Personal
Information
Personlig informasjon
This
site is maintained by Dennis L. Haarsager,
Since
early 2009, I’ve served as Senior Vice President for Technology and System Resources
at National Public Radio, but am retiring at the end of 2010. After serving as chairman of its board of
directors, I joined NPR in early 2008 as its Interim CEO, and later served as
Interim President & CEO. Previously,
I served as Associate Vice President and General Manager of Educational
Telecommunications and Technology at Washington State University,
Since
2003, I’ve maintained a blog at http://www.technology360.com/. The web site you’re reading was largely superceded by another blog at http://www.stadsbygd.org/. My interests include books, family history,
computer programming and, although not currently very active, amateur radio
(call sign N7DH). My tie to Stadsbygd is through my father, Ralph Oliver Haarsager
(1906-1970). His parents, Elias Jensen Haarsager (1855-1926) and Kjersten Johanne Pedersdatter Fenstad (1868-1946),
were born in Stadsbygd and emigrated to the
I’m
newly married (May 2010) to Mhairi G. MacDonald
Haarsager, M.D., a specialist in neonatal intensive care. She’s now retired from clinical practice and
working part-time for an organization that evaluates graduate medical training
programs at hospitals throughout the country.
She will also retire at the end of 2010.
I was married from 1977 to 2007 to the late Sandra L. (Smith) Haarsager,
PhD, most recently a professor at the
