Dan McGovern was inducted into the Great Bend High School Hall of Fame on Friday. McGovern graduated from Great Bend High School in 1960, and served under the administration of President Reagan as the General Counsel, the top lawyer of the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also served under the Administration of the first President Bush, where he was the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency in the Western United States.

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McGovern said his nomination for the GBHS Hall of Fame began during his class reunion.

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McGovern also wrote the book “The Campo Indian Landfill War: The Fight for Gold in California’s Garbage,” published in 1995. He was appointed in 1997 as the General Counsel of the California Department of Transportation.