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I graduated from Arthur L. Johnson Regional High School in Clark, NJ, class of 1969, where I received the top math award in the class from the Mathematical Association of America. Then went to Woodstock over the summer and everything changed. Attended four years at Livingston College at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, during that institution's first four years of existence. Starting with a math/computer sciences curriculum, I later switched to my real interest, media & communications. was a founding member of the Livingston College radio station, WRLC, and took on the roles of music director, program director and station manager during 1970-1973.Started at JEM Records importers and their Passport Records label doing promotion and label management for Nektar, Larry "Synergy" Fast, the Good Rats, and more. After 12 years in the employ of various independent record companies, I helped organize and run the U.S. office of UK artist management firm, Hit & Run Music, representing Genesis, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel and Brand X from 1978 – 1981.Became label manager for Hannibal Records until the checks stopped, then a booking agent at college lecture agency BWI, where we represented G. Gordon Liddy, Timothy Leary, Hunter S. Thompson, Henny Youngman, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Al Franken & Tom Davis, and more. Next founded Relativity & Combat Records for the Important Records importer, helping to get Megaforce Records started for Jon & Marsha Zazula (Metallica, Anthrax, etc.) and others.Co-founded Concrete Management & Marketing, a music management and marketing firm in 1984 with partner Bob Chiappardi. Concrete quickly became one of the top music marketing companies in the field, employing a staff of more than 40. The company handled promotion, marketing and publicity duties for some of the biggest names in entertainment, from Jimmy Buffett to Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Frank Zappa and Alice Cooper, as well as cross-marketing the blockbuster film “Dirty Dancing” and it’s massively successful soundtrack.At Concrete, we founded, designed, edited, and published a monthly music industry trade journal, “Foundations,” which hosted a series of hard rock and metal conventions and talent showcases in Los Angeles for hard rock music business professionals and fans. “Foundations Forum” drew thousands of attendees annually for more than half a dozen years, showcasing live talent such as Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Faith No More, Soundgarden, and many others.I sold the marketing division in 1990 to concentrate on personal management, eventually including gold and platinum clients such as Pantera, and White Zombie, Anthrax and Ministry out of offices in New York and Los Angeles.Closed Concrete Management in June of 2003 and retired from the music industry as Concrete neared its 20th anniversary.I had lectured on the music business at colleges such as SUNY Oneonta, New York University, and William Patterson State College, over the years and was on the faculty advisory board of NYU’s Music Education Department. I was named to Marquis’s Who’s Who in Entertainment in 1989.I'm a former member of the fundraising board of St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in Madison, a member of Cherryville Repeater Association and RACES, both amateur radio communications organizations affiliated with Homeland Security and Hunterdon County (NJ) Office of Emergency Management.i returned to Rutgers University to finish my long-dormant undergraduate career in 2004, and graduated (with honors) in 2005 from Livingston College and The School of Communications, Information, and Library Science with a degree in Journalism and Media Studies. I am on the executive board of the Livingston College Alumni Association.I have been a freelance writer and photographer for the Courier News (Gannett) in Bridgewater since 2005, and joined the paper as full time staff writer in the fall of 2007, covering Hunterdon County.I live at the end of a dead end road, on top of a hill overlooking a nature preserve and state park and reservoir with an incredibly handsome and clever border collie named Bear.