DoctorsHospitalOfMI history

In 1911 ground was broken for the first building unit.

St Joseph’s Hospital was founded in May of 1912, by four Sisters of the nursing order under the patronage of St Joseph.

In its jubilee year, 1913, Harper Hospital experienced a notable expansion, to be surpassed in the aftermath of the World War.

In November, 1914, the public was informed that Mr.

The first meeting of the incorporators was held September 20, 1915, and a board of trustees was elected.

On March 31, 1916, formal dedicatory exercises were held.

The Women’s Hospital, Flint, Michigan, was founded in 1917 by a woman physician, Doctor Lucy Elliott, whose life dream it was to provide special hospital services for women and children.

36, with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander T. Cooper as commanding officer, and wounded overseas men were received as patients early in 1919.

Ford by the government on January 1, 1920, and the original staff returned from their army service and again opened the hospital.

The main hospital was opened in December, 1921, with a completely equipped diagnostic clinic, staff and 450 bed capacity.

KHJ was one of the oldest stations in the Los Angeles market, having made its first test broadcast April 11, 1922.

In 1925, the present beautiful well-equipped hospital of 270 beds was opened largely through the generous gifts and personal interest of Mr. and Mrs.

Fifteen years after possessing its first new building, and almost simultaneously with the erection of the new Butterworth Hospital, 1926, St Mary’s Hospital enlarged its quarter and perfected its equipment on the scale that the social growth of the twentieth century demands.

KHJ was shifted around a lot by the Dept. of Commerce, and (after 1927) by the new Federal Radio Commission:

In the month of April, 1928, a new million-dollar Hurley Hospital was opened for public inspection.

KHJ #1 Songs 1965-80 (partial listing)

For about three years its competition was its neighbor on the dial, long-time hit station KFWB "channel 98". In March 1968, KFWB threw in the towel and switched to an all-news format.

21, 1969 at 12 noon — the beginning of Washington’s Birthday holiday weekend — that KHJ (930 AM) presented “The History of Rock and Roll,” a 48-hour “rocumentary” that chronicled the events leading up to and through the evolution of popular music into Rock and Roll.

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With the rise of FM top-40 initiated by KIQQ in 1973 (and continued by other stations as time went on), KHJ's ratings began a slow downturn.

Serious AM competition came around Christmas 1976 when KTNQ signed on just up the dial with its "anything goes" top-40 format.

In May 1977 their top-40 charts became eight-page foldouts featuring song lyrics on one page, concert and giveaway information on a couple of others, and in-depth information on any given artist.

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Signs that the station was in trouble became noticeable in the summer of 1980 when the two biggest songs of the year failed to make the KHJ playlist: Queen's Another One Bites The Dust and Devo's Whip It.

In 1982, Martin began a six-year teaching stint at Chapman University.

On January 31, 1986, KHJ abandoned its classic call letters and adopted those of its FM outlet KRTH. They began playing "Smokin' Oldies -- from the first ten years of rock 'n' roll" and the air was filled with the likes of Elvis Presley and Bobby Darin.

Bill Drake, 71, succumbed to lung cancer on November 30, 2008 (info found at radioinsight.com). THE LEGACY CONTINUES?: A talk station in the high desert, 1380 KHJJ, promotes itself as "KHJ". There is an FM station in Canada with the call letters CKHJ, at 93.1.