The Sleepy Town Express "But I can't go fishing Colonel. Don't you remember, I work here" "We'll soon fix that." Then the Colonel would phone the studio with a request that they send someone out to replace Max for the afternoon. "Max is going fishing with me". And that was that. On the way home, they would talk about the affairs of the world, Max relates: "When I went to CFCY I was just a callow young fellow and I came away a grown up." The quirk of fate or whatever you want to call it that brought Bob Large and myself back to Prince Edward Island was all mixed up with Merrill. Bob , after being on the original staff of CBA, Sackville , (the 50,000 watt station of the CBC) for three years, had been transferred to Ottawa. I had concluded the weekly broadcasts I was doing under the name of " Jane Weldon " over CBA and our possessions were all packed in boxes addressed to Ottawa when word came that the CBC had acquired the services of Merrill Young , CFCY's Chief Engineer . The telephone rang. It was my father. Would Bob return to take over Merrill's job? He said yes of course and we re-addressed the boxes, and soon found ourselves back on the Island. I was delighted. I could again resume broadcasting the Sleepy Town Express program for children. My sister Marianne had married Keith Morrow and taken up residence in Halifax when he had joined the Navy. The program was there for someone to organize. Programs for children started very early in CFCY's history. Mine began in 1925, and in the early 1930's Berna Huestis , a kindergarten teacher (now Mrs. Gordon Schwartz , Halifax ), wrote and directed "Betty Ann And the Cuckoo" broadcast on Saturdays. Boys and girls aged four to thirteen would sing songs like "The Little Dustman" and "Cradle Song" and would close the program with something like "Another Perfect Day has Passed Away". The children were chosen for their musical ability and many future choir members and musicians got their start on this program. We also carried the popular Maritime program "Uncle Mel" con¬ ducted by Hugh Mills and sent to us on the very large transcriptions from Halifax , and we had our own local programs "Teen Age Book Parade" and "Saturday Merry- go-round", both produced by Nellie Bryanton Brown during the years 1954 to 1960. Nellie called herself "Bea Brown" and the programs were alive with ideas as this popular school teacher would gently lead her listeners into 131