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Hippies in the RPI Fieldhouse. (L-R) Gary Skala (a.k.a. "Bert Herm"), longtime president of the Jerry Lee Lewis Fan Club, Program Directorix Sheila Fields (a.k.a. "Maria"), and Lee ??? (wish I could remember his last name)

The Sunday Classics guys in the Fieldhouse reporting on the Grand Marshall Week festivities, Marek Lewanda and Joel Levine, who's now the director of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra

The WRPI Magic Bus, and it's owner, Dave "Moose" Morris

Chief Engineer Bill Mahuson runs the board on April 1, 1969, WRPI's first day of broadcasting in stereo at 10,000 watts ERP from a 750 foot tower after an upgrade from 1,000 watts of mono from a halo on a 40-foot stick in use from 1957 'til then. Joel Levine, George Gardner, and Stan Neumann in the background. Bill and Stan were JD's roommates.

Steve "The Walrus" Levy and Julia MacDonald in the Magic Bus

Sheila "Maria" Fields and Damian "Alathea Black" Cameola climbing the fire tower at Thacher State Park near Albany, NY.

The Troy Armory across the street from the WRPI studios in Lounge 15 on the RPI campus.

Peter Adamiak and friends stuffing Den Connors into a Fieldhouse trashcan just for fun.

Chuck "Phillips" Phelan looking cool in a hot WRPI control room

Keith A. Kowalski, a.k.a. "KAK," soldering up connectors for the new stereo studios

Jay Bloomfield, Eliot Graham, & Steve "Magic Stevie" Shashok

An annual WRPI picnic at Thacher Park. Stan Neumann. Keith Kowalski, Pat Callahan, Bernard Chester (?)

The WRPI gang gets set to do some spelunking at Thacher Park

WRPI Picnic at Thacher Park

Jay Bloomfield gives his car a bath behind the WRPI studios

Ed Hobson under the Thacher Park waterfall

Eliot Graham chows down on the lawn in front of the WRPI studios

Something's cookin' at the WRPI picnic

Dave Donnely and Bob Fairchild wiring up control board parts for stereo in Studio B.

Bill Noble reads a manual in front of the new equipment racks in the control room

Eliot Graham aligns a new stereo cart machine while Jerry Ezrol snoozes in the background.

Bill Mahuson reads a manual, too.

From the fire watchtower at Thacher Park.

Walking the trail at Thacher Park on WRPI picnic day.

Den Connors takes a remote transmitter reading in the control room

Sheila Fields on the studio lawn

Bob Fairchild hangs new drapes in Studio B

Strippers at the Fieldhouse for Grand Marshall Week. Say, this college stuff is pretty cool!

JD in front of a stereo Ampex 350 tape deck in the old mono control room in 1967.

Ed Hobson cues tape for "Request Line Oldies" on Sunday night

Den Connors announces from studio B

Ed Wuenshel heads into Lounge 15

The new WRPI antenna tower from a 10-second exposure on a cheap Polaroid camera atop a car rooftop.

Dave "Doc" Dwight poses in a photo for 'The WRPI Thing" program guide

Stan Neumann and Bill Mahuson demolish the old halo antenna and stick at the back of Lounge 15 after the upgrade to stereo and a new antenna tower a few miles away.