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Today's Featured Biography
Dan Hughes
From Ben Davis to Purdue to the USAF to radio DJ to running a group home for delinquents to working promotions for the Atlanta Braves to teaching broadcasting and running a college radio station, with radio in the background (sometimes the foreground) all the way.
Retired in June 2007 (after 26 years) as the general manager of radio station WPCD at Parkland College in Champaign IL, and a broadcast instructor.
Also a: Ham radio operator (N9XDK), magazine writer, author, metal detector enthusiast (and member of the Treasure Hunter's Hall of Fame), auctioneer, bass fisherman, softball pitcher, musicologist (60's rock, psychedelic, folk, and really bad country), yard sale nut, autograph collector, the Alex Trebeck of central Illinois (I write and host a Quiz Bowl TV show for high school teams), ex-wedding photographer and newspaper photographer, real estate broker, lots of other cool stuff.
I'm actually quite fascinating. So why can't I keep friends? (Oops, wrong forum.....)
School -
Quiet and shy in high school, worked just hard enough to get B's and C's mostly. I was your classic underachiever--more interested in science fiction and fishing and coin collecting and the Johnson Smith novelties catalog ("Amaze Your Friends!" stuff) than school.
Joined one club in high school--the math honorary Mu Alpha Theta--and only because I was too shy to turn down the invitation.
College -
Came out of my shell when I became a DJ in college, graduated with a degree in Broadcasting from Purdue (and a minor in Journalism and just one rat lab-credit shy of a minor in Psychology).
Due to a mistake by my college counselor, I had to take 24 credit hours my final semester. And at the same time I wrote a weekly column for a campus newspaper and I was program director of my campus radio station. That semester was a blur, and I don't remember any of it.
Workplace -
I retired in June 2007 after 26 years of teaching broadcasting and running a college radio station. Right now I'm writing a book on metal detecting. .
Jobs more or less in chronological order: paper route, free sample deliveryman, General Motors draftsman, National Homes carpenter, Air Force medical administrator, rock DJ, movie ticket seller, movie projectionist, wedding photographer, newspaper reporter, newspaper photographer, rock/country DJ, houseparent for delinquent teen girls, magazine writer, group ticket sales for Atlanta Braves, wedding photographer again, real estate salesman, rock/country DJ again, supervisor in workshop for retarded adults, author of wedding photography manual, assistant general manager of a college radio station, college broadcast instructor, metal detector sales, magazine associate editor, general manager of a college radio station, auctioneer, autograph sales, author (visit danhughesbooks-dot-com). Maybe left some out....
Military -
Joined the Air Force after college to avoid the Army (draft was going strong in 1969), and since I had a degree in broadcasting they made me a medic. I spent all four years of my military life in a foreign country:
Selma, Alabama.
Currently -
Writing a book on metal detecting.
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