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Charles Zink was born in South Bend, Indiana on February 4, 1925.
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He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, and served during World World War II, receiving a Bronze Star. After being discharged from the Marine Corps, Zink began a career in broadcasting in Pennsylvania. He moved to Miami and joined Miami TeleVision Journalism in 1956.
Zink played the children"s show host Skipper Chuck from 1957 to 1979.
In 1980, he hosted a short-run television gameshow for elementary school children in a format similar to Jeopardy. He also appeared in the B-movie Mission Mars in 1968 which was created in Miami.
He also was the television host of the local Orange Bowl New Year"s Parade for 22 years, and the announcer for the Jackie Gleason Show for 12 years. He also hosted a local radio program known as The Lunch Bunch on WJNA, winning a Big Mike award for Radio Personality of the Year.
He also hosted The Senior Side for radio listeners of WXEL in Palm Beach County.
He also was the sales voice and poster face of Century Village, an active retirement community in South Florida. He was able to use his position with children to change views on race relations, the peace movement, and later in his career, treatment of the elderly. His show included the first integrated children"s audience in South Florida, and his trademark hand symbol, with three fingers up, represented "Peace, Love, and Happiness", as a way to improve upon the peace symbol the children were seeing on the news.
His "Word of the Day" helped young immigrants to learn the English language, including many Cubans that moved into Miami during the years of his show.
Zink died in January 2006 in Boca Raton, Florida, under care of Hospice by the Sea at the age of 80 of complications from a massive stroke suffered on December 19, 2005. They should be able to sit on my show together.".
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Quotations: "Colored and white children are now going to school together. They should be able to sit on my show together.".
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Bronze Star Medal Miss USA For his work on television and for children, Zink received many awards, including: Two Emmy One Big Mike Award
The Miss USA beauty pageant has been held annually since 1952 to select the Americans entrant in the Miss Universe pageant.The Miss USA beauty pageant has been held annually since 1952 to select the Americans entrant in the Miss Universe pageant.