At the Bicentennial year, my lifelong ambition had not changed. All I cared about was finding a path into radio.  Dad encouraged me to go to our local community college, Somerset County.  I endured a Liberal Arts curriculum there that bored me to death, except for Dr. Bogulub's Sociology course. He told great stories about living in Japan and other foreign counties. He made crapping in a hole sound so culturally important. His language was plain and explicit and it was a popular class. During this time, I failed miserably at an attempt to start a campus radio station.  Hanging around WBRW wasn't getting me anywhere either.

Frustrated as I was, I called my old high school guidance counselor to see if she had any ideas that might help me crack the broadcasting code. She invited me back and several meetings later, suggested that I apply to Jones College in Jacksonville, Florida. I didn't have the grades or the desire to get into a prestigious university, but with Jones, my prospects were good.

Mimi Chen, a classmate at Bridgewater East High, went to Princeton University where she graduated and went on to a long and successful career in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles radio. I saw in a trade publication article where she talked about her San Francisco studio swaying in a downtown high rise during the great Frisco earthquake of 1989. She spoke of seeing a lot of ashen faces on her floor after the catastrophic event. She's the only Princeton grad that I can think of who became an on air personality of that kind of major market magnitude. Only a select few get that far. 

Upon investigating Jones, I learned that they offered a dedicated Broadcasting and Business program. There was an AM and FM station on campus as well as a TV studio for newscast training.  The admissions counselor, Dave Zorn, inflated my hopes by telling me that many Jones graduates went on to radio jobs in the Jacksonville market. That's all I needed to hear. When could I start? Later, I would learn that comedian and TV personality, Joe Piscopo was a Jones Alumni.  At that point, I felt that I had mined the gold nugget into the promised land of radio broadcasting.