OUT OF THIN AIR educational program began in 1948 and was on radio station CFCY for thirty-five consecutive years and during that time she interviewed hun¬ dreds of people. Her personality was warm and friendly and she was always well informed. She aired the concerns of women long before those concerns became nationally discussed. The program had the support of the members, but other people listened as well, as Helen Herring suggested: "The goals were to educate, really. From my letters I seem to recall that the people on the northern shore of Nova Scotia were avid listeners. Later I visited all of these places, Wallace, Tatamagouche, Pugwash and so on, and I was surprised and delighted that they welcomed me as a friend. They thought they knew me. I've always liked radio.. .you have to communicate your whole personality in your voice, and if you are able to do that, you are successful. You have to do your homework, and it is time consuming, but if you are talking to an author, it would be a courtesy at least to read the book that was being promoted." In 1981 UPEI conferred on her an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, and she called that "a humbling experience". One odd coincidence was the fact that when she came to town to go to Prince of Wales College at the age of fifteen, Helen Herring lived on Upper in 1924, at Walter Burke 's home, and she told me that she used to play the piano downstairs some Sunday afternoons when my father and Walter Burke were working together, experimenting in radio. "They would be upstairs testing and they would call down to me to stop and then to start again: "// was all, I imagine, pioneering and they were testing the apparatus. It was strange, I remember Colonel Rogers there and little did I think that I would ever be broadcasting myself for so many years. Radio in 1924 was hailed as just something won¬ derful. You were in sort of awe to think that there were all those sounds in the air, and by merely having this little machine, you 160