Gene Witt Biography
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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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