152: Former College President Gets Back to His Passion: Conservation

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

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5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Marv Henberg, for seven years the president of The College of Idaho, a liberal arts college in Caldwell, is beginning an active retirement with plans “to engage in my other great passion, conservation.” An international and a local conservation organization are considering him for their boards.” Marv’s impressive academic life took him to Washington and Lee University and Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. “Early on I developed an interest in environmental philosophy. My Ph.D. thesis was on theories of justice. It combined my personal passion for the environment and my academic passion together.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 152. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:19.0	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work
0:24.3	he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:29.4	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Marv Henberg.
0:33.1	Welcome, Marv.
0:34.1	Thank you, Don.
0:35.1	I'm delighted to be here.
0:36.1	Thank you.
0:37.1	Marv, are you using your talents doing work
0:38.9	that you love? I am indeed. We want to hear the whole story. Marv Henberg is a native of Wyoming,
0:45.6	son of a Swedish immigrant father, and a first-generation American mother. He graduated from Laramie
0:51.3	High School and holds a BA in English Literature from Washington
0:54.7	and Lee University, an MA in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University
1:00.3	and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.
1:04.7	He spent 39 years teaching and administering in higher education.
1:09.0	He's president, emeritus of the College of Idaho,
1:12.4	a liberal arts college in Colwell, Idaho. Marv, that's a pithy summary of your life. Tell us what
1:18.6	you're up to now that has you engaged and fascinated. Well, I've just retired from seven years as a
1:24.7	college president and seven years as a college president. It's a pretty
1:28.5	intense span. So I'm kind of enjoying a newfound freedom at the moment. My plans are to
1:34.8	engage in my other great passion in life in addition to higher education, and that's conservation.
1:40.2	So I've got a couple of, I've got an international conservation organization and a local organization that are considering me for their boards.
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