my interview with Donna Halper today

[Donna Halper]

On 1/7/2013 6:42 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> You're kidding about not understanding why you were the first to succeed,
> right? I'm sure that you were more persistent than anyone in the station
> hierarchy--probably more persistent than anyone in the station 
> hierarchy had
> ever met and more persistent than anyone of either gender that those guys
> have ever met to this day!

But I do think the changing of the times, as somebody else pointed out, 
had something to do with it as well.  Yes, I was persistent.  Yes, I had 
some encouragement from a wonderful professor who believed in me.  But 
it was still a four year battle and one I was not sure I'd win.  Funny 
thing was I never expected it to be a battle-- I genuinely thought I'd 
be welcomed when I first tried to get on the air... but by 1968, a lot 
of things were changing, and more women were getting on the air in a 
number of places. Years later, I was able to meet the PD at then-WNEU 
(Northeastern's station calls later changed to WRBB, and I was there 
when it happened), and I told him how grateful I was that he gave me a 
chance.  That's all I had ever asked for.