After
a dry spell of about five years Jefferson Kurtz' of Hollis Park Gardens,
NY has emerged as Troop #158 of Queens Village' newest Eagle Scout. Jeff lead a team
of volunteers that refurbished and painted a portion of the
American Legion Post on Clintonville Street in Whtiestone, NY. This
important structure is also home to the Northeast Queens Division of the
Marine Corps League. "He's done a Yeoman's job, Hoo-rah and
Semper Fi!" remarked Marine Corps League Commandant Ray Molina.
Jeff's
accolades are well deserved. "Any college or
institution that gets this young man will be better for it," said
Molina. The structure houses a small museum with extraordinary wartime
memorabilia including actual captured WWII battle flags from Nazi Germany
and the Imperial Japanese Empire. For his efforts young Jefferson Kurtz
was awarded a flag flown over the United States Capitol by Congressman
Gary Ackerman, himself an Eagle Scout. "Queens Village has a
wonderful history of producing Eagle Scouts for over 80 years!." said
Congressman Ackerman. Troop #158 recently sent 20 Scouts, the largest
contingent for week #5 to Ten Mile River's Camp Keowa. Bravo!
Both Boy
Scouts (ages 11 through 18) and Cub Scouts (ages 6 through 10) meet most
Fridays from 7:30 pm until 9:00 pm. They meet at Redeemer Lutheran Church,
92-10 217th Street, Queens Village, NY. It is near the Queens Village
Public Library. "Eagle Scouts are the elite in Scouting. They
represent the very best. Eagle Scouts are definitely favored when it's
time to choose who will attend our Military Academies like West Point and
the Naval Academy in Annapolis. It's a totally free quality college
education so parents love it. Before he walked on the moon and said,
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Eagle Scout
Neil Armstrong's Lunar Excursion Module transmitted, "The Eagle has
landed!"
Alfred H. Grebe Dead - October 25th,
1935
Radio Pioneer Waked at His Hollis Home -
73
Years Ago!
Alfred H. Grebe
(1895-October
24, 1935)
was a pioneer in the radio
broadcasting field.(photo at right from http://www.greberadio.com/)
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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