We live tired but we love it," Houser says. Solar panels help power small fans for sleeping in the hot nights.

I guess the names coincide with whatever we're studying at school or what video we're watching. People will turn you off if you just go on and on.

When the girls are teenagers, Houser says, they will have the option of continuing home schooling or going to a nearby boarding school. When Gregg died in 1964, the bakery was taken over by his son, Ian, assisted by his brother, Colin. A petite woman with a strong will, Houser says she knew as a teenager that she wanted to be a nurse and that she would use her skills to help people in the mission field. During that six- to 12-month time, they typically live in housing provided by a church and travel to various congregations speaking about their lives and work. After graduating, Whiteside decided to travel around the world. Gregg is related to Hyon Ko Whiteside and Dean Nicholas Whiteside.

Perry handed Whiteside a ponderous, 40-page audition script full of run-on sentences and works in five languages. The majority of the responses from his many fans were unabashedly gushing and included such coments as "adorable," "suave and good looking," "a hunk" and "If he's as hot as he sounds, give him my phone number. After graduating from UD, her first assignment was in Ethiopia, where she met her husband. Gregg Whiteside, AS '70, chief announcer and manager of radio station WQXR-FM, New York's premier classical music radio station, sounds European as he rattles off the melodic names of the pieces he plays on the air.
It is the most listened-to classical station in the United States and features regular news, analysis, and commentary, often by Times correspondents.

During their furlough in 1989, the Housers were married. Even more radio listeners know Whiteside as "the voice" of London's Royal Opera, the Kirov Ballet and Opera from St. Petersburg, Russia, and the New York Philharmonic's live Thursday night concerts that are broadcast from Avery Fischer Hall at the Lincoln Center. “I am in a state of utter depression and I’m devastated by this,” he says. (You can read about Dean here.).
With the launching of the web site, the station ran a "What does Gregg Whiteside look like?" The station canned Whiteside – whose voice was synonymous with classical music in New York for 25 years – without notice or severance. "It's always a contest to see who can come up with the most outrageous chicken name," Houser says. Gregg's revenue growth.

While on their current furlough in Augusta, Maine, the couple will be busy buying and crating up supplies for the next four years–including birthday and Christmas presents. “To be fired with no severance? By the time the Eagles were again on the upswing, with the hiring of Dick Vermeil in 1976, I was gone. It's in the mail: Woman forfeits lotto prize after USPS loses ticket, Court rules the rolls at Subway are legally NOT bread, Indigenous woman films Canadian hospital staff taunting her before death, Pastor did meth with parishioners, performed exorcism on 1-year-old: cops, Trump says McDonald's fries are secret to his signature mane. They start out carrying babies for their mothers and gathering wood, Houser says. He's one of New York City's foremost culture vultures, but his preferred nickname remains "The Square from Delaware.". com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html], and Whiteside returned to Delaware one weekend to set up a computer for his parents, who now can join his throng of listening fans. to Bright and Early With Gregg Whiteside, which airs from 5:30-10 a.m., weekdays, and garners a larger share of the New York City market than competitors Howard Stern By the time we settled in Manhattan, I was in the land of Giants, Jets, Mets, and Yankees – and I had a young son who would coax his Dad to get tickets for the ball games there. There's a certain amount of physical stress related to the way we live. The Houser girls raise bush chickens–animals that are too tough to eat, but provide the family with eggs. I was still a bit too young, and my interest began to peak in the middle of the '60s, just in time to suffer with the team through a dismal decade. Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, my love of sports from a very early age came through my father, who was a fine athlete. We have to lug it in. Studying the Asian language prior to a stint in the Peace Corps, he fell in love with his teacher, Hyon Ko, after hearing her sing Schubert in perfect German. Select this result to view Gregg S Whiteside… Thanks for contacting us. and that conversation might have leaked out into the newsroom,” Whiteside says. As for Jenny and Mike, they plan on staying in West Africa "until the cloud moves," an Old Testament reference to the Israelites following a cloud sent by God during the exodus from Egypt. Classical music and sports...like father, like son. * --Beth Thomas. Now, as station manager, Whiteside uses the same script to audition hopeful newcomers, and he has broken new ground hiring women announcers. Gregg Whiteside, AS '70, chief announcer and manager of radio station WQXR-FM, New York's premier classical music radio station, sounds European as he rattles off the melodic names of the pieces he plays on the air. I know that Dean will remember those moments for the rest of his life, just as I did. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. And now here I am in Philadelphia, after making a very big circle, back where it all started for this kid from Wilmington, re-connected with the sports teams he loved, never really left, and with the Eagles on the cusp of a Super Bowl Championship. My memories of the Eagles’ 1960 Championship are cloudy.

Neither Whiteside nor the station would say exactly what those comments were.

A generator gives them light and hot water in the evenings, and every Friday night, they pop a video in the VCR for their one night of television watching. The bestsellers are back on the menu at Greggs - but the bakery giant has warned that some regional treats might not return. "Anyone who was ever my roommate knows I loved to talk," he says, but broadcasting never entered his mind as a career. "I worked [as a nurse] in a famine relief station, and Mike worked nearby. The Philadelphia Eagles, my childhood team, last went to the Super Bowl in 2005—just months after my arrival in Philadelphia, after twenty years in New York City. He also is an on-camera host of WNET/ Channel 13's MetroArts cable channel and was narrator of the PBS special, Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor. They like to go to Wal-Mart and look at the Barbies, but they also like to go back home.". "We have to make sure our management team is satisfied, the FCC is satisfied and that our elite, upscale, powerful and influential listeners are satisfied. "Some of our favorites have been King George IV and Princess Leia. John Evans says: October 1, 2017 at 2:02 pm Mike's thinking has always been that it's one thing to be able to save a family pet–pets are important–but it's another to be able to save an ox that a man depends on to plow the fields and feed his family.". Greggs CEO Roger Whiteside has said his company will not be paying staff who are forced to quarantine after returning from Spain and other destinations taken off the “air bridge” scheme.. "You have to have a good mix of talk, music and personality, but less is more in radio. Last spring, however, WQXR began making broadcasts available over the Internet [http://www.wqxr. My timing was amazing; four years later the Phillies would win the World Series. Everyone has to use the same bath water and then we use it to water the garden. Classical Video from WRTI's Performance Studio. “I was speaking privately to a dear friend and it was not something that was on the air,” he says, adding that he wasn’t given the chance to apologize and told to leave Tuesday. A classical music aficionado since the age of 13, when a family friend gave him an old stereo and recordings, Whiteside majored in English at UD. Your Ad Choices While he tried his best to recruit floormates away from The Beatles and into Bach, he never thought of making classical music his career. 111,663, © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. "It just didn't fit. In between songs, while verbally sparring with newscaster Sam Hall, Whiteside's alter ego–the True Blue football fan and UD supporter–never misses a chance to put in a good word for his alma mater. Home schooling the four girls takes most of Jenny Houser's time these days, and the couple does most of its missionary work through the relationships they form in their community. "They are TCKs [Third-World Culture Kids], but the world is becoming so small that being raised in another culture isn't that unusual any more.". *******************************************. and Don Imus. I like to think of the show as the soundtrack to the busy lives of important people. "That's a little tough. "We're always home in the evenings. "People often ask me if I was educated at Harvard or Oxford, and I'm always quick to recommend UD," he says. I began to wonder what would happen if I became an announcer. I know that Dean will remember those moments for the rest of his life, just as I did.

... Mets, and Yankees – and I had a young son who would coax his Dad to get tickets for the ball games there. The Newcastle food-on-the … This story has been shared 243,613 times. It opened its first shop in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951. During the dry season, they rely on rainwater collected in a cistern behind the house. Ironically, the only people without access to a classical station that carries him are residents of Delaware, including Whiteside's parents. The gifted running back, and kickoff and punt returner, ran both kicks right toward our end zone, and sealed the 24-23 win. For a while, they lived in Texas, where their two oldest daughters, Elizabeth and Rebecca, were born. "Our girls are healthy; they don't have a junk food diet; their parents are in love; they have an emotionally secure environment; they are getting a good education; and they don't watch television. In between songs, while verbally sparring with newscaster Sam Hall, Whiteside's alter ego–the True Blue football fan and UD supporter–never misses a chance to put in a good word for his alma mater. Millions of Americans wake up to Bright and Early With Gregg Whiteside, which airs from 5:30-10 a.m., weekdays, and garners a larger share of the New York City market than competitors Howard Stern and Don Imus. Their sponsoring mission board will store the crates and ship them as needed. These were the Tom Landry-led ‘Boys, quarterbacked by Don Meredith, and 60,658 Eagles fans, on a frigid November afternoon, went wild. I’ll always have 1966, when the Birds beat the league-best Dallas Cowboys on two touchdown returns by Timmy Brown. contest, challenging fans to guess the popular announcer's appearance a week before his photo was to be posted.