Mary Bitterman
Leading PBS in Hawaii and Beyond

 

Leslie Wilcox visits with Mary Bitterman, who was the Executive Director of PBS Hawaii (then referred to as KHET) from 1974 to 1979. The youngest Executive Director of a PBS station at the time, she headed KHET at the time of the groundbreaking production of Aldyth Morris' "Damien", which won the George Foster Peabody Award and was aired on PBS stations nationwide. She went on to become the President and CEO of KQED - the PBS television station in San Francisco - and was board chair of PBS. Mary is now Chair of the PBS Foundation and head of the Bernard Osher Foundation, which provides scholarship funding to selected colleges and universities.

 
Mary Bitterman
   
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