The Voice of Lake Land College

One of the best parts about being a blogger is hearing from old friends who "find" me by doing google searches or searching for funky things. It seems that the past few weeks have allowed some reconnections with several of my old friends which is really cool.

This week I heard back from a guy named Todd who I was in school with at Lake Land College in Mattoon, Illinois. We worked together along with a wild bunch of characters on 90FM WLKL, the voice of LLC...coming to you live from the basement of the campus library. Todd found me on the web and sent a nice note. He was from the booming metropolis of St. Elmo, Illinois. I remember a road trip to meet his family and hanging out for the weekend. They were really nice people.

Todd was known to carry around a camera from time to time. Amazingly enough, some of the old LLC photos have survived all these years and he was kind enough to send me a few this week.

This is a really interesting photograph that I didn't know existed! It was taken in the main studio. The studio door is behind my head. The other door on the right led into a small remote studio where the wire service ticker was located.

I am the 19 year old skinny guy being given a lift here.

Bub McCullough is 2nd from left. Bub has been the morning man on 101.3 WMCI in Mattoon for many years. He is not just a radio stud but is also very artistic with a pen and paper. Some of his drawings from our years at LLC & WLBH are classic.

Todd "The Tater" Fultz is third from left. Tater was so much fun to hang around and always made me laugh. He also loved to talk about Arcola Football.

Finally, on the far right is Brett McKinley. Brett was also fun to hang with. I accidentally got him fired from his daytime air job on WLBH FM. I cued his 5:05 news up not knowing he had messed up the first cut and cussed about his error. This streak of curse words went out over the 50,000 watt station to half of the midwest. He was fired immediately. My bad.


This is a young Brian Goad along with a crazy fun-loving girl named Leah. Brian checks our little blog from time to time so I hope he sees this one very soon.

Thanks again to Todd for sending me these. He promises some more in the near future. I will pass them along when I get them.