WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

In this program, we introduce you to a gifted and award-winning painter named Dan Simoneau, who has an exhibit of his work opening soon at the Blue Moon Gallery in Grayslake, IL. 

From the Morning Show archives comes this 2016 conversation with Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of "The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency."    The book tells the story of three different women - Victoria Woodhull,  Margaret Chase Smith and Shirley Chisholm - who pursued the presidency.  The book was published several months before Hillary Clinton became the democratic party's presidential nominee. 

In honor of Carthage College's homecoming,  we are rebroadcasting a portion of a 1997 interview with Alan Anderson, a 1950 Carthage graduate who went on to serve his alma mater in a number of capacities over the course of more than 35 years- including Acting President in 1986-1987.   This interview was recorded as Carthage celebrated its 150th anniversary.  

Dr. Jerry Mast, Associate Professor of Political Science at Carthage, discusses the impeachment inquiry into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine. 

Barb Farrar, executive director of the LGBT Center of S.E. Wisconsin -  They are celebrating their tenth year of existence.   

This is a conversation with renowned cellist Julian Schwarz, who is soloing this Saturday evening with the Kenosha Symphony in the concert that kicks off the KSO's 80th anniversary season.  Schwarz is the son of Gerard Schwarz,  longtime conductor and music director of the Seattle Symphony.

My guests are Dr. John Swallow, the President of Carthage College- and Cameron Swallow, Carthage First Lady-  who talk about Carthage's Homecoming this coming weekend, which includes a Friday night celebration of 150 years of Women at Carthage.   (This school year marks the 150th anniversary of when women first began studying at Carthage.)  

Today's Morning Show begins with a short conversation with Rick Riordan, one of the most wildly popular authors of fiction for young people.  He is perhaps best known for his first book series,  "Percy Jackson & the Olympians," whose titular protagonist was an adolescent dealing with Dyslexia and ADHD, like Riordan's son Haley.  In part two,  I speak to my sister- Randi Berg,  a doctor who practices medicine in Harmony, MN- whose son Kaj (my nephew) deals with Dyslexia & ADHD, and who fell in love with reading thanks to the Percy Jackson books.  

For his monthly visit to the program, Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht celebrates October as National Manufacturing Month by talking about some of the ways that the manufacturing sector has most dramatically changed over the last few years- and how new technology has completely transformed the kind of work that the typical worker is called upon to do in manufacturing today.   Joining President Albrecht is Matt Janison, Vice President for Business and Workforce Solutions,  and Stacy Riley, Vice President for Student Services & Enrollment Management. 

This is part two of the Jessye Norman Morning Show that was recorded and originally broadcast back in 2014 after the release of her memoir "Stand Up Straight and Sing."  Jessye Norman died on September 30, 2019 at the age of 74.   Her celebrated career took her to nearly every major concert hall and opera house in the world- and she sang at two presidential inaugurations,  the opening ceremony of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta,  Paris's 200th anniversary commemoration of the French Revolution, and the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.