Cordelia Zars
Programming VolunteerCordelia Zars is excited to be a new volunteer for Wyoming Public Radio this winter; she is currently taking a year off of college and is exploring opportunities in the world of public media.
Cordelia grew up in Laramie, and last year completed her freshman year at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Although she is still undecided, she hopes to study International Relations and Spanish, as well as Environmental Conservation. In her year before college she spent six months in Chile and Argentina, interning for the National Outdoor Leadership School, teaching English, and discovering her love for cross-cultural connection. For the past three summers she conducted ecology and amphibian field studies for the Berry Biodiversity Center at UW, and someday hopes to integrate her love of the outdoors into her passion for humanitarianism.
Cordelia is also very devoted to the arts, and spends much of her free time playing piano, singing, and writing creative essays and poetry.
Cordelia has always been a strong proponent of Public Radio, and feels lucky to have the opportunity to work with the WPR staff this year.
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A collection of World War II memories from Wyoming.
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Lorin and Mary Ann Moench work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Martin’s Cove Historic site. This spot in south-central Wyoming…
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Dick Sedar grew up in Casper, in a working-class neighborhood called “the Sandbar.” His parents emigrated from Croatia in the early 1920’s to seek work in…
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Women in the United States have been fighting for equal wage rights since the early 1900s. In 1963 the government passed the Equal Pay Act, which aimed to…
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Darrell Moore grew up in the historic Hotel Wolf in Saratoga, Wyoming. Fredrick G. Wolf, a German immigrant, built the hotel in 1893. Since then, the…
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Martin Ellbogen grew up in Worland, Wyoming. In high school he played basketball against the future Wyoming Senator Al Simpson. Once Ellbogen determined…
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The Stagecoach Bar in Wilson has kept Jackson Hole fed, watered, and entertained since 1942. The historic bar is home to cowboys, hippies, and the famous…
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Gretchen Wheeler grew up in Nebraska and moved to Wyoming to teach in the Communications Department at Casper College. As a “non-native” Wyomingite,…
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Walt Niekamp and his wife, Dorothy, lived in Casper years ago where they taught in the Natrona County schools. He has never forgotten Wyoming’s…
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Becky and Aaron Maddox own the Snowy Range Ski Area west of Laramie. Becky is a fourth generation Laramie resident, and Aaron grew up in Steamboat…