Gordon Govier - Wisconsin Writer
miscellaneous page...
Part of my work in media relations was as a public spokesman for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.
Sometimes I get in the news in other roles.
Member: Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
World traveler to 5 continents
Tour leader for Archaeological Adventure tours to Israel
PHOTOBLOG (I like to seek out beauty in the world around us):
60 Year Radio Adventure Timeline:
- February, 1961: radio debut on WPRE, Prairie du Chien (fourth grade) reading a biographical report on Charles Lindbergh.
- June, 1971: WPRE employee, through 1973
- February, 1974: first fulltime radio job at WOSH, Oshkosh
- 1975-2004: radio news reporting in Rockford IL, Lincoln NE, and Madison WI
- February, 1987: my WNWC radio colleague Donna Norland and I were voted Mad-City Radio Heroes by the readers of the Wisconsin State Journal.
- March, 2013: made a cameo appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio's Wha Dya Know radio quiz program with Michael Feldman.
- March, 2023: volunteered for 5 weeks at KICY, Nome, Alaska, assisting with high school basketball tournament broadcasts and Iditarod coverage.
- September, 2023: mentioned in Doug Moe's
Madison magazine radio retrospective.
Videos:
World Changing Journalists of InterVarsity - autumn 2013
THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF CHESTER C. WELLS - spring 2013
Camp Randall, a Bicentennial Observance - summer 2009
RANDOM CURIOUS WEBSITES:
GOD'S EYE VIEW||
MINI DISC COMMUNITY PAGE||STEVEN KOZAR||
DISSECT A FROG
"The Church is the one thing that saves a man from the degrading
servitude of being a child of his time."
- G.K. Chesterton
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead with out it."
- Jonathan Winters
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