Marjorie E.
Hoachlander, Workshop director,
and Mr.. Robert Lesher, supervisor
of audio-visual education in the
Washington County Schools, the
twenty youngsters will arrive at the
Hotel Pennsylvania on May II,
where reservations have been made
for them, in time to spend the af-
ternoon on a specially conducted
tour of Radio City, arranged by the
public relations department of NBC,
and including the television studios,
During their stay in New York
the Hagerstown young people will
have an additional chaperone in the
person of Miss Jane Monteverde,
audio-visual specialist of the we'll
known Horace Mann-Lincoln school.
On Friday evening a special din
ner has been arranged for the en-
tire party in the Cafe Rouge of the
Hotel Pennsylvania, after which
they will return to Radio City to
see performance of Highways to
Melody" the City Service Program,
which will be broadcast from the
famous floating" Studio H, built in
vacuum, and long matter of in
terest to Workshop students.
Following this broadcast there
will be an informal tour of Broad
way and Times Square, so that the
young Hagerstonians, number of
whom will be seeing New York for
the first time, may have a glimpse
of the bright lights along the Great
White Way.
At II o'clock that same evening
the group will return to Radio City
to see the Perry Como broadcast
and, by the witching hour, the
chaperones frankly hope that their
charges will be safe in their beds.
On Saturday morning the Work.
shop students will 60 to the stage
entrance of the CHS Playhouse No.
4, where they will have the unique
experience of watching a rehearsal
of the celebrated Chilren's Dramatic
Theatre, originator of the Lets Pre-
tend" program. Their director, Mia
Mack, has consented to let the Work
shop members study her technique
in directing and producing this out
standing program.
Saturdays luncheon will be in the
open air restaurant of the Museum
! of Modern Art - the weather per-
hitting - and will be followed by
an informal browsing session
through the Museum, after which
the Workshop group will attend a
matinee performance of "Song of
Norway"
At 6 p. m, the Arabian Nights
and Days - tour should be at an
end and the youngsters and their
chaperones aboard the bus bound
for Hagerstown.
The students are footing their own
bills for this tour, Mrs. Hoachlander
said, and it is most gratifying to
know that their parents are so in
terested in the Workshop that they
are willing for the youngsters to go. q
Credit for the arrangements, Mrs.
Hoachlander added, really goes to
Mr.. John Dickman of WBAL, Bal
timore, who through that stations
public relations department, has
worked out the tour with the New
York's NBC staff.
Its the first thing of its kind done
in the high school and an ideal
holiday for the Workshop group,
which, under Mrs. Hoachlander's di-
rection, has made radio an import
ant subject in the school curriculum.
The following Workshop students,
will make the trip to New York: The
Misses Betty Bittinger, Betty Jane
Bupp, Mabel Fentress, Jean Hager-
man, Libby Krebs, June Lyday, Ma
RE May, Grace Mercereau, Margaret
Palmer, June Oliver, June Spielman,
Janice WEIGH; and Stanley Chatkin,
Joseph Eshelman, Austin Johnson,
Don Lighter, Thomas McCubbin,
George Snyder, Fred Spigler and
Charles Slime.