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spent« years with the New York Central Railroad. He started working in 1908 right after he finished the customary eight years of school. He had chosen that course by the age of eight when his father was killed in a rail accident.
But when it came time for his son, Phil Jr., to start thinking about the work world, Rossman insisted on a college education. Phil worked for a couple of months as an intern stoking coal, but when he heard about it, father put his foot down. So, it was off to Syra■* cuse University where Phil started in electrical engineering and majored in broadcasting and pre-law. There, in 1952, he found a job as a control engineer at the campus station and “figured out radio was a lot of fun.” The 1955 graduate pursued that profession.
Now as an occasional guest lecturer at various colleges or when he returns to Syracuse U. to speak to students, Irwin tells them “radio is not a good way to go.” His best advice for beginners in broadcasting is “Don’t make it a career.”
Irwin’s success as a world-wide personality, was a matter of being at the right place at the right time and “being ready for the opening” when it came, he insists.
He started at the smallest station in Syracuse, WOLF, a 250 kilowatt sta
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