Lowell Nunnally:  

Class of 1959. Has it really been 53 years! Since the times as cadet officers we used to harass the freshmen Aggies into thinking we were Aggie officers and nearly getting our butts kicked, lots has happened. Rather than try and detail it here, how about a long list of the things we treasure that seem to pass by too quickly. 1959, graduate, with a speaker like Gov Price Daniels giving the big send off, things went into high gear. College, at Sam Houston State Teachers college on scholarship, to create them a 'working radio station,' only to be disappionted when I was shoved into the Drama Department. Greek and Roman play history...zzzzzzzzz. I did parlay my military ROTC into a cool entrance in the USAF, and second seat in the famous F-104 Lockeed Starfighter (a rocket with stubby wings) a cow in a dogfight, but great at low level as I was straffing target control officer in the second seat till replaced by early black box computers and moved into Crypto, and lucky to get out of the service when we all laughed about one of our enlisted guys being sent to some place called Vietnam? Anyone who knew me at Allen might remember me tinkering with a small broadcast station at Allen. I had been a DJ since 1954, before Allen and after the USAF I got back in radio as a DJ in Oregon Radio and in two years was in the big time in LA as Johnny Knight and other aka's but most known later as DAVE DONAHUE. see: CRB.org and go to Hall of Fame. There my full career is listed as my peers honored me by induction into the RADIO COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME as a DJ in 2000. Along the way I climbed several mountians in Oregon and Washington, made over 80 freefall jumps out of a perfectly good running aircraft and made over 2500 hours of ocean dives as a professional instructor, master diver and owner of S E A. (Sea Exploration Associates) Pompano Beach-Florida Keys with contracts to raise sunken drug boats. I have been down in nearly everyt part of the Caribbean and still dive Mexico at my age. Next stop the Pacific and a trip to drink a little vino in Italy someday if I can ever recall the combination to my bank vault, or find a rich widow. I got married along the way, have a wonderful daughter who has been a firefighter for 25 years and a young son who gave all in Desert Storm. I lost him two years after he returned. It is the thing anyone with a family fears, but we live with it day by day. I was only married for 8 years and have never remarried. My career lead me many places working with nearly every star in music, movies and television including everyone from Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, and Olivia Newton John, to the Beatles, Elvis, Beachboys, Hendrix, Joplin, Sly Stone, Doors, Stones, to Johnny Cash, Waylon, Dolly, Mandr...Expand for more