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Subject: [Leica] NYTimes.com: The Do-It-Yourself Economy
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:02:12 -0500

> Well, I had different goals when classes were over.  I'd had enough
> frustration for the day and did sound effects and ran the board at the
> school's FM station, WNYE.  It styled itself as the "High School of the 
> Air."
> I took part in a whole slew of radio shows dramatizing various moments in
> American History.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> Jeez, I was so glad to see the end of them.  My high school drafting 
>>> class
>>> required we use them to ink on vellum.  Getting a clean line with no 
>>> breaks
>>> or
>>> smudges was virtually impossible.  The number of drawings I ruined as I
>>> attempted to get the last few lines is place is uncountable.  That Senior
>>> drfating class was a whole year of frustration.  Arghhh!
>>> 
>>> I would have sold my soul to the devil to get my hands on a Rapidograph.
>>> 
>>> Regards, 
>>> 
>>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> To keep up with the mechanical and architectural drawing programs at New
>> Trier high school meant you needed to stay after school and hour and a 
>> half
>> every day you were there. It meant when you got home from high school 
>> every
>> day it was dark just in time for dinner. It was a built in extracurricular
>> activity like going out for wrestling.  And you couldn't do both.
>> It was the 60's I learned with drawing pens I got pretty good at it. Even 
>> my
>> lettering was pretty good. It took lots of extra hours. But like anything
>> its not "talent" which was the issue its just putting in the hours.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
Our radio station was New Trier Radio WNTH 88.1 FM
And still is.
http://org.newtrier.k12.il.us/activities/wnth//info.html

We also came out with an LP every year.
Lots of sound guys all over the place.
I'm getting into sound now.


Mark William Rabiner





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