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For more information, please contact [email protected]. the maine CAMPUS • • • The CADET Staff 1894-1895 THE FEMININE TOUCH- A coed jointed the 1896-97 CADET staff. 50 The Maine Campus-its staff, its circulation, produced the first campus news sheet a little over 90 and its influence-has grown as steadily as has the years ago were not joul'l1alists. Their paper, the University it serves. Cadet (so named because at that time the Univer­ From modest beginnings, the Campus has come sity of Maine was strong'ly oriented to the military) to be the chief written representative of the Univer­ was run as a 16-page monthly. It was devoted sity of Maine. It provides coverage of current hap­ largely to "stale news and so-called literary matter penings, recaps of social activities and athletic events which would hardly be a credit to a preparatory and editorial and letter-to-the-editol' opinions. It school." does all this well enough to consistently earn high In 1899 the Cadet became the Campus and ratings from the Associated Collegiate Press. turned into a bimonthly newspaper. The editor of The handful of ambitious undergraduates who the first experimental issue stated: "If this experi- ... HA Progressive Newspaper Serving A Growing University" By Linda Tokarz ment is successful, we have come a step toward es­ in size and made a bi-weekly publication. A year tablishing a live college paper at Maine." It was later it resumed a regular weekly schedule. successful, and he was right. The next important change came in 1916, when The first page of this new publication was de­ the University bought new linotype and folding rna· voted to editorials. Inside pages contained a campus chines. These machines made it possible to print the calendar, alumni news, five or six feature articles, Campus here, rather than in Bangor. athletics, and a little advertising. A nine-man staff The paper's format has been changed somewhat put the paper out from an 'office on the top floor of over the years. So have its page and circulation Estabrooke (a classroom building since replaced by sizes. Make-up and type styles, too, have varied. But the present Oak Hall). the over-all look of the Campus has remained pretty Changes came still more rapidly with the turn much the same. of the century. The year 1900 saw the paper entered The staff is now nearly three times the size of at the Orono Post Office as second-class mail. In earlier predecessors. But then, so is the University 1901, the first photograph was used. In 1902, four and the student body which it serves. (Circulation pages were added and more copies printed to meet approaches 6,500 copies per issue.) increasing demands. At that time, a front page news The Maine Campus now is located on the second format was adopted, editorials were moved to the floor of ~ernald Hall. It will soon move to more center pages, and the paper began to look much as spacious and functional quarters in Lord Hall. it does today. Undoubtedly, time will bring other changes as The name of this publicati'on was officially well. But the journalistic tradition of this school changed June 1, 1904, and the Maine Campus was newspaper will remain the same. The Maine CaJmpus born. will continue to grow along with the University of October 10, 1906, saw the CaMpus become a Maine. Its staff will continue to produce a bigger weekly newspaper. Three years later it was reduced and better paper for a bigger and better university. UNDER rllt ... J'g.,. Millinocket Trust Company --- MILLINOCKET'S FIRST BANK FIRST IN EXPERIENCE FIRST IN SERVICE 149 STATE ST .. BREWER, ME. 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NECKWEAR Sizes for Misses, Women, Juniors and Junior Petites JIGS Congratulatio'll.\· to the University ~f Maill e, its ~;_; ates F\t~tHl E Sen/ill!!,' AII/el'irall illrillstl}' with bl'o((rI, colJ//JI'eh (, II .\'il/(' Ills II }'{( 11 ('(' aJl(I ('x/Jfl't Fil'(, PI'('1/w tioll E II{!.,'ill(,(,I'illJ!,' sill(,(, 1890. '" IIAHTF'OHI) ( ' III(,A(;O SAN FHAN(,I S(,O FUN AT THE BEACH-1913 53 The first hundred years are the hardest Merchants is Bangpr's oldest bank, now in its 114th year. It is also one of Maine's most modern and progressive banking institutions, serving the banking needs of an ever increasing clientele in four modern bank­ ing offices. MERCHANTS R~ ..)fa aM~ ~ t$ Yational13ank M ERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK of BANGOR 25 Broad Street, Bangor Union Street at 14th, Bangor 77 North Main Street, Brewer Dow Air Force Base 54 Mill Street, Orono Then . .. And Now "WE, TOO, ARE PROUD OF OUR NINETY YEARS ('!j,.;entai ~eJtau,.ant OF Famous for Chinese and American Food SERVICE Since 1919 IN THIS AREA 209 Exchange Street SWEET'S Bangor, Maine DRUG STORE Air Conditioned BANGOR, MAINE King Cole Foods, Inc" NEW FRANKLIN LAUNDRY, INC. King Cole Potato Chips • Laundry Potato Sticks • Dry Cleaning Pop Corn • Coin-Ops Bachman Pretzels • Daily Pickup and Delivery Jack's Cheese Twist Tom's Candies and Nuts Bangor Telephone 945-6489 55 At 91.9: FIRST ANNIVERSARY- Station Manager Ernie Jackson looks over program notes with fa culty adviser Curt McCarty be/o·re a WMEB-FM broadcast during 1963-64. By Linda Carr Jan. 24, 192.6, the first University broadcasting station WGBX went on the air. This early station, with a radius of 100 miles, beamed programs twice a week from its studio in Wingate Hall. Program­ ming included concerts by local groups, lectures by members of the faculty and broadcasts of athletic events. WGBX, which operated for two years, began as advanced. laboratory work in the electrical engi­ neering department, under the direction of Prof. Walter Creamer. The station died from a dearth of funds and student interest. Most programming was done by members of the faculty. The first interest in another radio station began in the fall of 1949. A campus-wide poll was taken, and it was found out that 97 percent of the students Congratulations were in favor of a campus station. The proposed station would be student-operated, located in 275 Stevens Hall and would consist of three hours of pro­ gramming devoted to news, music, sports, interviews and dramatic productions, six days a week. to the After considerable financial backing from the classes of 1950 and 1952 and other groups, the open­ ing of WORO, as it came to be called, was set for Maine Day, 1950. But because of an unexpected de­ University of Maine lay in receiving the FCC assignments, technical dif- Congratulations to the INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY University of Maine On Their lOOth Anniversary Motor Truck Branch 1105 Hammond Street Manhattan Jewelers Bangor, Maine 73 & 139 Main Street Bangor, Maine Watches Diamonds Jewelry 56 Easy Listening ON THE AIR- Current Station Manager Janiece Ba con pauses at the control panel in the WMEB-FM studio. ficulties and a lack of funds, WORO did not become a reality until February, 1953. WORO became affiliated with the Int€r-Colle• giate Broadcasting System and the Eastern States Radio Corp. in 1952, and was assigned the frequency of 700 KC. This station was a small, carrier cur­ rent operation, whereby a signal was sent from the studio to the dorms on campus via telephone lines. People off campus were not able to receive the signal and, as the University gr€w and developed and more faculty and students were located off campus, it was felt that an actual "on the air" broadcast would better serve these people. As a result, WMEB­ FM came into being in the fall of 1962,. The only non-commercial, educational FM radio station in the state to be a member of the Maine Association of Broadcasters, WMEB-FM is a real Congratulations service to the campus and community. At the present time, WMEB-FM, which oper­ ates at 91.9 mc on the F},/( dial, broadcasts from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. six days a week from 275 Stevens For the past 100 years thousands of Hall.