[Alb-Educ] Ihsan Toptani

[Mithat Gashi]

 -    OBITUARIES   
 

 Notices: Births, Deaths, Marriages   


Percy Campbell 
Manager of Radio 2GB
1916-2001

One fateful day in 1930 Percy Patrick Campbell, in his new home in Tempe,
fashioned a primitive crystal radio set - and it changed his life. The
Campbell family - mum and dad, Ernie, Jimmie, Perc, John and Patty - were
forced off their land near Young when the Depression bit and came to
Sydney to scratch out a living. Sydney was to be young Perc's oyster. 

Campbell was a 14-year-old schoolboy when an ad for an office boy at radio
station 2GB caught his ear. Campbell, not anticipating his parent's
wholehearted support, wagged school and joined the queue of 60 or 80 boys.
He got the job.

Among his first tasks was running between 2GB and 2UE with a record under
his arm and swapping it for one that had already been played on the rival
station, because in those days these two pioneer stations shared the cost
of record purchases.