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Book

The know your city series over station WKZO.

Call Number

  • H 977.418 D89 [multiple volumes] (CEN)

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Publication Information

Kalamazoo, MI : n.p., 1945-1946.

Physical Description

2 v. : illus., facsims., maps. 24 cm.

Notes

Scripts for radio programs over WKZO-AM.

Contents

  • v.1. City water system / Earl Norman (8/22/45)
  • City park system and cemeteries / Leroy Gilbert (8/29/45)
  • Readjustments of school system at end of war and enrollment / Loy Norrix (9/5/45)
  • Police Dept. / Howard C. Hoyt (9/12/45)
  • Early history of Kalamazoo / Willis Dunbar (9/19/45)
  • Kalamazoo Civic Players / Merton Fogerty, Norman Carver, Gerhard Lindenmulder (9/25/45)
  • Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra / Harry M. Snow, Herman Felber (10/3/45)
  • Fire Dept. / J. Frank Van Atta (10/10/45).
  • (cont.) Activities of Constance Brown Society / Daniel J. Heathcote, Alfred R. Thea (10/25/45)
  • City Clerk's actvities / Marie Filarski (11/1/45)
  • W. E. Upjohn Institute for Community Research / Harold Taylor (11/8/45)
  • Public health protection / Winston Prothro (11/15/45)
  • Kalamazoo Institute of Arts / Frank Lemke, Edward Hinckley, Mrs. William McKinley Robinson (11/29/45)
  • Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra / Kyle Morris, Mrs. Stuart Brazee, Julius Stulbert (12/5/45)
  • Housing committee / Raymond Hightower, Harold Taylor (12/20/45)
  • Plans for Kalamazoo budget and New water plant / Henry Ford, Jr. (12/27/45)
  • Kalamazoo Public Library / Jeanne Griffin (1/3/46)
  • Chamber of Commerce / Richard Staebler, Earl Weber (1/12/46)
  • Chamber of Commerce / E. Gifford, Earl Weber, Fred Mehaffie, Glenn Stewart, William Stone (1/17/46).
  • (cont.) Kalamazoo Humane Society / Walter Kelly, Marie Thompson (1/24/46)
  • Duties of City Attorney and Michigan State mobile blood bank / Richard Paulsen, Bernice Scheid (2/7/46)
  • Douglass Community Center / Edward R. Lewis, Earl Mitchell, Dellas King, Thelma Leonard (2/14/46)
  • Bureau of Municipal Research / Robert F. Cornell, Glenn Allen, Quentin Verdier (2/21/46)
  • Kalamazoo County Red Cross / Olive Taylor (2/28/46)
  • Community Resources Workshop (Housing problem) / Betty Johnson (3/7/46)
  • Junior Chamber of Commerce / Albert G. Cooper, Charles Giberson (3/14/46)
  • Enrollment at Western Michigan College, Housing shortage, Building program, Clear Lake Camp experiment / Paul V. Sangren (3/21/46).
  • (cont.) American Association of University Women and Nursery schools / Mrs. Clyde Caldwell, Mrs. Frederick White, Mary Agnes McGrail, Mrs. Harold Machin (3/28/46)
  • Township zoning ordiance (pros and cons) / Charles Sweetland, Kendrick Hill (4/4/46)
  • Kalamazoo County Cancer Society / Glenn C. Bond, Mrs. J. W. Hornbeck, W. B. Prothro (4/11/46)
  • County planning / Robert Brown, Henry Enzian, Charles C. Gibbons, William McKinley Robinson (4/18/46)
  • AMVETS / Charles C. Wickett, Robert L. Wertman (5/2/46)
  • American Legion / Earl Underkircher, Lawrence P. Mosier, William Riddell, Ray Putt (5/9/46).
  • v.2. Railroads / C. L. Jellinghaus, C. A. Skog, Rube H. Allie, Charles Winslow (5/16/46)
  • Bronson Hospital Expansion campaign / Dunlap Clark, S. Rudolph Light, Mrs. Charles Monroe, William C. Perdew (5/23/46)
  • School election / Mr. John Rockwell, Loy Norrix, Vera Smith (6/6/46)
  • Kalamazoo city bus lines / E.M. Richardson, Glen Fox(7/11/46)
  • Garbage collection and Welcome home celebration for Kalamazoo vets / Henry Ford, Clark McKenzie (8/1/46)
  • Kiwanis Club activities / Jim Knauss, Clark Godfrey (8/8/46)
  • Kalamazoo Exchange Club / Ralph Kooi, Leonard Kloet, Ray Pellett (8/15/46)
  • Kalamazoo Optimist Club and Opti-Mrs. Club / M. E. Follett, Peter Piket, Raymond Putt, William De Does, Everette Wyant, Mrs. Matt Peelen (8/22/46).
  • (cont.) Kalamazoo Rotary Club / Dale Ogden, Glenn Stuart, Ralph Ralston (8/29/46)
  • Opening of school / Loy Norris (9/5/46)
  • Kalamazoo Lion's Club / P. M. Winchell, C. F. Christy, R. A. McComber (9/12/46)
  • Interchurch student fellowship / S. R. Neel, Rev. T. Thomas Wylie, Vince Ferguson (9/26/46)
  • Community Chest I / Grace McClay, Paul Welty, Selden Barrows, Francis M. Van Tassel (10/4/46)
  • Community Chest II / Capitola Olmsted, John Reid, Esther Tappan, Madeline Cheek (10/11/46)
  • Community Chest III / Sue Harper, Clarice Platt, Patricia Quinlan, Mrs. Joseph Kindelberger, Jr. (10/18/46)
  • Community Chest IV / Ray Fox, H. Loree Harvey, John C. Klosterman, Howard W. Hoyt, William E. Enyart, Eugene S. Thomas, John R. Jenkins, E. Hardy Luther (10/26/46).
  • (cont.) National Air mail week / Harry Newcomb (11/1/46)
  • Nazareth College / James J. Burns, Gloria Solli, Barbara Brower (11/15/46)
  • Kalamazoo Civic players / Gerhard Lindemuller, Norman Carver, Harry Parris, Alma Halbert, Wiliam Work, Mrs. Robert Huston (11/22/46)
  • Newcomers program / Willis Dunbar (11/29/46)
  • Veterans' village / Mrs. Earl Pasch, Kenneth Cogswell, Ed Murphy, John McCargar (12/6/46)
  • Retail Credit Bureau / R. W. Matthews (12/13/46)
  • City finance / Henry Ford, Jr., Ed Clark, Robert F. Cornell (12/20/46).

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