I was honored Wednesday afternoon in Atlantic City to introduce the recepient of this year's New Jersey Broadcasters Association Lifetime Achievement Award---none other than my colleague and good friend for more than 30 years, long-time WCTC Morning Show host Jack Ellery.  Jack has been in radio for a virtual lifetime---more than 60 years dating back to 1951 in Lewiston, Maine.  His storied career has taken him to stations in major markets like New York, Philadelphia and Tampa.  However, it is at WCTC where Jack has really made his mark.  He's been on the air at WCTC for each of the past six decades, beginning just months before John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.  WCTC's coverage that day included gripping and emotional "man on the street" reaction that Jack put together on that fateful day.  Since then, Jack has transformed himself from a glib disc jockey in the '60's to one of the pioneers of provocative and evocative talk radio in the 1970's until now.  His keen insight into Central Jersey, state and world and national topics, his many on-air fund-raising succeses and his renowned ability to do the best live commercial reads anywhere around have highlighted his career.  But above and beyond all that, Jack's legacy will be the fact that he embodies the essence of being a broadcaster---a communicator---transcending any decade and any format, by using his well-known baritone voice and the inate ability to "paint a word picture", whether it be telling a story, making a salient point or imploring his audience to open its collective mine to pay attention to what's important in this complicated world of our's.  So, congratulations to Jack Ellery on his body of work, worthy of the NJBA's Lifetime Achievement Award.