Bill Ruck, Bill Newbrough, and myself went up to the memorial service in Sacramento on April 16th. Richard Rudman, the state Vice Chair of EAS, came up from LA and was one of speakers. The church was adjacent to a shopping center so it was hard to find from the street. But once you spotted all the vehicles with multiple antennas (porcupine syndrome), you were home free.

Stan was a DJ at KSAN in San Francisco in the early 50s. In those days the call letters belonged to an AM station whose antenna was on the Furniture Mart at 9th and Market and whose studios were above a storefront a few blocks away. It was what was known as a "race station" back then. That meant it played undiluted Black music. It influenced many white kids who went onto to do rock and roll, rhythm & blues, and jazz. KSAN started up the first UHF TV station in the Bay Area on channel 32 and Stan was its newscaster. It was the sort of operation where everyone raced to the bank on payday to cash their checks before the money dried up. (I worked for the same outfit years later and deposited my first check but after that I just sent it into the bank's collection department. -RT )

Stan went into Public Safety after that and was 20 years in Hawaii and another 10 in Bakersfield before taking the job with OES in Sacramento.

While in Hawaii he moonlighted on a radio station and created his alter ego Dr. Delmar U. Davis Ph & D, who was a self-anointed expert on everything. DJs would call Stan for the Davis view on all the issues of the day. Stan would oblige with stuffed shirt Delmar double talk.

Stan's Sacramento suite was a tiny office shared with others. There wasn't even room to pile the document overflow on the floor. They would slowly rise to great heights on his desk until he became invisible behind them.

Stan traveled all over the state talking to broadcasters and used his powers of persuasion and his humor to make EAS work. I can't say that the required monthly coordinated test in EAS was Stan's idea, but in Hawaii he put in place a weekly coordinated test. I suspect his fingerprints were all over the RMT.

Stan was a tireless foot soldier in the endless struggle to give the public the best information possible in times of disaster. Many of those who came to the memorial service were the individuals, far from the limelight, who just make things work.

Just about the time we think we can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Dr. Delmar U. Davis, PH&D