To celebrate, NPR’s Linda Wertheimer KUNM’s 50th Anniversary Social Justice Fair Saturday, October 22 Special Guest Ted Howard In cooperation with La Montanita Co-op’s is coming to the KiMo Sunday, October 23rd 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting see page 7 Featuring Local Non-Profits Giveaways • Poetry See page 21 You could win a Volvo XC90! Enter by 10 pm on October 21st See page 20 for Details Elaine Baumgartel...................................................................News Director Chris Boros........................................................All Things Considered Host KUNM Radio Board Erin Brown..............................................................................Broadcast Sales UNM Faculty: Tristan Clum......................................................................Program Director Cedric Page Marisa Demarco........................................................Public Health Reporter Jeffery Long Matthew Finch........................................................................Music Director Roman Garcia ...............................................................Production Director UNM Staff: Catherine Heyne..................................................Donor and Data Specialist Pam Castaldi Megan Kamerick...................................................Morning Edition Anchor Elected Community: Jonathan Longcore..........................................................IT Support Analyst John Brown Stepthen Emmons...........................................Interim Operations Manager Alexandra Buresh Rashad Mahmood..............................Public Health Program Coordinator Marc Robert Linda Morris ......................................................Senior Fiscal Services Tech Cris Nichols..........................................................Membership Coordinator Appointed by UNM Provost: Mary Oishi ................................................................Development Director Dianne Anderson Bob Davis (Chair) KUNM Operations Staff KUNM Operations Chanda Shaw.............................................................................Sales Manager Richard S. 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October 2016 Happy 500th! By Richard Towne, KUNM General Manager Each of you plays an important part in KUNM’s current achievement of crossing our 50th year of broadcasting. As listeners and contributing listeners, you help with our capacity to serve the whole community with the best news, music, public service and cultural programming possible. April 24, 2016. You might be thinking my headline “Happy 500th!” is a typo or something. It is not. For every hour of listening Radio Theatre: “You Can See the Moon” by Christopher you enjoy, those who working here – either paid or Templeton volunteer – have collectively invested at least ten hours “A touching dramatized reconstruction, based on the of preparation, work, planning, execution and post- extraordinary discovery of the love letters of two Russian production follow-up work. Jews living in Stalin’s Russia. Evsee and Nadhezda Lubitski, a married Jewish couple, are abruptly separated by the Think about this, KUNM has the equivalent of 20 fulltime KGB when Evsee is kidnapped to act as Stalin’s look-alike paid professionals in the operational, fund-raising and double because of his uncanny resemblance to the terrible programming mix. That’s 800 hours per week just right dictator. Through Evsee’s eyes and love letters to his wife, there. Add in all of the students, volunteers and on-air the complete history of the Stalinist Regime is revealed guests, and there is a whole lot of community making from the inside looking out.” community radio. This highlight neglected to credit the play’s author I’ve written this before in “Zounds!”: We work really hard Andrew Neil, who is a professional writer, director and to make it sound as if we never raised a finger to bring you actor living in London. Mr. Neil e-mailed me recently to let the great programs you enjoy. Listening to KUNM should me know he is the author of the play as well as a member be effortless, engaging, hopefully challenging, but never of both the Writers’ Guild and Equity. hard (except the Sunday puzzle). Mr. Neil also informed me that our highlight was incorrect. People who work here are going to razz me that the “I am the author of this play. It is an imaginative work of 10:1 ratio of hours of preparation to hours of broadcast dramatic fiction. It is not based on the discovery of any is way too low. A music programmer like Mark Weber letters.” Our mistake was not intentional but we should (All That Jazz – Thursday) never stops thinking about his have worked on the highlight enough to get it all right. next show. A Radio Theater producer like Linda Lopez- I promised Mr. Neil to publish this correction, because McAlister is going to put hundreds of hours of work into getting it right is what we are all about. staging, producing, editing and broadcasting a local radio theater program. A radio journalist really keeps working on a story right up to “air-time” and often beyond -- as a CONTENTS radio report can now take on a life of its own in the digital media ecosystem. Report to the Listeners.........................3 We do the work because we love the work – and the work 50th Anniversary FUNdraiser................4 is serving you with great content. We’re celebrating our Ode to KUNM.........................................5 50th with you because without you, we would not be Public Health Update.............................6 able to do the work we do. But don’t mind us for smiling about the 500 years of work that got us here today. Linda Wertheimer...................................7 Radio Highlights...................................10 Correction: Program Underwriters...........................17 In our April 2016 edition of Zounds, KUNM published the following highlight about our Radio Theater program on 3 ZOUNDS! October 2016 50th Anniversary FUNdraiser—the Volvo and So Much More By Mary Oishi, Development Director Oh yeah, it’s all about winning a beautiful charcoal gray account to ours reserves a t-shirt in your size. Volvo. This attractive high quality t-shirt was designed by a UNM college student, and will be printed locally. Only the actual number reserved by listeners will be ordered, so if you don’t get one this time around, there won’t be any second chances. As a current member, you will have a chance to come to our Social Justice Fair for FREE (see page 21 for details). We’re also bringing NPR Senior Correspondent and New Mexico-born Linda Wertheimer to the