{"id":20671,"date":"2013-06-10T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20671"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:46:31","slug":"gauper-presents-gold-age-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20671","title":{"rendered":"Gauper Presents Golden Age Of Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oldradio\"<\/a>Valley City, ND\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 10, 2013)\u00a0 —\u00a0 The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series Season 15 Presents:\u00a0 Larry Gauper \u201cTuning-in to the Golden Age of Radio\u201d and BCHS Annual Meeting, 7PM Thursday June 20, 2013\u00a0at the Barnes County Museum.<\/p>\n

If you grew-up during the period from 1930 through the 1950s, you can\u2019t help but recall many wonderful moments listening to the family radio; usually it was a big old Philco or Zenith, the centerpiece of the living room in most homes. It was truly a unique \u201ctheater of the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was a very special time in media history and it\u2019s the subject of Larry Gauper\u2019s lecture on June 20, 2013, 7:00 p.m., at the Barnes County Historical Museum.\u00a0 In his presentation, which he calls \u201cTuning-in to the Golden Age of Radio,\u201d Larry relives some of the moments that he, Barnes County and America listened to each week. He shares audio clips, photographs and anecdotes from the Jack Benny Program<\/i>, Fibber McGee & Molly<\/i>, Suspense<\/i>, Lights Out<\/i>, and Gunsmoke<\/i>, along with the familiar voices and songs of Roy Rogers<\/i> and Gene Autry<\/i>, plus many other stars and programs of that era. He also revisits some of the history of KOVC and WDAY, updating attendees on the status of a few of eastern North Dakota\u2019s legendary radio and television personalities.<\/p>\n

Larry is a North Dakota native who grew-up in Valley City and was hired by the late Bob Ingstad, Sr. as an announcer on KOVC in 1958 when he was 15. He worked as a disc jockey on the local station until graduating from Valley City High School in 1961. He then joined KXJB-TV at their Granger Hill studio in Valley City, later moving to the station\u2019s Fargo studio where he was also an on-air voice for the then company-owned \u00a0KFGO Radio. During his college years, he served as an announcer at WDAY in Fargo and at KSTP Radio and Television in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He worked full-time at KSTP while he attended the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1964.<\/p>\n

In 1967, he returned to WDAY in the advertising department, writing, producing and voicing commercials, and in 1975 was hired by the late Harold Flint at what was then known as Flint Advertising, now Flint Communications. In 1982, he moved to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota as vice president of Corporate Communications, a position he held until he retired in 2008. He and his wife, JoAnne, live in Fargo.<\/p>\n

Larry has presented this lecture to a number of Fargo audiences, including groups at the Touchmark Retirement Center and Bethany on 42nd<\/sup>, the Cass County Retired Teachers organization, the Fargo-Moorhead Fine Arts Club, Olivet Lutheran Church and as part of the curriculum of Concordia College\u2019s annual Communiversity Program. He has also presented to fellowship groups at Trinity Lutheran Church in both Moorhead and Valley City.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This lecture is the conclusion of Season 15 and is held in conjunction with the Barnes County Historical Society\u2019s annual meeting that starts at 7PM with the lecture commencing approximately at 7:30.\u00a0 Society members are encouraged to come as there will be brief committee reports and the election of two board members.<\/p>\n

All Lectures are at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum and held in conjunction with Valley City State University.\u00a0 They are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City, ND\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 10, 2013)\u00a0 —\u00a0 The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series Season 15 Presents:\u00a0 Larry Gauper \u201cTuning-in to the Golden Age of Radio\u201d and BCHS Annual Meeting, 7PM Thursday June 20, 2013\u00a0at the Barnes County Museum. If you grew-up during the period from 1930 through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20676,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions\/20676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}