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Dick Kreck

20 years plenty for KGNU manager Marty Durlin


Party hearty, Marty; you've earned it.

Marty Durlin calls it quits July 1 as general manager of Boulder-based community radio station KGNU 1390-AM and 88.5-FM. "It'll be 20 years, a nice round number," she says.

Cohorts and friends send her off in style Friday night at the Boulder Theater with all the things she loves - dance, music, art, theater and a whole lot of fun.

Durlin started at the free-form station in 1978 and was elevated to g.m. in 1987. For those unfamiliar with KGNU, think of an over-the-air bazaar where all comers are welcome to shower listeners with music (from country to reggae), political thoughts or philosophical messages. Programs include "How on Earth," "Corriente!" and "Free Speech Radio News."

"We have volunteers in every part of KGNU, in decision-making, in programming," says Durlin. "That was the kind of radio, or media, that always interested me." It is, she says, all about "experimentation and creativity."

Durlin wants to do some writing - she's got a series of children's books in mind - but she won't wander far from radio. "My plan is to go back to Paonia, in Delta County, where there is a radio station. If I get lonely for radio, I will have it there."

Tickets for Friday's party, a fundraiser for KGNU, are available at 303-449-4885.

Durlin's a little nervous about the party. "I'm afraid no one will come. It's kind of like your own funeral, only you're not quite dead yet.


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Internees

Reader Arthur Jacobs, a one-time internee himself, adds to Monday's column about KHOW radio host "Gunny Bob" Newman's demand that all Muslims immigrants in the U.S. be required to wear tracking bracelets.

Jacobs writes, "During World War II, almost 1 million permanent U.S. resident aliens were required to register as 'alien enemies,' which carried with it the stipulation that they had to carry an identification with their fingerprints and photo; they were forbidden to fly; they were forbidden to leave their neighborhoods, and if they changed employment or residence they were required to report same to the Department of Justice.

"And if GPS would have been available, they would have been required to wear wristbands."

Around the dial

And this e-mail from reader Marvin Berryman: "Homeland Security has already fitted nearly everyone in this country with user-attached tracking devices. They're called cellphones." ... Sheryl Crow featured on "Austin City Limits" (8 tonight KBDI-Channel 12) ... Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless talk about their days on "Cagney and Lacey" on "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet" (9 a.m. today, KDVR-Channel 31) ... Quotable: "I'm looking forward to it, whatever it is." Marty Durlin

Dick Kreck's column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-954-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.




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