After graduating, I went to work at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg while allegedly attending college. I spent a lot more time at the TV station and not enough at the college. After college, I married my first wife, Judy, in December 1967.  She's from Akron, Ohio but was going to school in Pittsburg. I'm still married to my first wife. We'll celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary this month. Shortly after getting married, we moved to Ft. Smith, Arkansas in February 1968 and then to Miami, Florida in June of the same year. I was employed by TV stations in both locations as a newsreel and documentary photographer.

Our son, Derek, is 20 and a junior at the State University of New York College at Brockport.  Our daughter, Ashley and her husband, Trip have been married two years.  She is a teacher in a Minneapolis suburb. Her husband  is a sales manager with Deluxe Corp.

In 1971, I briefly left TV to go into a management training program with American Express in their travel division but I missed TV and took a job in Hartford, CT in 1972 and returned to TV. I was a photographer, reporter, and producer-director with one of the TV stations during my stay in Hartford.

In 1979, we moved to Buffalo, NY where we've been ever since. I worked through a variety of management positions at the CBS affiliate here before getting out of television in 1990.  I was ready for a change and had  always wanted to have my own business. I started a trade show display company and I've been doing that ever since.  We produce portable displays and high impact graphics for clients primarily in Western New York but with the Internet, I have clients all over the country. It's been an interesting ride.

I've enjoyed reading about my classmates and I look forward to seeing everyone in June.