Alan Caperton (Rick Alan West) - 1969

07/07/1951--10/08/2007

Alan Caperton aka Rick Alan West, 

 Alan was born July 7, 1951, in Wichita, Kan, His family moved to Tulsa when he was 2.  He graduated from Rogers High School in 1968 and then for two years attended Oklahoma State University, where he majored in broadcasting.

 Alan Caperton, whose on-air name is a play on the word "request" with his real first name squeezed in, began his three-decade-long radio career at OSU's rock station, KVRO, in the early 1970s.

 He worked as a DJ for stations in Arkansas and Texas before settling in Tulsa in 1979. He lent his friendly voice to morning shows and other programming on country station KVOO, pop station KRAV and oldies station KQLL, among many others.  For the last 13 years, Caperton was a production manager and on-air personality for Clear Channel Communications in Tulsa.  "Being on the radio, playing the music you like in your own hometown -- that's what it's all about," he told the Tulsa World in 1995.