Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Landecker's Diploma

I'll have the full story in the next issue of the Illinois Entertainer, but if you want to read more about this special day, the Grand Valley Lanthorn has the story here.

Robert Feder also mentioned it in his column today. Here's what he wrote...

John Records Landecker, another Chicago radio legend and National Radio Hall of Famer, was surprised last week to receive a diploma from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan — 50 years after he’d dropped out to pursue his broadcast dreams. Landecker had been invited to speak to students about his autobiography, Records Truly Is My Middle Name, when Dean Frederick Antczac and Len O’Kelly, assistant professor of multimedia journalism, presented the diploma. “I came in a dropout. I’m walking out a graduate.” Landecker quipped.