1963: Graduated from Victor Best's Northeast Broadcasting School (his first graduating class).

May/June, 1963: WCAT-AM, Orange/Athol, Mass., did Sundays, sign on - sign off, (8AM -5PM). news, public service, Adult-Contemporary airshift, and ran "canned" religion.

July/Aug. 1963: WSJR-AM 1230, Madawaska, Maine, age 18, first top-40 jock at this "chicken rocker" on the Northern tip of Maine/Edmunton, New Brunswick, Canada where I did a split shift noon-3 and 8-11PM sign-off. A great little town, I loved the gig and wish I stayed longer, but listened to my "meddling" parents. Oh yeah, the people were real friendly and the girls were exceptionally "beautiful."

Winter 1964 - Oct. 1965: Weekends at WSRS-FM, a (Norman) Knight Quality Station, played show tunes and beautiful music, did news, was weekly morning man (on tape).

Oct. 1965 - April 1967: WHDH/WCOZ-FM, Boston, worked in the record library, programmed Bob Clayton's and (occasionally) Fred B. Cole's and Jess Cain's shows. I also got a weekend gig at WLLH AM/FM, Lowell & Lawrence, Sunday nights 6-midnight, playing Top-40 and oldies.

June, 1966: Had to go to Fort Dix, NJ to do my 6 months active duty for the National Guard and while away, my brother (who's not in radio, though his name is Jon Power(s)) wrote and told me about ARKO-FM.

Jan., 1967: Returned to WHDH (but not WLLH, because my National Guard weekend schedule cut in on it), and when I saw where ARKO was automated I figured "no jobs", so I set my mind to maybe going into the record business (which, ironically, I did do, but later on). Then one day as I was reading the paper, I saw a story about Arnie Ginsburg leaving WMEX to go to the new station about to debut on 680-AM. The story mentioned GM Perry Ury's name, so I fired off a resume to him. I got a call back from Mel Phillips who interviewed me for the MD job, but didn't (initially) hire me. I think the woman's name was Susan and she didn't work out, so Mel called me back and hired me.

April 1967 - Oct.1972: Became Music Director and a few months later, Production Director (when Mel became PD) at WRKO, and also became assistant and acting PD, when Mel was away. A true "dream" job, which I loved. I also had some involvements with WROR with it's HIT PARADE format. The highlight (of many) at WRKO was producing the original 48 hour History Of Rock & Roll (our version was called the best in the chain by KHJ PD, Ron Jacobs). I also did all other promos for Canobie Lake, Christmas Wish, New England Dragway and others. When Mel went to WOR-FM/New York in early 1972, I didn't get the PD gig (I was interim PD), and stayed for 10 months working for Scotty Brink, then left in October 1972 to do promotion for Mercury records for 8 years.

After I left, I also worked with Ernie (Anastos) Andrews at oldies WROR doing "live" weekend oldies shows (the station was automated), until he left to program WFYR-FM in Chicago. After the record biz, I returned to radio in sales at WLYN-AM in Lynn. I also assisted in consulting and setting up the FM as Y-102, a hot Top-40 rock sound, which was sold a short time later to become WFNX.

I left WFNX in 1982 to create a radio format company called ALL HIT RADIO which provided all programming and consulting on tape to secondary and smaller markets. We were on about 15 stations (including WORC in Worcester), when the non-radio backers "pulled the plug" because they weren't totally committed and started to "nickel and dime" the operation. Also, I must add that once we got these stations rolling, every one stopped paying for the service and it was "law-suit" city. After spending some time in court rooms, I figured I didn't want any more to do with judges and lawyers, so I walked away and mistakenly entered the video sales business, which I hated.

So now, I'm out of the biz, but still have some great ideas with a format I'd love to develop. I've also written a book on oldies trivia which I would like to market some day soon. Meanwhile, I keep busy and in touch with Mel and a few other radio friends, and hope to "resurge" one day soon.