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Ron

About Me

I'm a retired Air Force major. I worked for a short while as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. I was the public affairs director for the Anchorage Police Department for almost nine years. For the last two years, I've been a professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Communications at the University of Alaska. I attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana graduating in 1979. I attended Andrean High in Merrillville, Indiana, graduating in 1975. I've lived in Anchorage, Alaska for many years. I've been married to Kathy since 1979. I have two daughters and a son.

My Interests

American history NBA basketball Indiana University basketball

I'd like to meet:

People who attended Indiana University at Bloomington in the late 1970's People who attended Andrean High School in the early 1970's People who were stationed at Grissom Air Force Base in the 1980's People who are into American history People who are NBA fans

Music:

Rhythm and blues -- Earth, Wind & Fire; Stevie Wonder; Chaka Khan Jazz -- Weather Report; Impromtu Pop -- Steely Dan; Bruce Hornsby; Bonnie Raitt

Movies:

The Die Hard Triology The Terminator Triology The Indiana Jones Triology

Television:

24 Heroes Law & Order

Books:

Taylor Branch's triology on the civil rights movement The Prize -- the history of oil Guns, Germs, & Steel James McPherson's Civil War histories

Heroes:

Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Tiger Woods, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Lloyd Garrison