KCPR Radio Alumni: 1968-69

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Bruce Petrarca (Bruce Petrarca)
DJ -1968-1970. 68-69: 6 - 9 PM MOR & 69-70: NOON-2 TOP 40
Living in: Phoenix AZ.

Email: smarts.techno_0o@icloud.com
Brad Brown, 1968-1972
Brad Brown, 1968-1972 		Brad Brown (Brad Brown)
co-Program Director -1968/9. Produced Sunday Parade; B&B Airways; Impacted News. I was there for the first words on KCPR: "Is THIS the damn switch!?!"
Living in: Orcas Island, WA.

Email: bradleywaynebrown@gmail.com
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Frank Calabrese (Frank Stuart)
DJ, Spot Producer, did several voices for air and tape. Programs hosted: Chef's Hour, Captain Wonderful, worked on Sunday Parade.
See more about Frank here.
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Todd Johnstone
DJ, Engineer. Don't think we were that formal for most of the first few years; I probably had some other positions which rotated. Usually Friday and Saturday night DJ shows; I think it was something brilliant like "date night".
Living in: Federal Way, WA.
I've been at Boeing for 35 years, started as an engineer at VAFB with the Minuteman Program, then made People Movers for Morgantown W.Va. University traveled to Japan for Work and 16 other countries for pleasure, and have been in engineering management for 24 years. Now (last 10 years or so) I manage a nationwide Network for Labs (100-200Mb/s Real Time) and simulation activities (including flight simulation) on the Defense side of Boeing in Puget Sound. Note to new KCPR students: as a result of my years in broadcasting my presentation skills were "too good" and I had to keep re-routing myself back into the technical management and away from the upper MBS which is high in $$ low in reward. Would love to hear from those of that time. Weird Harold (not Al though my son loves Al he's a decade later), Pat, Allen, Frank, Gary, J dC, Steve, Ginny, and others. I can remember sitting in the studio when we heard the Beatles broke up.... now THAT's OLD! The first time I flew an Airplane was over the Monterey Pop Music Festival. Mr. Z became the advisor the second year I was there when the school decided we were not going to go away.
Web: www.alpinelakes.net
Email: toddj68 at spro dot net, toddj68 at gmail dot com
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Ken Lerch (Ken)
DJ
I don’t remember many details. I believe I had a show at 10:00 playing mostly blues and a little R&B. I did this after the previous show which was a straight forward rock show. I just went by my first name and I don’t think my show had any name. I wasn’t a radio guy, just a music guy, having grown up in the san Francisco area, going to the Fillmore and Avalon, traveling there every few weekends and coming back with albums that nobody else had. I was the first person I knew in my architecture who came back on a Sunday with the Beatles white album that had been released that weekend.
Email: krlerch@comcast.net

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