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Barry University

WLRN Public Media | By Joseph Cooper,
Richard Ives, Polly Landess
Published September 22, 2016 at 12:34 AM EDT

(9-21-2016) Today’s Topical Currents highlights one of South Florida’s noteworthy higher education centers, Barry University.

One of the largest Catholic universities in the Southeast, the main campus in Miami Shores was opened as Barry College for Women in 1940.  It attained University status in 1981.   

Barry University’s School of Law was established in Orlando, in 1999.  
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WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.
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Richard Ives
Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.
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Polly Landess
Polly works as a producer with The Sunshine Economy. She has previously worked with DoubleTake Documentary Institute and Magazine, The Sally Jessy Raphael Show and ABC Talk Radio Networks.
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