my interview with Donna Halper today

[Bob DeMattia]

In 1981 at Holy Cross (WCHC), our station manager was a woman, and no one
even gave it a second thought.

-Bob


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:

> 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.
>