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GATOR’s BIO
Born: Lafayette, LA, Father was born and raised in Beaumont, TX, mother from Lafayette, LA.

Family: Wife Sheila, 2 daughters Leslie 28 and Lindsay 26, one son Grant 16, and nephews Jordan 18 and Landin 20, my brothers 2 boys (they've been like sons to me and have lived with me since their fathers death 8 years ago as a result of a tragic diving accident) and 2 stepdaughters Brittany 21 and Jennifer 19 whom I also love as my own.

Hobbies: building highly detailed models of spacecraft from both the US Space Program and from Science Fiction history along with model rockets that we actually launch with son Grant, and flying (commercial pilot, instrument rating)

I was always listening to the radio as a kid, not so much to the music, but the guys who were on the air talking. That being the late sixties and early seventies a thing called "Boss Radio" was going on and there was a whole lotta screaming going on. I used to think, "I want to do that!" Seemed like more fun that anything else I had come up with at age 8. So with the help of a CB radio base station and my brother’s stereo I began what would be my first broadcast. I was playing rock and roll on CB channel 14 and I thought this must be the coolest thing a kid could do...imagine, me at age 8 broadcasting my own show! Well, all good things must end and it wasn't long before my parents were contacted by the FCC as a result of a number of complaints which would turn out to be my first of many in the years to come, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I continued to listen to the radio and upon reaching age 14 I was old enough to get my 3rd class radio license with a broadcast endorsement!! I sent off to the FCC for the study materials, studied like crazy and passed the test about 5 months later on my first try! Now I needed to convince a radio station that a 14 year old was ready to take over the controls of their radio station. I hounded and hounded and finally just after my 15th birthday on a Friday afternoon the Program Director of KPEL AM & FM called me...he was in a real jam, his part-time weekend disc jokey had quit and he need me to start that Sunday! So there I was running Sunday morning church programming and actually getting to talk twice an hour with a weather forecast and news headlines. I was awful! But I was getting paid a full $2.35 an hour (remember this was the early 70's) and I didn't have to go home smelling like Whoppers!!! Before long I smoothed out with a lot of coaching from a guy at the station named Conrad Maxwell who is still a dear friend to this day and by the time I was a junior in high school I was working full time doing afternoon drive on the number one top forty station in Lafayette, LA...KVOL...my life was perfect! as the years went on I worked in cities like Beaumont, TX, .....Tulsa, OK...Shreveport, and doing Mornings shows at WRNO in New Orleans, and then across the street at Q-93 (WQUE) in New Orleans. I've been doing morning radio shows ever since in cities like Baton Rouge, Ft. Walton Beach/Destin FL. ...Huntsville, AL and Shreveport. I’ve also as morning host in many situations been the stations program director and have a long track record of success in turning stations around and breaking ratings records for those stations. I came home to south Louisiana in March of 2008 to take an already strong station with a rich history to new levels of success and, along with a great staff and well on my way to doing just that. My family and I love being back home here in south Louisiana and plan to finally buy a home and plant some roots. We plan to make this our last stop.



			GATOR’s BIO Born: Lafayette, LA, Father was born and raised in Beaumont, TX, mother from Lafayette, LA. Family: Wife Sheila, 2 daughters Leslie 28 and Lindsay 26, one son Grant 16, and nephews Jordan 18 and Landin 20, my brothers 2 boys (they've been like sons to me and have lived with me since their fathers death 8 years ago as a result of a tragic diving accident) and 2 stepdaughters Brittany 21 and Jennifer 19 whom I also love as my own. Hobbies: building highly detailed models of spacecraft from both the US Space Program and from Science Fiction history along with model rockets that we actually launch with son Grant, and flying (commercial pilot, instrument rating) I was always listening to the radio as a kid, not so much to the music, but the guys who were on the air talking. That being the late sixties and early seventies a thing called "Boss Radio" was going on and there was a whole lotta screaming going on. I used to think, "I want to do that!" Seemed like more fun that anything else I had come up with at age 8. So with the help of a CB radio base station and my brother’s stereo I began what would be my first broadcast. I was playing rock and roll on CB channel 14 and I thought this must be the coolest thing a kid could do...imagine, me at age 8 broadcasting my own show! Well, all good things must end and it wasn't long before my parents were contacted by the FCC as a result of a number of complaints which would turn out to be my first of many in the years to come, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I continued to listen to the radio and upon reaching age 14 I was old enough to get my 3rd class radio license with a broadcast endorsement!! I sent off to the FCC for the study materials, studied like crazy and passed the test about 5 months later on my first try! Now I needed to convince a radio station that a 14 year old was ready to take over the controls of their radio station. I hounded and hounded and finally just after my 15th birthday on a Friday afternoon the Program Director of KPEL AM & FM called me...he was in a real jam, his part-time weekend disc jokey had quit and he need me to start that Sunday! So there I was running Sunday morning church programming and actually getting to talk twice an hour with a weather forecast and news headlines. I was awful! But I was getting paid a full $2.35 an hour (remember this was the early 70's) and I didn't have to go home smelling like Whoppers!!! Before long I smoothed out with a lot of coaching from a guy at the station named Conrad Maxwell who is still a dear friend to this day and by the time I was a junior in high school I was working full time doing afternoon drive on the number one top forty station in Lafayette, LA...KVOL...my life was perfect! as the years went on I worked in cities like Beaumont, TX, .....Tulsa, OK...Shreveport, and doing Mornings shows at WRNO in New Orleans, and then across the street at Q-93 (WQUE) in New Orleans. I've been doing morning radio shows ever since in cities like Baton Rouge, Ft. Walton Beach/Destin FL. ...Huntsville, AL and Shreveport. I’ve also as morning host in many situations been the stations program director and have a long track record of success in turning stations around and breaking ratings records for those stations. I came home to south Louisiana in March of 2008 to take an already strong station with a rich history to new levels of success and, along with a great staff and well on my way to doing just that. My family and I love being back home here in south Louisiana and plan to finally buy a home and plant some roots. We plan to make this our last stop.
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