Marching Raiders 1972 through 1981
Marching Raiders 1982 through 1991
Your friendly neighborhood website builders photo can be found by the name Brigman, Ronald G. Jr in the 1984 RSHS yearbook, the Treasure Chest, but that name seems a bit formal since most of you know/knew me as Ronnie or Squid. These days I answer to Ronn, but when anyone uses the others, I can't help but smile. This is my family’s Christmas card photo from 2003. My wonderful wife of ten years is Kim, formerly Kimberly Sue Eanes. My son, Noah, is a seventeen year old RSHS senior who is doing everything in his power to fulfill my father’s fervent “I hope you have a son just like you” wish, and my daughter, Kelsie, is a second grader at L. J. Bell, who is seven going on seventeen. |
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Because my high school days were great due to the Marching Raiders, and I know I'm not the only one, but I do know people who could care less about their high school days, which just seems bizarre to me because mine were truly great! Nearly everything good that happened to me during high school was directly related to my participation in the organization that allowed me to learn about discipline, hard work, sportsmanship, and respect, while having fun and making life long friends.
I'll start with the most recent detail. After 13 years in public service, I'm going private sector. I've accepted a job with a GREAT software company from Southern Pines, called Southern Software. The Richmond County 911 office signed on to use their computer aided dispatch (CAD) in 1999, and I started doing contract work for them, as a trainer, in 2002. They decided they had a full time position for me in 2004, so I joined their staff that December. Now, I'll crank up the time machine.... I spent some time at SCC after graduation making good grades, but unfortunately, those grades gained me access to UNC-Wilmington. Unfortunately? Don't get me wrong I loved it in Wilmington, but after I found my friends from Rockingham there, I just couldn't find the time to go to classes. *smile* After that first year, I came home looking for employment. I wanted to have a job, so I could prove to my parents that I wasn't a complete screw up. They helped me get a job in radio at the local AM station, WKDX. After a year or so, I left there to work at Rockingham's WAYN with Jimmy Smith. I've always been a bit stuck on myself, but I really thought I was cool when I got to work with Jimmy. Less than a year later, I moved to Laurinburg to work at their premier AM station, WEWO (yes they called it Whee-Whoa). That didn't work out so well, so I started working part-time in Fayetteville at WKML, which led to a full time gig at WQSM, Q98. I stayed there for 3 years before coming back to Hamlet and signing on with the new WKDX, which worked out nearly as well as WEWO had. Then one day at a car wash, I was offered a full-time job at Richmond County's brand new, and only, FM station, G104. I took the job, and began attending classes at RCC. Six months later, in September of 1992, I found out that Richmond County was going to start its own 911 program, and interviewed for one of the positions. I started working with them a few weeks later, which was six months before 911 service was offered in Richmond County. Those of us hired early spent our days taking classes, earning certifications, and spending hour on end driving this county's roads assigning new addresses to everyone. It was a long six months, but finally it was time to start answering those phones, and I answered them for 12 years and 3 months before moving on... If you've read this far you must really miss me because that was boring..lol. |
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