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Peter Hackes

President of PH Communications and a Media Consultant for AARP, Washington, D. C., resident, Peter Hackes, began his career as the newest and youngest staff member at WAKR in 1949. This distinction afforded him assignments refused by all other employees! Thirty-seven years later, Mr. Hackes retired from NBC News where his duties included writing, editing and reporting Washington developments for both television and radio programs.

 In addition to Akron and Washington , Mr. Hackes broadcast career took him to stations in Elmira , New York , Iowa City and Louisville . He has an MA in Journalism from the University of Iowa , an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Grinnell and an honorary Doctor of Letters from Newberry College in South Carolina .