After months of planning for a one-day Northwest Public Radio fund drive, Mary Hawkins awoke with serious doubts about pulling it off. Campus phone lines had been down the day before and an icy blizzard had blown through eastern Washington during the night. With drifting snow and closed highways, Hawkins, liaison between Educational Public […]
A leader in public radio circles has accepted an offer to become Program Director of Washington State University’s Northwest Public Radio, a network of 12 stations serving listeners in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British Columbia. Mary Hawkins, the head of an arts organization in Sandpoint, Idaho until the end of July, will begin Aug. 15. […]