Early 1960s KOL DeeJays

   October 5, 2026









Bill Taylor from Blatherwatch (2010)
Dick Haase arrived in Seattle from Toronto‘s CHUM, (where he was known on the air as Dick Hayes). KOL aired promos declaring with stentorian seriousness: “KOL has acquired Boeing!”

Dick’s on-air name at KOL: Jeff Boeing. (When will some FM guy become Jerry Microsoft?)

(photo: Jeff “Dick Hayes) Boeing yuckin’ it up at Toronto’s CHUM in 1966)

He was also known in NY and Detroit as Jack Hayes. (We know him around OSRS as the guy with the mysterious invisible left hand).

KOL DJ line-up in 1968: Gary Todd – 6-9 a; Bobby Simon – 9a-12p; Jeff Boeing – 12-4p; Dick Curtis – 4p-8p; Robin Mitchell – 8p-12a; Greg Connors – 12a-6a.

Mr. Haase/Hayes/Boeing reportedly has retired in Michigan.

William Engelhardt

Lee Askervold was my mentor at KING, when I worked there as a switchboard operator and tour guide in 1965. Lee had the overnight show, and after my shift on the switchboard, I’d hole up in a production room with a reel-to-reel Ampex, records, news and commercial copy, and be a DJ. Lee would critique my tapes, and helped me assemble my first audition tape, which got me a gig at KMO (Tacoma). After stints at KMO and KJNO (Juneau), I was hired by Lee (now PD) at KTAC in January 1967, to replace Bruce McMichael who was heading to KIRO Radio. At the time, KTAC’s business offices and newsroom were in the Winthrop Hotel. Jerry Geehan owned and managed the station, Fred Kaufman (formerly of KOMO) was the sales manager. The jocks did their shows from a ramshackle studio out at the transmitter site near the Puyallup River. Dave Allen (Darrel Sauve) was doing mornings, John Welsh afternoons. Lee Knudsen, a former KING FM announcer, did 6 p.m. -12m. Jack Allen (Thompson) came to KTAC from Idaho just before I left for KOL in June 1967. Dave and Jack and I worked together again in the ‘70s at KVI.” Bill Engelhardt retired in 2011, after 27 years as a public information officer for the Washington State House of Representatives.

2 thoughts on “Early 1960s KOL DeeJays”

  1. What's in a name? (CHUM Tribute site)

    Jason Remington • October 5, 2026

    Just ask Dick Hayes, who was truly a man of many on-air monikers.

    Just before his arrival at CHUM in the fall of 1965, he had been Dick Haase (same pronunciation, different spelling) at WWTC Minneapolis-St. Paul. When he left CHUM in the fall of 1967, he went to KOL Seattle as Jeff Boeing (the promo KOL used was “KOL has acquired Boeing!”). He jocked at WXYZ Detroit as Jack Hayes in 1968, and the following year he popped up again at WNBC New York under yet another name, Jack Hayes. In the ’80s and ’90s, he reappeared as Richard D., on WHND “Honey Radio” in Monroe, Michigan, where he was PD/air personality until 1994.

    At CHUM, he was Dick Hayes. He replaced Mike Darow, who was moving to ABC as a game show host, in the 1-4 shift. Hayes was the first new Monday-Friday hire at CHUM since Jay Nelson replaced Al Boliska in late 1963. Yes, Brian Skinner replaced Dave Johnson in the 7-10 slot around the same time Hayes replaced Darow, but “The Prez” had already been doing weekends/swing at CHUM.

    The man born Richard Haase joined Greater Media Detroit as a Senior Information Systems Analyst in 1980.

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  2. Remembering Richard D. Haase, Detroit radio legend

    Jason Remington • October 5, 2026

    USA Radio Museum
    January 5, 2023 ·
    Remembering Honey Radio’s Richard D. Haase. R.I.P.
    Detroit radio has lost another morning radio legend.
    Detroiters woke up listening to Richard D. for well over fourteen long years on WHND 560 AM. Honey Radio’s Keith Allen memorializes Richard D. today on Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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