Eagle Online Services

Providing a Wide Range of

Internet Resources and Assistance

ABOUT EAGLE ONLINE SERVICES              

Eagle Online Services is committed to providing a broad and diverse array of thoughtful, high quality, and cost effective services via the internet.

We are an association of professionals who know and have worked with each other for some time, and who posses a wide range of backgrounds, qualifications and expertise in a variety of areas, all of which we bring to the online community.

As a result of our diverse backgrounds, we can offer a number of very different services.  To find our more about what we can do, click the links to the left.

To find out more about who we are, read the background information provided below.  

Dr. Roger Russell is a retired college Professor of Psychology, who now works out of his home in Claremont, California.  His background includes many different activities and enterprises, which he contributes to all the different services available from Eagle Online Services.  To see a full copy of his curriculum vita (professional resume) click HERE (will open in a new window).

Mail Order Business: Prior to obtaining his doctorate in psychology from the University of Houston in 1980, he managed customer correspondence for a mail-order business and participated in both copywriting and advertising for that business. 

Private Practice: He has been self-employed provider of psychological services, including personal and vocational assessment and planning. 

Academician: As college professor, he taught for 10 years at the University of La Verne, in La Verne, California, and for part of that time chaired the Psychology Department . 

Writer: His undergraduate degree B.A. is from Pomona, College in Claremont, California, where he majored in English, with an emphasis on writing.  He has maintained an unabated and unabashed interest in writing since that time.  As a result, he has done considerable writing of both fiction and nonfiction, and has published magazine articles, professional journal articles and fiction.  At various times over the years, he has provided copywriting and copy-editing for students (to teach writing skills), colleagues (to assist with grant proposals and various academic  and informational documents), and others seeking such services (he recently edited a cover letter for someone applying for a college teaching position). He is currently writing a book about the creation of fictional characters using a psychological approach.  

Website Development and Management:  He has become involved with website development and management.   Since the fall of 2006, he has been managing the Southwest Bluegrass Association's website (www.s-w-b-a.com), and during that time has made many changes, including revising and updating appearance and contents of that website.  Click HERE to see the work he has done, and view the WHAT'S NEW page to see the many changes he has made since he began managing that website.  Additionally, he designed this website and continues to manage it.  He has designed and continues to manage the website for his radio show.  

Radio Broadcaster: He has also been a radio broadcaster, beginning as early as his undergraduate days at Pomona College and including a stint as a professional "Rock Jock" in the mid-60s on what possibly was the first FM rock-and-roll station in the greater Los Angeles radio market.  Since the fall of 1979, he has broadcast a weekly program, The Sunset Review on noncommercial KSPC, Claremont, 887.FM; click HERE to see the show's webpage (his radio name is "Roger Allen.").  He and his cohost, Randy Skretvedt (aka Randy Brian, see below) write all scripts for the program.

Disability: At the age of 4, he had infantile paralysis which left him paralyzed in both legs.  This has led to an enduring appreciation and concern for the physical, social and psychological issues facing those who have disabilities.  His background and experience in this area enables Eagle Online Services to include Disability Resources in its list of services.

Bluegrass Music: He began playing the acoustic guitar during the folk music craze that swept college campuses in the early 60s, and since 1994 he has been involved in bluegrass music, attending festivals and campouts, where he jams with and listens to other musicians; and since the fall of 2006, he has been working to promote this uniquely American form of music.

Above all, Randy Skretvedt is a highly creative, motivated person who has been self-employed his entire life working on a variety of projects, and providing his skills in consultation with others.  Throughout these years, his interest in vintage music, radio and film has shaped and directed many of his activities.  He currently works out of his home in Buena Park, California.

Writer: Perhaps first and foremost he is a writer--of books, of magazine articles, of film scripts, of CD booklet notes, and of radio scripts.  He has fully developed and honed his abilities as a wordsmith, and while his writing has primarily been in the realm of vintage music, radio and film, he brings his considerable skills to any and all writing projects.  His writing background includes the following:

• His professional writing began at age 16, when he wrote a series of articles for Private Screenings, a magazine devoted to vintage movies. 

• Subsequently, he coauthored (with Jeff and Greg Lenburg) Steve Martin: The Unauthorized Biography (though it wasn't all that "unauthorized," because it was okayed by Martin's lawyer and manager), published by St. Martin's Press in 1980.

• After that he wrote a book about Laurel and Hardy (the product of 8 years of research and interviewing).  Laurel and Hardy: The magic behind the movies was published in  1987 (first in England and then in the US) and since that time has sold over 25,000 copies.  And, yes, you can obtain a copy for yourself, because it's available from Amazon.com.

• As publisher, editor and chief writer, he wrote over 400 articles for Past Times: The Nostalgia Entertainment Newsletter, which, during the years of 1990-1999 grew to a 36 page, quarterly magazine.

• With Jordan R. Young, he compiled The Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook, which lists sources for anything pertaining to this kind of popular culture--museums, fan clubs, audio and video distributors, publications, and the like.

• What else has he done?  Well, he's written the booklet notes for 25 CDs for such labels as EMI, Take Two Records, and The Old Masters.  He wrote a cover article about George Burns for Radio Guide Magazine, as well as one about Jerry Lee Lewis for Sha-boom.  And he's been consulted for and is listed in the acknowledgements of more than 20 books about vintage entertainment.

• Finally, he is currently working on a book about the history of radio in the 1930s and 40s.

Radio Broadcaster: This leads quite nicely into Mr. Skretvedt's second enduring love, radio broadcasting.

• He studied radio broadcasting at Fullerton College.

• He has a background in acting, which led to developing more voice characterizations than we can count, which he employs on the Sunset Review (his radio name is Randy Brian) which he cohosts with Roger Russell (see above), and for which he writes many scripts.

• Since 1982, he has had his own radio program, Forward Into the Past, which also airs on KSPC FM, 88.7.

Dr. Deborah Adler is a psychologist who has devoted many years to helping people find direction and fulfillment in their lives.  She has been in private practice for more than twenty years.  Her current interests have been in helping people clarify their personal values and seek work and personal relationships that fit with their interests and skills, all of which she brings to the Personal Planning services offered here.