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This site is maintained by Dennis L. Haarsager, Moscow, Idaho.

At home in his Rosenborg Ballklub spillertrøye, February 2000

My family and I live on an acreage on Moscow Mountain. We are surrounded by Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees and have lots of wildlife. Deer, moose, elk and coyotes wander through plus occasional porcupines, bears, bobcats and cougars.

Moscow Mountain from our driveway, February 2000

I am Associate Vice President and General Manager of Educational Telecommunications and Technology at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, responsible for WSU's public radio, public television and distance learning networks as well as Instructional Support Services for WSU’s Pullman and Spokane campuses. WSU operates NPR radio stations in the Pacific Northwest in Bellingham, Clarkston/Lewiston, Cottonwood/Grangeville, Ellensburg/Wenatchee, Moscow, Moses Lake, Mount Vernon, Port Angeles/Victoria, Pullman, Richland/Pasco/Kennewick, Walla Walla/Milton-Freewater, and Yakima; PBS television stations in Pullman and Richland; and 34 electronic classrooms throughout Washington.

Additional information about my professional activities is available at www.technology360.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 United States in the early 1880s. I'm a member of the Sons of Norway and Nordmanns-Forbundet..

My wife is Sandra L. Haarsager. Sandra is Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Idaho. She has a PhD in American Studies from Washington State University. Her interests include singing, piano and writing books. She has published two books, Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big City Mayor and Organized Womanhood: Cultural Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1920, both by the University of Oklahoma Press, and has completed a third on trout farming in Idaho.

My oldest daughter (from my first marriage) is Jennie E. Haarsager-Lieske. Jennie is a graduate (B.A.) of Washington State University and (M.A.) from the University of Wyoming. She is married, is the mother of my grandson, lives in Laramie, Wyoming and works as the director of a small non-profit organization. With Sandra, I have two children. Andrew will be entering college this fall at the Rhode Island School of Design. Anna L. Haarsager is a student at the University of Idaho and works as an x-ray technician.