David Maxwell:
CLASS OF 1965
Sheldon High SchoolClass of 1965
Eugene, OR
Western SeminaryClass of 1973
Portland, OR
University of Oregon - JournalismClass of 1969
Eugene, OR
Southern Oregon UniversityClass of 1969
Ashland, OR
David's Story
Life
Been a while since I updated this profile. So here goes. The early stuff remains the same.
After finishing college at the U of O in 1969, I attended Western Seminary in Portland from 1970-73, but did not graduate at that time. Reasons are unimportant. Took an enjoyable 3 1/2 month tour of Europe (Hitchhiking, Wow! Lots of fun.)
In 1974 I took a job in a radio station in John Day, OR and stayed there 14 years. Met my wife Sandy there. We raised two sons. Went back to seminary in Portland in 1988 and earned my Masters degree in 1991. Short time in the pastorate at three churches in California, Nevada, Colorado.
Found that the pulpit ministry was just not right for me, so left the ministry in 1998. Got back into radio news in Pendleton 1998-2000.
In 2000, we returned to live again in Nevada, 100 miles northeast of Las Vegas on U.S. Highway 93. Our two sons have given us nine grandchildren and three step-grandchildren. And in May, 2020, we became first time great-grandparents from our oldest grandson.
Oldest son is now manager of the local power company, was widowed in 2014 and remarried in 2016 a local woman with three kids. No. 3 grandson married in Sept. 2020.
Our other son is twice divorced, lives in Vancouver, Washington and has three kids, two teenage daughters and a grade school aged son. Oldest daughter graduates high school in 2021.
I am still working, but Sandy officially retired in 2017.
I began working as a staff writer for the county weekly newspaper in 2007. Cover a lot of county government and law enforcement news, plus cover the high school sport for our local school. In addition, I cover sports for two other high schools in two other counties, so all-in-all, I do weekly sports stories for three newspapers in three different counties....Expand for more
The internet is an immense help and phone interviews with the coaches.
In the spring of 2020, I was asked to write for another county weekly newspaper in a town 250 miles west of us. Mostly county commission stuff which I can listen to on the telephone feed. But with the pandemic in 2020, no high school sports to cover for either paper. Social Security helps us keep going. When school began again in the fall of 2020 I gave up one of the three newspapers, so now I just have two weeklies to write for, the local one and one other that is 250 miles away, however in the same sports league as our local school. 'Writing competing sports stories when necessary is not hard. Have done it before..
At the same time, I am also the lay pastor of the local Baptist church, and have been since 2007. Do the weekly Sunday sermon. This has been a good fit.
Like with most of us, life since our high school days has had it's many ups and downs. Times of great joy and periods of very difficult lows with all the accompanying confusion. You've been there, too, I would venture to say. No matter what the circumstances are for each of us, I have come to understand that the feeling one has in those times, either joy, hurt, sadness or sorrow, is the same for each person.
Yet, as hard as it is to understand at times, and there have been many of those times, the Scriptures do say "All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose" (Rom. 8:28). We may not be able to see or understand that purpose or the larger picture until later. God is never late in His plan for our lives.
As of 2021 my family, sons and grandkids, continue to be of a more of a conservative nature. We do not subscribe to the current political climate in Washington.
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