David King:  

As classmates will remember, I was involved in radio at KGOS in Torrington starting in 1969 and worked there through 1973. I started out as a disc jockey and then moved part-time into news. That led to my next move, to KLMS Radio in Lincoln, Nebraska for a year as a news reporter in their 4-member news department...and then back to KOLT in Scottsbluff as News Director from 1974-76. That move was heavily prompted by marrying Cheryl Immesoete (THS '74) in 1974. We were in Scottsbluff for the first year and a half of our marriage, then went to KOJO/KIOZ Radio in Laramie in 1976 where I continued as News Director...and in 78 made the jump to Gillette, WY where we've been ever since. I put in 20 years at Gillette Broadcasting Company, where we first had KIML-AM, and then added KAML-FM during my time there. I worked first as a news reporter in a two-person news department, being groomed by the news director to take his job a year later when he moved to Washington, D.C. After 10 years, I became Station Manager...and finally left in 1997 after 29 years in broadcast radio...much of that doing radio news. During that time I was active in a number of media organizations, including serving as a board member and various officer roles on the Wyoming Associated Press Broadcasters Association, was chairperson of the First Amendment Committee of Wyoming which was a joint venture between Wyoming's Broadcasters and the state's newspapers, and was involved as the radio coordinator for the Wyoming State Fair Media Center for six years. I also spent 20 years during this time officiating football and basketball, was a member of the County Recreation Department's Board of Directors and the board of the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters. My next life was a jump into the public sector...I became the Campbell County Emergency Management Coordinator in 1997...and have been doing that same job ever since. In 1995, I became a volunteer firefighter with the Campbell County Fire Department, and have been a member ever since. As a firefighter, I became interested in hazardous materials response, and have been a member of the HazMat Team, a member of the State of Wyoming's Regional Response Team #1 based out of the Campbell County Fire...Expand for more