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Engineering genius Retired Naperville man puts skills to work at children's museum.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 30-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Engineering genius Retired Naperville man puts skills to work at children's museum.(Neighbor)(Neighbor to know)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Susan Dibble

sdibble@@dailyherald.com

You're not likely to find volunteer Dave Dumford playing with kids at the DuPage Children's Museum, unless maybe his grandchildren are visiting.

But you will see lots of kids playing with exhibits Dumford helped build at the Naperville museum.

Take the popular Glow-Bright, with which children create art designs and learn mathematical patterns by sticking brightly glowing colored tubes into a panel with holes to hold them.

Or the car big enough for pint-sized passengers to sit in, even a passenger in a wheelchair, and that lets the kids change a tire.

Then there's the pneumatic tube - push a button and send a ball whizzing up through the air just like mom and dad do when they make a deposit via the drive-up window at the bank.

Or take, well, any number of exhibits that Dumford has had...

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