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Nashua | Nashua's Wake-Up Man
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Frank Teas' father was a prominent figure in Nashua.
Frank Teas' father was a prominent figure in Nashua, on the radio called "Nashua's Wake-Up Man". Frank took a different path, but still believes in giving back to the community that he loves.
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Frank Teas' father was a prominent figure in Nashua, on the radio called "Nashua's Wake-Up Man". Frank took a different path, but still believes in giving back to the community that he loves.
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My dad was Frank Teas and he was the first voice on WSMN and 1590 AM here in Nashua.
He was the morning guy where he would be on air welcoming everybody into the day, providing the news of the night.
And again, this is 1958 where there wasn't really lots of TV stations and very few radio stations at the time.
And he provided in a live format.
What was happening overnight, What was going to happen during the day and the upcoming events?
He also broadcasted sporting events for the local high schools where he became pretty well known to all the athletes, had a very outgoing personality, very sincere and genuine person.
He did introduce music, of course.
He was a big jazz guy.
Stan Kenton was one of his all time favorites who we actually met and got to know a little bit.
And ultimately, he migrated into the sales aspect of the job, selling, as he said, time and space time on the radio and space in the newspaper.
But his real deep down love was was radio broadcasting.
And when he sold advertisements on the radio, he was always doing the voice overs.
So he was a perfectionist.
Every time we would go to church on Sundays, it was every Sunday we would stop by the radio station, which was just next door, and he would probably do six, seven, eight takes for every 30 second spot because it had to be particular.
And I think that became his hallmark.
And it really instilled in me the importance of being a perfectionist in everything you do.
My mom and I were talking recently about how come I never got into radio broadcasting.
Her father was a banker and I'm a banker by trade.
So I took my dad's personality and my grandfather's smarts for numbers and turned it into a career here in Nashua, where I've been fortunate enough to be doing the same thing literally a mile and a half from where I grew up, and serving the community as a whole in a different way than my dad did.
But still ensuring that people are having access to capital and banking needs.
You know, unfortunately, it's not until somebody passes away.
Do you really realize how important they are within the community.
And when my dad died and I don't know how many people were there, a thousand plus probably and people I didn't know or hadn't ever met told me how important my dad was in their life.
Did I realize, Wow, I had a pretty special upbringing.
But more importantly, to me, it impacted me such that I need to ensure for my children and for our community that I become that special person as well and give back and be a leader and be that person that people might mourn some day and in a good way.
In 1987, I went away to college in Rhode Island, and I seemingly was the only person from Nashua, New Hampshire, to arrive on campus.
At Bryant College and coincidentally, a few weeks prior, we were named the number one place to live in America by Money magazine.
And people kept asking me, Well, what's so great about Nashua?
And as an 18 year old, I kind of laughed it off and said, I don't know, ten years later, as as a 28 year old, we were once again recognized as the number one place to live.
And at that time, it was very obvious to me and it helped set the foundation.
Wow.
We're an hour from Boston.
We're an hour to the ocean, hour to the mountains.
We have a great educational system, great police force.
Nashua is home to me.
I never wanted to live anywhere else.
Oh, I was born here.
I'll die here.
And the people are friendly, outgoing, even though we've grown substantially over the last 75 years and even over the last 20 years, it's still fun to walk downtown and see people and they honk horns and yell and scream and and, you know, relationships that go back many generations.
So Nashua, to me, is home.
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