found: Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association, 2011:title page (Gary P. West) page 348 (About the authors: Gary P. West: West grew up in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and attended Western Kentucky University before graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1967 with a journalism degree. At U.K. he was a daily sports editor for the Kentucky Kernel. Later he served as editor for a military newspaper at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. From there he was employed in the corporate office of State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, Illinois, where he was a copywriter. He returned to Kentucky in 1972 where he began an advertising and publishing business. For twelve years, he was the executive director of the Hilltopper Athletic Foundation at Western Kentucky University, and provided color commentary for Wes Strader on the Hilltopper Basketball Network. In 1993, he became the executive director of the Bowling Green Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. He retired from there in 2006 to devote more time to his writing. He is a freelance writer for several magazines in addition to writing a syndicated newspaper travel column, Out & About ... Kentucky Style, for several papers across the state. Gary is in demand as a speaker and for book signings across the state. Gary and his wife Deborah, live in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
