ON THE PERSONAL SIDE:

Born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1957, Dan grew up with his parents, two younger sisters and younger brother in southern Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. Graduating from Northwood High School in Northwood, Ohio in 1975 and unable to afford college, Dan spent a few years in the US Air Force. In 1980, he was injured in an automobile accident, spent nine months at the University of Michigan Hospital, then settled down in Ohio. In 1983, he returned to college, receiving his BA in Psychology from Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio in 1988. He worked for three years at The Ability Center of Greater Toledo. He left there in 1990 to start his own company, The Nth Degree. He met his wife, Beth, an OTR/L, at a conference in Chicago in 1992. They were married in April of 1996. They, and The Nth Degree, live in a hundred year old farmhouse in Luckey, Ohio. Both are strong advocates for persons with disabilities. So's the new kid, Taylor.