1999 NIACC Distinguished Alumnus

A member of the original NIACC Alumni Association Advisory Board, Rich Dean has served the College and the North Iowa community in a number of different fashions. 

A talented jazz musician, Rich has performed in the Jazz Festival Finale Concert at NIACC and has shared this music appreciation with others through teaching the NIACC NOW program. Rich is the founder of Raiders of the Lost Art, a local jazz group, of which he is bassist. He regularly plays saxophone for the Mason City Big Band and is the bass player with the North Iowa Jazz Ensemble.

Rich and his wife Shirley (a 1949 MCJC graduate) have received the Community Appreciation Award from the Mason City Chamber of Commerce for their work in the community.