- Emily Rooney
Emily Rooney is an American journalist and former executive producer of ABC "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings". She was the first woman to produce a network evening newscast. The acrimonious atmosphere that arose after her 1994 firing by ABC made national headlines. Before producing for ABC, Rooney was also a news director at Boston's ABC station, WCVB for more than a decade. - Christopher Lydon
Christopher Lydon (born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1940) is an American media personality and author whose work in radio includes formerly hosting "The Connection" for WBUR. He created the show with his long-time producer Mary McGrath. <sup></sup> He is a former journalist with the New York Times, former WGBH Boston evening news anchor for the 10 o'clock news from 1977 until its cancellation in May of 1991, and a candidate for mayor of Boston in 1993. - Norm Abram
Norman L. "Norm" Abram (born 1950) is an American carpenter known for his work on the PBS television programs "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop". He is referred to on these shows as a "Master carpenter" - Russell Morash
Russell Morash is a television producer and director of many television programs produced through WGBH and airing on PBS. His shows include "This Old House", "The Victory Garden", and "The New Yankee Workshop". He also worked with Julia Child to produce "The French Chef" and other cooking programs, beginning in 1963. Russ is a 1957 graduate of Boston University. An article in the Boston Globe provides insight to Morash. - Ric Burns
Eric D. Burns is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for nearly 20 years, since his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series "The Civil War", (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken Burns, and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed several programs for WGBH Boston's American Experience, including "Coney Island" (1991). - Ron della Chiesa
Ron Della Chiesa is a Boston area radio personality. Born in 1938 in Quincy, Massachusetts, he was taken by his father to Jazz and Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts in the early 1950s, and developed an ear for both genres. His commentaries on WGBH-FM Radio for Boston Symphony broadcasts on Friday afternoons. These broadcasts as well as his commentary at the Sunday Tanglewood Festival in the summertime are informed by his life-long attendance of the orchestra, … - Todd English
William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, and television star based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is best known for his cooking show, "Cooking With Todd English", which appears on public television and is produced by Connecticut Public Television; and for his flagship restaurant, Olives, located in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As of 2007, Todd stars in "Food Trip with Todd English", … - Ellen Kushner
Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels, who was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her first novel, "Swordspoint" (1987), and its sequel (with co-author Delia Sherman) "The Fall of the Kings" (2002), are mannerpunk novels set in a nameless imaginary capital city and its raffish district of Riverside, where swordsmen-for-hire ply their trade. She has written another sequel set 15 years after "Swordspoint", … - Robert J. Lurtsema
Robert J. Lurtsema (November 14 1931-June 12 2000) was a public radio broadcaster. He hosted the classical music show, "Morning pro musica", on WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1971 until his death from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was known among public radio listeners throughout New England for his sonorous voice and his phrasing, which frequently included long pauses. - Barry Nolan
Barry Nolan is a presenter on Comcast Cable's CN8 channel, once hosting the shows "Nitebeat" and "Backstage", and now hosts "Backstage with Barry Nolan." He is also a regular panelist on "Says You!", a weekend radio word quiz show produced by WGBH-FM and National Public Radio. He is originally from Alexandria, Virginia, and went to college at the University of Tennesee. - Peggy Charren
Peggy Charren (born 1928) founded Action for Children's Television (ACT) in 1968 in an effort to improve the quality of children's television programming. In 1989, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded her its Trustees' Award. Her work with ACT culminated in the passage of the Children's Television Act of 1990, and she received a Peabody Award in 1991. In 1992, she disbanded ACT, announcing that it had met the objectives she had set out to accomplish. - Bud Collins
Arthur "Bud" Collins (b. June 17, 1929 in Lima, Ohio) is an American journalist and former television commentator for NBC Sports. - Catherine Clinton
Catherine Clinton is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South. Clinton completed her dissertation on under the direction of James M. McPherson at Princeton University. She has held academic positions at numerous institutions of higher learning, including Union College, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Brown University, Wesleyan University, … - Michael Kolowich
Michael Kolowich is a recognized pioneer and innovator in internet content, high-technology marketing, and application of digital video technology. He is currently president and executive producer of DigiNovations, which he founded in late 2001, and is architect and producer of “Mitt TV”, the acclaimed video website for the Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign. He has been a senior executive with Bain and Company, Lotus Development Corporation, Ziff-Davis Media, and AT&T. - Tony Cennamo
Tony Cennamo Tony Cennamo was for 25 years a jazz disk jockey on Boston University's WBUR. When he had a morning show in the 1970s and 1980s he began his show with Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments. Current WGBH jazz disk jockey Steve Schwartz cited him as a major inspiration. - Hiro Narita
Hiro Narita , A.S.C. a Japanese American cinematographer, was born June 26, 1941 in Seoul, South Korea in the clinic owned by his physician father [verification needed]. In 1945, along with his parents, four siblings and grandmother [verification needed], Narita moved to Japan where he spent his childhood. Following his father's early death and his mother's remarriage [verification needed], he immigrated in 1957 to Honolulu, Hawaii where he graduated from Kaimuki High School. - Crocker Snow Jr.
Crocker Snow, Jr. is the current director Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a veteran American journalist. =Early life= Snow graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1961 with a BA in general studies. He continued his education at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with an MA in international affairs. - Raymond Wilding-White
Raymond Wilding-White (also known as Ray Wilding-White; b. Caterham, Tandridge, Surrey, England, October 9, 1922; d. Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States, August 24, 2001) was a composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music, and photographer/digital artist. Wilding-White spent the first five years of his life in England before moving to St.-Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, France, … - Scott W. Roberts
Scott Wayne Roberts (b. 1959) is a supporter of outreach in astronomy and space exploration, and a popularizer of amateur astronomy. Since the early 1980's he has consulted, participated in, and engineered star party events and telescope viewings to a broad audience. - Lino Pertile
Lino Pertile (born 1940) is an Italian linguist, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the current House Master of Eliot House. Born in Italy near Padua, he taught at the universities of Reading, Sussex, and Edinburgh before coming to Harvard. His specialty is Dante scholarship, a field in which he has published widely. Dante studies were made great in the United States by a previous Harvard scholar, the Victorian Charles Eliot Norton. - Ethan Salter
Ethan Salter is a photographer. He worked for a PBS affiliate from 2001 to 2006 and is now a freelance producer/editor. Salter is credited as a producer for the fine series, "House with a History", a documentary-style program focused on houses of notable Nevadans and the history that has followed the homes and the individuals who have lived there. Salter is also credited with the production of "Wild Nevada", … - Charles Ogletree
Professor Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. Dean Lewis introduced Professor Ogletree and reminiscenced about their days as students at Harvard Law School in the 1970s. - Valerie Linson
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- Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone. - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007) and the host and executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series "African American Lives" and "Oprah's Roots." - Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. - Denise Blumenthal
Denise Blumenthal Denise Blumenthal is Director of the Educational Programming Department at WGBH. She has spent over twenty years researching, implementing, and evaluating professional development programs across numerous content areas, including Learning that Works, an NSF funded project connecting high school science to workplace science and Beyond the Bell (about after-school programs). Denise holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an Ed.M. - Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, … - Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier (born 1950) is arguably one of the foremost American civil rights scholars in the United States. The first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work spans a range of topics, including professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in college admissions, and affirmative action. - Caroline Hoxby
Caroline Minter Hoxby is a labor economist whose research focuses on issues in education. She is one of only 24 Harvard College Professors (a distinction awarded for excellence in undergraduate teaching) and is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her studies on charter schools have been widely cited by supporters of educational vouchers. - Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich is professor for astronomy and the history of astronomy at Harvard University; in 1992-93 he chaired Harvard's History of Science Department. His research included solar and stellar atmosphere astronomy, and concentrated on the history of astronomy; he has published numerous papers and books, and has served in several professional societies. - Juliet
"It's going to be all right, sir.... We're nearly there.... I can Apparate us both back.... Don't worry...." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.". - Heather Eades
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three words...wicked classy broad. - Elizabeth Tyson
In an attempt to update this more regularly, I will put something new on here every couple of days. - Alex
About as basic as they come: Touchy, defensive, humble, arrogant, stinky. Yeah...I'm really cool! - Huw Powell
Hehe, I'm just me, old at heart, young in spirit (or is it the other way around?). Bohemian but not irritatingly quirky, I live my life for me and quite enjoy the results. I work as much as I have to, read too much, don't watch broadcast TV, as my hair turns silver I just get blonder. When I take things apart and reassemble them, they usually work better. - Lance
What kind of kiss are you? - Christopher
Hya. I'm not on here very often, but its my space, my rules. Rule one. If your a hooker, stripper, or upstart band, I'm not interested so stop emailing me. Rule two. Im not interested in being your 923rd friend, so don't send me a blind add request. Email if youd like to know more about me, that's what friends do. Rule three. Chocolate for everyone. Please and thank you.
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