From the time, at age-5, when hanging out at our family friends’ Highlandtown Radio-TV shop, declaring, “I want to be a broadcaster,” to the career of making it happen, right in the middle was my time at Calvert Hall.
And the great influences on my career path were the social studies teachers who, to their credit, allowed me to debate not just with classmates but with them as well, in the tumultuous days of Richard Nixon and Watergate. Mr. Kropp was first among them, writing in my yearbook to “Be Objective.” I took that to heart, and still do. There was Mr. Steiner and Mr. Heidrick, challenging all of us to think of the other side of an issue.