People

I take the back road to work, the curvy one that passes through the older neighborhoods.  I make the turn and my eyes are drawn to the sky and the light filtering through the branches of the hardwoods bordering the ravine.  I glimpse the...

Growing up, my life could be summed up in one word...SPORTS. Football, baseball, basketball, and track (I learned golf later). At Central Catholic High we were 1976 state champs in football when I was a sophomore. In 1977 I started center field...

February 16, 2009 marked the beginning of my second go-around at WBAA. I worked here as a Program Host/Producer from 1995 to 2001, hosting classical music, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and the weekly 20th century classical...

It all started with a little black box.  When I was 11 or 12 I got a little plastic tabletop radio for Christmas.  Nothing could tear me away from that thing.  I listened to everything - polka music, classical, Top 40, big bands, Met Opera,...

I’m a life-long resident of Lafayette. I worked in the banking industry before coming to Purdue, where I was an Accounting Clerk in Electrical and Computer Engineering. After nine months I accepted the position of Traffic Coordinator at WBAA,...

I was born in Lansing, Michigan and grew up on a farm in the Grand Rapids Michigan area.  I attended Western Michigan University where I studied Electrical Engineering and started working at the student AM Carrier Current station radio station,...

Prior to moving to the Lafayette area in 1998, I lived most of my life in Connecticut. I graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1991 (Go Huskies!) with a bachelors degree in communications and absolutely no intention of going into...

I was first introduced to public radio in college at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (WSIU-FM) and knew this is what I wanted to do as a career. After working in newsrooms at public radio and commercial television stations, I am happy...

I grew up listening to my father play bits and pieces of his favorite classical music while I went to sleep.  I think that is why I liked to listen to it while I studied at the University of Illinois where I graduated with a degree in...