Education
Born in New York City, Powers attended the University of Virginia where he worked at the student radio station, WUVA. He was a member of the UVa Jazz Club, once integrating the university auditorium playing in a concert with Dizzy Gillespie, an experience he repeated thirty years later when he played another concert with Gillespie, at New York's Blue Note club. After UVa, Powers attended the City College of New York where he became editor of Roundhouse Magazine; in 1956 he received a degree in Business Administration from CCNY. In 1987 Powers earned a Ph.D. from New York University, in Neil Postman's Media Ecology program.
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