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Article: ISU among pack leaders in teaching motorcycle safety Funding flat?
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- March 12, 2006
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NORMAL - Vern Hanks remembers a hot July day when he decided to
take a motorcycle ride. He traveled to Decatur, then to Springfield,
then to East Peoria and back to Bloomington.
All the while he was working. He even collected mileage. Every
stop along the way had something to do with his work as director of
Illinois State Universitys motorcycle safety program that is
celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Hanks, 57, has been there
from the start.
"I have the best job in the world," said Hanks, who confessed he
got his start with motorcycles before he was old enough to get a
drivers license. That was possible back when he was growing up in
rural Illinois and he convinced his dad to buy ...