November
30, 2001
Linda
Wertheimer to Speak December 6
Public radio station
WFCR will present Linda Wertheimer, senior host of National Public
Radio’s All Things Considered, Thursday, December 6, at 7:30 pm
in Mary Woolley Hall’s Chapin Auditorium. A member of the All
Things Considered team since its debut thirty years ago, Wertheimer
will take the audience behind the scenes at the news magazine
and relate how NPR and All Things Considered have collected and
delivered the news since the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Wertheimer’s appearance is sponsored by Mount Holyoke and “The
Spirit of Women,” part of the Women’s Health Program of Distinction
at Baystate Health System.
A graduate of Wellesley College,
Wertheimer worked for the BBC and for WCBS Radio in New York City before joining
NPR in 1971. From 1974 to1979, she was an award-winning correspondent covering
national politics in the United States and Congress; in 1976, she became the
first woman to anchor network coverage of a presidential nominating convention
and election. Wertheimer was appointed an All Things Considered host in 1989.
A recipient of numerous journalism awards, she is also the author of the 1995
book Listening to America: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard
on NPR, published by Houghton Mifflin.
Tickets for Linda
Wertheimer’s appearance are on sale at the UMass Fine Arts Center
Box Office, which can be reached at 545-2511 or 1-800-999-UMASS.
Producer’s Circle tickets include premium seating and a postevent
reception with Wertheimer, which will be catered by the Black
Sheep Deli of Amherst.
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