WHUD Features Grady Students
Seventeen classes of second-through sixth-graders participated in a WHUD FM recording session of the Pledge of Allegiance on December 1 at the Grady School. The radio station - also known as "Westchester and the Hudson Valley's Music Station" - is 100.7 on the FM dial. The school will announce the date that the pledge will be aired on the District website.
WHUD Promotion Assistant, Loni Krauss, facilitated the event. "It truly brings the community together to hear children say the Pledge every morning at 7:00 a.m.," said Ms. Krauss. "This group was very cooperative and well-rehearsed."
The elementary school children recited the Pledge, by grade, while Ms. Kraus captured their voices on what appeared to be a small tape recorder. Wayne Harders, the principal of the Grady School, said that he had envisioned a team of technicians with headphones and equipment, but marveled at the technological sophistication of the diminutive device. He practiced with each grade in the hallways outside their classrooms the day before the WHUD visit. "As it turned out, we actually said the Pledge in one of the hallways since the recording device was so portable," said Mr. Harders.
From the time Mr. Harders applied online for his classes to participate, until the actual appearance of the Station's van and "crew," it was one year later. "It was worth the wait," he said. "To experience the children's excitement and anticipation of hearing themselves on the radio made it all worthwhile."
