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Remembering Former President of Augustana College

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published April 11, 2022 at 6:12 PM CDT
Thomas Tredway
Augustana College
Thomas Tredway

In a message to the campus from current President Steve Bahls, he says Tredway first joined the faculty in 1964, served five years as dean, and then 28 years as president.

"His tireless work to build up the faculty and advance the academic program during a period of significant transformation in higher education will forever be recalled with gratitude by those who hold Augustana dear."

During retirement Tredway wrote a history of Augustana, and a biography of Conrad Bergendoff, a previous president.

Arrangements are being made for a campus memorial service.
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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.
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