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A-State's ROTC program turns 80 this year

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published September 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM CDT

Classes started 80 years ago at Arkansas State University's ROTC program. An interview about the history and the significance of the program is found by clicking on "Listen". KASU's News Director Johnathan Reaves talks to Former Army Captain Richard Hartness about this.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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