Friends and fellow volunteers at KSQM 91.5 FM celebrated longtime broadcaster Dick Goodman’s 90th birthday in early November.

The Sequim-based community radio station hosted a surprised party at the broadcasting offices on Nov. 1, with about 50 attendees.

Involved in radio and TV since 1952, Goodman is a Port Angeles native.

In a March interview, he said he was a glorified shop keeper while serving in the U.S. Navy but soon started working for Armed Forces Radio Services at age 20, which led him to a lifetime career in broadcasting.

After earning a bachelor’ of arts degree in communications from the University of Washington, he worked up and down the I-5 corridor from Birch Bay to Portland, Ore., and in small and large radio stations from Yakima to Seattle. Often he’d work two jobs to support his family.

In addition to doing the news, he worked for two years as the King County Police Information Officer where he would record daily news updates that would be available for any news service that wanted to use his copy. He was also twice the Public Information Officer for the Washington State Labor and Industries Department in Olympia.

Goodman said he has met lots of interesting people during his career, from various politicians to lots of celebrities such as Clint Eastwood and James Garner.

Outside of the work, Goodman said his one claim to fame was when he skied from Port Angeles to Victoria, B.C., in 1957.

Goodman returned to Port Angeles in 1996. He worked as a bus driver for the Port Angeles School District and Olympic Bus Lines before KONP hired him for the station’s Saturday morning news show.

After 14 years of doing the news, he said he was ready to retire in 2014, but then found out through a chance acquaintance that KSQM 91.5 FM was looking for announcers.

He said he loves the laid back atmosphere where he can play music like the kind of music he grew up hearing.