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Inducted 1983   Growing
up in Watseka, Illinois, Dick attended Watseka High School and competed
in basketball, golf, track and football, earning All-Conference honors
in basketball as a senior. He enrolled at the University of Illinois
in 1951 and played on their freshmen basketball team.
He entered Lake Forest College in 1953 and was then drafted into the U. S. Army in 1954. Dick returned to Lake Forest after an honorable discharge in 1956. A three-year letter winner in both basketball and golf, he set a college record with 33 consecutive free throws and was selected as captain of the golf team his senior year. Graduating in 1958 with a business administration degree, Dick entered the family lumber business in Watseka. In 1961 he started announcing high school athletic events for a local radio station. Ten years later he began a 21-year tenure of broadcasting the University of Illinois football and basketball games. In 1979 and 1980 he also broadcasted the University of Notre Dame basketball games for Mutual Radio. In 1978 Dick was inducted into the Illinois High School Hall of Fame as a sportscaster and, in 1984, he received an honorary letter from the University of Illinois for his years of service and dedication in the radio booth.
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