Dan Hughes:  

Class Website: bdhs65-dot-com Personal Website: danhughes-dot-net Okay, here's me: 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, writing and hosting a Jeopardy-like TV quiz show for high schools, and running a college radio station. 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 (for 25 years I wrote and hosted 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, 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 hou...Expand for more