Dave delivered what was probably the funniest graduation speech ever heard on this planet. I think I may have a copy somewhere from the Journal, but if you were there, I don't have to tell you that it was a perfect moment.
David changed my life. He was just the right person, with just the right words, at just the right time to help me when I needed it most, and I will always be thankful he did.
We got back in touch in Summer of '81...he had had a couple of rough years, physically. His family had moved to Selah, right near Yakima, and he was playing Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I found out through one of my Profs at CWU, and we got together, hung out and caught up.
We'd exchanged a postcard or two.. the last was in May of 1983. He was happy, was seeing a nice young lady, and was working at his father's office. He had been turned down for a heart/lung transplant at Stanford University...David said they had decided he was "not a good candidate for the proceedure", but he was upbeat because they had accepted him as a candidate in Portand, and was on a waiting list for his chance. In November 1984 Kerry Kenning sent me the article from the Journal with his obituary.
I know I have a couple of pictures of him from shows somewhere, including a particularly silly one from a play in Olympia in the Summer of '78. I will post them if I am able to find them.
Kristofer Nicklaus (1978)
I remember Dave as such a positive person even though he had such a long fight as such a young person.
Chuck Abernathy (1978)
Dave delivered what was probably the funniest graduation speech ever heard on this planet. I think I may have a copy somewhere from the Journal, but if you were there, I don't have to tell you that it was a perfect moment.
David changed my life. He was just the right person, with just the right words, at just the right time to help me when I needed it most, and I will always be thankful he did.
We got back in touch in Summer of '81...he had had a couple of rough years, physically. His family had moved to Selah, right near Yakima, and he was playing Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I found out through one of my Profs at CWU, and we got together, hung out and caught up.
We'd exchanged a postcard or two.. the last was in May of 1983. He was happy, was seeing a nice young lady, and was working at his father's office. He had been turned down for a heart/lung transplant at Stanford University...David said they had decided he was "not a good candidate for the proceedure", but he was upbeat because they had accepted him as a candidate in Portand, and was on a waiting list for his chance. In November 1984 Kerry Kenning sent me the article from the Journal with his obituary.
I know I have a couple of pictures of him from shows somewhere, including a particularly silly one from a play in Olympia in the Summer of '78. I will post them if I am able to find them.