Former John Jay College student magazine editor, Pat Ravalgi

<p>You will often have seen David wearing a sweat shirt carrying the name – John Jay College of Criminal Justice.</p> <p>The college was the venue for his only press conference ahead of the sell-out concert at Madison Square Garden in March 1972.</p> <p>Pat Ravalgi was Editor of The Individualist literary magazine and music editor of the LEX newspaper at the college – part of the City University of New York system – in the early 1970s.</p> <p>She was the driving force behind the press conference and worked closely with David's publicists and record company representatives – especially those at RCA – to draw attention to David to an older audience as he pursued his solo career.</p> <p>In a newspaper article in 1974, Pat observed: “No artist can go wrong when his direction comes from his own audience. Because the artist and audience are all that really does matter.”</p> <p>After graduation, Pat was a publicist at Levinson Associates in New York where her clients included Shaun Cassidy and his record producer Michael Lloyd.</p> <p>After working in public relations, Pat received her Masters Degree in International Relations from New York University. She spent the next 30 years as a professional staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and an Intelligence Officer with several agencies within the U.S. government.</p> <p>In our conversation Pat talks about how, as an ambitious student, she managed to secure an interview with David and the real story behind that t-shirt. </p>