High School City Football Championship FG kicker
World-class broadcast journalist
Owner of highly-successful antique mall with the help of late Sister
Retired at 50 years old to travel and enjoy life in Colorado, California, Florida and Texas.
Organized 1st Tee at Aspen Municipal Golf Course.
Checked-in players and communicated with on-course Rangers to keep groups moving in a timely ready-golf atmosphere.
Won numerous statewide news awards from AP, UPI & Sigma Delta Chi, - Best Newscast, Best Investigative Reporting, Best Sport News Coverage, Best Feature Reporting, etc.
Broke news stories across the state while covering spot, investigative, judicial, legislative and general news events.
Wrote newscast, edited field reports and delivered 5 to 10 minute broadcast newscasts on hour.
Enjoy teaching beginners the golf swing. Write vignettes, etc on Facebook like this;
July 11th, 2019
My 6th Grade teacher died last week. If you don’t mind I’d like to share what I wrote about this WW2 veteran & educator.
From a natural born journalist ...
“The clock read, 14 minutes after the hour. Where is Mr. Yoakum? Something must be up. He is never late returning from lunch. And then a man awkwardly slid through the doorway. It looks like Mr. Yoakum, our great 6th Grade teacher & Principal, but it wasn’t. This man was someone I had never seen. It seems something is on his mind & then he turns at his desk to face this class of innocents and says, “There is some really terrible news,” pausing to take a quick deep breath, “President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas!” A Catholic girl in the middle row of desks shrieks loudly amid quieter cries from some of the young female students. It was an afternoon like none other in this now matured life. The puzzled, dignified, sad, but composed Mr. Yoakum marched us through this Friday afternoon as if we were preparing to storm the beach at Normandy. History - and a lonely school leader said not another word about the World-class tragedy. He offered no answers, but Mr. Yoakum was there for us that day & forever!