Rogers continues to assist KERA as a member of the station's board and executive committee. Degenhart will be honored for hosting numerous fundraising events, boosting the stations' profile with the business community, and speaking out at the state and national levels for continued funding of public television. He will be recognized for establishing the station's endowment, being a major donor and leading others to join WHA's major gifts effort, participating in WHA's on-air membership drives, committing his law firm to underwriting programming on WHA, soliciting corporate underwriters and planned gifts, and lobbying state and federal officials on behalf of Wisconsin Public Television, a partnership between WHA and the state public broadcasting authority.
Volunteers are the heart and soul of public television.
The awards will be presented Saturday during the closing dinner of the 1995 PBS Development Conference, attended by over 800 public television fundraisers from across the nation. PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, owned and operated by the nation's 345 public television stations. A trusted community resource, public television uses the power of noncommercial television to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality programs and educational services that inform, inspire and delight. Public television is the number one resource for K-12 classroom programming in the country. PBS's Adult Learning Service is the world's largest source of college-level telecourses.