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Dave Timpe
63, Male
Marinette, WI
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Dave Timpe's Groups
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HEART DISEASE/WHIFFLE BALL LINK
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PALIN SPEAK ONLY PLEASE
6 members
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OBAMA WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
42 members
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WHAT HAPPENED TO BIG REDS FOR MCCAIN?
11 members
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Save the TaTa's
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60s (and earlier) Grads
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What Really Grinds My Gears!
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The Race(s) After the Race...
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THE FISH LADDER
8 members
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Walnut Street School
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Big Reds in Orchestra
12 members
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Big Reds for Obama
240 members
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MSU Alums, Students, & Faculty
80 members
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Marching Band
125 members
Dave Timpe's discussions
Wall Street Collapse??
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Dave Timpe's Events
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Sexton Reunion X-Mas Holiday Get Together
December 20, 2008 at 8pm to December 21, 2008 at 2am – Trippers
Big Red by the Bay
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Profile Information
- What Year Did You Graduate From Sexton?
- 1963
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- About Me:
- Short version:
I was in Band, Orchestra, Latin, German clubs at Sexton. Went to Michigan State, BA TV-Radio (these days they'd call it Communications). Interrupted by the US Army to visit scenic SE Asia, then returned for a 27 year career in radio before consolidation hit the industry and it became hard for 50 or 60-somethings to hold a job.
I'll flesh this out in stages, starting with a very few words about the Army. I didn't do anything exciting, mainly pounded a typewriter for three years. I spent a year in the 'Nam, but wasn't directly involved in anything of note. I filed reports, filled out paperwork, and tried to keep my feet up on the desk as much as I could. A couple of times I got into places where some kind of incident had just happened, or happened a half mile or so away, but mostly just waited for it to be over. The most exciting time was when some sappers got into a base I was on, and the last of them were chased in my direction and captured about a block away.
After the war, I got my radio career seriously underway at WITL, 1010 AM, 100.7 FM (they made up corny air names there and called me Jack Daniels). I spent the early to mid 70s there, sometimes doing overnights, but would fill in on morning drive a lot. On MSU Game Days I did traffic reports as "The Eye in the Sky". The morning guy overslept frequently, so I did half his show, anyway. I was attracted to more outdoors activity than you could get in Lansing, so I went looking for, and found a job in the Upper Peninsula, at WDBC, Escanaba.
No funny air names at WDBC. In fact, it was station policy to use real names only (although one of the announcers sort of bent the policy). I started doing the evening shift there, and did various stints in afternoons, overnight, you name it. I was Program Director for awhile, as well as scheduling commercial traffic on the FM automation. Whenever I could, I'd take off for the weekend, with the Keweenaw Peninsula a favorite destination. I shot a lot of slides (and processed them myself) during that era. I'm just beginning to start scanning them into my computer. I have thousands to go yet. Sooner or later, some will get uploaded here.
During that period, I also got hooked on computers. When the FM station went on the air in 1976, they put in an automation system that was controlled by an early microprocessor. I was impressed by the improvements having a CPU brought to the rickety old relay-driven devices that were the first radio automation systems. When the boss brought in his Model I TRS-80, he wanted me to see if I could write software for it. It used casette-based Level II BASIC (an early Microsoft product), and the computer came with a book for a more primitive version of the lanuage, Level I. I had a lot of fun figuring it out, but a year later I was doing machine language and having all sorts of geeky fun.
When I first started working there, there was only one other station in Escanaba, and it was a daytimer. The station was primarily owned by a man in Minnesota who died in a plane crash in Alaska within a year or so of my arrival, and the chain (seven whole stations were all you could have back then) broke up. The local General Manager bought the place, we put on an FM station (WFNN originally, later WYKX, 104.7) and an economic downturn hit at about the same time. We also gained some competition on FM, and suddenly a station that had been a cash cow had to work at earning a living. We had some good years, but gradually the financial situation worsened, and the staff got pared way back. Eventually, they got around to me, and I wound up down here in Marinette as a result. That's the next chapter.
- What Are You Doing Now?
- Computer odds and ends (databases, publications, surveys, images) at UW-Marinette.
I'm slowly building a library of photos of the area (and other points of interest), and locating them on a map. I'll probably be putting in more links to satellite maps as well in the comments on each photo. No Google street views are likely in Marinette-Menominee in the near future, but I'll try to give a feel for the area.
Dave Timpe's Videos
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CNN Election Night "Hologram"
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Change Gonna Come
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Click on this link to see the house I grew up in (which is actually at 707 N. Walnut St). It's the yellow one to the left of the driveway. It was brown when I went to Sexton.
My unit's patch from the 'Nam: The 11th Armored Cavaly Regiment, a.k.a. The Blackhorse Regiment.
Click here for a view of our base camp. You can still see the perimeter berm, but most of the buildings are gone
Dave Timpe's Blog
Today Show loses Lansing, again
Lansing was "Today's Pick City" again, and once again they got it wrong:
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ContinuePosted on November 15, 2008 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments
Unconscious Racism: Another view
This NY Times article implies it can be overcome:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/07race.html
Tolerance Over Race Can Spread, Studies Find
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: November 6, 2008
This was supposed to be the election when hidden racism would rear its head. There was much talk of a “Bradley effect,” in which white voters would say one thing to pollsters and do another in the privacy of the booth; of a backlash in which the working-class whites whom Senator Barack Obama had labeled “… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2008 at 2:57pm — 9 Comments
New Group for 40s-50s-60s grads
I just started a new group called 60s (and earlier) grads. All are welcome, especially those from Sexton's first 2 1/2 decades, 1945=1969. We don't have enough from each class to form a reasonable-sized group yet, so maybe this will get something going.
I've sent out invitations to all members who were there while I was, and one from 66. If I missed you, don't feel left out. All are invited.
At least it's a break from politics (although if you want to discuss Kennedy-Nixon, Eisenhower-Stephens… Continue
Posted on October 18, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments
Street View Sites: Dead Deer on I-96
I've been driving my virtual car around my hometown I haven't seen for awhile, and there are lots of things I probably will come back to and comment on. I just ran across this one, which requires little comment.
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Posted on September 13, 2008 at 2:51pm —
On West Junior
Calling all Cowboys. Anybody out there go to West Junior? Are you interested in a group? We have a few people who graduated in the 70s and earlier, and some must have gone to West before they became Big Reds.
Posted on August 7, 2008 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments
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I think your right that John Hannah was a republican.
I know that i'm not ready for winter, and am already looking forward to spring!!
getting dark @ 5pm..that just stinks!! And walking really,really isn't as enjoyable, unless you have on your carhartt overalls...then your not very comfy walking...yeah wait to spring!!! I've never been that far into the u.p. before.
No, I don't think we are related to Liliane. I'm curious though, I'll let you know.
did u get a chance to get those new tires?
just saying hi!
are you able to vote early?
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