Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio 
Spring 2000 

Dave Bunker was elected to a three-year term as President of AMPPR at the New Orleans conference. Dave replaces outgoing President Beverley Ervine, whose term expired this year. 

Dave is music director and host of the weekday morning classical program at Maine Public Radio, where he has worked for five years. Before joining Maine Public Radio, he worked as an announcer and producer at public radio stations in Pensacola, Florida, and Seattle, Washington, where his public radio career began in the 1980s. He has a BA degree in English from Pomona College in California and a MA degree, also in English, from the University of Washington. He is married and has two young children. In the time left over from radio and parenthood, he runs, swims, reads, and constructs crossword puzzles. 

Outgoing President, Beverley Ervine, music director of the WOSU Classics Network, was re-elected to the board as Vice President of Sponsorships. Her responsibilities include the daunting task of funding AMPPR’s conferences through sponsors, a job she has performed so well for the past three years as president.
 
 

Robert J. Lurtsema of WGBH-FM in Boston was also re-elected to AMPPR’s board of  directors for a second three-year term as Vice President of Publications. The organization has benefited greatly from having access to Robert J and his knowledge of the business of music and radio for these past years, and we are delighted that he has granted us another term on the board.
 

Jon Kauffmann-Kennel, who is a newly elected AMPPR board member, is the general manager of WGCS-FM in Goshen, Indiana, at Goshen College, where he is also an associate professor of communication. He teaches two radio courses and is the morning drive classical music host, while seeing to his management responsibilities.

Jon is a former announcer, jazz director, then program director at WVPE in Elkhart, Indi-ana. He was a volunteer announcer at WSND at the University of Notre Dame and has worked in the fields of writing, editing, and design.

Since graduating from Goshen College and receiving an MA in communication from the University of Iowa, he is now working (very slowly, he says) on an MA in theological studies with an emphasis on ethics.

Jon and his wife have two sons and three cats. He sings in a community chorale and has a very dusty cello. He also admits to being a diehard Cubs fan.
 

Elected to the AMPPR board at MPC 38, Steve Robinson began his career as the first development director and senior music producer at Boston’s WBUR-FM. He then became the weekend host of “Morning Pro Musica” at WGBH and an announcer at Boston’s commercial classical station, WCRB. He left Boston in 1971 to work at KPFA in Berkeley, where he produced cultural and public affairs programs. In 1976 he became the first development director at Vermont Public Radio (VPR) and hosted the station’s afternoon classical music program. 

Steve left Vermont in 1980 to become the first development director for WBGO/Jazz88. In 1984 he founded his own company, Creative Audio Productions (CAP). At CAP Steve produced over 100 hours of original cultural and public affairs programming for the satellite system. 

In 1990 Steve became the first manager of the Nebraska Public Radio Network, which has created innovative classical music and public affairs programming and has enjoyed impressive fiscal growth. 

Steve lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife, Beth, who is an arts administrator and radio producer, and nine-year old daughter, Sara, who has been studying the violin for five years and has recently introduced her square dad to Briteny Spears and ’N Sync.