His name was Don.
Proud parents, Marie and Don, 1951.
Infant Don with his maternal grandparents, Jacob and Betty Frech.
First Christmas, 1951.
Don was often deep in thought, even as an infant.
That's me in the middle of Dan and Don, 1957.
The Lombard Little League All Star.
The family, 1968. Don's at the far right, a little too bulked up to button his collar.
Don and his high school sweetie, Mary Beth Welch.
Off to college. Thompson Point, SIU, 1969.
The student broadcaster at WSIU in Carbondale.
Sharing the spotlight with his broadcast hero, Walter Cronkite.
Corpus Christi, 1979.