Word: whrb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past two years, Garoon has been director of the sports department at WHRB, Harvard's student radio station. He does play-by-play broadcasts for Harvard football games, conducts interviews with Harvard hockey players, and oversees a staff of 10 to 15 WHRB sportscasters. Although he claims to have started commentating by chance, Garoon admits that he's quite pleased with...
...addition, most members of the WHRB sports team have some background in or knowledge of athletics, whether they currently play a sport or just grew up watching the games. Garoon says much of his passion for sports is derived from his father's enthusiasm. "Now that I'm sportscasting, I think my father lives vicariously through me," Garoon says...
Much like Garoon, Rishi Gupta '99 says he discovered WHRB sports by chance. "I'd never done anything like this before I got to college," he says. "But I've always been a huge sports fan. I figured I'd write sports for the school paper, but I never thought I'd be doing this." Gupta has worked with WHRB for two-and-a-half years, and will be co-director of sports next year when Garoon retires...
...Aspiring WHRB sportscasters can join the department during either fall or spring comps. In addition to the general comp requirements of the radio station, sports compers are also required to make dummy tapes of themselves commentating on games. These tapes are then reviewed and critiqued by the more seasoned sportscasters. Almost every member of the WHRB sports staff has at least one absurd tale of sitting alone at a football, hockey, or basketball game, screaming into a tape recorder...
Also in 1940, the Crimson Network, a whollyowned subsidiary which broadcast Crimson newsthrough the College, was founded by severaleditors with $400 of the paper's money. Thepredecessor of WHRB soon separated from itsparent, for lack of common interests...