R.I.P David Haines

These are excerpts from the Washington Post Obituaries

Bruce "David" Haines, 64, the news director of WPGC-FM in Lanham and the news anchor for the station's morning show hosted by Donnie Simpson, died July 10 at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. He had complications from lung cancer.

Bruce Haines III -- he invented "David" for his on-air name -- was born in St. Louis and raised in Hollywood, Fla.

He was a disc jockey in Florida, Nebraska and Wisconsin before coming to the Washington area in 1984. He then worked for WAVA-FM as a morning newscaster on the "Don and Mike" program until 1989, when he left for a two-year stint as news director at WPLJ-FM in New York.