Launches Ave Maria Hour

The Ave Maria Radio Hour was a show that presented professionally acted radio dramas of the lives of the saints, the life of Christ and stories from the Gospels. It was heard over some 350 stations and 400 more through the facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Starting in 1935, these shows were recorded in a studio in New York City and on the grounds of Graymoor. These historical dramatizations received many awards for religious radio programs sponsored by the American Exhibition of Educational Radio and Television programs of Ohio State University. It received the Golden Bell Award in 1959, presented on live television by Ed Sullivan.