Breaking/Sad News: Joyce Slocum, President of Texas Public Radio, has died.
Cassidy Steele Dale writes to equip you with the forecasts, foresight skills and perspectives, and tools you may need to create a better, kinder world.
And one of those ways is to talk about the making of us.
Terri called us to tell us:
Joyce Slocum, President and CEO of Texas Public Radio, died last night after a prolonged illness. “Titan” is right. I didn’t know how old she was. She was 66.
I did know she loved my wife. And my wife loves her very deeply. And Joyce is part of the reason my wife is the person and the lawyer she is today. And for that I have been — and will always be — forever grateful.
Joyce Slocum was brilliant and accomplished. Others can talk about that. I found her to be pretty wonderful. And pretty. And wonderful.
I don’t have anything profound to say right now because my wife is heartbroken and our kids know Mommy is sad.
But I can’t get this off my mind:
I went to NPR a few times while my wife worked there with Joyce. I saw the recording and broadcast booths. I saw the awkward corner where Tiny Desk Concerts were taped back in the old place. And I met no cynics. None at all. Not a one.
People who work in public radio love radio but they believe in the public.
The programming? It’s always ever been about showing back to the public every hour of day-and-dark what we have been and what we could be still. And out of the sheer belief that an informed public will do good.
Joyce Slocum worked in public radio for decades and more.
Which means she believed in listeners like you.