> >> I just received the sad news from friend Ginny Boehnke, (wife of Chuck > >>Boehnke, who passed 3 years ago), that Richard Wood of Hawaii died > >>yesterday of a Heart Attack. He was 67. <<
> Oh my, what a tragic loss to our hobby! I knew of Richard for many years, > probably best for his language lessons on Radio Canada International. I got to It is interesting that you also remember those language series Richard did, if they were the ones in the early 1970's time frame. I was at WCBS then and Richard was at Adelphi (or was it Hofstra?) in Long Island, and he travelled into NYC and came up to the WCBS studio where I sat him in an unused studio one night and started a couple of tapes going, and he knocked out the entire series in one sitting, I cleaned up the few edits and mailed the tapes up to Ian McFarland (RCI, Box 6000 Montreal). I wonder if they survive anywhere after about 35 years. I might have given away my copy after some time. He visited Kathy (my late wife) and I several times in 1973 or 1974. He could tune my GPR-90 which had excellent hearing but lousy dial readability, and ID the various SW stations on 11 mc/s by sound. JAC (QRM) mentioned his stint in Saudi, it was at a town called Abha, in the Ta'if region north of Yemen, in the mountainous area and he remarked on the cool weather there, compared to the desert. I remember his saying he heard Brazil on MW, probably R. Globo, from there. I had just seen some interesting clips in the New York Times about recording dying languages for posterity and was about to mail them over to him. > RIP, Richard; you will be missed. > Bill Dvorak Madison WI - Bob _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
