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Les Carroll

Leslie Raymond Carroll (Born 2 Mar 1948), better known as Les Carroll, is an American Radio Broadcast Journalist residing in Santa Barbara, CA. Carroll is the CEO of Seaside Communications, the company that publishes Santa Barbara Passport Magazine and is the General Manager of KZSB-AM, Santa Barbara's only 24-hour news station.

I. Biography

Son of Manley, a freight sales manager, and Virginia (nee Leslie), a homemaker, Carroll was born at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, IA. where he attended elementary school before moving to Minneapolis, MN. with his family in 1958. The Carroll family then returned to Council Bluffs where Carroll graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School.

In 1964, after graduating high school, Carroll pursued a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism at the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was an active member of the local chapter Delta Upsilon Fraternity, a writer for the school newspaper, as well as the publisher for the school's magazine, The Oracle.

II. Career

III. Awards & Notable Accomplishments

Carroll's passion of news-gathering while pursuing his Journalism degree at the University of Iowa led him to the infamous Chicago Seven Trial where he sought out Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The exclusive interview earned Carroll the Jacob E. Reizenstein Award for Outstanding News-gathering. He had just turned 21-years-old.

Carroll also serves on the Unity Shoppe Board of Directors and has served on the boards of The Milpas Association and Lincoln Club, and, on various committees for the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce, Emergency Public Information Communicators, the Catholic Charities People Helping People Committee, and the United Way Painted Cave, Tea and Jesusita fires relief funds oversight committees. He has also been recognized by the California Legislature for Outstanding Public Service; and, by the publishers of Business Digest Magazine, Commerce Magazine and Business Profiles Magazine as one of the area's business leaders.

IV. Personal Life

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http://www.sbredcross.org/general.asp?SN=6725&OP=6731&IDCapitulo=0O5561PWP7 http://www.noozhawk.com/nonprofits/article/022510_les_carroll_new_vice_chairman_of_red_cross