Experience

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  Alligator Alumni Association, Inc.

  • Executive Director

    • Jan 2008 - Present

    The responsibility of the executive director of the alumni association is to build membership so the association can provide the opportunity for comradery of the alumni and as individuals or group provide guidance and support for the current student staff of the Alligator. All of the responsibilities listed under CCI also apply to this position. The only difference in structure is that the executive director is also the president of the corporation and sits on the board of directors as the coporation's chairman.

  • President

    • Jan 2007 - Present

    The president is the CEO &* COO of the corporation and was also the treasurer, but is NOT a member of the BOD. The president is responsible or legal matters,government relations,and reports, The president represented the company as the representative to the public,various civic and professional organizations. The CEO is responsible for seeing that all employees, contractors, and vendors all abide by our corporate operating rules, local, state and federal regulations and laws. The CEO is responsible for the financial health of the corporation, human rights, fair employee interviewing, hiring, work environment, and separation. This includes ensuring a clean work environment, safe conditions,and fair supervision. Any sort of bullying or harassment i]of an individual or a group is not tolerated. The COO is included in a great deal of the above, allow with all the internal operations to ensure the work is accomplished by certain deadlines on a daily basis and is responsible for providing all the necessary space, tools and materials are always available so each person in every department has access to what she or he needs to accomplish their work.

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  The Independent Florida Alligator

  • Gainesville and Tallahassee, FL

  • President Emeritus and retired General Manager

    • Oct 1963 - Present
    • Gainesville and Tallahassee, FL

    Actually, I worked at the Alligator from 1963 to 1973, before independence, when I became the UF director of publications and production director for the Florida Press, the scholarly book publishing arm of UF. I returned to the independent Alligator in 1976 until, due to ill health, I voluntarily retired as president and general manager in 2007. Since then I have worked part time for the Alligator as the president emeritus and corporate investigator.

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  The Herald Publishing Company, Inc.

  • High Springs, FL

  • President Emeritus & Publisher Emeritus of The High Springs Herald

    • Dec 1990 - Jan 2008
    • High Springs, FL

    Through daily newspaper internships and work in the newsroom at the Alligator, UF students had many opportunities to put use the excellent knowledge they were gaining in the UF College of Journalism and Communications in a practical, hands-on setting. But many students were finding their first hires were at weekly newspapers, where the skills called for were quite different than those at either the Alligator or the Miami Herald. When a nearby community weekly became available for sale, the Board of Directors of Campus Communications saw it as an opportunity to extend its role as a 501 (c) (3) educational organization and purchased the newspaper. It continued to be run as a commercial newspaper, unlike The Independent Florida Alligator, with the editorial matter a mix of professional employees, stringers, and student interns. During the CCI ownership, the Herald increased its circulation from less than 1,000 weekly to more than 4,000, and its revenue to far more than that multiple. Also during that time, the Herald won far more recognitions for quality journalism than any other small weekly newspaper in Florida. Although there were other Herald editors at times, the primary force behind the paper's tremendous editorial records was Ronald Dupont Jr. CCI sold the Herald in 2007.

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  Campus Communications, Inc., dba The Independent Florida Alligator, et al

  • Gainesville and Tallahassee, FL

  • Former Reporter, Beat Chief, Opinions Ed, Exec. Ed, Asst Prod.Mgr, Prod Mgr, Opers Mgr;Gen.Mgr

    • May 1963 - 2007
    • Gainesville and Tallahassee, FL

    Of course, I was not general manager in 1963, and when I began the Alligator wasn't a part of CCI. I came to UF as a married father and a US Coast Guard veteran. I started at the Alligator as a student reporter, et al, and then executive editor, assistant production manager, production manager, operations manager and finally general manager and director of the University of Florida Office of Student Publications by 1971, until the newspaper became independent in 1973. Then, due to an ethical problem I had with the request that I stay with the Alligator as it went off campus, I had to refuse to go with the independent Alligator. In 1973, I was appointed the director of publications for the university and production director of the University of Florida Presses, its scholarly book publishing arm.. In 1976, when the ethical problem no longer existed, I was fortunate enough to be chosen from among other applicants and held the position of president of the controlling corporation, Campus Communications, Inc.,and g.m. of The Independent Florida Alligator until ill health caused me to volunteer to resign from those positions in 2007, At the request of the board of directors I remain with the corporation and newspaper as the president emeritus.