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WBAA was licensed on April 4, 1922 as an AM station. Please take some time to browse through our long history. If you have additional details about our history, please email WBAA AM & FM.Special thanks to Dave Samuelson and Aaron Fiddler who have assisted with the content of these pages.New audio content was posted on November 30, 2012.

WBAA Voices from the Past

Here are some tributes to WBAA on its 35th anniversary in 1957. We'll hear from Purdue administrators:

  • R. B. Stewart, Vice President and Treasurer
  • Donald R. Mallett, Executive Dean
  • Lytle J. Freehafer, Business Manager
  • Tim Johnston, Director of Information
  • H. J. Reed, Dean, School of Agriculture
  • Beulah B. Gillaspie, Dean, School of Home Economics
  • Frederick L. Hovde, President
  • George A. Hawkins, Dean, Schools of Engineering
  • W. L. Ayers, Dean, Schools of Science, Education and Humanities

And also from Alumni of WBAA:

  • Del Greenwood
  • Wayne Rothgeb
  • Dick Shively
  • Bill Stewart
  • Becky Ann Pervine Stewart
  • Lou Wood
  • Justin Meacher
  • Jim Wilson
  • Harold J. "Smitty" Smith
  • John Peterson
  • Larry Bocam
  • Bill Fall
  • Bob Blome