Dan mihuta biography

Many of you may remember Dan Mihuta who retired from the Parma City Schools in after 31 years teaching art education. Or you may remember watching his televised art instruction classes, titled, Art Chest, Art Maker and Return of the Art Maker on WVIZ and other PBS stations. 

In he and other teachers were approached by then-Superintendent Paul Briggs to study the use of television in the classroom.

Dan mihuta biography

As a result, Parma became the first school system in the U.S. to receive its broadcasting license. The first studio was located at the board office. When construction was completed at Normandy High School it housed a television studio/station.

These televised classes were in language, math and science. Dan Mihuta did all the artwork for those programs and had vocational students working with him.

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One day due to a snow storm the regularly scheduled televised class could not go on air. Dan Mihuta went on air instead wth an art program. Several people called