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Brown College (formerly Brown Institute) had its 60 year celebration and reunion on September 16th, 2006. This web site creator, Rick Burnett. a 1972 Brown Institute grad. attended and took some photos. To see the photos taken during this event to th the link: http://browncollege.multiply.com/photos
There you see photos of people and the Brown College campus in Mendota Heights. You can click on the photos to enlarge them.
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Brown 60 Year Celebration Event - Program | There is a PDF file you can open for the 60 year event program and a brief history of Brown. This is also another PDF file old Lake Street school photo of the training studio from the current Brown College brochure. This also includes an old rendering of the Lake street location. The person at the control board is Bob Bergland.
See the Brown 60 year celebration photos link in section above for 9-15-06 photos of the Lake Street campus (now use by another school).
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Brown 60 Year History Summary & Photos |
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| Chuck Knapp (left) and Dan Donavan At Pavek Hall of Fame Dinner October 2006 |
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Pavek Museum of Broadcasting Hall Of Fame Induction Dinner October 2006
Mike Kronforst of Brown College attended the diner and provided the photos on the left. Here is the email he sent:
Rick:
Attached are a couple shots taken at the Pavek Museum Hall of Fame Induction Dinner this past Saturday evening in the Twin Cities.
First shot shows Chuck Knapp and Dan Donovan. Chuck introduced Dan who was inducted into the Hall.
Second shot is of your truly and Lou Waters formerly of CNN and before that he was Lovable Lou Riegert at KDWB back in the early 60's.
If you're a real junkie, and I know you are, I'm pretty sure the Pavek has the whole evening available on their website.
Mike Kronforst
Brown College
10/30/06
Photos courtesy of Mike Kronforst, of Brown College - Posted 8-17-07
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| Lou Waters (left) and Mike Kronforst at Pavek Hall of Fame Dinner in October 2006. |
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Audition Tape Used For 1st Job (part -Time) at KTCR FM July 3rd, 1972 | Audition Tape Used For KTCR-FM Part-Time Job - Recorded July 3rd, 1973
The first paying job in commercial radio I had was at KTCR-FM in the summer of 72. It was short lived. I think one of the reasons Jerry Cunning hired me was that I had a 1st Class license (the hard way-I attended an electronics course at Brown for over a year). Jerry was thinking I could be further trained at some time to help with Transmitter maintenance. I was not ready for Minneapolis and Minneapolis was not ready for me. I sounded a bit more up-tempo on the air at KTCR-FM, but still not very good. Jerry let me use the name of Rick R. Rockwood. I do not have an aircheck of my first job at KTCR-FM. I was fired after about two months when I mispronounced Illinois on a newscast. I then focused on getting a small market radio job.
This aircheck was not recorded at Brown, but at the Pirate (unlicensed) WXYE-FM studios. The pirate studio equipment had fair quality sound, but was simular in format to the Brown recommended way at that time.
Rick
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