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AMARILLO CENTERGuest BookThe 21-room home at 2101 Harrison is the Amarillo Center of West Trtas State College, Here night classes are held for Amarillo adults The best of senior college instruction is given, hut every student is treated as a guest. The enrollment ledger Isbook. Every semester it Is rnieri with name of persons you know, or would like to know.If you have tuned in on KAMQ during the past few weeks, about 7:20 PM on Wednesday evening, you have heard a background noise like a country club bridge party, and in the foreground a light, airy voice asking those questions which of old, ' nobody answered but some replyThat Is Mrs. Maxine Kemplin tape recording interviews in “Man on the Street” style at the Amarillo Center. Maxine, herself, is an Amarillo Center student. She Is also a student of Radio Speech at West Texas State and this interviewing is a phrt of her training. Each week she watches voice,diction, enunciation, poise, butwhen she plays the tape back you should not be there. She listens eagerly for her own voice and when she hears It, she clutches at her face, her hair, anything handy, and mutters, “I can’t sound that silly! Giggle! Giggle! Thank you very much! That’s nice! Sounds like a parrot, a dumb one. Why can’t I say the clever things I think of whrtn I’m off the air!” Every week it is the sa me.Now if it were on TV. people would forget everything but KAMQ fit 7:20 on Wednesday evening, because anything so glowing and sparkling and alive as Maxine Kemplin would be a cure for a lot of the day’s ills. Her complexion is fresh, rosy in the right places; her hair is dark and becomingly short: her eyes are happy, and her mouth has a merry smile hiding at the! corners and ready to pop out in-: stantly. She is quick with nervous j energy, and her mind like a little goat, goes leaping far ahead of her subjects until she remembers and returns to them with an apologetic ; little laugh which nobody would! ever call a giggle if they could see Maxine as well as hear her.She is an Amarillo girl, horn Maxine Jordan. She was graduated from Amarillo High School, attended Amarillo College, worked • as secretary to Captain Wiley, resident engineer at Amarillo Afr Base during the first of the war years. W hen her brother joined the Navy, Maxine began looking I at WAVE recruiting posters and that's why she now has the honor of being the first of the Blue Bonnet Squadron to sign up. Maxine says she and the other recruits were so feted before leav- i Ing that thev were expecting private dressing rooms, maids, and the privilege of giving orders when thoy arrived at Hunter College for Boot Training. “Climb j those ladders to the third deck! Receive your bedding! Squarethe corners on those bunks! Hitthe sack! No talking!” That was the salty welcoming speech of Hunter that lowered young heads jand sent young hearts tumbling. ‘IMaxine did not develop a neu- I rosLs. For about six weeks she ate J ^ navy beans for breakfast. Jumped I* to orders, gained ten pounds, and I because it was found out she could I fill in a government form, was sud- I delv sent to Washington for a posi- I tion similar to the one she had had I at Amarillo Field. JAfter a year and a half of this, I Yeoman Maxine Jordan met one I January day. Navyman John Kemp- I lin. One June day she became Max- I Jne Kemplin, and automatically was I out of the WAVES. Forthwith she I bought five little French hats and I everything to match, and went with I her husband to Ocracoke Island I w here he was stationed. There she I discovered sand, little fresh water, I no Blackboard treasure, but she now I has a treasure of memories of Ocra- I coke. IAlso she now has her husband, I John Kemplin, an interne in Ama- I ‘ rillo Osteopathic hospital, little ta- I mille, 0, and Stephen 2, and work I and study and tapf recording. She Ican now control the tape' so that Iit doesn’t suddenly loop up and try I to hang her, and some day there I will not be a single repeated excla- Imation, not a single “giggle.” I Sparkle, too, may be gone in that I rase, but she will probably make an I “A” In Radio Speech. !
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 30, 1951
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