Peter Givens:  

Peter is from Kensington, California, currently in CC county, Calif. His schools include CC College, National Weather Service. US Air Force Weather School. He works(ed) at KDFC-FM, Federal Aviation Administration, KKIS-AM in Walnut Creek, KQED-TV, KEST-AM, SF. I worked as a combination of engineer and announcer. I have strictly a "radio face." The funny part is that audience has no idea what goes on in the background while you're on the air, such as someone laughing at you from another studio where you can see them, and you're trying to do the news in a serious voice. It took a lot of self control to handle that. I learned that standing at the bottom of Sutro Tower and looking up toward the top will almost make you pass out. What I learned at El Cerrito High got me started in this nebulous enterprise. The memorable Mr. Thomas, the bombastic, academically iconoclastic and independent soul, and teacher of electronics at ECHS, was quite the man. I could have never asked for a funnier teacher. Attending EC High, just after Labor Day, was a letdown from staying at my summer home in the Sierra Nevada all summer. It was a hard transition, from being a barefoot fisherman, and carefree denizen in the mountains, to being loaded down with books, binders, pens, and paper, and confined to a classroom in late summer. September was always a rough time for me. Still, I got used to the regimentation by October. Living in the small town of Kensington kept me somewhat in touch with that simple lifestyle found in the Sierra. You might call it an odd...Expand for more