Strange but true: Local radio institution Lee Kelly honored while still living

Voice of NAHS Radio receives IHSAA award, by Jim Nichols, Managing Editor of the Jeffersonville Evening News

NA Confidential is delighted to provide this link to Jim Nichols’s (Jeffersonville Evening News) tribute to Lee Kelly, who for 31 years has served as the station manager at WNAS, “the nation's oldest high school radio station at Indiana's oldest high school.”

Way back in 1977, coffee thermos in hand and newspaper in tow, Lee made the morning trek to Floyd Central High School for its first period radio class.

Having unwittingly been duped into allowing me to take the class, Lee was forced to endure the relentlessly immature antics of a gangly and confused kid who had no idea who he was, where he was going, or how he planned to get there.

It had to be painful for Lee at times, but fortunately (for me!) he didn’t take it personally, and we became friends.

Now that I’ve grown into an adult who still doesn’t know where he’s going or how to get there, at least I have a much better idea of who I am, and people like Lee Kelly deserve the credit.

Or, as many would suggest, the blame …