Gene Witt  Biography
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"...I was on the air for WKIS(-AM 740) as Gene Witt in Skywatch 1 from late 1983 through spring 1986. I proposed to my wife over the air live during one of my traffic reports. I was also one of the "traffic twins" on WOCL(-FM 105.9) "Cool 105.9" in the fall of 1985. I was alone in one plane, and another DJ flown by a pilot was in another. We would do the reports together. I'm currently a Captain for Delta Airlines, and my wife Kathy (who was the pilot for WHOO(-AM 990)'s Sergeant Jim Humphries) is also a Captain with American Airlines. My oldest son Jeff (22) is graduating from Harvard University in June 2009. My son Patrick (20) is in his second year at Yale University. My wife Kathy (former WHOO pilot) and myself live on the north side of Atlanta in Sandy Springs. Please feel free to contact us via email.  deltaa@comcast.net


MARRIAGE PROPOSAL OVER THE AIRWAVES
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL - Saturday, April 19, 1986
Author: By Ed Hayes of the Sentinel Staff
Winter Park resident Gene Witt was really high last week when he proposed marriage to Kathy Bernich. Witt, 25, was in the air at the time in a Cessna 172 at an elevation of 1,500 feet, and on the air for WKIS (740). He's the radio station's Eye-in- the-Sky traffic reporter, in addition to working as a flight instructor at Orlando Executive Airport. On the air he asked Bernich, 29, a pilot for Florida Express, to be his wife, and, if her answer was yes, to cover the top of her car outside her Winter Park residence with a pink blanket. ''I was listening to Gene,'' she said, ''but I was in my car and thought, 'Oh, my gosh.' I had to drive like crazy to get home.'' Her answer was yes, the pink blanket was sighted from the air, listeners heard all about it on the airwaves, and on Saturday of last week, in a private ceremony in Winter Park, they were married.


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