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| Meet the Staff |
 | Mike Bakken
Advisor/Host/Morning Show Host
Title: Assistant Professor of Music in the Division of Liberal Arts. B.S. in Music Education – 1972 from University of North Dakota MS in Music Education -1997 from Minot State University. Mike taught public school instrumental and vocal music from 1972 to 2003. He is currently completing his 5th full year at Mayville State University. He is directs the MSU Concert Band, MSU Concert Choir, MSU Jazz Ensemble. His other teaching duties include; teaching two (2) sections of Music Humanities and one section of Humanities on-line and a class in Music Theory I. During January and February Mike directs Traill Blazers, a 75 voice mens choir, made up of men from the surrounding communities. Mike’s wife, Annette, is a paralegal. They have two children Matt, a graphic artist living in Mayville and Sally an administrative assistant living in Chaska, MN. Mike’s main hobby is golf. They also have two grandchildren Isaiah age 6 and Joanna age 7 months. | |
Sarah Cerkowniak
Producer/Host
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 | Miriam Devere
Program Director/Business Manager/Host
Miriam is from Bloomington, MN. She is majoring in mathematics. Miriam co-hosts "The Unbeaten Path", an alternative/rock/indie show, with Dr. Bob Miess. She also hosts the Comet Radio Morning Show on Monday mornings. Music has always been a huge passion of hers. It "consumes her". During her life so far she has attended over 80 concerts and loves rockin' out hardcore. Her other activities include Student Senate (President), tutoring, and video games. After college, she plans on attending more college to get her PhD in math and from there she would like to be a college mathematics professor. | |
 | Sarah Johnson
Producer/Host
Sarah A. Johnson, a junior at MSU, reigns from Cavalier, North Dakota. She is a double major and double minor, English Education and Applied Psychology and Psychology Education and Library Sciences, in other words – indecisive, hiding behind a quadruple threat. Her hobbies include lying amongst a pile of kittens, writing short stories, poems, and lyrics, and making any part of a conversation turn into a song. She lives, breathes and sleeps music. Have a conversation with her and there is an 87 percent chance that she will burst into song. Her main musical obsession is rock music, ranging from the late 60s to today. She co-hosts with Bryce Zietz on their radio show, The Rock Scene, and she also co-hosts with Lucas Neumann on their new radio show, Rock em Sock em Radio. | |
 | Bob Kozojed
Host/Morning Show Host
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Greta Kyllo
Morning Show Host
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 | Bob "Da Boss" Miess
Advisor
Bob “Da Boss” Miess is a small town ailurophile. He likes living with his three cats; they are very cool but help to keep him grounded. He claims that they are the arbiters of his eclectic tastes, but how difficult can it be to please three finicky cats – really? While away from the cats, Bob spends his time trying to teach class, to administer (to) the MSU Division of Science & Mathematics, and to enjoy life. For a brief while each week he shares some of his alternative musical interests by co-hosting “In The Lab" and "The Unbeaten Path". | |
 | Nicholas "Nick" Moe
Producer/Host
Nick Moe is from Bemidji, MN and came to Mayville to play metal over the radio and possibly study. He is the creator and co-host of “Sound of Doom”. This is his first year at Mayville State and looks forward to listening to speaker-destroying metal. He hopes someday to have people appreciate metal the same way he does, and at the same time is hoping to successfully ride in a barrel down Niagara falls. | |
 | Richeldis Nelson
Host
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 | Lucas Neumann
Host
Lucas Neumann is a Junior from Cavalier, ND. He is double-majoring in Physical Education and Social Science Composite in Education, as well as a Minor in Coaching. He co-hosts Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Radio with Sarah Johnson. Music is a huge influence in his life; he plays Drums in the MSU Band, as well as plays guitar, and dabbles on the piano…or at least used to. Lucas has been in various bands, and has recorded two Demo CD’s while in those bands. He also enjoys long walks on the beach, a good Mello Yellow, and kickin' it with someone new and awkward. | |
 | Justin Popovich
Producer/Host
Justin is entering his first year at Mayville State and is majoring in business administration and minoring in coaching. He plays football for the Comets. Justin was born in Lorain, Ohio. Then he moved to Rockford Minnesota where he graduated from high school in 2008. He was Born to Jeff Popovich and Lisa Flores in 1990. He loves playing sports, going to church, and hanging out with friends. | |
 | Oliver Ridley
Secretary/Host
Oliver was born in Ontario, and grew up in Winnipeg, taking flight from the windy city at the turn of the century. After spending much time at home and abroad, collecting a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Manitoba along the way. Pining for the praries, but afraid to go back to Winnipeg, Oliver arrived at Mayville where he presently pursues an Education degree, majoring in History and English. He loves old stuff, collecting old cars, militaria, radios, coins, and anything else one man can carry. Together with Bob Kozojed, Oliver brings you the longest title in the Comet Radio catalog, presenting the "In the Mood for Old Time Radio Hour" every Wednesday at 4. | |
 | Zachary "Zack" Schuster
Host
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 | Matt "Doc" Wanat
Advisor
An Associate Professor of English, Matt Wanat teaches a range of classes, including dual-credit and on-campus composition, American literature, literary and cultural theory, English education methods, Shakespeare, and cinema. Dr. Wanat's research examines intersections of form and culture in the areas of American literature, cinema studies, and, occasionally, popular music. His musical interests are grounded in American roots music—early commercial country music, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and a variety of unsung genres—an eclectic range of interests that inevitably creeps into his shows. Therefore, "Flatbilly Blues" is both steeped in tradition and irreverently "inauthentic," whereas on "Fall of Troy" alternative rocker PJ Harvey might holler the blues with hillbilly singer Roscoe Holcomb leading into a Motown song. That's how Dr. Wanat likes it. | |
 | John Westra
Host
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 | Bryce "-Z.-" Zietz
Producer/Host/General Manger
Bryce loves dogs. Ask anyone. He's originally from Iowa but has lived in North Dakota since 1999. He is a fan of Italian food and will often hurl at the sight or smell of seafood. Majoring in Biology Dbl Majoring in Chemistry, Bryce will eventually move on from Mayville and traverse wherever the wind blows him to party with the sciences; yes he's excited! P.S. Dogz Rule! :P | |
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| Comet Radio Alumni |
Jasson Andrade
Producer/Host
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 | Bob Bertsch
Advisor
Before coming to Mayville State, Bob spent ten years working in public radio and television. He brings that experience to his work as an advisor, as well as to his roles hosting Fall of Troy and The Morning Show. | |
 | Andrea "ADHD" Dumas
The self-proclaimed Alpha Female, this eccentric English major hails from Walhalla, ND. When not trudging through mountains of homework, working, or acting in MSU productions, Andrea strives to bring you the best in rock and metal. After college, she hopes to travel, write a genuinely great bestseller, act in an Oscar™ winning production, take care of loved ones with her subsequent wealth and marry any/all of the following: Adrien Brody, Vince Vaughn, Jason Newsted, Trent Reznor, or Wladimir Klitschko. | |
Karl Holkesvig
Producer/Host
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Justin Miller
Producer/Host
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 | Mike Peterson
Producer/Host
Mike Peterson is a MSU student from Grand Forks near graduating. He's an exercise science major and coaching minor. He's the host of "150 Praises" with MSU Prof. Tom Geffre's son Marcus, and also hosts the 1/2hr political commentary/news program "Liberty Talk Live." Mike has a real passion for God and Freedom and runs his own website, Rise of Liberty.com (http://www.riseofliberty.com). | |
 | David "Dave" Ranson
Host
David is entering his second year at Mayville State and is majoring in Fitness and Wellness. He plays football and baseball for the Comets and is part of the Mayville Fire and Rescue Department. David was born and raised in Fallon, Nevada where he graduated from high school in 2006. He was Born to Steve Ranson and Sylvia White in 1988 and likes spending time with his family and friends. | |
Zach "The Heavy Metal Heart Attack" Skovlund
Producer/Host
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 | Anthony Strand
Producer/Host
Anthony, a senior, is from Hatton, North Dakota. He enjoys all of the action his home city has to offer, and holds the record for reading Scripture in St. John Church the most times by age 22. His majors are History and English Education, and he plans to go to graduate school in some wacky area or another. He is currently the most enthusiastic library assistant at the Byrnes-Quanbeck Library. He has appeared in a couple of little MSU theatre productions and was a staff writer for nearly the entire run of the now defunct Comet Flash, where he wrote movie recommendations and various other nonsense. He spends his free time reading comic books and watching movies and television. When he isn't watching them, chances are he's overanalyzing them. | |
 | Christopher Strand
Christopher went to my school in our town of 500 people in North Dakota. My first encounter with him was sitting next to him on a school bus. He was eating Handi-Snacks and had clear braces, so the artificial cheese was all caught up in there with the crumby crackers. He and Alex Arcone and Chris Kimball transformed our tiny school into a theater of the surreal. They would crawl across the classroom floor mid-lecture to touch the social studies teacher lightly on the wingtip. "Loose pause!" one of them would say, and the group would collapse limp. "I'd like to tell the other teachers what you're doing, but I don't know what it is you're doing," said one teacher to Christopher as he pushed him against the wall in fury. | |
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