Current Status:  

Found but has not contacted website

Tour of Duty:  

Designation:  

Born in Buffalo, NY. Went to work for WAER FM in Syracuse, NY in 1954, then Wolf AM. Then WBUF in 1956. In 1961 went to WKBW as the weatherman plus hosted childrens show "Rocketship 7" and "Dialing for Dollars." Used stage name "Dave Thomas." 

Joined WPVI in 1978 as the morning show "AM Philadelphia" co-host and changed name to Dave Roberts to avoid confusion with another anchor named Thomas. When the weatherman died in 1983, he took over that position which he still holds today.

He is also the father of actor David Boreanaz. 

He has also been inducted into the Philadelphia broadcasters hall of fame, selected Person of the year by the same and received an NWA weathercasters seal of approval in 2000. In 2009, he was inducted into the Buffalo NY broadcasters hall of fame.

He is also a member of the SAG and has had roles on several TV series. 

Most recent info:  

Has been the weatherman for Philadelphia channel WPVI since 1983. It is said that he will be retiring on Dec 11, 2009.

Philadelphia, PA

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2005

Current Status:  

Deceased

Tour of Duty:  

Designation:  

NA

NA

Prior to SCN, he was an engineer with Pan American World Airways in Balboa.

Robert had retired to Bradenton, FL.

Most recent info:  

Robert Botzenmayer passed away on July 24, 2005.  His daughter Lynne Botzenmayer Armfield had moved him up near her home in South Carolina from Bradenton, FL in 2003  where he lived in an independent facility at first and later moved to assisted living.  He fell and broke a hip and never recovered.  Roberts wife had preceded him in death on June 2001. Robert had celebrated his 89th birthday just over 4 months earlier.

If you would like to contact Lynne she can be reached at 

Current Status:  

Missing

Tour of Duty:  

Designation:  

NCOIC over Radio & TV, HQ 5th Army between 1959 and 1963.

Held 4th on SCN's "Dawnbusters" every morning from 5 - 6AM.

After arriving at CFN in 1963, he returned to the US after 8 months

In 1965, he returned to SCN to finish out his 20 years and retired May 1966.

Originally joined the army in 1946. Spent the first 17 of his 20 years with the Army, in the MP's.

Joined AFRTS in 1959 at AFKN-PUSAN.

In 1963 after 8 months at CFN, he returned to the US where he became a PM investigator & Publicity NCO at the Recruiting Main station in Chicago until returning to SCN in 1965  to finish out his 20 years.

He retired on May 1966 and returned to his native Illinois where he & his wife were living and working with the Chicago Police K-9 section of the Interstate canine patrol out of Chicago.

Most recent info:  

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

CFN Announcer

Duties:   

No Details

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

Current Status:  

Found

Tour of Duty:  

1959 - 1964 and 1974 - 1977

Designation:  

Navy JO1 (later JOC). TV News anchor

Worked at both CFN and SCN.

Along with MSG Bob Foster and USAF Sergeant Ed Johnson were part the only four person news team. They all wore their respective uniforms on air and the navy white, army green and air force blue gave the engineers fits trying to chromakey. The other part of that news crew was Mrs. Silvia Thomas, volunteer that did the local weather and women's news.

A black belt in judo. 

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Most recent info:  

He retired as a Navy Master Chief in 2003 and is a civilian employee in the Public Affairs Office of the Pacific Air Command in San Diego.

San Diego, CA

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Current Status:   

Deceased

Tour of Duty:   

1956 - 1957

Designation:   

Announcer

Duties:   

Part time announcer with Radio Station HOG, an English language station in Panama City in 1955 - 56. 

Was an announcer at CFN 1956 - 1957. 

Biographic Details:   

Joined municipal law enforcement in California in 1959, worked ten years at the Westminster Police Dept. and moved upward to the Livermore Police Dept in 1969. 

He retired as a Police Captain in 1985 after serving a one-year interim period as Chief of Police. 

Married a Panamanian girl , Olga Berrocal Essex, in 1955. Olga authored "Delia's Way" a novel set in Panama in the 1950s and is currently published by Arte Publico Press of the University of Houston 

Most recent info:   

Jack had four children and four grandsons. He was retired and living in Paso Robles, CA when he lost  a long battle with cancer on Feb 24, 2002. 

His appearance on the final SCN program was an honor that brought great happiness to his life amidst his struggle with multiple myeloma. Jack spent the last few years of his life enjoying e-mail group chats and stories with his old and new friends from CFN and SCN.

Contact email:   

NA

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

CFN Artist

Duties:   

Details unknown

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

CFN Cameraman and production

Duties:   

Details unknown

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

Current Status:  

Found

Tour of Duty:   

1956 - 1957

Designation:   

Army. CFN News Anchor, Radio

Duties:   

Did much of the news casting at CFN in the 1950's. Joined CFN staff, January 1956. 

Had worked at HOG, civilian English language station in Panama, (like Jack Essex) until his I&E Center CO in Fort Kobbe heard him and made him quit -- no job moonlighting in those days. 

Initially in radio at CFN. In March, 1956, became news anchor for three daily newscasts: at sign-on at 3 PM for 15, at 6 PM for 15 and 11PM for 15 minutes. 

Also did some location work -- special events like retirements and parades and Rio Hato maneuvers, and special events like interview of film star Jimmy Stewart in a Panama hotel when he was passing through. (Jimmy Stewart was an AF reserve general, so very cooperative with military. Channing heard he was in town and called the hotel and was astonished that he got an appointment for an interview. With Gerry Sturges as sound man on the recorder, they met Stewart in the lobby of the Panama Hilton and talked for over an hour. Jimmy Stewart was pleasant, affable and friendly -- a very nice guy. They got a good interview that was broadcast that night after a quick edit job in the second control room. 

Biographic Details:   

Channing left Panama with wife, Nora and child Darcy, in August, 1957 on an early release for college to go to Penn State. During college to make the GI Bill go a little farther, Channing worked as DJ in radio station WMAJ in State College, Pa. Graduated, got a fellowship for grad school and went to Berkeley, thanks to Gerry Sturges, who lived in El Cerrito and urged him to go Cal. 

Got a degree in English and has taught college- level, off and on, since. 

Most recent info:    

Currently lives in Middletown, CA and teaches part-time at Yuba College in Clear Lake. He has two children, four grand-children and a stepson working in special effects in Hollywood.  

Last known email:    

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Channing has a website at New Consciousness Catalog  

Current Status:  

Found but has not contacted website

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

USN. CFN Writer, director, producer

Duties:   

A writer for CFN in the 1950's. Wrote directed and produced "The Studio" for 18 months.

Biographic Details:   

Born 1-12-1936 in Turtle Creek, PA. After the Navy, Ron was later seen in numerous television roles. 

TV Series starred in include:

• Generations (1989)

• Loving (1983)

• Capitol (1982)

• Land of the Lost (1974)

• Planet of the Apes (1974)

• Garrison's Gorillas (1967)

• Another World (1964)

Most recent info:   

Recently completed a docudrama for BBC and a 2005 production, "Touched". He can still be seen acting in guest roles on many different productions. Ron Harper is currently living in California.  

Additional can be found at  Wikipedia

No photo available

Current Status:  

Found

Tour of Duty:  

May 1959 - late 62

Designation:  

OIC & MSGT

When Bill first arrived at CFN, he had such a terrible Texas drawl, CFN wouldn't let him on the air except to do "Bunkhouse Round-up" from 11 to noon each weekday and "Western Swing Party" on Saturday mornings. 

They assigned Bill as the record librarian but he also did some TV production; camera, audio, directing, etc.

Later learned to talk "Mid-American" and did a little bit of everything - even did "Symphony Hall" a few times.

Dee Trantor and Bill (Bee and Dee) did a Saturday morning show called "Music Mania." It was a Bob and Ray type production with short skits mixed in with off-beat music. They may not have had a lot of listeners but they sure had a lot of fun and often recruited other staff members to help out.

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After leaving CFN, Bill was assigned to First Army Recruiting District Headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md. They produced public service announcements and programs for area radio stations. Bill was assigned to produce a C&W program but before they could get it off the ground a Maj. Malone (WAC) walked into the studio one morning and saw Bill reading a copy of "Billboard." She decided that if he had nothing better to do than "sit around and read magazines," they must not need him much. He spent the rest of his time there in the message
center.

Bill put on his civvies and worked for several radio stations in West and North Texas, got married, and re-enlisted after a couple of years. Served as Press Chief with the Air Defense Command Information Office at Ft. Bliss, Tx. Took an early out and re-upped again so he could attend the Defense Language Institute to learn Vietnamese. Had a car wreck en route to Ft. Meyer and missed the class. 

Spent a while at Ft. Carson, Colo., first with the Public Information Office and then as Battalion clerk with an Infantry unit preparing for Vietnam. Before they were sent to 'Nam, he received orders to Alaska with the Fort Richardson Information Office. They were overstaffed
and he managed to get transferred to Alaskan Forces Radio Network at Elmendorf AFB. He was assigned to the news department and later became news director.

When it became apparent that the war in Vietnam was being run by politicians instead of the military, he took an early out and attended the University of Alaska, Anchorage for a year, then worked for several radio stations in Anchorage including KYAK where he did the midnight-to-six d.j. shift and did some news reporting and production. 

He was also news director at KJZZ-FM for awhile. After spending a few months on the North Slope while they were preparing to build the Alaska pipeline, he went to work selling advertising for the Anchorage Times and Daily News.

Returned to Texas in 1975 and worked in various capacities - reporter, editor, sales, production, managing editor, etc. - with small-market newspapers where he  met his second wife.

Most recent info:  

Bill is now semi-retired and living in Weatherford, Texas, just west of the
Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex - not far from where he was "born and reared"   

Weatherford, Texas

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Current Status:  

Deceased

Tour of Duty:  

1950's ? - 1971

Designation:  

ASPCA  representative

Kathy (O'Connor) Holcomb was the ASPCA representative who brought dozens of homeless pets to the SCN afternoon show for adoption. 

NA

Her husband Clint died in 1971. Kathy and her son Vince returned to the US shortly afterward. 

Most recent info:  

Kathy died in Oregon in Nov 1984 at the age of 60. Kathy opened her home to many SCN staff and crew while she was in the Canal Zone. She is fondly remembered by all who knew her.

She is survived by her son Vince (Holcomb) O'Connor who is currently living in southern California. Vince recently married to a Canal Zone sweetheart. Vince adopted his mothers maiden name in honor of her memory.

Oregon 

NA

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

Announcer

Duties:   

Appeared on "Panorama" movie review segment to provide coverage and promos of the base theaters.

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's 

Designation:   

CFN actor. 

Duties:   

Details unknown

Biographic Details:   

Last thought to have gone to Canada to get into theater and TV production there.

Most recent info:   

unknown

Current Status:  

Found but has not contacted website

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

CFN Announcer

Duties:   

An announcer at CFN in the 1950's. 

Biographic Details:   

Born 1-3-1930. Became a well known actor in such movies as "Big" with Tom Hanks and a TV miniseries "Joan of Arc" and "Ike." He starred in at least three TV series: "T.H.E. Cat" in 1966, "Emerald Point N.A.S." in 1983 and "Mancuso, FBI" in 1989. Most recently, "Return to Me" and appearances on the popular sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle." His list of movie and TV credits would take pages.

Most recent info:   

More movie info can be found at Robert Loggia  and at Wikepedia

Current Status:   

Deceased

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

Unknown

Duties:   

CFN Early Morning DJ

Biographic Details:   

After his tour was over, Al went to radio broadcasting in the Los Angeles area, teaming with Roger Barkley for one of the top DJ teams on the west coast. Barkley has since passed away.

Born Alfred Ellery Lohman in Iowa. Started radio work in Omaha, continuing on to Wichita, Denver, Dallas and WABC-New York before moving on to numerous other stations in the LA area over the past 4 decades. 

The team of Lohman and Roger Barkley got together in 1963. Gary Owens introduced Lohman to Barkley who was a program director at the time. Al Lohman, teamed with Roger Barkley for over two decades,  The pair had the most successful morning partnership in the  L.A. radio arena.

Most recent info:   

Al Lohman died 10-15-2002 of stomach and bladder-related cancer. He was 69 and died  following seven surgeries in the past year. Prior to being diagnosed with cancer, Al had been working for KCMJ-Palm Springs.

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

Army

Duties:   

Graphics Artist

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

CFN Commanding Officer

Duties:   

Details unknown

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

Current Status:  

Deceased

Tour of Duty:  

Late 50's to Early 60's

Designation:  

Program Director 

He remained at CFN for several years. 

He was knifed during the flag pole incident at Shaler Triangle in 1959 when the first dual flagpoles were dedicated there. He recovered from that injury. 

Jim returned to the CZ in the early 70's and worked in the Panama Canal Graphics Branch. 

Most recent info:  

No details on his passing

NA

NA

Current Status:  

Deceased

Tour of Duty:  

1957 - April 1960

Designation:  

SSgt  TV broadcaster

While assigned to CFN, Chuck hosted Panorama and other programs. 

Daughter Suellen & son Rick appeared on children's TV show.

Wife Jean, Daughter Suellen, son Rick and new baby daughter lived in Coco Solo housing until quarters were available.

Chuck served as station manager of radio station, Gypsy, near the front lines of Korea in 1951, and in Frankfort am Main, Germany (at Hoechst, in the Castle) with AFN from 1953 to 1956. 

After CFN, they went to Ft. Bragg from there for two years and then to Tokyo because of the Olympics. Chuck was the News Director at FEN in South Camp Drake. 

In 1965 they went to DINFOS at Ft. Slocum, NY, closing this post under McNamara and transferring with the school to Indy, Ft. Ben Harrison. 

From there he went to Viet Nam for the entire year of '66, returning to Ft. Ben and DINFOS until his retirement 9/30/68. 

He went to work as News Director of the CBS radio station in Indy until his wife, Jean, was transferred to Cleveland OH. She had went to work when Chuck  was in Viet Nam and transferred to the VA with the start of the GI Bill. Jean accepted a GS12 in Cleveland and this loving man willingly followed her, as she had him, in her belated career. 

Most recent info:  

He did some free-lance writing for newspapers and magazines and happily cared for five acres and many dogs until his untimely death 10/7/91 of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is buried at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. He was 63 years old 9/17/91, three weeks earlier. 

During his years with AFRTS he was honored to serve with many talented persons and frequently in more than one assignment. He was an inspiration to many who passed through CFN. 

Arlington Nat'l Cemetery

Friends of Chuck can contact his wife Jean  at

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Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

Mid 1950's

Designation:   

CFN 

Duties:   

No Details

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:    

Army Announcer

Duties:   

An excellent announcer in the 1950's. Appeared on News program "Panorama" to announce the sports segment. He also did play by play of inter-service sporting events and Jack Essex provided the color commentary.

Biographic Details:   

none available 

Most recent info:   

unknown

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

1950's

Designation:   

Army Announcer

Duties:   

Technician who aspired to be an announcer. He was able to do both at CFN in the 1950's.

Biographic Details:   

Became an announcer at a small station somewhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin.

Most recent info:   

unknown

No photo available

Current Status:   

Missing

Tour of Duty:   

Late 1957 to ???

Designation:   

unknown

Duties:   

Talented actor who arrived at CFN late in 1957

Biographic Details:   

none available

Most recent info:   

unknown