TAKE FIVE “What are we waiting for?”
By John Sprecher
Arlene Dillon has lived on Sanibel Island with her husband and two daughters for more than nine years — an entirely different world (and pace) from the 20-some years she spent as a groundbreaking broadcast journalist inWashington, D.C., assigned to political coverage for CBS News. During her career, Dillon managed CBS’s Washington News Bureau coverage the morning of 9/11, covered the White House for 12 years and was the first woman in 1995 to direct the State of the Union Presidential speech for the entire network pool (a feat she repeated in 1999). Subsequently, she served as Senior Producer for CBS News The Early Show before moving to Sanibel. Today, Dillon is the multimedia specialist for Gryphon Technologies, a Washington, D.C. based engineering services firm. She produces videos for the military and the government. On Sanibel, Arlene is active at The Sanibel School, co-directing the performing arts class musicals twice a year. Each issue, “Take Five” asks five questions of a community leader that have not been shared in advance. Here, Arlene Dillon talks about the life she’s led, and the live she now leads on Sanibel.
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