Walkerman David Dugan Jr. ’52
Walkerman David Dugan Jr. ’52 passed away on July 23 at home in Overland Park, Kansas. Dave was born on March 31, 1931, in DuBois, Pennsylvania, grew up in Olean, New York, and graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1948. At Dartmouth he graduated with a degree in sociology and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He was the chief announcer for WDBS radio, a sports announcer, business manager of the Barbary Coast Band and a member of the Glee Club. After college Dave immediately went into broadcasting and he also earned a graduate degree in philosophy from St. Bonaventure University in 1956. In 1957 Dave started a 36-year relationship with CBS that included a variety of on-air broadcast reporting responsibilities in both news and sports in New York, Los Angeles and St. Louis, Missouri. He also created a news workshop for minority students at Columbia University that led to an offer to move to the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he became a journalism professor and general manager of the NPR affiliate. After 15 years at Missouri, Dave and his wife, Joy, temporarily retired to Laguna Niguel, California, but he completed his career with four years as general manager of KMOX, CBS in St. Louis. In 1999 Dave and Joy moved to the Kansas City, Missouri, area to be near family. Joy passed away in 2005. His daughter, Karen, her husband, Brian, and their three children survive Dave.
