Trustees Honor Roll

Polka Publisher and Disc Jockey (1930)
Inducted on November 29, 1997

Carl Rohwetter, editor and publisher of the "Polka News," created the most successful and widely circulated polka publication in history. Covering all styles of polka music, the "Polka News" is a compendium of polka activities, releases, personalities, and articles of interest. A polka promoter in the 1950s and '60s, Carl became a polka disc jockey in Flint, Michigan, in 1967 and beamed his "Uncle Carl Polka Show" through Michigan's airwaves for over thirty years. Striving to expand the market for polka music, Carl started the "Polka News" in 1971 with forty- five subscribers, and has since built it into a first-class publication with circulation in excess of 6000 and subscribers in all fifty states, Canada, and Europe.