Jerry Taff dropped this letter "e" from his surname around 1969.
11 Facts About Jerry Taff
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Jerry Taff worked in his grandparents' grocery store which was named Allen's Grocery.
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Jerry Taff's family was living in Anadarko Oklahoma from 1942 to 1945, and then they moved to Texas.
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In 1958 Jerry Taff graduated from Lamesa high school and then received a degree in government from Texas Tech in Lubbock in 1962.
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Jerry Taff began working in the media at 17, when he worked at KPET in Lamesa.
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Jerry Taff went on to work at stations in New Haven, Connecticut at WTNH-TV, Flint, Michigan at WJRT-TV and Dallas at WFAA-TV.
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Jerry Taff mentored Moore and his friends for a year and a half, showing him the news business.
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Jerry Taff taught a course on journalism at Carroll University.
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Jerry Taff was inducted into the Milwaukee Media Hall of Fame on October 23,2009.
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Jerry Taff has two daughters DiAnn Curtis and Denise McMahan.
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Jerry Taff's parents sued him in a Waukesha County, Wisconsin court in 1985, claiming he owed them nearly $90,000.