User:Centpacrr/UP

Generally, I make my contributions to the Wikipedia Project in two main two areas: pro ice hockey in which I have worked professionally over the last four plus decades and 3,000+ games as a team executive, in radio and TV broadcasting including for NBC Sports (NHL on NBC), NBC Sports Network, Versus (VS), FOX Sports, ABC Sports, ESPN, MSG Network, PRISM, SportsChannel, Comcast SportsNet, CBC Sports, Rogers SportsNet, TSN, NHL International, and other regional and national outlets, writer, historian, have been extensively published (three books and many hundreds of articles), and also both served as a consultant and appeared in on camera interviews in two documentary feature films produced by NHL Productions ("40th Anniversary History of the Philadelphia Flyers" 2007) and HBO Sports ("Broad Street Bullies" 2010); and early North American railroad history about which I have also been published extensively (four books and many articles). I have been a registered Wikipedia contributor since September 19, 2006.

In addition to the above topics, from time to time I may also contribute writings and/or images in a variety of other fields in which I have professional experience and/or particular personal interest including aviation (I am also a pilot); early Air Mail; "Zeppelin" mail, "Lindberghiana", and other areas of postal history; steamships; early radio and television; opera (I used to be the head "super" for the two Philadelphia grand opera companies) and classical music; digital image restoration; Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1960's and 70's (I spent ten weeks on a traveling political seminar there in 1964); and topics relating to the history of Philadelphia, PA, San Francisco, CA, and the States of Pennsylvania, Maine (particularly Waldo County and the city of Belfast), and California. Many of the images I contribute come from my various postal history, aviation, railroadiana, and American history collections (The Cooper Collections) which I have been building for more than half a century as well as original digital images that I have created on those and a variety of other subjects. I also contribute frequently to Photography Workshop project of Wikipedia's Graphic Lab offering my skills gained over the years as the sole owner and operator of DigitalImageServices.com. I was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, PA (in which my family roots go back to the arrival from England of my first direct Cooper family ancestor, James Cooper, in 1679), have lived in the area for virtually all of my life, and am a graduate of both the William Penn Charter School (1964) and Temple University (1968) there.