Nelson remembers minutes with Mother Teresa
From Staff Reports
Gov. Ben Nelson said Monday
that he felt a personal loss with the
death of Mother Teresa on Friday.
In a media conference call,
Nelson remembered meeting, by
chance, the Roman Catholic nun
while waiting for a flight to Hong
Kong in 1994.
He said that airport officials in
Shanghai provided the two with a pri
vate room where they talked for about
30 minutes.
“She was not simply a very com
passionate and caring person but also
an intriguing person because we
talked about Nebraska economics,”
he said.
Nelson said that her interest in
Nebraska being the breadbasket to
the world and the state’s low unem
ployment rate was a side of Mother
Teresa that caught him off guard.
“I just felt while she had a heaven
ly mission, she had a knowledge of
die world,” he said.
“There was a quality about her
that you recognized immediately,” he
said. “You could see it in her eyes and
you could hear it in her words. She
personified love.”
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met Siemek when she arrived at
KOLN in 1987.
She said that their sometimes
weird hours and nature of the busi
ness helped spark their relationship -
and some others.
“I think you would be surprised
how many other couples are out there
in this business. You don’t have a lot
of time to meet people outside your
circle.”
She said there were at least three
other couples in the KOLN Channel
10 offices.
Love at first sound bite
Randby, KETV’s chief meteorol
ogist, said Cornell, 31, never even
had a chance to meet other people
when she started her general assign
ment position at a Jacksonville, Fla.,
TV station in 1990. He beat them to
the punch.
“I gave her a good day or two to
meet people,” he said, “then I moved
in and tried to latch onto her.”
Said Cornell: “He gave me three
weeks before we had our first date.”
They dated for eight months
before getting married in 1992. Five
months later Randby was offered the
head weather job in Omaha and the
two moved to the Midwest.
Randby and Cornell were not a
package deal for KETV, Omaha’s
ABC affiliate. Cornell went two
months without work before she was
given a reporter position at KETV.
“She had to be head and shoul
ders above the rest,” Randby said.
“She had won AP (Associated Press)
awards before and was nominated for
an Emmy, but she had to prove herself
above and beyond. It was almost a
negative that we were married.”
_ He said that people were skeptical
at first, saying that she had Ijeen hfitStf
only because the two were married,
but the naysayers have been quieted
by Cornell’s quality work. She has
won at least two AP awards every
year she has been with KETV. She
became the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. co
anchorwoman last year.
Both couples agreed their com
mon schedule was a major benefit to
their situations.
“For the most part it works out
really great,” Siemek said. “We get
up at the same time, we work the
same time and we usually go home at
the same time.”
“It’s a situation that works out
well for us,” said Collins, who is
expecting the couple’s first child in
November.
Honey, what’s the forecast?*
And although the men do weather
and the women do news, their inter
ests are the same and both couples are
fully aware of what their spouses’
jobs entail, they said. It’s something
that wasn’t the case for Cornell early
in her career.
She recalled a time when she was
dating a dentist while reporting for a
station in Milwaukee, Wis.
“We had plans to go out one night
but I was called to cover a plane
crash,” she said. “He told me to call
the station and tell them you can’t.
“Bill understands the job. It’s
really helpful to have someone to
share things with.”
Collins agreed.
“It works well for us probably
because wdboth have a real under
standing of what the other person
does,’ Vhe said. “It’s a real common
groundfbr-us.”
But ail four made it clear that the
lovey-dovey stuff stops when they
arrive at work.
“Once we get to work it’s a job,”
Collins said. “We don’t spend a lot of
time working together once we get to
the station. I go to the newsroom and
he goes to the weather station and the
next time I see him is 6:15 unless he
passes through the newsroom.”
Cornell and Randby, who recent
ly moved to a new home closer to
KETV’s downtown Omaha station,
said they sometimes eat lunch togeth
er, but for the most part, they too see
little of each other during the day.
“I don’t go over and visit with him
a lot during the day, but it’s good to
know he’s there,” Cornell said.
And while there is a slim chance
it could happen one day, don’t tune in
tonight planning to hear “Now back
to you, Pumpkin” or “Honey, what’s
the forecast?” Neither couple has had
an on-air slip of the tongue just yet.
“I call him ‘Punky,’ at home,”
Cornell said. “But you’ll never hear
me call him that on the air.”
The closest any of them come to
bringing their private lives into the
newsroom, they said, is with occa
sional friendly banter.
It usually doesn t come up in the
newscasts,” Randby, 34, said. “But
sometimes there’s a ‘Bill, it looks like
a good weekend to clean out the
garage,’ or something like mat:
“We’re certainly not trying to
hide the fact that we’re married,” he
said. “But I think if she called me
Honey on the air, we’d hear about it.
People don’t want to hear that at
home”
Siemek said that there have been
times when he was worried some
thing a lot worse than “sweetheart”
would come from his wife’s mouth.
“I think she’s come a lot closer to
saying ‘Back to you, butthead,’ where
it’s been a little harder for her to smile
in my direction,” he said with a laugh.
“There have been some times when
the smile that’s passed across the desk
was a forced smile.”
Most people who watch 10/11,
Collins said, don’t really care whether
or not she’s married to the “weather
guy.”
“If people know, they know. I
don’t think it makes a difference at
all,” she said. “I think people consid
er us a news family.”
And so far, both couples agreed
that working together and just hap
pening to be married to each other
has been as easy as a c lear- and- sunny
slow news day.
“The best part is working with
Bill,” Cornell said. “It’s pretty unique
to work with your best friend.”
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