Denver: The Radio Club of America will hold its annual banquet at the Dallas-Fort Worth Marriott Hotel and Golf Club at Champion Circle, the evening of November 19.  Deputy Chief Charles Dowd, Commanding Officer of the NYPD Communications Section of the Office of Technology and Systems Development is scheduled to be the keynote speaker, with a full program honoring the accomplishments of leaders in the wireless communications industry. Dr. Ted Rappaport, an RCA Fellow, chaired professor at the University of Texas in Austin, and beneficiary of an RCA scholarship award as a student in 1982, will also speak at the banquet on his recent wireless communication education initiatives.

Registration for the banquet, which is $150 per person, and a link to the host hotel for reservations at the special rate of $105 single and $115 double, can be found at www.radioclubofamerica.org.

“We are honored to have Deputy Chief Dowd as our keynote speaker,“ said Vivian Carr, Radio Club President. “He commands a leadership position in a major city and on the national scene for public safety communications.” A recent article about Chief Dowd called him “A Big Voice in the Big Apple.”

Sponsorships for this event, which is expected to draw record attendance, can be found at the Radio Club website.

Radio Club of America, founded in 1909, is the world’s first radio communications organization and members are from every facet of the radio communications industry, including broadcast and wireless technology.  The Radio Club sponsors higher education goals for students pursuing radio communications careers with several scholarships, including the Goldwater, Link and Somers Funds. Membership and other information can be found at www.radioclubofamerica.org.