Susan Stamberg
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Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
And at that point, I was hired as a tape editor.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
But at that point, because things were so open and possible at NPR in those days, I was also getting stuff on the air.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
He said to me, I really like your work.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
How can we hear you more?
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
I'm going on vacation.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
Why don't you sit in?
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
And it was that kind of generosity.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
He went away.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
There was nice response to it.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
And poof, we were co-hosts.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
But you know something, Terry?
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
I didn't know about it.
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Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
I write about this in talk, too.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
This is a story that I heard 11 years after the fact, and I heard it from Bill Seemring, who was important in getting you on the air.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
I know that when he was manager of the station.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
We wouldn't exist, all things considered, NPR, if it hadn't been for Bill Seemring.
Fresh Air
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
That's exactly right.