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Question: What ever happened to Mary Bitterman, former director of the Institute of Culture and Communications at the East-West Center who ran for Congress and was active in a number of local endeavors? Mary Bitterman at
PBS San Francisco; still a
resident of HawaiiAnswer: She is president of KQED, the PBS station in San Francisco. "I am and will always be a resident of Hawaii," she said. "Our dearest friends are in Hawaii."
Bitterman, a telecommunication and international affairs consultant, was appointed president of San Francisco's KQED in 1993. She served as executive director and general manager of Hawaii Public Television from 1974 to 1980. She then served as Voice of America director in the last year of President Carter's term.
In 1981, she returned to Hawaii to head the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, then moving to the East-West Center. Her unsuccessful congressional campaign was in 1988.
A native of San Jose, Calif., she graduated from the University of Santa Clara and also earned a doctorate in modern European history from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia.
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