Donna Halper

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Media historian, author, professor, public speaker, former rock & roll deejay (best known for having discovered the rock band Rush, who dedicated 2 albums to me). Inducted into the Mass. Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2023.

My mother, sitting on a bench in the park, a photo from 1954. She is wearing a dress, with long earrings, and carrying her handbag.
The tree in our front yard has finally begun to blossom.
A schedule of the concerts being held at the Club 47, Cambridge MA, September 1965. Among the performers are folksinger Tom Rush, blues legend Skip James, R&B stars the Chambers Brothers, and others.
This image shows Kathryn Cravens, a smiling blond woman with short, curled hair in the fashion of the early 1940s. She is wearing a jacket and colorful scarf, and is standing in front of a CBS Radio microphone.
Looking out my window during a snowstorm. The trees are covered with snow, and the streets have not been plowed yet.
Snow piling up in my backyard, in greater Boston, during a long-duration storm.
Looking out the window in greater Boston, after a big snowstorm. You can see the snow piled up in the yard, and it is almost fully covering the bird-path, the stairs, and everything else.
A photo of Neil Peart, a famous rock music drummer, holding his drumsticks, deep in concentration, playing his drums during a song.
A small Hanukkah menorah, showing one candle lit for the first night of Hanukkah. (The middle candle-- used for lighting the other candles-- is also lit). This menorah is lit at my house, in front of a window, so that it can be seen from the street. It is on aluminum foil, so that if anything drips, the foil will catch it.
A squirrel, climbing up the screen on the porch at our house. He wants to get inside, but he can't.
Donna wearing a Toronto Blue Jays world series baseball shirt, standing at the podium at a conference, giving a talk.
Older man, with beard, eating a dish of ice cream.
Three people, two members of the rock band Rush and me. Alex Lifeson (wearing sunglasses and a jacket), me (wearing a green-colored hat and a multi-colored dress), and Geddy Lee (wearing a casual shirt, and he has his arm around my shoulder). We are all smiling, standing at the Hollywood Walk of Fame for a photo.
Geddy Lee, wearing a tee shirt from Le Studio in Montreal and a denim jacket, with his arm around me; I am wearing a Rush jacket. We are in a bookstore and you can see books in the background.
My husband, sitting at a table waiting for dinner at a restaurant. He is smiling. In the background are other diners at the restaurant. It is a sunny afternoon.
Donna and her husband Jon. They are standing in the lobby of a restaurant. It is a sunny day. She is wearing a multicolored blouse, he is wearing a checked shirt. He has his arm around her.
An adult male (my husband) in a checked shirt and jacket, wearing a hat, walking out of the airport. He is smiling.
A closeup of a butterfly, with its wings partly spread, sitting on top of a flower in our garden.
Alex Lifeson, wearing a suit jacket, Donna Halper in a long and colorful dress, and Geddy Lee wearing a casual long-sleeved shirt, standing in front of the star for the rock band Rush at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, June 25, 2010.
A woman in her cap and gown (it's me!), holding a ticket of admission to the PhD ceremony. It's a sunny day and she is standing in the parking lot, waiting to go into the venue.
Donna in the WNEU studio, Northeastern University, Boston, Oct 1968. I'm wearing headphones, holding a vinyl album cover, sitting in front of a microphone. The studio has a turntable, with a vinyl record on it, and next to it, a rack with 45 rpm vinyl records in it.
Geddy Lee, lead singer of the band Rush, wearing a denim jacket and a T-shirt from a Montreal recording studio. He is wearing glasses, and he has his arm around me. We are at a book store where he was promoting his new book.
An older man, carrying a sign that says "Thank You Donna Halper," standing next to me. I am wearing a lanyard, showing that I have access to go backstage at the concert (it was a Rush concert in Cleveland).
A meme mocking the new tariffs, some of which were placed on islands with no humans living there. This shows Donald Trump yelling at a bunch of penguins, ordering them to pay tariffs. They say they will not, and they will take their business elsewhere.
An older, white woman, with her grey hair braided and in a bun, the style in the late 1800s. She is formally dressed, wearing a lace collar. She has a serious expression on her face.
Head shot of a Black teen-aged girl, perhaps a school photo. She is wearing glasses.
Alex Lifeson, Donna Halper, Geddy Lee, June 2010, at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Alex is wearing sunglasses and smiling. Donna is wearing a green head-covering. Geddy has his arm on her shoulder.
Bessie Coleman, a Black female airplane pilot in 1921. She is standing on the wheel of an early plane, getting ready to enter and fly it.
A young woman, wearing headphones, seated in a radio studio in 1921. She is sitting in front of an old-style microphone, reading from a book.
A head-shot of a female attorney, Lillian D. Rock, from her college yearbook, circa 1916. She is a young white woman, and the photo shows her facing right.
The three members of the rock band Rush, seated on a couch, smiling, looking relaxed and comfortable.
A birthday cartoon showing a hippo carrying a gift box, a bird carrying a balloon, and 2 little lambs carrying a birthday cake, all singing "Hippo birdie two ewe."
A woman (me) standing on the stage, holding a microphone high in the air, in a celebratory pose, standing next to a man (my friend Geddy) and acknowledging the applause of the crowd. Behind us is a shelf of books-- Geddy is on a book tour, promoting the book that we can see on the stage.
It's my birthday. Photo of a woman (me), aged 78, with a smile on her face, holding a big birthday balloon that says "Happy birthday."