The cost of tuition at a private college was out of reach for the Roker family, so Al attended the State University of New York at Oswego. There he majored in graphic communications, but he took classes in meteorology to satisfy the university’s science requirements. Roker found he had a talent for meteorology, and his interest in the science grew as his studies progressed. While still a sophomore in college, he landed a part-time job as weekend weather forecaster at nearby WTVH-TV in Syracuse. By the time he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1976, he had been promoted to weekday weather-caster at the station. Roker did not earn a degree in meteorology, but few television weather forecasters do.
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2478/Roker-Al.html
He was in my class at Oswego, we didn’t see much of him since he was already working at Channel 3, for anyone who went to school in that god forsaken place (in the Winter) the concept is crazy....
somewhat off topic....but I actually think “weather man” would be a pretty cool job.
if I had to do it all over again, I might actually seriously consider it.