What I’ve Learned
Rick Flagg 64, Tallahassee Former Dean Emeritus of the Capitol Press Corps AS TOLD TO ROSANNE DUNKELBERGER
YOU WERE A MILITARY BRAT, TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. HOW DID YOU END UP IN FLORIDA? We started off in Texas. Japan. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Worcester, Massachusetts. Denver, Colorado, Spokane, Washington. Oberammergau, Germany. Our last assignment was Hurlburt Field in Navarre where my father was the chief intelligence officer for the 1st Special Operations Wing. Before my family moved to Florida, I was back in the U.S. attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). They taught me that I should not be an engineer, and I left after a year. They saved me so much time and trouble. At the same time I was failing at RPI in engineering, I was the youngest editor of the paper there as a freshman. They taught me I should be in journalism and I am eternally grateful for that. By 1977 I had graduated from Okaloosa Walton Junior College and was on to FAMU. I did the paper (at Okaloosa Walton) and when I went over to Tallahassee I was working for the Flambeau while I was going to FAMU.
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