Monnica Rose is International Director of Toastmasters International, a non-profit organization that has been helping people surmount their fears of public speaking for nearly a century. Ms. Rose will be the keynote speaker for the spring conference of Toastmasters District 35 that will take place at The Abbey in Lake Geneva on May 5th and 6th.

This is an interview that dates back more than ten years. (I was unable to determine the exact year.) It's with Dr. Benjamin Campbell, just before he came to UW-Parkside for a Science Night presentation on the connection between testosterone and risky behavior among adolescents.

From 2008- Walter Hermanns, Daryle Sturino, and Jeff Barrow - the members of Syzygy, a team that won the Racine County Spelling Bee two years in a row. This interview was recorded right before they attempted to make it three in a row. (Note: They fell a little short, finishing in second place.) I (meaning Greg Berg) was actually a member of Syzygy when they won for the first time in 2006. Jeff Barrow took my place when I was unable to compete with them the next year.

From 2019 - Blake J. Harris, author of "The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution that swept Virtual Reality."

Dr. Art Cyr, from the faculty of Carthage College, offers his analysis of current events and issues.

From the archives: Catherine Blyth, author of "The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour through a Neglected Pleasure."

Violinist Nina Fronjian, the current Howard Brown Artist-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside .... and Dr. Alvaro Garcia, director of orchestral activities at UW-Parkside. Ms. Fronjian performs the violin concerto by Alexander Glazunov on a concert at Parkside this Saturday afternoon at 3:00.

Indian chef and cookbook author Raghavan Iyer - one of the world's most renowned experts on curries - passed away on March 31st. This is a rebroadcast of an interview recorded with him back in 2016.

(from 2013) Dara-Lynn Weiss, author of "The Heavy: a Mother, a Daughter, a Diet."

A look back at the 1960's sci-fi series "Lost in Space," in which a family of space explorers (the Robinsons) becomes lost in space due to a serious malfunction- and spend several years trying to find their way back to earth. Marc Cushman is best-known for a series of books he has written about another well-known series of the time, Star Trek.