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Big Shoe Ron Gonder Built On Broadcast Roots In Iowa
Ron Gonder, longtime WMT sports director and Hawkeye announcer, fondly recalls early radio influences from his youth in Forentesta New York. He credits Foster Hewitt with sparking his love of play by play and details his path from Ithaca College to Navy service and Northwestern studies shaping a four decade broadcasting career.
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Ann Scholl Boyer
Forentesta
N.Y
Ron Gonder
Toronto Maple Leafs
Ron
WMT Am-Fm
Iowa Hawkeye
Foster Hewitt
The
Maple Leafs
WMT
City Recreation Commission Board
Cedar Rapids
the Big Shoe
Ithaca College
Ithaca
Fort Niagara
Iowa
Buffalo
Detroit
Navy
Buzz Orr
Iowa-Michigan
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Iowa City