EXPLORER Correspondent Ken Milam Passes
Kenneth Robert Milam, a longtime correspondent for the AAPG EXPLORER, passed away on Jan. 31 at the age of 70 in Poteau, Okla.
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Kenneth Robert Milam, a longtime correspondent for the AAPG EXPLORER, passed away on Jan. 31 at the age of 70 in Poteau, Okla.
A lifelong Oklahoman and member of the Choctaw Nation, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah. He started his career at the Muskogee Phoenix newspaper in the late ‘70s and then wrote for the Tulsa World throughout most of the ‘80s, then worked for the Poteau Daily News until he retired from full-time work and became a freelancer for a variety of news outlets.
AAPG members, of course, have seen his hundreds of articles in the EXPLORER over the past three decades.
Along with his five-decade career in journalism, Milam was also a passionate guitarist and composer of several blues songs, he co-founded a band named Crystal Image in the late ‘60s which performed across the state.