Mr. Terry Elass
Secretary-Treasurer
Stanford Amateur Radio Club
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Terry:

Having read the item in the March Stanford Observer about the Stanford Ham Radio Club's 50th birthday, I am prompted to send my greetings and best wishes.

I became a member of the old Stanford Radio Club in 1924, at which time were such fellow members as Charles Litton, Harry Greene, Herb Hoover, Jr., and a number of other radio pioneers whose names I can't recall at the moment.

I do recall one Carl Kuhlman who lived in Encina and made his own vacuum tubes for receiving. Pretty good ones, too. Also, Brandon Wentworth and I standing watches all night long in his ham station built on top of one of the higher hills back of the campus. I forgot his call letters but mine were 6AEG at the time.

We had a regular schedule at around 3 - 4 A.M. Pacific Time, with a ham in central Rhodesia, South Africa. Did excellent two-way CW DX for over an hour until ionosphere conditions became unfavorable again. No wonder I barely got by in Prof. Fred Terman's newly introduced radio course!

Am fully retired now, scan the IEEE and electronics literature and study marine invertebrates.

P.S. - Note that ham calls in those old days did not include the W(ork) prefix. This addition did not come about until ~1927-28. My ham license was dated Oct. 1920.