A last first

This is it! Last night my son Trevor was roaming the house looking for this document and that. He was upset. I think he wasn't upset that the documents were missing. I believe he was a little apprehensive about that first day of school. This will be his last. He'll say goodbye to high school at the end of this year. And if he heads off to a college out of town we'll be saying goodbye to him. Empty nesters? It's all happening too soon.

I remember vividly his first day of school. I did a story on his first day. It aired on the Fox station I was working at in Kansas City. A colleague of mine Kevin Kietzman had a son the same age as mine. Kevin is pictured here with another buddy Todd Leabo. I think you recognize the guy in the middle. Todd and Kevin worked with me before they became media titans. They bought their own high powered radio station and now live in palacial mansions. I ran into them in Florida when we were all covering the super bowl years ago. I forgot to ask Kevin how his son was doing. You see all those years ago, Kevin's son Spencer was starting school at Heartland Elementary. So was Trevor. I wanted to do a story on birth order. So this worked out great for me. I could be there for his first day of school, and I could get a story too.

Spencer is the first born in his family. Trevor is the youngest or last born sibling in our family. So I did a preview piece on what you could expect from these kids by the time they left high school and went out into the real world. Ironically I am reminded of that this morning by Del Jones Cover story in the Money section of USA TODAY. For the piece he asked Vistage to survey CEO's. What he found was the birth order question struck an unprecedented nerve.

The bottom line is the first born is much more likely to grow up to be the CEO. So when I get home today I'm going to tell Trevor to dust off his resume and send it to Keitzman. Wait a minute, he doesn't even have one. Well that doesn't matter I'm going to tell him to get his resume to Spencer now before he becomes a big shot. On second thought maybe I should have handed my resume to his dad back when we were sitting in the basement of WDAF all those years ago. Then I could be a media titan today too. I never did ask Kevin where he fell in the birth order. I'm guessing he's a first born.