Originally published KVMR Listeners’ Guide Jun./Jul. 2003
I have so many memories that come to mind after only 11 years, it’s hard to choose just one. But, the first one that comes up is my earliest memory and brings a smile to my face every time.
I was but a green broadcaster back in the spring of ‘92, freshly certified,when I volunteered for the first of many pledge drives. The little table sitting in the lobby of the foundry (our old home), had only two phones on it (I think they were old rotary phones if memory serves). Brian Terhorst, another class of ‘92 alumni, and I,were answering phones for none other than John Nichols and Annie O’Dea Hestbeck during John’s Saturday Morning Wireless program.
Listening to those two on mike was a treat in itself, but to hear those two off mike was another form of entertainment all together. At one point, as I was walking in the studio to hand John and Annie a newly taken pledge, John was obviously waiting for Annie to get another cut qued up. As time was quickly running out to get one on in time, John, obviously rather anxious about it said to Annie, “We’ve only got 30 bloody seconds!”, to which Annie replied calmly, “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, John, that’s plenty of time!”
“sigh” We miss you John.
Footnote: The first time I ever heard KVMR, was during a pledge drive in 1988. It was that same dynamic duo, John and Annie.
by Jenny Michaels
