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| George made Dayton his “hometown” after arriving on campus at the University of Dayton in 1969. Hired by the Dayton Board of Education right after graduation, he taught social studies at Colonel White High School while earning a masters degree from Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education in Yellow Springs (which soon went belly up). He has taught at Whittier Elementary, MacFarlane Middle, and Stivers School for the Arts (three of those buildings have subsequently been demolished). George parlayed his love of jazz (and the discovery of a valid FCC license in a box of cereal one morning) into his current show, “Jazz Then, Jazz Now,” in the late 1980s. He now has the dubious distinction of being the longest-running volunteer programmer at WDPS-FM (over 22 years and counting). Attempting to follow in the big-time jazz broadcasting “footsteps” of his jazz DJ idols Steve Schwerner and Dave Barber, he signed on in the mid-90s as a relief jazz “programmer” for “Alternate Takes” on WYSO-FM (all jazz programming was soon dropped from the station...only to be reinstituted years later sans him...are we sensing a theme here?). Currently practicing tantric semi-retirement and living in downtown Dayton with his wife Eva and two cats (Jazzmin and Miles Dewey Davis III), George teaches Jazz History part-time at Stivers, and is still “working on a dream.” You can catch his eclectic mix of jazz on Thursdays from 11:00 until noon on 89.5 FM. |
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