Interesting People—a monthly WTVP series hosted by Peoria, Illinois, attorney and media personality Ed Sutkowski—features half-hour conversations with a wide range of interesting individuals about their lives, careers, ideas, goals, and accomplishments.
Frank Mackaman is Executive Director of the Dirksen Congressional Center, a not-for-profit, non-partisan, educational enterprise devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. He is also Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Bradley University. From 1987-1995, Mackaman served first as Deputy Director and then as Director of the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum. He was also Professor of History and Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan where he taught cour...
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with Malcolm C. Pike, Ph.D., Epidemiologist / Mathematical Statistician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with Reverend Linda Butler, President, District #150 School Board / New Promise Director, South Side Mission.
Michael K. (Dyczko) Ditka, Jr., 1 of 3 siblings, of Charlotte and Mike, Sr., was raised in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, the heart of the steel mills. Mike's father, the original "Iron Mike", a United States Marine, union organizer and welder, understood the downside of remaining in the steel mills. Mike, while characterized as having "chicken legs" by Carl Aschman, Mike's high school football coach, ultimately captained the football, baseball and basketball teams and was elected Class President. M...
Tana L. Utley, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President at Caterpillar Inc., as the face of Caterpillar's 9,000 member technical community, oversees Caterpillar's research and development budget of approximately $1.98 billion per year. Her focus: sustaining Caterpillar's global technology leadership. Tana, one of three female members of the 38-person Executive Management Team, joined Caterpillar in 1986 - the year the space shuttle Challenger, disintegrated and lost, among others, a school ...
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with Harold Fritz a United States Medal of Honor recipient.
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with Dr. J. David Arnold president of Eureka College.
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with Phil Ryan, a modern day iconoclast.
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with the Founder and Chairman of Enercon, Ed Tangel.
Host Ed Sutkowski talks with the President of Western Illinois University (as of 7/1/2011), Dr. Jack Thomas.