Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004) was the 40th POTUS (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of the sunny state of California in the late 60s and early 70s. He was born in Illinois where he spent most of his childhood watching the Three Stooges and playing marbles. He moved to L.A. in the 1930s, where he became an actor, then the president of the Cheech and Chong Fan Club, then a spokesman for General Electric, and finally the governor and president.
After high school, Ronald Reagan attended Eureka College, where he was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, majored in economics and sociology, and was very active in sports, including badminton and football.
After graduating from Eureka in 1932, Reagan drove himself to Iowa, where he auditioned for a job at many small-town radio stations. He got a job broadcasting University of Iowa home football games for the Hawkeyes. He was paid $10 per game. Soon after, a staff announcer’s job opened at radio station WOC in Davenport, and Reagan was hired, now earning $100 per month. Due to his persuasive voice, he moved to WHO radio in Des Moines as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games. His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games that the station received by wire.
I thought he went to Xavier college. Where did I hear that?
I don’t know Henry. Eureka and Xavier have the same number of letters in them so maybe that’s what you were thinking.
it was Eureka, he started in 1928.