Ever wonder about a statue or feature at Tower Grove Park? The answers are in the palm of your hand! Tower Grove Park's Interactive Map includes an audio tour written by local journalist and Shaw neighborhood resident Valerie Schremp Hahn and voiced by radio host and Tower Grove South resident Debbie Monterrey. Join Valerie and Debbie for a talk about the process of creating the tour and how to use it.
Speakers: Valerie Hahn and Debbie Monterrey
Valerie Hahn
Valerie Schremp Hahn lives in Shaw and is now an associate editor for the Catholic Health Association of the United States. In between, she spent 26 years as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, writing about education, courts, crime, historic and cultural events and venues, including Tower Grove Park. Her freelance work has been published in the Post-Dispatch and The New York Times.
Valerie, her husband Andy, their teen son and daughter, and their dog June are all fans of the park.
Debbie Monterrey
Debbie Monterrey has been working in radio since her student days at Truman State University (Kirksville, MO). Since then, her career has taken her to Greenville, South Carolina; Madison, Wisconsin; and Columbus, Ohio. In between she served as Press Secretary to Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum before arriving in St. Louis in 2003 where she’s been a staple of morning radio at KMOX ever since. Debbie has been awarded two national Edward R. Murrow Awards for best newscast; five regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for best feature, hard news and sports feature reporting; two Missouri Broadcasting Awards; and a National Scene Award from SAG-AFTRA for her work highlighting diversity.
She was named a 2022 Media Person of the Year by the St. Louis Press Club. Debbie is proud to live and work in St. Louis City and a tireless cheerleader for the region. She is president of the Tower Grove Park Members Council and serves on the Missouri Historical Society Board of Trustees.