ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Actually, it would be more accurate to describe me as a budding author because although I've done some writing, this is my first attempt to put together a "real" book
In the past however, I've been a television producer and director, a producer, writer and distributor of numerous nationally syndicated radio programs, a producer and distributor of medical news and educational programs on audio cassette, a host/writer/producer of slide films, and a writer, producer and narrator of children's coloring books and tapes.
I am acknowledged to be the originator of widely distributed medical audio tape programs sponsored by pharmaceutical commercial messages. (Source: Medical Marketing and Media, January, 1974).
Here are a few of my career highlights.
I created and produced, for and in association with the American Medical Association, the first general news publication for physicians on audio cassette, which included advertising commercials.
From 1970 to 1985, in association with the American Osteopathic Association, I produced, hosted and distributed a monthly medical educational program on audio cassette for all osteopathic physician members of the association, sponsored by numerous pharmaceutical companies.
In association with Modern Medicine Publications, I devised, produced and hosted
MEDICAL MONITOR, the first
subscription medical abstract service on audio cassette.
In radio, I created and/or produced and/or syndicated such programs as
Robert St. John Reports (featuring Robert St. John),
The Washington Report (featuring Senator Thomas Dodd and Rep. Walter Judd),
The Last Angry Man (featuring NBC newsman Richard Applegate), and I was both host, producer and writer of
Family Facts and Figures and a daily history feature,
Moment of Destiny. I also was the creator, producer and co-writer of
ACCENT, a nationally syndicated radio news feature service, featuring Quincy Howe, Edgar Ancel Mowrer, Henry Cassidy, John Lewis, Robert St. John and other noted newsmen of the sixties and seventies and I even did a short stint as a radio talk show host in the sixties on a suburban Chicago station. Unfortunately it was one that almost no one could hear!!!!
Amomg other audio/visual products that I've either created or been a part of, I'm proud to have been the author/narrator of the children's coloring book/tape series,
EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES, which did well in the eighties and early nineties in national retail outlets and major catalogues. I'm not sure of all the places where they may be available now. There were a couple of web sites that were selling the entire series when I first put this site together, but they have since disappeared. There are some others such as
this one and
this one and
this one but they each offer only a single issue of my many titles - but at least this last shows my name but only as the narrrator leaving out my role as writer and produceer of the entire series. If I find any that still feature the entire series, I'll provide the links here.
I started out many years ago in television working alongside the likes of Bob Newhart and director Bill Friedkin but they went on to REAL careers while somehow, as you can tell, I went astray. At the moment, I'm well into social security age, SORT of retired, and trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.
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