[NJARC] Martians for Education update

[Alex Magoun]

The Martians for Education festival proceeds apace, culminating in our
Benefit performance broadcast of Howard Koch and Orson Welles' War of the
Worlds this Saturday evening.  Al Klase and Darren Hoffman, abetted by Bob
Bennett, spent Thursday evening getting that damn hum out of the transmitter
system and tuning radios loaned by Al, Bob, Owen Gerboth, and John Tyminski.
The proceeds from this adventure in sound and drama will help us expand our
field trip program by underwriting the costs of docents and supplies for
visiting students, who are and will shortly be learning about David
Sarnoff's remarkable life, sound and radio, counting and computers, video
and vision technologies.

 

Unfortunately we have not sold enough tickets to give the Hunterdon Radio
Theatre and this club the audience they deserve for the time that they've
invested in the production, or our generous sponsors for the Out of this
World dessert reception the mouths their desserts deserve.  Thus we have
decided to open the performance to the educational community and general
public on a donate-what-you-like basis.

 

I know that it is very late in the day, and many of you have other plans for
your evening, including, of course, the Haunted Electronic House at InfoAge.
Nonetheless, I hope you will pass the word to friends and relations who are
looking to get out of the house after a rainy day tomorrow.  It is unclear
whether we will stage this event in the future, and such an experience in
16-channel, monophonic, antique AM radio is something you, or they, will
long remember.

 

With best wishes,

 

Alex

 

Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D.

Executive Director

David Sarnoff Library

201 Washington Road

Princeton NJ 08540

 

609 734-2636

amagoun at davidsarnoff.org

609 734-2339 (fax)

davidsarnoff.org <http://www.davidsarnoff.org/> 

davidsarnoff.blogspot.com <http://www.davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/> 

 

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