Greta Von Berg

Off the Court

Valparaiso alumni, as Greta Von Berg tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Alys McKey Bryantpioneering woman aviator

  Alys McKey Bryant attended Valparaiso, and on July thirty-first, 1913, she became the first woman to fly in Canada. She set a women's altitude record too, twenty-nine hundred feet. A true Valkyrie, with her own wings.

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• George William Norrisfather of Tennessee Valley Authority

  George William Norris earned his law degree at what is now Valparaiso and became a United States senator from Nebraska. He was the man behind the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Public power, Beacons, for the public.

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• Carl Glennis Robertssurgeon and civil rights activist

  Carl Glennis Roberts, born 1886, was a surgeon, a gynecologist, and a civil rights activist. He healed people and he fought for them. Valparaiso is proud to carry his name on its rolls.

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• JoBe Cernyvoice of the Pillsbury Doughboy

  JoBe Cerny of Valparaiso is an actor best known as the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy. I have faced many warriors, and none giggle like that one.

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• Lowell Thomasmade Lawrence of Arabia famous

  Lowell Thomas was an author and a war correspondent in World War One, the man who made T. E. Lawrence internationally famous. Every hero needs a herald, and this one was a Valpo man.

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