Dean was a frequent radio guest personality on
WSMN Monday-Friday nights usually between
9-11 east coast time when they called him for the
Ken Gidge Show. The show is off now.
Dean is interested in genealogy and has a Hughson Family history site up.
Dean is active in spreading information on lymphedema and helps
He has an eye disease, epithelial basement membrane dystrophy,which is inherited.
Dean is a father,with 3 great kids,Rachel,Josh, and
Liz.
Dean serves on the Board of SCFN,a group
that helps custodial fathers.
Dean and his wife,Yoly,live in Iowa and Az.
Dean is a member of the Class of 1969,Northeast
High School and helps maintain their web site.
Dean is working on a family history of his grandmothers family, The Toomays. Dean and Yoly love to write about Mexico.
been on the internet since the early 80's.
Dean has written extensively on divorce on the
internet and even has been attacked by
a feminist attorney who has put up a web page.
He was written up in a Virtual City article as:
"Divorce Sage
Dean Hughson declared himself the defender of the divorced, a portly Jewish Mother Teresa with a keyboard, ready to dole out advice and virtual hankies to any and all who'd listen. And listen they do. Thousands of people a month flock to Hughson's Divorce Home Page, an electronic manifesto that's part call to arms and part resource guide, mixed with liberal doses of humor and common sense. (Virtual City, September 1995)"
and the Kansas City Star declared him the "Dear Abby
of Divorced Dads for his work on behalf of
people going through divorce. Dean doesn't
Dean turned fifty on April 30,2001. Here is his latest thoughts on this event.
Through all these, I have made thousands of friends,some I have met physically and many only virtually. My life is enriched though and I enjoy emailing with you and getting to know people.
Thanks for your part in my life.
The picture on the left was me at 40,taken in KC at the Savoy Restaurant 1991. The picture on the right is me at age 50,taken in KC 4-30-01.