The Underground Railroad in Northern Illinois
Dan Wykes is the part-time Educator at the Byron Museum of History, a position he has held since January of 2013. He also has been with Midway Village Museum since May of 2010 on a part-time basis. His profession was a Senior Media Analyst/Designer at Sundstrand from 1984 until 2009. He served the various business units in developing effective written and visual communications. Since his retirement from Sundstrand, he has worked as a consultant specializing in marketing support and graphic design.
Dan received a BFA in Illustration, graphic design, photography and typography from Michigan State University and Masters Certificate in Integrated Marketing Communications from Southern New Hampshire University. Besides Midway Village and Byron Museum, Dan has worked with Golden Apple of Rockford and the Haiti Project Inc.
This program will be both interesting and informative so we would encourage our members to plan to attend and to bring a guest or prospective member to join us in person at Memorial Hall or via Zoom. Dave Byrnes will introduce our presenter and act as Rotary host.