As Country Girl said, I am writting a book about my life in communications for the past fifty-plus years and a little history about the media in America. For example, how we have come from having one commercial broadcast radio station (KDKA-AM) in Pittsburgh, PA in 1920, to now 2010 and more than 10,000 broadcast stations in the country. THe book will encompass the birth and history of Rock N Roll music and the effects it has had on the country. It will start with my being thrteen-years old in 1954, when R n R music began, to my education in Communications at the U.S. Naval Communications Training Center, my duty stations around the world, including Vietnam. And, how I got to realize a teenage dream, of becomming a radio disk jockey, come true as an unpaid volunteer radio announcer for the Armed Forces Radio Services on the Pacific Island of Guam, during the mid sixties and the Vietnam war. They made a movie about a fellow AFRS disk jockey, Adrian Croneaur, as portrayed by Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam. My book will also delve into my life after the service, like how I went from collecting garbage on the back of one of Poteau’s trash trucks, in the early seventies to being elected Mayor of the city in 1991. I’ve been involved with many “projects” over the years, like the Veterans Memorial at our county courthouse, and, having the Ten Commandments displayed in our city, to “hijacking” local radio stations to raise money for worthwhile community causes, like the county Women’s Crisis Center for battered and abused women and children and to raise money for needy kids at Christmas. I suppose one could say “my life has been anything but ordinary” ! And, I hope to make the book an interesting read for everyone reading it. It wil lbe a few months before the book is ready for publication as I still have lot’s of work to do on it. I am being assisted by a very nice lady who is a retired English Professor from the University of Arkansas and has written authbiographies herself and also with the input and help of my sister’s Diann Adkins of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Shirley (Dennis) Koeninger of Poteau.
