Early Life and Education
Dan Ronan was raised in the Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park by his grandparents, Leo and Agnes McDevitt. A lifelong Cubs fan, while a freshman in high school, he regularly helped clean Wrigley Field after classes helping to pay his tuition for High School. As an adult, Ronan became close friends with retired Cubs, Hall of Fame Baseball Broadcaster Jack Brickhouse. One of Ronan's sons is named Jack in honor of Brickhouse.
Ronan graduated with a B.S. degree in 2003 in Agriculture Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after attending the University from 1978-1982. His college education was interrupted after the unexpected death of his 20 year old, younger brother Tim, whose life was taken when the car he was a passenger in was run off the road by a suspected drunken driver. Ronan later finished the five credits and earned his diploma. He has taken additional studies in aviation at Georgia State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where he was trained as an airplane crash investigator. In April, 2012 he was accepted into the Masters Degree Journalism Program at Kent State University with an anticipated graduation in 2014.
Ronan holds a commercial pilot's license with multi-engine and instrument ratings. Because of his brother Tim's death, Ronan has dedicated his professional life, first as a news correspondent, with AAA Texas/New Mexico and now with the American Bus Association to transportation safety issues and he's considered by those in the national and Texas media as expert on automobile, motorcoach and aviation related matters, having won several awards for his reporting on these subjects.
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