To The Reader’s Forum:

For my 12th birthday my parents took me to breakfast at the crystal ball room in the Hotel Jamestown. It was a “live” event hosted by George Fleegar and broadcasted onWJTN.

He asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. My answer was: “I want to be a radio announcer.”

A few years later, I would help Jim Roselle at the record hops. I would help set up equipment and find records he was going to play, again “live” on WJTN. Once in a while he would let me introduce a song. One night, Jim was broadcasting a game from Warren, Pa. and could not make it back in time to do the hop. I was called to the church phone where George Fleegar told me that I had to do the beginning of the show. I was so scared that I did it without a glitch. So, it was was Jim Roselle that gave me my big break at WJTN. I never forgot it. After my time in the Army, I returned, but there was no room at WJTN, and I was was given a position at WGGO In Salamanca.

Jim was a great radio personality and a kind and giving man. He will never be forgotten.

Charles Irwin

Nyack, N.Y.