Robin Roberts is a sweetheart

From 1980 until 1987, I worked for the Chauvin family and AirWeb Communications. The company owned two radio stations in Hammond, Louisiana. As a student at Southeastern Louisiana University, I worked overnights at WFPR during the week. On weekends, I worked an afternoon air-shift and anchored the hourly newscasts for both WFPR and WHMD.

There, I worked with one of the sweetest sportscasters anyone will ever meet. Her name was Robin Roberts.

Robin was from Pass Christian, Mississippi. She came to SLU on a basketball scholarship, and as she worked towards her degree in broadcasting, Robin went to work with us.

On my most stressful days at Airweb, the site of Robin—wearing her shorts, T-shirt, and pig-tails, carrying her bicycle up the staircase—never failed to cheer me up. She was always beaming, and her always-happy spirit was the most infectious of anyone I've ever met.

In time, I worked my way up to Promotions Director at AirWeb.

In that role, I once attempted to persuade Robin to wear the giant head of WFPR's mascot—"the 14 Country Fox"—at a the grand opening of a furniture store. Being the good sport Robin was, she eventually agreed, but it never happened.

She was too tall for the costume.

Today, Robin is the one of the anchor's of ABC News' Good Morning, America. She has just finished a book about her life—including those days in Hammond and Pass Christian, a town ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

And I just found out that Robin has breast cancer.

I wanted to write this, just to let Robin know that she is still a sweetheart in my book—and that my prayers are with her.