WUVT History - In their own words...
Dean Hearn's story:
A displaced retarded (scratch that - retired) Virginian now living in
Chattanooga since 1967 found your Web Site.....With great interest...I would
hope that John Hudson remembers me....Believe me, all the "wild" stories
about the good old days are true...The FCC shut us (and our illegal antenna
streched between two trees behind the "old" SAB) down in the summer of '53
and just about everybody disappeared (or ran for cover)....I can plead "not
guilty" since I was a highly non-technical announcer who thought our
modus-operendi was quite Hokie!! Will Anderson and I inherited the mess as
Co-Directors with Gary Holder as Business Manager and finally got the station
back on the air in a carrier current legal format (as it originally supposed
to be) about a year later with a lot of help. Our station consisted of two
small rooms, a hall that held our U.P. teletype, and an almost closet-size
transmitter/storage room on the street level of the old Student Activities
Building...long since gone. We also had a single "business office" room on
the third floor in which to count all our bills and hold prayer meetings!
Oh, the good old days...I could go on forever....but won't. I'll end with
one of my few claims to fame. It was a D.J. show called "The Dean's Office".
(ain't that a riot!)
Best Wishes to the "new" "Voice of the Techmen" (or is it now Tech Persons)
and all of you on the Staff..You can be sure I will find you if I ever get
back to Tech. If any "Old" Station Alumni care to respond, it's.......
SAILON653@aol.com
Dean Hearn - '55
