Obituaries, 2010
Mel Waggoner, 76
Mel Waggoner, an award-winning fundraiser at Oregon Public Broadcasting and a pioneer in planned giving, died Aug. 29 after a short illness. He was 76. MORE
Carolyn Jensen Chadwick, 65
Carolyn Jensen Chadwick, a producer who traveled the word to bring the sounds of humpback whales and killer bees to NPR listeners, died of cancer Aug. 15 [2010] after a long illness. She was 65. MORE
Sen. Ted Stevens, 86
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, an unwavering champion of public broadcasting during his four-decade congressional career, died Aug. 9 [2010] in a plane crash in southern Alaska. He was 86.MORE
Al Rose, 70
Albert E. Rose, former program director of New Jersey Network and later the program distributor who brought nightly British news programs to U.S. public TV, died of lung cancer June 16, 2010, at a hospice in Newtown, Pa. MORE
Norm Craley, 65
Norman S. Craley, a broadcast engineer who worked 35 years at Washington’s WETA, died of cancer March 24 at the Capital Hospice in Arlington, Va. He was 65. MORE
Jim McEachern, 71
Jim McEachern, who was the principal technical leader for the Public Radio Satellite System for its first two decades and was a key planner of NPR’s technical facilities, died March 3 at age 71. MORE
Loni Ding, 78
The late filmmaker was ‘a consummate organizer’: Loni Ding, 78, a filmmaker who brought issues of Asian American identity to the surface, and to PBS, and helped win legislation backing independent producers, died Feb. 20 in a hospital in Oakland, Calif. MORE
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