Monday, June 8, 2009

The Berg in Ashes

Kreisberg was never buried in Wichita. There was a service in the local Unitarian Church, then his ashes were scattered.
This is according to his brother Roderick, aka Guen. I found him serving an internship in Gastroentology and Hepatology at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore County.
There is a Robin Kreisberg award in Wichita for budding radio announcers. It's given out there, though there is both a Robin Kreisberg award or scholarship at Wilson HS as well, and a memorial tree in Lafayette Park in Chevy Chase.
Still thinking of going out to KC to interview my Catholic-radical guru, Charles Carney, who recently got a 12-month suspended sentence and a $500 fine for his protest activities around the School of the Americas.
For anyone who doesn't know what this is, it has been called the "School for Torture," at the Ft. Benning Army Base in Georgia. It's official aim is (or was) to teach Latin American dictatorships how to be democratic. That was the official line. Lefties accused it of actually teaching new methods of torture to use against Communist and Socialist (and maybe Populist) opposition members.
Charles set up my PLM year in Detroit, as well as programs in Chicago and Cincinnati.
He is hardcore in a pleasant way, never blowing his own horn. His wife does not believe in private property (property is theft, remember?). Hopefully I can get him some ink in Commonweal or America or the other Catholic lefty mags. Still hope to make it out there and then to Wichita, where hopefully some of his collegues remember him.
Guen cautioned, though, that many members of the radio industry move around a lot, so we will see.

2 comments:

Kleingärtner said...

Well done tracking all parties down. So, there's no plaque, nothing apart from the memories and the tree in Lafayette park? Well, we will cristen that tree with the Best in July, my friend.

tourguide said...

Great idea. As you can see I'm back on line. Give me all your date/place info.