Don Gruver:
CLASS OF 1978
Hutchinson High SchoolClass of 1978
Hutchinson, KS
Don's Story
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I graduated from HCC with a degree in radio broadcasting, but found low pay and selling ads in addition to on-air work was not what I wanted. I switched gears and decided to save lives instead. I started out at Pratt County EMS. It was at Pratt where I met Cindy Bratcher from Coldwater. We hit it off immediately and were married in 1982. In 1983 we moved to Hays where I continued as an EMT with Ellis County EMS until 1987 when a back injury ended my EMS career. I started as a 9-1-1 Dispatcher at Hays Police Department in 1989 and found a career I truly enjoy. In 1998 we moved to Newton where we remain. As of June 200...Expand for more
5 I am Assistant Director as well as Data Systems Administrator for Harvey County 9-1-1, which means I take care of all our computer software and hardware, mapping and radio programming and licensing as well as personnel and scheduling issues. I was the 2003 Kansas Telecommunicator of the Year. Cindy got fed up with Wal-Mart in 2008 after 23 years and is now making conveyor belts at Legg Co in Halstead. We have 2 children (we lost our first daughter to SIDS in 1985) Nicci is married and lives in Hutch and Brandon is about to graduate from high school and go to Salina Vo-tech to study auto body repair and restoration.
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