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kcou memories - we've received dozens of emails and letters from past DJs, remembering the good ole days. as kcou approaches its 30th birthday, we will be compiling old stories, playlists, etc. this page will be exclusively dedicated to our appreciated alumni. send us an email to add your memories.

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name	current residence	dates worked	positions	specialty show	after kcou?
Heath Allen	New York, NY	1993-1997	DJ (Thats all they'd let me do!) Responsible for shutting down the station for a week for possession of illegal beverages and inflammatory letters in the Mizzou paper. Never mind lots of other people regularly smoked pot and other things in the studio- thanks again to you intolerant hypocritical asses on the staff who "fired" me, you know who you are.	Sick N Tired, Atrocity Exhibition (noise), Scheduled Fallout.	Still listen to punk and noise, critical of authority and dislike corporate culture industry. Worked in Kansas City doing film and video production, then gave it up, went to NYC to seek self-employment in independent film production as cinematographer. Now Im in film school working on a masters degree. Hanging out at Mars Bar, Handsome Dick Manitoba's, Bellevue Bar. Saw Tom Meagher last month right here in NYC. He's still a skinhead moonstomper. CMJ sucks.
Steve Arnold	Scottsdale, AZ	1980-1981	DJ, GM	no	After KCOU, I began a meager and short-lived DJ life at KCBW in Sedalia, MO. After getting fired from that job (apparently a little too MUCH personality for that town), I took a different radio tack, and have been an air traffic controller since 1983. I spent most of those years in Kansas City, so keeping up with the station was fairly easy. Since 1997, I moved to Phoenix to continue my career. Glad to hear the station is still going stronger than ever!
Marc Attenberg	New York, NY	1988-1991	DJ, Music Director	No	I have: A) Settled down, somewhat. Managed to stay out of jail. B) Married former "5 Billion Voices" (KCOU international music show) hostess Kristin Kiser. Been married for 5 years, and it's one of the great love stories of our time. C) Stumbled through the music business for many years, then smartly gave up on it about 18 months ago. D) Taken a position overseeing internet marketing for The Daily Racing Form. Thank heavens for that. E) Happily watched my wife progress to Executive Editor at Crown Books, a division of Random House. She is the editor of Gene Simmons. This is not a joke. F) Just sold our house in Astoria, Queens, as we prepare to buy another in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens. We love Queens. G) Not had kids. A dog and three cats. H) Recently participated in the wedding of former KCOU execs Lisa Morgan and Bill Hagen. KCOU leads to love, yet again (though Bill and Lisa met at the KY Derby)
Grant Barrett	New York, NY	1988-1992	DJ, GM	I jocked every single show on the schedule, except for the College Music Report, which I never could pry out of the old-timers' hands. Maybe I didn't do Country Brunch, either, but then who ever did? Once I did 16 hours or radio straight when successive DJs didn't show up for shifts. I named the show Five Billion Voices, which I deejayed as a regular sub for Kristin Kiser (Attenberg).	Right now, I'm a returning student at Columbia University in NYC, one semester left toward finishing up the mess I made in Columbia, Missouri, where, among other things, I dropped out of school twice, got screwed over by a woman and spent three days in the Boone County Correctional facility. I'm unmarried, with no kids, no pets, a published journalist, former art director, working as a lexicographer, web site developer and freelancing as technical support for advertising agencies. I no longer give two bent nickels about keeping up with the latest music.
Angela Barto	Los Angeles, CA	1996-2000	DJ	Country Brunch	I promptly joined the Peace Corps after college and spent two years in the mountains of Western China. I met my hubby there and we just got married in Music City, USA (I was born near Nashville). It's been pretty weird going from one of the poorest places in the world to Beverly Hills, but I'll get used to it!
Derrick Beasley	Austin, TX	1993-1996	DJ, Chief Announcer	no	Making films, seeing a lot of live music, having a grand old time.
Greg Berg	St. Louis, MO	1986-1989	DJ, Format Scofflaw	Did the second hour of Jazz Odyssey on Tuesdays in 86-87; filled in for many others. I also hosted the infamous "New Wave Saturday Night" that led to my eventual demise in March 1989	After KCOU and a few years at little KYMC in St. Louis, I got a gig as the overnight guy at "The Point" when BIG COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE RADIO came to St. Louis in 1993. Much promise at the start, but then the consultants were brought in and, well you know how that usually turns out. I now work for a great company that helps public school districts pass tax and bond issue referenda and engage their communities to improve their schools. I also play keyboards in The Ken Kase Group, a poppy combo that's been kicking around STL for the past seven years, and I do some VO work once in awhile for 3WK, a terrific Internet station based here in town. I'm married with no kids and an old house that we still haven't started rehabbing, four years later
George Bready	Dallas, TX	1994-1996	DJ, Chief Engineer	When they let us back in after the coup I did the retro show...I did the exact same sorts of shows I did as a new music guy at other college stations in the 80's. No tainted love MTV crud, just real college retro.	I've been a plaintiffs' trial lawyer in Dallas suing asbestos companies since '96. The KCOU days were weird...as a former college GM and Chief Engineer, I wanted to do radio again while in law school...the anarchists (and their legal eagle Chip) realized they needed an older, responsible tech guy, so I was part of the coup. I never dropped cinder blocks on anyone so I was able to come back after the banishment. I hope anarchy is back in full force!
Karen Brooks	Laredo, TX	1991-1993	DJ, Blues Director, GM	Blues 101, Jazz	Never got over the pain of that Fall 1993 "The Edge" bullshit, even though it appears we were finally vindicated ... Nonetheless, graduated in 1994, became a newspaper reporter and began bouncing around Texas ... Corpus Christi, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin. Now I'm Laredo to open up a Mexico/US border affairs bureau for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram .... live just a couple miles from Mexico, so here's an open invitation to any ex-pat wannabes ... Donkey shows and a place to stay ... what more could you ask for???
Jeremiah Brown	Sherman Oaks, CA	1995-1996	DJ, Chief Engineer	No	Worked in Aerospace, quit, moved to LA. Played in a rock band. It went nowhere so I had to get a real job. Started a record label (Road Noise Records). Haven’t given up on music or humanity just yet.
Lisa Bruce	Columbia, MO	1986-1989	DJ, Jazz Music Director	Jazz Odyssey, Friday Mini-Concert, Country Morning, College Music Report	Wrote and produced radio commercials. Quit in a fit of pique and self-righteous indignation. Moved on to public radio. Got paid to learn about music and interview artists. Moved to KC to anchor morning drive (public radio). On a whim, fell backwards into a news director job in Evansville, IN. Did a little public t.v. Great job—I got to hang out with elephants and hippos, go out in a boat with rescue workers in the middle of the Ohio River floods and even got some spot news on NPR. But Evansville sucks. Exhausted, returned home (Columbia) to housesit and get a social life again. Tumbled backwards into an information technology job--could barely navigate Windows when I started, now I’m a bit of a nerd. I write articles, work on user communication issues, strategic planning. I also teach movement classes. It’s about time for me to close my eyes and fall backwards into the next career…. seriously considering somatic psychology, writing children’s books or starting my own cult. Would love to go back to public radio but can’t face Ramen noodles, crappy apartments and lousy hours anymore… Live with my love, a music-obsessed, diggin’-in-the-dirt kinda man (also a former KCOU’er), our four cats and too damn many houseplants. Considering a move, depending on grad schools offers, whims, astrology, etc.
Kelly Castor	Kansas City, MO	1996-1998	Pretended to be a DJ!	No	Backpacked Europe immediately following graduation for 3 months. Moved to Chicago, whereupon I had 4 jobs in the span of one year. Moved to Kansas City and waited tables while working at a record store (Recycled Sounds) for a year. Now work as a "Professional Cupid" at a dating service called It's Just Lunch! Erin Hutton, and whoever else knows me - email me!
Marc Chechik	St. Louis, MO	1980-1982	DJ, GM	"Hard Rock Cafe" and "The Blues Show". Also,did a very fun special with Tom Harper called "No Stone Unturned" that (illegally) featured a lot of bootleg Stones stuff. Great fun. No calls from Rolling Stone Records, either. Whew.	I went to work up in Madison, WI for the NPR affiliate there, when I was into doing REAL news. Got out of that shit quick. Started selling ad space for a magazine, started writing ads for my clients. Found out I was pretty good at it. Worked at several ad agencies until I landed at Simmons Durham, where I'm an Associate Creative Director/Writer. It's a good gig, but that's not even the best part. Got a wife and two kids. It's cool. Kids save yer ass from gettin' old. I also am co-owner of Undertow, a music collective kinda like the Tomato Collective. It's a label/studio/creative outlet. The band Nadine is on our label, as is Waterloo. And, well, me. Nadine is leaving for their second Euro-tour tomorrow. Waterloo's new record is out in about two weeks. Mine's slated for release in December. Check out the site: undertowco.com.
Beth Farrow Clauss	St. Louis, MO	1994-1997	GM from Fall 1996-Spring 1997 (yes, the infamous RHA wants to sell KCOU to KBIA year), Operations Director from Fall 1995-Spring 1996 (where's the damn Quarterly Report?!), I was an impressionable young DJ from Fall 1994-Spring 1995 ('Who the hell are the Flying Burrito Brothers?')	"Unfortunately, no."	After turning the reins over to the capable hands of D. Larimer, I got the heck outta Dodge and moved to Louisville, Kentucky with my now-husband, former DJ and Business Director Tim Clauss. I got a job as a copywriter with an advertising agency and shilled for such thrilling clients as: Cummins Diesel Engine Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (the evil empire!) and Brown-Forman Beverages (mmm...Finlandia vodka...). Tim and I moved back to good old Missouri this summer in order to preempt a murderous spree once Kentucky basketball season started again. If I have to hear about Wildcat basketball one more time... We now live in South County St. Louis and are anxiously awaiting a decent show to come through town. Oh, and I'm now making money as a freelance writer for various Fortune 500 companies, all while working from the comfort of my home. Thank you, KCOU, for giving me the balls to turn down actual 9 to 5 work!
Tim Clauss	St. Louis, MO	1992-1995	DJ (Summer '92 - Fall '93 / Summer '94 - Spring '95) Business Manager (Summer '92 - Fall '93 / Summer '94 - Spring '95) Yep, I'm the "Financial Mismanagement" guy. Cheerleader for my wife Beth during the RHA sale fiasco.	"No I did not, apparently I was too busy cooking the books, trying to spread around non-existent funds."	Well, I went back and married that GM, Beth Farrow, proposing to her at the 1997 Kentucky Derby (Resulting from a KCOU affiliated horse racing addiction.) That was actually at the beginning of our stay in Louisville, where we lived happily for three years. I did stints as Physician Headhunter and a Financial Analyst before landing a plum gig as a Computer Programming Consultant. In July of 2000 though, we decided we had been away long enough, and moved back to St. Louis, buying the house I grew up in from my parents. Since then, Beth and I and our four daschunds and the terrified cat have been working on fixing up the house.
Andy Cling	Huntsville, AL	1975-1976	DJ	No	Since leaving KCOU and MU I got a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt and am now an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. I am married and have two children. I listen to KCOU all day in the office (hey, I've got tenure!) especially when I need some really good ideas. Perhaps someone still remembers me, but I was a lousy DJ. Vic Eisenstein (an excellent former DJ whom I last heard under the air name "Vic Stone" at a radio station in the suburbs of Kansas City) used to think I was a speed freak, but I just drank lots of Coke. Still do. Keep up the good work.
Scott Condry	Portland, OR	1990-1991	DJ	No	Moved to Austin TX, then moved to New Hampshire, then moved to Portland OR. Never found a use for my sociology degree from MU so I used my knowledge of web/computers and now I work for hardroad.com, a music website that showcases unsigned or indie bands across the country. Check it out.
Aaron Cummins	New York, NY	1997-2001	DJ, Operations Director, GM	Annihilate This Week	After graduation, I shipped off for New York City and an internship at radio syndication giant Westwood One. After that ended in August '01, I took a job with the VH1 Radio Network and since then I’ve helped provide terrible radio stations coast-to-coast with daily news on artists like Dave Matthews and Matchbox 20. When I'm not selling my soul, I try to enjoy the finer things NYC has to offer... hell, who am I kidding... I'm still into Asian massage parlors and PBR... just like the good ol' days back in Columbia.
Jackie Dana	Austin, TX	1987-1992	DJ, Chief Announcer	Kruzin' Music, DJ'ed the first show of Retro 88	Unlike many, I'm not in the music biz. For me, music was, and will always be, a passionate hobby, not a career. I work at UT-Austin and have a house out in the country with a big garden, chickens, and spiders the size of your fist. My partner Eric and I also have cats, dogs and ferrets. When I'm not busy feeding the chickens, I might be doing anything from watching 80s videos on VH1 to studying alchemy.
Dean Davison	Shawnee, KS	1978-1980	News director, producer, anchor	Horizons, the infamous morning news show that the jocks just hated because it cut into their music time. Nobody listened, but man it was fun. Met great friends who remain close friends today (Shawn Marsh, Suzan Akyol-Becker, Lisa Hickok). Handled the 1980 election (we thought we'd be there all night, Reagan had won by 7:10 p.m....DJs wanted to go back to doing tunes!)	Worked as a TV reporter in Green Bay, WI, a producer and assignment editor in KC, then went into the public relations business. Handled events involving former Presidents Ford and Carter and President Clinton while I was handling PR for the Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Now work as the VP of communications for one of the world's largest reinsurers, GE Employers Reinsurance. Who woulda thought that I'd go from hangin out with the DJs and their music (Yes, Cream, New Riders of the Purple Sage, etc, etc) to being a suit. Actually...most of the DJs would have assumed that!
Amy Degenfelder	St. Louis, MO	1995-1997	DJ	Co-hosted The Beat Goes On (ska) w/Tom Meagher	I graduated from Mizzou and shuffled around Columbia for a while before going to graduate school at Washington University. Now, I'm a high school English teacher in Kirkwood, MO. I'm always asking students if they know of "such and such" band. So far, I'm pretty sure that they have no idea who the Ramones or the Pixies are. Fortunately, I have indoctrinated my Creative Writing students to the beauty of Prince Buster and Wesley Willis. Thanks for the updates on the web. I hope KCOU is still a wonderful place to work. And I hope you don't miss any of the records that I accidentally might have found in my collection years later.
DJ Desjan	Atlanta, GA	1993-1994	DJ	Club Underground	After 1994 I moved to Grand Rapids, MI to attend Calvin College. Up in Grand Rapids...I continued to spin records at many underground venues until I graduated in 1997 (1993 was my freshman year at MU). After that I moved to Atlanta where I currently reside. Right now...I work in Management for a Auto. Manufacturer (nice transition right), but on the side I continue to spin parties and (recently) produce music.I loved my times at KCOU and thank all the folks who listened to Club Underground.
Dave Devine	St. Louis, MO	1992-1995	DJ, Promotions	Blues101, started the 'Hour of Ska", and that "Dazed and Confused" classic rock show.(my apologies to my family, was not my idea-hope Cliff Steele burns in hell! someone should have used a bigger brick), many holidays doing hours of garage/rockabilly and surf.	hell, flunked out of mu years before i left KCOU. worked a while at a restoration shop, painting old cars. moved to St Louis in 2000, and im now a barber at the South Hampton Barber Shop. If any of you alum's are in town look me up , the first ones on me. Been playing drums for about 5 years now for the Cripplers, a nice little angry rock/garage band. We got signed to Dionysus Records, and put out our first album(cd's too). Play St Louis at least once a month, and hit the bigger midwest cities as much as we can fit into our old men schedules. KCOU was a great time, just wish i could remember most of it.
Dahlia Devkota	Brooklyn, NY	1993-1994	DJ (2-6am!)	No	I am now an associate editor at W magazine in NYC.
Lawton J Dodd	Monterey, CA	1986-1988	DJ, News Director	No	I am the News Director at KSBW-TV, the NBC affiliate covering Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz. Since the heady days of the KCOU basement and many midnight mix-sessions, I've been roaming from television job to job and taking the occasional spin around some far corner of the planet. All the while, I remember that KCOU may be the last place I heard "Haircut 100" on the radio. Cheers, and remember, your taste in music should be as inflexible as a glass rod!! Thank you Walter Johnson!
Kasey Doshier	Brooklyn, NY	1995-1998	DJ	No	I am rocking it in Brooklyn and working as a designer at a Gannett newspaper in suburban New York. At times I also write feature stories. I have a cool roommate and a cat named Bill. I'm gunning for grad school or a career change in the near future.
Tom Dresner	Columbia, MO	1980-1982	DJ, Chief Announcer	Feature album, Jazz Odyssey	Bachelor of Journalism, 17 years at Columbia Police Department, now a captain and commander of the SWAT team. (What a change from the radio days!) Married, two children.
Cliff Evans	Boston, MA	1989-1991 (not sure, it was all a blur towards the end. I bailed before the great Big Star flameout, that much I remember.)	DJ, Music Director, plastered the doorway to the music director's office with stickers	Sick & Tired, 1990-91	After some ill-spent time in Maryland and Oklahoma, I moved to Boston, finished school and currently work at the National Center for PTSD assisting in stress and aging research while I eye Ph.D. programs in personality psychology. I'm engaged to a lovely woman named Suzanna, (who has learned not to ask exactly why I had to have that copy of "Metal Machine Music" I found) and in my spare time, I do the odd bit of writing and graphic design and spend way too much time and money on eBay looking for records I used to play on the radio. Safe to say, the time I spent at KCOU was far more enjoyable and useful than any I spent in class at Mizzou and the memories much more vivid. I'm really glad to see it's still around.
Holly (Nickels) Fann	St. Louis, MO	1996-1997	DJ	Cooking with Holly featuring Bob Costas	After a 3 year love affair at a different University radio station based out of St. Louis I somehow ended up on air at KCOU mostly filling in while jon, gary, jeff, greg or marlin ate the lunch that I brought them. Left MO to attend the CIA in New York, 2 years later I married the very handsome Jon Fann and am now referred to as "Mrs. Fanelli" more often than I would like. We have a mortgage, 3 spotty dogs and a bunny. Currently the Culinary Dir. for Dierbergs cooking schools. Currently very happy.
Jonathan Fann	St. Louis, MO	1993-1997	DJ, Music Director, interim Program Director, and "Lisa Morgan's proofreader"	Mic Check (hip-hop), Closet of Love (soul)	Got married. Watched some baseball. Got a beer gut. Took all the drugs.
Lee Fischer	St Louis, MO	1981-1985 (with a slight return in 1986, whose presence was more than somewhat resented)	Traffic Director, Chief Announcer, Program Director	After Midnight (Blues). It never made sense to me to call a show starting at Midnight "Closin' Time", so I changed it about 6 months in. Hey everybody, "Let's Go Get Stoned"! (my signoff tune by Ray Charles). I think I did the blues show from 1983 till graduation in '85. Also did Friday Mini-Concert, Kruzin' Music. You name it, I filled in for every other show and every shift at least once.	Worked in commercial radio for 2 years, KXOK (STL), then back to Columbia at KFRU, went into TV as an audio guy at Channel 8 for "Pepper & Friends", evolved into a TV Director, which took me to KDNL-TV, ABC Channel 30 when they started doing news. Burnt by the experience of repeated on-air trainwrecks, I taught myself Avid editing. ( The handwriting was on the wall, but I got out long before KDNL sacked the entire newsroom and shut it down.) I worked at a video post house fulltime for 2 years, been freelancer since 1998, specializing in editing and graphics. No wife, no kids, no house. I don't know if I could ever go back to a regular job again. See, damned KCOU and it's rebellious influences!
Alfredo (Jose) Flores	Washington, DC	1997-1999	DJ	5 Billion Voices	After somehow graduating MU's J-School with honors in 2001, went back home to Washington, DC to what I thought was a nice sports reporting gig at USA TODAY. That was until the price of news ink went up and my job was expendable the day before graduation. Four jobs, including covering the 9/11 attacks for a news wire, and one year later, I now work for Agricultural Research magazine - traveling across the U.S. and Mexico (Miami, San Diego, Houston, College Station, Mississippi State, Tijuana, Mexico City and Chiapas) covering scientific-type research. Who knew this is where I'd wind up after covering the Missouri Senior Games for the Columbia Daily Tribune, huh? I still try to keep up with my now-rusty DJ skills by serving as the 'Latin DJ' at friend's house parties, and, at times, at DC clubs during their Latin nights. But because of KCOU, I've become this concert-going freak, staying on top of all the bands that come to town and spending countless dollars seeing some of the best Latin bands that play here in DC - Molotov, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Cafe Tacuba, Aterciopelados, Enanitos Verdes, and Gypsy Kings to name a few. I've also become an entertainment guru, always organizing nights out with my international circle of friends to Washington's newest clubs. If any KCOU alum decide to drop by 'Dodge City' (aka DC), be sure to hit mega-clubs Dream and Nation, and super-cool tiki bar and lounge The Reef.
Samora Frank	San Francisco, CA	1996-1999	DJ	No	graduated in 12/99, moved to NYC and worked for 7 months as a photo intern for Bloomberg News... then moved to Chicago where I was doing wedding photography and digital photo retouching and other photo type drudge work.... Then i got laid off and worked as a part-time digital retoucher/part-time waitress ...just moved to San Francisco and i waitress and do freelance illustration and work w/ disabled people and teach art to special ed kids...and i'm going back to school..and no one in california knows where missouri is....
Terence Friedman	Raleigh, NC	1987-2000	DJ	No	After KCOU: I'm a labor/employment attorney in Raleigh who most definitely does not represent the little guy. KCOU was always fun, up until I was ultimately discharged by Grant Barrett (if I recall correctly) from all DJ responsibility after inciting a rather "fueled" Friday evening shift with Bill Guerriero and a fellow named Jason. I still wonder -- what happened to the old LPs there? Good lord -- there must be so many otherwise unobtainable records stockpiled somewhere. By the way, I never saw a better touring band in Columbia than Scruffy the Cat. Now there's something that it's criminal not to have re-released on CD.
Amy Fuller	Chicago, Il	1995-1996	DJ, former 11-1 gal	No	I am Operations Manager for chicago.citysearch.com
Lisa Gidley	New York, NY	1989-1992	DJ, Music Director	"Gardening at Night" and the Friday mini-concert	Hi. I'm now working in New York City as a freelance copy editor, writer, and photographer for mags and websites like Spin, New Musical Express, Ms., CMJ, Salon, HX, and Amazon. I have a wonderful fiance, Douglas, who's also a journalist (and the most dedicated music fan I know). KCOU was my absolute favorite experience at MU; it shaped my love of all types of under-the-radar music, and today much of my work still deals with pop culture. I'm so glad KCOU has recovered from "The Troubles" to resume its classic indie format. Keep molding those impressionable brains!
Anna Giuliani	Austin, TX	1996-1998	DJ	"Psychotic Reaction", "Shake 'Em On Down"	I just bought a house. I have a great job and all girl band called The Regrettes
Claudia Gorham		1982-1984	DJ	"Midday" - jazz	DJ for a brief moment in Boise, ID. Television Assistant for Channel 3 in Boise, ID. Hastings School of Law ('86-'89). Civil Rights & Eminent Domain Lawyer at minority owned law firm in Oakland, CA. Fortunately, I am still considered the eccentric one, the "offbeat" one, a little strange, and "totally hip". One daughter - Marcella age 6. It was great fun and lots of laughsbenig one of the "KCOU Queens".
Jeff Graff	South St Louis, MO	1995 (June-Dec)	DJ	No but I pushed local acts and touring bands	I left BoCoMo back in May of 1997. I was working at Shakespeare's which made it hard to leave but got offered a fairly good job in St. Louis. I moved into the city (South Side) and have had three different jobs. Now I am selling dental equipment (www.obtura.com) for a great local company. Nothing like fighting the big dogs in this industry. Recently purchased my first house, a two family flat, and have one unit for rent. $550 if your interested. Other than that, STILL KICKIN' IT.
Jason Greenberg	New York, NY	1994-1998	DJ	"Jazz Odyssey"	left Missouri in October '98 and moved to Silicon Valley. I've been working ever since for a company called Nortel Networks. In June of '99 I moved to Minneapolis, and have somehow managed to stay afloat as the technology sector comes apart at the seams. Still love college radio, and I'll never feel bad about getting hooked up with pizzas to say Wiseguys on the air. I call that some quality underwriting.
Kyle Grote	Chicago, Il	1996-1999	DJ, Promotions Director, Jazz Director	No	After a Florida court appearance as a key witness in an attempted assault with a deadly weapon case, I am currently slacking off at an ad agency.
Paul Gude	Seattle, WA	1991-1993	DJ, Promotions Assistant, Production Assistant, Local Artist	No	Currently, I maintain my own website: www.sgnp.com. For money, I work as a web designer at Amazon.com. In my spare time I draw the online comics "Giraffes and Elephants are Friends" and "Super Rocket Monkey," which can be found here..
Bill Guerriero	Chicago, Il	1988-1991	DJ, Music Director	"Gardening At Night"	moved to Chicago from Columbia about 6 1/2 years ago and I met my wife here. I work at a small ad agency as a writer/editor and write freelance for entertainment newspapers here in Chi. A few KCOU alums from my era live up here now, including Carrie Leach (now Carrie Weston, married to the bass player from Shellac) who books shows and bartends at the wonderful Empty Bottle up here in Chicago. You have to stop by there if you come up to Chicago, they consistently bring the best bands into the city.
Ruth Gurwitch	Los Angeles, CA	1987-1990	DJ	"Jazz Lunch", occasionally the Heavy Metal show	Got a Masters in Social Work from USC, Masters of Jewish Communal Service (I don't know what that means, really) from Hebrew Union College. Work at UCLA Medical Center in Kidney Transplant program. Hang in Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, drinking, dancing, holding court at Akbar. Live not so large with my cat Lucy and my friends...but love the life I live. Miss Columbia lots (even after 10 years (!!) away)...Still using my Shattered and Shakespeare's cups for vodka tonics, craving Sub Shoppe tuna on wheat with bacon, listening to my Spanking Rufus tape (okay, that I don't do too often...) Mostly I am hanging on to my youth with every ounce of strength I have!!
Bill Hagen	New York, NY	1986-1989	DJ, Music Director	various	Opened and helped run the Empty Bottle in Chicago with other ex-KCOU folk (who remain to this day). Left for New York in late '95, and worked briefly for BMG. Currently a professional cook at Eleven Madison Park in Manhattan. Newly married to another KCOU alum, the former Lisa Morgan.
Lisa (Morgan) Hagen	Queens, Ny	1992-1996	DJ, Program Director	Top 30	I moved to NYC after graduation. I have since been working at a company in New York that edits for A&E, MTV, MSG, and many others. I am not an editor yet, but I hope to get there soon. I married Bill Hagen, who preceded me at KCOU by a number of years. This is my favorite accomplishment since I left Columbia. Bill and I continue to go to the KY Derby every year, in memory of the year we met there (thanks everyone for making that happen). And I look back at my time in Columbia very fondly. One day I hope to stagger into KCOU in the middle of the day and reminiscence about the good ole days. I don't think I will be ready for that for 5 or 6 more years, so you better make sure that place sticks around.
Robert J Hanson	Naperville, Il	1972-1973	Assistant Engineer (KCCS), 1st Chief Engineer (KCOU)	No	Married with 4 boys, working as engineer/programmer/analyst at Lucent Technologies doing wireless internet.
Tom Harper	Denver, CO	1978-1983	DJ, Chief Announcer	Rockit88, Cruisin Music	Currently Production Director of Clear Channel's eight station group in Denver. Its great to know the station is still going strong!
Dan Heaton	St. Louis, MO	1995-1998	Chief Announcer, Music Director, DJ	The Beat Goes On/ Radio JA	I'm working as a brochure copywriter at INTRAV, a travel company.
Chris Henderson	San Francisco, CA	1993-1997	DJ	Open Apple C	My life in Columbia revolved around music, but my life in San Francisco seems to revolve around sex. I volunteer as a sex educator on the San Francisco Sex Information hotline and I work as a "Sexuality Producer" for ThriveOnline. It's a lot of fun! I live with Shelley Clarkson, the sweetie I met at M.U., and we're getting married in April 2001.
Jason Herrick	Portland, OR	1989-1992ish	Trained Monkey	Sick and Tired, Gardening at Night	After finishing up my BFA (whatever that was about) I wandered around Germany/Austria/Italy/Switzerland and decided I was going to 'take a year off before grad school. Right. I ended up in Portland, OR and became a beer snob. (Editor's note: Insert drap tale about three years of evil web-technology, cloven-hoofed venture capitalists and the dot.com purgatorio). I now have business cards that say "Sr. Infrastructure Engineer" and don the logo of a Hugh-Jass corpoation (doo-dee-doo-ding). That translates to "I never have to work with 'web-frickin-technology' or 'the money guy' ever again". I play my bass, cello and drums and make weird music with the new micro-Korg, Reason and ProTools (Digi-002 yee-haw). Really, I'm just marking time until Lisa gets around to starting her cult. Oh, so let me clear some things up: I never had sex in the prod room, I never smoked weed at the station and I never did my show on acid. Yeah, my shows were weird, but you can't do that stuff from the aether plane or while you're indulging the whims of the goddess. Forget it, pink boy!
Steve Hill	Dallas, TX	1982-1985	Chief Announcer	Cruisin' Music	Currently, I am the Sales Manager for Fox Sports Net in Dallas. Handle all the national advertising sales for all 23 Fox Sports Regional Sports Networks around the country...IE: You see Southwest Airlines, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch etc...in a game....that's me. Wife is President/General Manager of WFAA-TV in Dallas, TX...the ABC television station. We have 3 sons, Michael (16 1/2), Matt (14) and Connor (8 1/2). Been involved in television sales in some capacity since graduation in May 1985...didn't have the talent to make it in radio...ah, what could have been. Caused a bit of a stir a few years ago when I sent a letter to the Dean, who asked for money, that said I learned to prepare more for life at KCOU than 4 years of regular school...KCOU to me, like a lot of other folks, was a wonderful "playhouse" and learning experience. Wonderful people in a weird period of time (Mid 80's)...ouch. Special thanks to the tall hair Goddess...Trish Merelo for getting me into the station in 1982.....I thank you very much for your kindness!
Lorie Hirose	Denver, CO	1981-1982	News Reporter/Caster	No	I am currently working as a freelance TV reporter for KUSA-TV, NBC, and CNN.
Pauly Hoffman	Minneapolis, MN	1997-2001	DJ, Music Director, and God to many followers	Purgatory, Machine Musik	Now I am a restaurant Manager in Minneapolis for Chipotle (www.chipotle.com). I don't own any fire arms at the time, but Patrick Heiger beware. Kcou definitely was one of my most positive experiences in Columbia.
Erin Hutton	San Francisco, CA	1996-2000	DJ, Music Director, Chief Announcer	Purgatory	Movin'
Paul Imboden	St. Louis, MO	1990-1993	DJ, mercifully brief stint as Librarian	Blues 101	Briefly considered radio position in Denver, discovered salary, said "Fuck that". Worked in CoMo, St. Louis, KC, Chicago, Mexico City, London, Paris, Buenos Aires. Fell in and out of love, often. Lost more than won at the Derby. Work for PR firm in St. Louis. Still don't 'get' ska. Perform in, maintain Website, create posters for Pravda-STL.com. Record music on home computer. Am in love with a cinnamon girl from Jersey who owns Billy Joel's complete discography. Listen to more NPR than MBV, but not much more. Miss Chicago.
Jenny Inzerillo	Kansas City, MO	1998-1999	DJ Friday 2-6am w/Mike Hensel & Jessica Palumbo	Not technically a specialty show but we WERE extra special	Since KCOU, I have become a corporate sell-out, writing/producing local car dealership commercials at a KC agency. (You'll be glad to know I earn a meager wage.) I've kept in touch with the station and its best DJ stock. Ex-DJs: If you're in KC, look me up. I'm bored
Brian J Karem	Washington, DC	1980-1983	DJ	Jazz Odyssey, the Blues show, Cruisin Music	Since leaving KCOU I've gone on to work in television and newspapers. I covered the Persian Gulf War for NBC, was a correspondent at America's Most Wanted, worked for a variety of newspapers, have had articles published in PEOPLE and PLAYBOY, and have written five books. I was the first television reporter in this country jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source in a case styled Karem V. Priest which is now in several Mass Media and the Law textbooks. Okay, it's true I've eaten raw hamburger meat.
Korry Keeker	Bellingham, WA	1994-1998	DJ, Music Director, Program Director	College Music Report, Open Apple C, Country Brunch	Newspaper Reporter
Richard Keller	Kansas City, MO	1980-1985	DJ, Operations Director, Chief Announcer	Hard Rock Cafe	I'm the Civilian Personnel Officer for the Marine Corps activities in Kansas City. Having a great time and glad to hear that the station is alive and well. I hope to hear from long lost friends from our KCOU days.
Greg Keyzer-Andre	Buffalo, NY	1989-1991	News Dork (but I had fun as a news dork)	Not unless you count that mean-steamer of a news magazine, "The Missouri Beat"	After wandering aimlessly around Columbia, fell back into radio at KCLR. Then, moved to KCMQ during it's country phase as music director. Left to program KZNN in Rolla (lasted only four months). Left to launch KRKQ in Des Moines, IA (a classic rocker). Got hosed there and became a jock at KFRG/Riverside, CA. Went to Seattle and became a music director for Broadcast Programming's syndicated Country, Mainstream AC, Classic Rock, and Alternative formats (cyber-jocked middays for WXZZ in Lexington, KY). Defected a few blocks away to The Research Group (a radio research and consulting firm) as Assistant Director of Music Services and got laid off after four months. Was a jock at KMPS/Seattle. Was I'm APD/MD/afternoon driver at WYRK/Buffalo, now I'm PD/afternoons for WBEE Rochester, NY. Met an awesome girl (Jillene) in Seattle who moved out to Buffalo with me. We plan to get married soon. Radio pay still sux. So if you're considering radio as a career, I hope you REALLY like ramen for dinner. Did i babble too much? KCOU was a great place to learn "stuff." I wouldn't trade the late nights tinkering in production for anything. Hope you've managed to keep it fun.
Bob Kuhlman (Rockin' Robert)	Manhattan Beach, CA	1978-1980	DJ, PD, jack of all trades, first resident punk	Cruisin' Music, Rockit88	Worked at KCMQ Columbia and WXKE Ft Wayne, then left radio to concentrate on playing music with Dear John and Page Three. Moved to Los Angeles in '85, released solo CD in 1994. Stayed in the music industry (labels, retail, distribution) until early 90's. Still write, sing, and record (check out my site with tunes, etc). Work for the global IT services firm EDS. I had a great time at KCOU, and it's awesome to see it still rockin' after all these years!
Tom Krynski	Gainseville, FL	1970-1971	Sports reporter, Co-Sports Director	Tigers This Week (sports)	I worked in radio in Missouri and New Jersey, now I am news director and faculty member at the University of Florida in Gainesville. I have been at UF since 1985. While I did sports in college, I wound up doing news in the "real world." KCCS was only on in the dorms at the time--it became KCOU and got on the air after I left. Good luck to all at the station, it's a real treasure!! I am married with stepdaughter in Missouri and a son in Florida.
Tom Leeseberg-Lange	Valparaiso, IN	1973-1975	GM	Not around yet	The latest albums (how's that for a giveaway word from the vinyl age) that I am passionate about are Automatic for the People (yes, I know how old it is but I just discovered it) and Love and Theft; life happens. Still, that's what college radio is supposed to be about: progressive and alternative. In the early 70s I was bigtime into Tangerine Dream, the Strawbs, Barclay James Harvest, Genesis (before Peter Gabriel left), Gentle Giant, and Bob James, the pride of Marshall, MO (yes, we programmed a significant amount of fusion and what today would be considered smooth jazz). I still have about 3000 lps boxed in my basement and I bought a new turntable last year, my first since my sophomore year at Mizzou, so I could relive sonic adventures. Administrator of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians at Valpo University.
John Lee	Chapel Hill, NC	1996-2000	DJ, Music Director, Co-Program Director	The Beat Goes On, Radio JA	Attending graduate school at the University of North Carolina.
Dan Lehr	Chattanooga, TN	1988-1993	DJ, Chief Announcer	Subbed for every specialty show on the schedule	Newscast producer at WTVC-TV (ABC affiliate) since I left Columbia. Married in 1997 to Elizabeth Clemons, a full-time artist, with two stepchildren, Charlotte and Hanes (12 and 10 respectively). My time spent at KCOU was by far the most rewarding during college.
Erin Lewis	Melbourne, Australia	1999-2001	DJ, Music Director	No	Now live in Australia with my Australian fiance and am looking for a real job to pay off my student loans.
Jim Littrell	Columbia, MO	1992-1996	DJ, Ops Director, GM	No	After I graduated from MU in '96, I stuck around Columbia and still have not left! I work for Premier Marketing Group - we own seven radio stations and five print publications. I am the Program Director for their A/C - 101.5 KPLA. Never in a million years did I think I would be pushing Celine Dion records! But a kid has to make a living somehow - thank God for automation so I don't have to actually LISTEN to the soft rock I push!
Charla "Chuck" Lord	St. Louis, MO	1982-1983	News and Sports Reporter	No but I was Rockit88's number one fan	I've been joyfully employed at KMOV-TV as a producer/writer/editor since graduation from the J-school in 1985. In 1991, I married photographer Brian Howe. We have two children (Brennan-1997 and JoHanna-2002) and are living the suburban life in Kirkwood.
Ken Love	St. Charles, MO	1986-1991	DJ	The Retro show	Teaching elementary school
Troy Lund	Seattle, WA	1991-1995	Everything from DJ to MD to OO to a short stint as GM after the whole RHA fiasco and cinder block	Sick N Tired	Now running a record label in Seattle (kurtisempire.com) and playing in several bands, as well as acting in films and stuff.
Sarah Marcus	San Francisco, CA	1986-1991	DJ, GM	The New Wave show	Work: I've worked at four radio stations (3 under one roof), two record stores, a music booking agency, an Internet start-up company, and I'm currently working at an art college. I also work at the Fillmore and Warfield Theater occasionally. Claim to Fame: Son Volt used a photograph of mine on their album "Straightaways." Wrote for No Depression Magazine. Life: Bought a house, got married and still listen to lots of music. KCOU certainly gave me a big boost in that direction. And it's because of a mutual love of music (alt. country, power pop, and the Nuggets Box set among others) that I met my husband, Jim. (We met at an Emmylou Harris show at the Fillmore, I was working.) No kids and 2 cats later, things are going well. I still have a soft spot for that radio station, and a lot of great memories, photos and T-shirts to go along with it. Keep up the good work! I'll be listening.
Shawn Marsh	Spring Lake Heights, NJ	1978-1982	News Director and "unknown DJ who, fueled by Busch, would surface in the night to play a New Jersey six-pack"	No	Working for Associated Press
Jamie McGeorge	Austin, TX	2001-2002	DJ	No	I work at a record label in Austin, TX called New West Records. We have Slobberbone, the Flatlanders (not the Flatliners), Delbert McClinton, Tim Easton, Stephen Bruton, and other people. I started as an intern, but they hired me full-time after two months. Pretty cool. Anyhoo, still adjusting to life in Austin and not in Columbia. I miss KCOU.
Steve McIntyre	Oak Park, IL	1982-1985	DJ, Promotions Director, Underwriting salesman	Classic Album, "Sunday night shift was not officially a show but by tradition was the airshift where we put 'the bizarre guy who plays that weird music' "	Self-employed computer geek since 1993. Software training, troubleshooting, systems consulting, database development, etc. I have a wife and a house in the suburbs. No picket fence and no kids. I'm the most boring person I know.
Chris Meister	Austin, TX	1993-1997	I was a friggin DJ	Retro 88, subbed every friggin shift (if I didn't sleep thru it) and did LOTS of overnights where I played no format whatsoever	Since KCOU and MU, I moved to Austin and been working on films full-time, as well as doing three of my own (One was filmed at Nowell's in Columbia!). I also work as a lighting designer for several theatre groups and had a couple of my shows tour. I do improv and sketch comedy with Ray Prewitt's Fourth Grade Class, work for SXSW every year and like to blow up shit with a tesla coil. I just saw Jay Farrar play here two nights ago here and got sentimental. Lost part of my heart when Pavement called it quits and still hope you have carts featuring a drunk Jon Fann and tripping Sean Brown. Glad to hear about Morgan and Claus. If any KCOUers are ever coming to Austin, get a hold me, we got a comfy couch.
Trish (Merelo) Miller	Santa Cruz, CA	1980-1984	DJ, Chief Announcer, Program Director	Filled in for Motor City(motown), Not Just Jazz	DJ, Program Director at WPST/Trenton, NJ 1984-91. Lured to LA to accept record promotion gig with MCA 1991-97, then segued to DreamWorks Records for same. Quit in '99 to be home with my boy/girl twins born in '98. Married to Rob since '91. He works for Yahoo and we now live in Santa Cruz, CA. Adored my years at KCOU, I loved that little basement.
Matthew Mills	New York, NY	1991-1996	DJ, Promotions Director, Resident Criminal	Gardening at Night	Since my KCOU days, I've lived/worked in Chicago, London and New York. I've been dating another KCOU-er, Kristen Swenson, for almost 5 years. We live together in Park Slope (Brooklyn) and have no kids or pets (we're too damn busy). I am currently writing television, films and plays with almost a hundred credits at MTV, CBS, VH1, Noggin, Columbia Pictures, Silver Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sonicnet, Concentric Entertainment, Martha Stewart's Omnimedia and Bowen-Arrow Productions. I recently directed my first music video, "I Love The Unknown," for the band Clem Snide and co-executive produced a short film, "Recycle Day," that will make the film festival circuit in 2002. Both projects were done through my own production company, K-Fi Films. I am also in pre-production on "Man, 35," a feature film I wrote a couple of years ago and will direct starting January 2002. I'm listening to the new Spiritualized, Smog and the Strokes (lots of "S" bands) and I too lamented the end of the Pavement-era. I often wear my "Up Against The Wall Motherfucker" KCOU t-shirt to the gym and get lots of blank stares from the corporate-types who just don't get it.
Bryan Morrisey	Asheville, NC	1994-1998	DJ, news	Jazz Odyssey	Since KsceneOU I left Columbia and moved to Atlanta worked freelance in commercials and music videos. Met my girlfriend and her daughter, had a baby of my own, got a dog and moved to the hills. Now I’m the box office manager at the community theatre and teaching a improv class for high schoolers. word
Chris Mycoskie	Dallas, TX	1997-2000	Sports Director, Softball play-by-play, fill-in DJ	Sports Lounge	News Reporter at WOI-TV Channel 5 (ABC station for Central Iowa) Update: I got fired by News 5 and did data entry for Manpower temp services. I accepted a job as a sports reporter/anchor at ESPN Radio 103.3 FM in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas!
Mike Neal	Sanibel Island, FL	1975-1976	News, DJ, Operations Director	Cruisin' Music	I took over for Mark Shevitz as Operations Director when he got promoted at KFMZ. I later took a job at KFMZ, and eventually was forced to quit KCOU when KFMZ owner Mike Rice discovered all the KCOU production work I, Yvonne Mangrum, Dan Carney and others were doing up there. At the time KCOU was more popular than KFMZ in many demos! I'm also the one responsible for painting the station's interior those hideous colors. My favorite memory is interviewing Charlie Daniels and learning he only had a southern accent while ON the air! I married my college girlfriend, Julie Burkhead, in 1980. We publish travel guides for a living. We have a 9-year-old daughter. Hi to Tom Shelton (a stand up comic?) and anyone else that was part of that giant airstaff.
Hil Negele	Wahiawa, HI	1995-1998	DJ	No	After I left MU, I did my 2-year stint as a copy editor. My wanderings took me to Moscow, and now I work as a Russian linguist/translator in Hawaii. It's been awhile, but still I hold those 2 am shifts as some of my favorite Columbia memories.
Carl Oberfranc	Palatine, IL	1974-1978	Reporter, announcer, evening news producer, Public Affairs Director, sports announcer	Mere Images (a five minute pre-reocrded rock 'n roll news thing I put together)	After College: KCOU was such a great place to learn everything about radio. Best of all, it provided a wonderful opportunity to work alongside and hang out with some truly fine people. With the exception of a brief stint in the early '80s as a fill-in weekend news announcer in Gresham, OR, that was the end of my less than promising career in radio. I earned the big BJ in the Ad sequence and spent the next 16 years doing sales and promotional work for a publishing company. After a few more years doing direct mail with a division of GE, I now lead the advertising operations at Quill office supplies. I've been married for the past 18 years and have two boys who have never expressed even the slightest desire to hear any of my old air checks.
Renee Paravecchio	Tacoma, WA	1986-1991	DJ, Music Director, GM (I believe I was the first woman GM...)	No	After law school, I was in private practice as an employment law attorney and Editor-in-Chief of Trial News. Currently, I am Corporate Counsel for Labor Ready, Inc., a leading international provider of day labor (NYSE: LRW). I'm married to Joel Trueblood, an MU alum who graced KCOU's airwaves as the drummer for Neko Case and her Boyfriends, the Untamed Youth, Ditch Witch, Alcohol Funnycar and At Proper Distance. Joel and I are the "Rob Alongi" and "Madame Grace Ho" of the Tacoma rental property world.
Court Passant	New York, NY