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Tom Darby
Tom Darby is member of the Nevada Broadcast Association's Hall of Fame. He has worked in Crescent City, CA., Arcata, Ca., Eureka, CA.,Sparks, NV., and Reno, NV., during his nearly 30 year career. Tom Darby is best known regionally for his conservative political view. He was employed at the Daily Sparks Tribune as a general reporter.
Tom Darby also wrote a personal weblog knowns "Tom uses his words." In this weblog he wrote about a local Sparks, NV., politician who called him a puppet for the politicians opponent. His editor at the newspaper shared the letter that the politician has sent the newspaper. Tom Darby subsequently published the letter on his weblog. He was discharged from the newspaper approxiamately one month after it was posted on his weblog.
He was the subject of several weblogs questioning his ethics as a journalist. The University of Nevada's School of Journalism held a symposium regarding Tom Darby's action, discussing whether a journalist should or should not write personal comments or opinions while employed as a reporter. The results were later posted on the university weblog with mixed opinions.
His comments and opinions were also reported on by the Reno Gazette-Journal. The discussion was posted on their weblog.
Tom Darby was born on July 20, 1960 in Chateriox, France to Thomas Junior and Margery Ann Darby. The senior Darby was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at the time, assigned to the Air Police at Chateriox Air Force Base. The base closed in late 1962 and the family returned to the U.S.
He has one brother, Adam Maynard Darby, and two sisters, Deirdre Marie Peterson and Marcy Jean Auer. His father passed away in Tulsa, OK on July 21, 1995. His mother died at Mad River Hospital in Arcata, CA., on June 13, 2002, which is about 90 miles from where he grew up.
Tom Darby was raised in Klamath, CA. He went to grade school at Margaret Keating Elementary School and then Del Norte High School in Crescent City, Del Norte Co., CA. The family moved to Klamath from Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, CA., shortly after Adam was born in 1963.
It was December 1964, when the family lost their home in the township of Klamath. An earthquake occurred in Alaska, which resulted in a tsunami that sweep the township away. It was the second flood to have happened in Klamath during 1964. Prior to that the township was flooded by the Klamath River in 1955. Margery survived the 1955 flooding by climbing on top of her father's saloon and jumping from roof top to roof top, eventually being rescued by a citizen with a power boat.
Tom Darby was not an outstanding student. In fact in 1967, he had an accident that caused the removal of the majority of his tongue. The accident left him with a speech impediment for the next eight years. He was subsequently assigned to a special education class because he had a difficult time speaking.
During his eighth grade year he developed into an athlete, setting the county record for both the 100-yard and 220-yard dashes. This athletic skill continued into high school where he was eventually named the schools "Athlete of the Year." It was also while in high school that Tom Darby discovered his ability to write.
He was the schools newpaper, "THe Above and Beyond," sports editor from 1977-1978. Tom Darby also participated in the schools yearbook as a photographer. It was also in 1977 that he first ventured in radio broadcasting by working at the local AM station.
Tom Darby appears to have developed a pension for defending other people and placing himself in the 'line-of-fire.' He wrote a letter to the editor of the Del Norte Triplicate pointing out that his track coaches had told two long distance runners which race they were goint to win. He fought to get one of the runners reienstated after she won a race that she wasn't slated to win.
Later he would find himself at odds with his commanding officer and non-commissioned officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, where he was enlisted as an Environmental Health Specialist and medic. Tom Darby went to the Inspector General with the charge that his office was not following Air Force regulations.
He asserted that his office was using chlorine bleach to kill algae in the sumps of several Minute Man Missiles. Tom Darby's identity was reportedly to remain unknown to his supervisors, but three days after he filed the complaint, he was accused of going outside his chain-of-command.
Tom Darby was discharged from the U.S. Air Force within 30 days of filing the complaint. He returned to Klamath, and later moved to Crescent City where he eventually found work as a drag-net fisherman, reserved sheriff deputy and finally as a professional radio announcer.
He also worked as a stand-in and stuntman for the movie, "Return of the Jedi." Later he would move to Las Vegas, NV., then Reno, NV., finding work as a part-time radio announcer. He also worked in gaming and made several walk on appearence in movies filmed in the Reno area.
He currently lives in Spanish Springs, NV., which is approximately 10 miles northeast of the Reno/Sparks area. He married Mary Elizabeth Conklin in Ramona, CA., in 1987. They have one son, Kyle Thomas Lane, who was born in 1992. Tom Darby continues to write a weblog by the same name.
