There are no medals for rescuing neglected animals or for buying the deadest-looking plants in order to nurture them back to health. And there are no medals for having the most interesting resume, though if there were, Port St. Lucie’s Barbra Rubin-Perry might give Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps a run for his money.
Someone once asked Rubin-Perry why she’d had so many different jobs, including many in radio. “I asked her how many movies Lauren Bacall was in,” Rubin-Perry said. “Each movie was a separate job. You don’t think of it that way, but when you’re a broadcaster, you go from a small station to a bigger station, then to a bigger station.”