OUT OF THIN AIR

strong convictions about how radio should not be used, and these could be summed up in the fact that radio should be used in the interests of democracy and for the cultural reinforcement and development of its community. This is why he always encouraged suggestions and new ideas.

In the Fall of 1939 the Nazis occupied Holland. It was decided that Princess Juliana of the Netherlands for her safety, would reside in Canada for the duration of the war. One day in the summer of 1941, a top secret communique came into the station from Ottawa. The Princess, who was staying at Pictou Lodge, in Pictou, Nova Scotia wished to record a message of hope and encouragement to the Dutch people to coincide with birthday greetings to her mother, Queen Wilhelmina who was still in Holland. The message was to be broadcast later over short wave. CFCY was selected to make the recording.

Mother and Dad at that time were in New York on holiday. Bob Large and I had been married that spring and were living in Sackville, New Brunswick after Bob began working at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s station CBA. My sister Marianne had taken over my job at the station and was broadcasting as Molly Parker on the “Women at Home” program, and doing the “Sleepy Town Express” program for children. Art McDonald was in charge.

Marianne Rogers, later Mrs. A. Keith Morrow.

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