Age: Old. Born 9-21-36 Churchdown, Gloucestershire, U.K., came to U.S. December 1948. Naturalized January 1955

Education: Tacoma Vocational Technical School (Now Bates) Graduated in radio engineering. 1953-55; Centralia College Associate of Arts 1959; University of Washington BA in Russian 1961 Summa cum laude; University of Washington Graduate work in Slavic Linguistics. Quit short of Master.s after reading title of dissertation into mirror and deciding only seven people (max.) in the world would care.

Education honoraria: Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Theta Kappa (scholastic) Phi Rho Pi (Forensics

Work: 1955-1957 Engineer Announcer KAPA Raymond; 1957-1959 News Director KELA Centralia - Chehalis; October 10 1959 to present KOMO Radio and TV. Announcer, News reporter, Analyst, News Director, TV commentator, TV reporter.

Awards: 2 regional Emmys, 2 ARBY.s, National Unity Award, Several WEA Understanding of Education awards, SPJ Susan Hutchison Bosch Award and numerous SDX/SPJ awards.

Service: Washington Commission on Electoral Reform. King County Mental Health Board. Steering Committee and co-drafter Initiative 276 which became the state.s .Right to Know. law. (Other committees, honorary and professional organizations, but those listed are the most applicable.)

If Silver circle is a reason to retire. Other reasons are: senior citizen status and it would give me more time to work on sports cars. Feeling toward biographies: Hate them.