Terry Lowry

Newscaster

Spring 1964 Graduate

        Terry is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most popular television and radio personalities.

        Terry, who is of Mexican, Irish, and Swedish descent, graduated Magna Cum Laude from San Francisco State College (now University) in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts major in Spanish and minor in International Relations. In 1970 she received a Secondary Teaching Credential at State and went on to head the Spanish Bilingual Department at James Lick Junior High School in San Francisco. Later that year she was hired to simulcast KRON-TV's (San Francisco) newscasts in Spanish on KRON-FM radio.

        Terry's broadcasting career developed rapidly.  She became the weather anchor, host-producer of a Hispanic public affairs program, news  reporter and anchor. In 1982, she and her husband, Fred LaCosse, began a successful five year run as co-hosts of the popular daily talk-show, AM San Francisco." In February 1989, she joined KTVU-TV (Oakland-San Francisco) as news anchor of "Two at Noon" and later as news co-anchor of "Mornings on Two." Since 1988, she has been the host of a number of weekend radio talk shows on KGO-Radio in San Francisco. In addition, since 1981 she has been Vice President of LaCosse Productions, Inc., a commercial and industrial video tape production and communications company she founded with her husband. A tireless contributor of her time to community groups, Terry has donated her skills to a number of charities, including the Easter Seal Society of San Francisco, The Salvation Army, San Francisco education Fund, San Francisco School Volunteers and the Abraham Lincoln High School Alumni Association, of which she was a founding director. Terry's many achievements have led to numerous honors, including the League of United Latin Citizens Women of the Year for 1981; the American Women in Radio and Television's Outstanding Broadcaster for 1984, and the Easter Seal Society's 1986 recipient of its Public Service Award. In 1989, she was designated a Distinguished Alumnus of San Francisco State University.

        In recognition of her many accomplishments, Terry Lowry was selected as one of the eight initial inductees into the Abraham Lincoln High School Wall of Fame.