About ME!


What can I say, i'm a groovy guy! Actually, I've always been into computers...and after surfing the web 50 billion times on my own and viewing everyone else's webpage....I decided to come up with my own. Granted, I'm my own worst critic, and I think it can use a lot of work, but I'm impressed with what I've come up with so far.

I grew up outside of New York City, in a small community called Ardsley-on-Hudson. Technically, the only way you would know it's a community is noticing one of three things:

The post office.

The private golf course (Ardsley Country Club).

The train station on Metro-North's Hudson line (that's the commuter train you take to go into New York City).

Other than that, depending on what side of the street you lived on, the area was the town of Irvington or Dobbs Ferry subdivision called 'Ardsley Park'.

Here's Ardsley-on-Hudson on the map. It's indicated by the red star:

(NOTE! There's another town called 'Ardsley' that's just off to the right of the star. That's not it!)

 

Harry Goes To Boarding School:

In the fall of 1986, I left public school and entered a private school in Connecticut. It's called Salisbury, an all-boys school in Northwestern Connecticut. It's there, that I learned honor, discipline, and about a cultural institution known as 'The Grateful Dead'.

I graduated in 1990, and sadly, I haven't caught up with a lot of my classmates (all 65 of them). I'm sure they are off becoming the next CEO's of Wall Street, or Astrophysicists, or something like that. Me? Well, I chose a more humble route, that of a television journalist. But first, I had to learn the basic skills, so it was off to.....

 

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

That's right! The home of the Orangemen, and the middle of the lake effect snow country. My senior year it snowed 200 feet or something like that.

Anyway, after nearly failing out my sophomore year (it doesn't help when your room is 500 feet from the bars), I graduated ON TIME.

Syracuse is a big school, but it's not quite as big as people think it is. Granted, everyone hung out in 'cliques'...but compared with some other universities, Syracuse doesn't have all that many people. Just about everyone there loves the football, basketball, and lacrosse teams...since they get most of the attention and draw the most media. But Syracuse is known for some other cool things...like its' Communications' School (Newhouse, named after the magazine magnet), it's Architecture School, and it's school of Information Studies.

While on the hill, I took a part time job at a record store. In a college atmosphere, this is a 'choice' gig. I realized quickly that I could make friends by giving people (particularly girls) discounts. I'm shy and introverted by nature, but this job helped break the ice. It also helped that my boss was a deadhead.

Some of my Newhouse classmates are doing big things with their careers, like anchoring or reporting in big markets. One fellow I know produced the 6 o'clock news in Detroit for a spell, then quit to take a job with a PR firm. Another fellow is the program director at a station in Kansas. It's great seeing all these guys and gals go on to big things....although sometimes I wonder if i'll ever match up to their success. Here's what some of my classmates are doing these days:

I'm sure there are others...but I haven't found out what they are doing yet. If you are an Orangeman (woman) and in the broadcasting biz, drop me a line