Eagle Project Helps Community!

Boy Scouts of Troop #158 located in Queens Village, NY are reaching out to local businesses and citizens by asking for donations to help repair a portion of the interior of a Queens American Legion Post.  The Eagle Scout Project is led by Jefferson Kurtz, a Life Scout in Troop #158 which holds weekly meeting during the school year at Redeemer Lutheran Church of 92-10 217th Street, Queens Village, NY.

"The Post is in need and many of the members are older and unable to do the work. The American Legion is an organization that supports our Troops and we need to make it our business to see that they stay around!" says the aspiring Eagle Scout. "They have a really cool museum of captured war trophies including battle flags from the Nazi Third Reich and the Imperial Japanese Navy." Boy Scout Troop #158 has been around for 82 years. "It's a wonderful thing, Boy Scouting. I wish more young people and their parents would realize that this is what makes America great. It begins before our advances in technology: our personal computers, cell phones, digital televisions and game stations. Activities like these keep young lads on the straight and narrow path and help them avoid the traps of gangs, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence and precocious destructive relationships" says Queens Village resident, Ray Molina, Commandant of the Marine Corps League. "We Scouts will volunteer our services to help the American Legion but we'll need donations of about $500 to purchase materials from Best Paint on Jamaica Avenue and other vendors." says young Jefferson. All donations should be made out to "Troop #158, Queens Village." Please write a note in the memo area "Eagle Project." The donations can be mailed c/o Redeemer Lutheran, 92-10 217th Street, Queens Village, NY 11428. All donations will be listed on this homepage below for a period of no less than 60 days after the target of $500 is met. Check the Troop Website at http://troop158.bravehost.com/  and the Pack Website at www.pack158.bravehost.com. See the Scouting video at the bottom of the homepage.If interested in joining Troop #158, Queens Village contact Scoutmaster, Bill Morgan at 646-221-3366.

Alfred H. Grebe Dead - October 25th, 1935

Radio Pioneer Waked at His Hollis Home -  72 Years Ago!

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_H._Grebe          Alfred H. Grebe (1895-October 24, 1935) was a pioneer in the radio broadcasting field.

He was born in Richmond Hill in the borough of Queens, in New York City. At the age of 9 he was given a radio set by his father, and soon came to be such an expert that his science teacher at Public School 88 in Jamaica said Alfred knew more than he did. From public school, he went to a training school in Jamaica, and a commercial radio school in Manhattan, New York City, where he conducted his own experiments. By age 15, he became a licensed commercial operator, and went to work as a ship's radio operator. After three years onboard (during which time he traveled as far as India) he returned to Long Island, where the first commercial station on the island was being built at Sayville. He got a job as an operator there. Later, because there was currently a radio craze, some friends had him make receivers for them. After making a few sets, he decided to go into commercial production. 

In 1914 he issued his first catalog, and set up a factory in Richmond Hill on the same property where his home was located, which soon became able to produce all the components needed to assemble a radio, and which contained research laboratories as well. By 1922 he tore down his home to build a larger factory on the site.

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To stimulate public interest, he set up several radio stations: one (WAHG) was identified with his own initials; another (WBOQ) had call letters standing for Borough of Queens. (His WAHG is, through several call letter changes, now WCBS, still a major radio station in New York City.) He set up a broadcasting company called the "Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation" (changing WAHG to WABC on November 1, 1926) which operated his stations until he sold them to CBS in January 1929. His manufacturing company, A. H. Grebe and Co. Inc., was renamed Grebe Radio and Television Corporation and moved from Richmond Hill to Manhattan in 1933. A photo of Alfred H. Grebe's Synchronophase TRF Five Tube Battery Operated Radio, 1925 is at the left.

In 1935 he underwent a stomach operation at Post-Graduate Hospital in Manhattan. He became ill after the operation and died after 10 days. Surviving were his mother, Mrs. Edwin C. Dorff; his wife Stephanie N. Schuerlein Grebe; two daughters, Stephanie and Camilla Grebe, and a son, Alfred H. Grebe Jr. Funeral services for Alfred H. Grebe, 40, radio pioneer and president of the Grebe Radio and Television Company, Manhattan, will be conducted at the residence, 88-89 195th Place, Hollis, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, October 27, 1935. Burial followed at Maple Grove Cemetery.

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