WBFO s Mike Desmond reports
For the first speaker to the college’s new Leadership and Entrepreneurship in the Arts bachelor’s program, Daemen brought Bill Siemering online to talk about his long history at WBFO in the 1960s, the founding of NPR in 1970 and his Developing Radio Partners organization, which works with African stations on issues like climate change and health for women and youth.
Siemering quoted martyred South American Catholic Bishop Oscar Romero on building for the future. We plant seeds that will one day grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing they will hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation realizing that. This enables us to something and do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,” he said.