Hugh Downs

Work : None | New Career July 1939 (Announcer at local radio station) | Work : None | New Job 1943 (Staff announcer for NBC) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1944 (Ruth Shaheen) | Work : None | New Job 1957 (Co-hosted "The Tonight Show") | : None | Death of Mother 1958 | Work : None | New Job 1962 (Hosted "Today") | Work : None | New Job June 1978 (Host, "20/20") | : None | Death of Father 1982 | Work : None | Retired May 1999 (Retire from ABC) | Traits : Mind | Education extensive (Degree in gerontology, certificate in geriatric medicine) | Traits : Personality | Active (Adventurous) | Traits : Personality | Passive/ Bland (Modest, low-key) | Diagnoses : Body Part Problems | Eyes (90% color blind) | Family : Childhood | Disadvantaged (Raised in Great Depression) | Family : Relationship | Marriage more than 15 Yrs (55 years in 1999) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (One, lasting) | Family : Parenting | Kids 1-3 (Two) | Lifestyle : Work | Same Job more than 10 yrs (Host of Today Show, ten years) | Lifestyle : Work | Travel for work (Commuted cross-country for 18 months) | Lifestyle : Financial | Gain - Grant, Scholarship, etc. (One year scholarship to college) | Vocation : Entertainment | News journalist/ Anchor ("Today," "20/20," and documentary) | Vocation : Entertainment | Radio/ D.J./ Announcer | Vocation : Entertainment | TV host/ Personality ("The Tonight Show," "Concentration," and "Over Easy") | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Composer/ Arranger (Hobby) | Vocation : Sports | Race Cars (Did 175 mph at Indianapolis) | Vocation : Travel | Adventurer (Hiked to South Pole, dived Great Barrier Reef, treasure hunter, ridden on back of killer whale, crossed Pacific in trawler) | Vocation : Travel | Pilot/ private | Vocation : Writers | Autobiographer (Memoir's, "On Camera") | Vocation : Writers | Fiction ("A Shoal of Stars," inspired by Pacific journey) | Vocation : Writers | Textbook/ Non-fiction (Three books on aging) | Notable : Awards | Other Awards (Guiness record holder for being on TV 10,000 hours+) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession | Notable : Book Collection | American Book