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After a wonderful childhood in the fifties and sixties Richard J. Zmijewski left for New Mexico in September 1968 on a full basketball scholarship. The first week at the university he was involved in a serious permanent injury accident which left him without a scholarship after the first year.

Always wanting to be in broadcasting he enrolled in broadcast school in Boston the fall of 1969-left in February 1970 and had his first job in radio February 18th, 1970 at WKJK, Hickory North Carolina. Then he went on to work for George Beasley Broadcasting in Lenoir NC - Agusta, GA and Spartanburg, SC. Before heading back to his homestead in Clifton Park, NY (Saratogy county.)