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47 °F Forecast | Road Cams Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Today's News | Classifieds | Autos | Homes | Jobs | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Menu Guide How To Guide Health Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Real Estate Guide Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Passport to the Rogue Valley SHOP OUR VALLEY AutoFinder HomeFinder JobFinder Classified Place an ad TOP JOBS EXTRA Ashland News NIE Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People Volunteer Moving here? eSouthernOregon CUSTOMER SERVICE FAQ's Advertise with us Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend September 22, 2004 Since you asked Hank Henry’s voice survives on JPR I keep hearing Hank Henry talking about regional history on Jefferson Public Radio’s "As It Was" history feature. Didn’t he die a long time ago? Am I the only person who thinks it’s morbid to keep hearing a dead man’s voice on the radio every day? —Ann F., Rogue River Maybe not, Ann, but apparently you’re part of a tiny minority. No one has called JPR to complain about hearing Henry, who died Dec. 23, 2003, says Eric Teel, program director for the nonprofit public radio service at Southern Oregon University. Henry worked more than 40 years in radio and television news and served 12 years on the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. As a volunteer for JPR, he recorded more than 1,000 historical vignettes about life in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Advertisement Teel says JPR staff talked about whether to take Henry off the air when he died. His tapes "were done well and we saw no reason to take them off the air," simply because he had died, Teel says. Former JPR program director John Baxter produced a remembrance of Henry that aired the day after he died. Henry’s feature will probably continue to air through the end of 2004, but Teel says JPR is working with the Southern Oregon Historical Society to create a new history feature. Send questions to "Since You Asked," Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by e-mail to [email protected] . We’re sorry, but the volume of questions received prevents us from answering all of them. Mail Tribune Home | Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life | Opinion AP News | Archives | Site Map | Community | Classified Copyright © 1997-2005 Mail Tribune, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Website Feedback Student Loan Consolidation Conference Calls - $50/Month Home Security Systems Trunks, Footlocker, Trunk, Footlockers home equity loans helzberg Slippers Student Loans afsa teleconferencing Memory Foam Mattress w2 forms Tatoo Advertisement s