might want to think about joining the City Times staff. So that’s how I became involved in journalism on the newspaper side.”

While working for the student newspaper, Ojeda served as the sports editor for his first year on the staff. He wrote about City College’s football team, soccer team and many other sports. His name and story headlines could be seen on the entire sports page.

Ojeda was a dedicated writer and during his second year, he was named editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper for the 1981 school year. That same year, the young journalist won first place in on-the-spot copy editing and headline writing at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges conference.

When Ojeda wasn’t writing stories for the newspaper, he could be found across campus, practicing his on-cameraskills for the student broadcast program, Newscene. Ojeda explained that while working for City Times, he was interested in the telecommunications courses offered at City College.

“(He) was really professional, he took everything really seriously, if he started to work on something — he was serious about it, he took it to heart and made the deadlines and did the best job he could. He stood out, there was no doubt about it,” said Larry Quick, the department’s chief engineer, who was working in the TV department at City College when Ojeda attended.

Today, Ojeda attributes a great deal of his success in the business from his time at City College.

“The nice thing about City College, and I can’t speak for the other junior colleges but you get in there,