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Bill Dautremont-Smith |  | |
Interim Executive Director | execdir@wdiy.org |
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Sharon McCarthy | | | Development
Director | dirdev@wdiy.org |
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| A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Sharon is a veteran public
relations, event planning and development professional, with more than 25 years
experience. Prior to coming to WDIY, she founded McEvents and Public Relations,
a local event planning and public relations firm. Sharon has lead marketing
efforts for such Lehigh Valley organizations as ArtsQuest and Via and has corporate
community relations experience with Rodale Inc. and the former CoreStates/First
Union Banks.
As Development Director for WDIY, Sharon leads all membership
campaigns, fundraising efforts and directs the station's public relations and
marketing campaigns. Sharon most enjoys working with volunteers and feels
that they are a priceless asset to WDIY and its mission. The mother of Ryan,
an attorney in Philadelphia, and Colleen, a master's candidate in creative writing
at the University of Minnesota, Sharon lives in Fountain Hill, PA with her partner,
Dave, and their menagerie: a Great Pyrenees, Sheba, black cat, Guinness, three
parakeets and several colorful fish.
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Neil Hever | | | Program
Director | neil@wdiy.org |
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| Neil began his radio career as a student disc jockey at
Muhlenberg college radio station WMUH during in 1978. After earning a B.A. degree
from the college, he spent the next 13 years in commercial radio and sound production
at WSAN, Creative Sound studios and later WAEB. In 1981, while attending Muhlenberg
College, he and another community member joined together to form the first organized
group of community radio volunteers in the Lehigh Valley. The group began incorporation
meetings in 1984 and spent the next decade building support for a new community
based station. WDIY 88.1 FM began broadcasting in 1995. Neil joined the
staff in August of 1997 as Program Director and was promoted to Operations Director
in February 2008. His duties include training volunteers, maintaining the broadcast
facility and schedule, organizing the production studio and music library maintenance.
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Ron Richter | | | Underwriting
Sales Manager | underwrite@wdiy.org |
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| Ron is the Underwriting Sales Manager at WDIY arriving here
in 2007 after over 30 years in the Accounting field. Ron is a retiree of Air Products
and Chemicals. He is a native of the Bronx, New York, but has lived the majority
of his life in Bethlehem. Ron served in the USN and is a Vietnam Veteran. He
earned his bachelors degree at Moravian College after his stint in the Navy. He
enjoys music, sports, good beer and good cigars. He is married with two
daughters, one stepson, one grandson and one granddaughter.
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Jim DeSousa | | | Public
Affairs Director | jim@wdiy.org |
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| A native of Washington, D.C., Jim De Souza earned his bachelors
degree at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, then served for
two and a half years in the US Peace Corps. He taught school in a tropical area
of Southeastern Nepal, then worked with incoming volunteers in a training program
in India. Jim then spent 13 years in the correction field, serving as a probation
officer in Fairfax, Virginia. Then the Journalism bug bit and Jim left one career
to start another in 1984. Since his first job in radio in Darlington, South Carolina,
Jim has worked at CBS Radio affiliates in Concord, New Hampshire and Wilmington,
Delaware. For five and a half years, before joining WDIY in September of 2000,
Jim worked as a court reporter in Wilmington covering federal and state courthouses,
and Delaware's unique Chancery Court. Jim's professional goal? To have the
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Alison DelRe | | | Communications
Coordinator | alison@wdiy.org |
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| I have been a fan of WDIY since the station went on the
air in 1995. Then I joined the staff in 1998, a dream come true, I love my job,
which has many different duties. I create and manage events and partnerships,
assist with development and manage wdiy public relations and marketing plan, I
also update the information on WDIY's web site, arrange ticket give-aways and
in short pitch in where ever I can. If you have any questions or comments you
can reach me at 610-694-8100 extension 4or email me. | |
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Fara Delplato | | |
Business Development Manager | busdev@wdiy.org |
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WDIY's new Business Development Manager Fara Delplato
comes to the station after 15 years in hotel sales. A native of New York City,
Fara began her career working at a record label in NYC. Fara holds a bachelor's
degree in Public Relations and Journalism from SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY.
She now lives in Albrightsville, PA and is the mother of two children,
Ashley and Andrew.
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Laura Lawrence | | | Office
Manager and Bookkeeper | adminassist@wdiy.org |
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| Although Laura and her family moved to the Lehigh Valley
over 20 years ago from the Boston area, she considers Bethlehem her true home.
A great lover of classical and world music, she listens almost exclusively to
WDIY and the other NPR radio stations in an around Eastern Pennsylvania. Over
the last few decades, Laura has been actively involved in many civic, educative
and religious projects and organizations. She is currently the Secretary to the
Assembly of the Baha'i Faith of Bethlehem, the Treasurer of the Bethlehem Branch
of the NAACP, co-chair of the Racial Justice Coalition of the YWCA of Bethlehem
and member of its Board. In the past Laura was involved with the 100th anniversary
of the Parliament of Religions in both Allentown and Chicago, the Interfaith Alliance
of Lehigh Valley, and the 350th Anniversary of Bethlehem. Recently she had an
opportunity to do something that had been a life-long dream - to work at the United
Nations in NY. In February 2007 she interned at the UN for the Commission for
the Advancement of Women and worked with women and girls of every continent. Laura
is mother to one son, Stephen, and married to Henry Lawrence who currently works
at Dun and Bradstreet. She continues to work towards the upliftment of women around
the world, racial justice and the education of children with the aim of raising
a prejudice-free generation.
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