Bill Jaker

 

Stories from Bette & Peter:

Bette: Bill was interested in radio broadcasting from the time that he was a kid.  He worked at the NYC Board of Education radio station (WNYC) while he was still in high school.

When he was at Adelphi, he worked at WGBB, one of the Long Island stations, which was based in the basement of a Garden City hotel.

 

Peter: When Bill was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina he covered a cross country meet.  He ran the course carrying a microphone and reel to reel tape recorder that must have weighed at least five pounds, reporting on the race as he ran along.  Despite that, he finished ahead of some of the runners.