This collection contains reel-to-reel audiotapes of interviews, speeches, and events regarding politics. Included are speeches and interviews of Henry Howell, Andrew Pickens Miller, G. Conoly Phillips, Pat Robertson, Chuck Robb, and Gerald R. Ford. Two tapes of note are a press conference of United States Senator S.I. Hayakawa from California in which he discusses the energy crisis of the late 1970s and the SALT Treaty, and a press conference of Ronald Reagan in Roanoke, Virginia during his campaign for the Presidency in 1979.
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Dennis L. McCurdy
Gift. Accession #A79-56
[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Dennis McCurdy attended the University of North Carolina, Greensboro where he received his Bachelor of Science from Joseph M. Bryan School of Business. He is either from or lived in Reidsville, NC. McCurdy was an adjunct instructor at Tidewater Community College-Chesapeake, around 2000. He was a social studies teacher in Norfolk for 18 years. He first got into radio as president of the Education Association when he approached WPMH about getting a program on the air where he stayed for four years. Later he hosted the "Saturday Night Dance Party" on WGH. He joined WFOS in 1983, taking over as program director the same year. He was also a radio instructor for WFOS AM/Chesapeake Public Schools. WFOS first aired in 1955 in the Oscar F. Smith High School, and covers national news via the Mutual Broadcasting System, city government, weather, and high school sports. The station stays on air 365 days a year from 6am to midnight. Notes: WPMH News is now a Christian music station (1010 AM, Portsmouth).
Note written by Mel Frizzell
Tape 517 - Andrew Miller, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 529 - General Assembly, 1979, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 532 - General Assembly, 1979, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 533 - Election Returns, John Dalton, 1978, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 537 - Dalton Interview, 1979 February 10, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 546 - Nixon's Checkers Speech, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 555 - Carter at JJ Dinner, 1979, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 557 - Kemp at Virginia Republican Convention, Dalton, Reagan, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 568 - Powell, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 569 - Davis, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 570 - Coleman, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 576 - G. William Whitehurst, 1979 August 27, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 580 - Gerald Ford, William and Mary, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 79-9 - Perspective: President Ford in Norfolk, Campaign, 1978, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 80-1 - S.I. Hayakawa, undated, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Tape 80-6 - Henry Howell, Perspective, 1979, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Includes Interview with Chuck Robb, and Speeches by Howell, Pat Robertson, John Warren Cooke, Conoly Phillips
Tape - Henry Howell - Election Night, November 8, 1977; June 1978 Democratic Convention, 1977-1978, Box 1, Dennis L. McCurdy Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.