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<\/a>Don D’Augustino<\/p><\/div>\n
So my plan was hatched\u2026.having no knowledge or much interest in Radio or Radio licensing\u2026. this purely an avenue to escape that hell hole of a HS building and attend worthless study hall periods. \u00a0By default that special pass let me hang out at DGC all the time and I ended spinning records that summer, caused trouble with Dave Price (another IDB alum) and generally not heeding anything the faculty instructor said \u2013 never did take a Radio licensing class even during my senior year\u2026.which featured some really bad play by play calls of rain soaked football games. I was the only one who really knew football that wasn\u2019t already on the team working at the station willing to do it.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The WDGC gang 1980<\/p><\/div>\n
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Let\u2019s fast forward a year or two\u2026. D\u2019Ago ended up going to SIU to pursue an R\/T major\u2026.he followed after Timmo Cawley (who never did quite understand how I got shifts at WDGC despite never taking licensing classes).\u00a0 I went to College of DuPage still trying to decide on my major and was about to get my Associates Degree.\u00a0 D\u2019Ago convinced me to visit SIU during the spring of his freshmen year for a weekend.<\/p>\n
It sounded like fun so I hopped on the Amtrak from Union Station to C\u2019dale.\u00a0\u00a0 I arrived at his dorm (3rd<\/sup> floor of Allen 1). D\u2019Ago and his roommate DJ were highly agitated.\u00a0 They were in the middle of fight with several guys who lived down the hall from them and in other buildings\u2013 firing tennis ball cannons at each other primed with rubbing alcohol!\u00a0\u00a0 It got so loud we had to get out of there and out of the line of fire.<\/p>\n The cannon that propelled Hot Spotts to WIDB.<\/p><\/div>\n D\u2019Ago said let\u2019s go! At full speed we ran out to the blare of cannons dodging tennis balls out the windows of Allen – even some cannon fire from higher floors of Neely all the way past the Boomer Triads.\u00a0 We sought refuge entering the front door of Wright 1 going to the down the stairs In Da Basement. \u00a0\u00a0And that\u2019s how I got to WIDB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by John (Hot) Spotts (himself) I moved from Michigan in the middle of my junior year of high school to Downers Grove.\u00a0 My new school was on complete lockdown \u2013\u00a0 my former HS school had a completely open campus and … Continue reading <\/a>