Mary Garber:  

I live in Malibu, CA. My husband Steve worked in the advertising business, then the internet (he helped develop Realtor.com). Steve passed away February 11, 2012 from complicatoins from a bone marrow transplant. I retired from the corporate world in July 2017 and now split my time between narrating audiobooks and serving on CA state commission work and sitting on Boards of Directors for non-profit companies. My corporate career was in advertising and broadcasting. I was most recently EVP/Marketing Strategy for Katz Media. Before that I was the President of the So CA Broadcasters Assn. I go by Mary Beth these days, not Mary. Computerized class lists robbed me of the second half of my name all through high school and college. I reclaimed it when I went to work. Of course, computers still rob me of the second half of my name, but I deal with it. This is the TMI version of what happened after high school. I started out at what is now TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles when it first opened its doors -- by getting interviewed by the wrong person for the wrong job. Met Steve at try-outs for a little theater production of "Picnic". We both got parts and got married at the end of the run of the play, 3 months later. 3 weeks after our first official date. Married for nearly 41 years. I lost my mom the year after we married, became a cancer survivor the year after that, had our son the next year. The cancer resulted in losing the ability to have kids. But I couldn't have asked for a better one and I thank God for him. Moved into local radio at the CBS FM station then called KNX-FM, after our son was born and I realized that working until midnight at an ad agency probably was not good parenting. Radio ad sales gave me freedom to be a mom involved in our son's life. And to teach Media Planning at UCLA Extension one quarter a year at night for 10 years. I taught classes in marketing and selling radio advertising for 15 years and have been a guest lecturer at several Universities in So Cal. I stayed in radio until the early 90s when I had ...Expand for more