“Commander Ralph” Vartigan
This was more my time-period. In the early to mid 1970’s or so, WTEN Channel 10 News Anchor, Ralph Vartigan, would don a Navy officer’s uniform and doubled as Kid’s show morning host of “The GoodShip News” It was on weekdays somewhere between Popeye and Captain Kangaroo and early enough that it wouldn’t make you late to catch the bus to school. Ahh yes… Cocoa Pebbles and Commander Ralph…what a great way to start the day…