About the Author

Bill Smith worked his way through undergraduate school firing steam locomotives on the railroad, then paid for graduate school as a dormitory Resident Advisor. Three years later he was the Acting Chief of Television for a branch of the Air Force in Washington, then Acting Assistant to the Under Secretary of a federal department. He was the founding Executive Director of a state wide public broadcasting network, a founder of a 17 state public broadcasting system, and the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award.