Bill and Joyce: '50s Miscellany and small mysteries

Just a few quick pictures. First, a staff photo from CFRA in Ottawa.

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 I suspect from the signatures that this was a farewell picture to Bill (the fella under the wall speaker) from his colleagues, with phone numbers to 'keep in touch', which would put the signatures (if not the photo) around 1958. (The photo itself looks like it was taken a few years before that). One person Dad did keep in touch with was Gord Atkinson, who would later become ... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Next, Joyce with her mother Margaret and step-dad Harry Wournell at their home in Nova Scotia.

Have they just returned from church?  Or celebrating Joyce's 21st birthday?  Both?

On the back there's a note: "The Three Musketeers". Judging from the date the roll was processed, March 1955, this was around the time Joyce was getting ready to leave the nest and head out to Hamilton, Ontario to find work.  Did she already have the job at CHOK lined up?  I don't know.

Speaking of jobs, here's a picture of Joyce spinning platters at a radio control desk.

It doesn't look like CHOK's control room, and the calendar says March 1954 (the picture might even have been taken on her 20th birthday).  Was this in Halifax?

Playbills (1)

Not a lot of time to post today, so here is a selection of Players' Guild of Hamilton playbills involving Bill and / or Joyce.

The Sound Girl

Remember the girl in the CKOC control room?

That's Joyce Parker, who also ran the sound for Players' Guild productions and, in a pinch, did bit parts in some of the Guild's children productions such as "Robin Hood" (that's Joyce on the far right):

The Hamilton Players' Guild

Bill's main interest was acting. In fact he originally trained as a radio actor, but took up news reading because the paychecks were regular. After he moved to Hamilton, he joined the Players' Guild, Canada's oldest continuously operated amateur theatre group. There was a close affinity between the Guild and the local radio and television personalities and Bill wasn't the only one to get involved.
He made his debut in the 1959 season as "Yank" in "The Hasty Heart", with his good friend Frank Aldous.

Meet Bill Holland

A Canadian broadcaster, and my father. After graduating from the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting in 1953, he found a job at CFRA in Ottawa, and acted at the Ottawa Little Theatre along with Rich Little.