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This site is maintained by Dennis L. Haarsager, Falls Church and Hillsboro, Virginia.

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, Pullman, Washington for 29 years and had previous public broadcasting positions in Idaho and South Dakota.

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  The web site you’re reading was largely superceded by another blog at http://www.stadsbygd.org/.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 United States in the early 1880s.  I'm a member of the Sons of Norway and Nordmanns-Forbundet..

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 University of Idaho.  I was married from 1966 to 1976 to the former Julie C. Wince, with whom I have one married daughter and two grandchildren in Laramie, Wyoming.  With Sandra, I have another married daughter in Spokane, Washington, and a son in Brooklyn, New York.  With Mhairi, I have a stepdaughter in Boston, Massachusetts and a stepson in Bristol, England.