Radio Club With Twenty Charter Members Formed

Cover of June 1923 Radio News, showing a woman wearing a headset and adjusting the tuning knob of a radio.

With a charter membership of approximately 20 persons a Montgomery Radio club was duly organised Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce and a constitution and by-laws adopted.

The purpose of the club will be “to band together those persons interested in the science of radio; to cause to be enacted laws, rules and regulations for benefit of radio enthusiasts; to uphold laws enacted by the United States and to promote the interest of radio in the community and further study of the science among members of the club.”

One of the chief means of radio education will be a scientific lecture by one well versed In the ethereal cosmos as it relates to the radio science, to be given at each meeting.

The meeting Tuesday evening was enthusiastic and each member pledged himself to bring a friend or neighbor who might be interested in radio to the next meeting, which will be held Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the Chamber of Commerce.

At this time officers will be elected and a lecturer chosen for the next meeting. Anyone Interested in radio in Montgomery and community may be a member.

Charter members of the organization are; F. M. Mosely, Arthur Stevens, F. P. Stevens, A. D. Trum, Cravens Howell, Morris Gantt, Craign Gunn, J. L. Snow, Eugene Ballard, Gibson Basson, Jerome Moore, Robert Tyson, Norman Baker and Dr. J. D. Ford.

Those who signified their intention of becoming members but could not attend the meeting were:

W. W. Lancaster, Jim Patterson, Wallace Patterson, George Marks and F. A. Gillette.

The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, AL, September 3, 1924

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