Donald McColman

Profile Updated: April 17, 2024

Class Year:	1965

Residing In:	Dunedin, FL USA

Spouse/Partner:	Julie KHS '69

Occupation:	retired

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After finding that the high school experience had not prepared me for college, I came back to Hampton and attended the Apprentice School at the shipyard. During this time I married my wife, Julie. I worked for a longtime at the Bendix/Allied-Signal/Siemens plant in Newport News. We lived out on Gwynn's Island until I retired the end of 2000 and moved to our second home in Marathon, FL. But needing to help my parents initiated a move back to Tidewater where we lived in Williamsburg until 2008 when we moved to Athens, GA, bringing my dad closer to my brother, Carl, who is an author living in the Atlanta area.
a, we moved to Dunedin, FL. A small city (town) just north of Clearwater in the Tampa Bay area. We spend our time learning the geology, flora, and fauna of this part of the world so we are in the woods a lot.
2023 Update. We are still in Dunedin although we have downsized to a little villa. Since the pandemic we are not going out to the restaurants and bars most nights like before. But we are still enjoying the town and the many friends we have here. Still very happy, just miss all of my close high school friends.
2024 update Just amazed that I have reached this age on the green side of the lawn. All of my close friends from KHS, up through my 50s are gone. But I am so glad to see that those who I considered friends are still with us, as few as they are. Julie and I continue to live a retiree's life here in Dunedin. Close friends our age here are from all over, none from VA. Such is the life in a big retiree state like FL. I do miss the years growing up, from attending KHS to living in Buckroe Beach. I wish everyone lives as well as I do here.

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So here we are, all still enjoying (hopefully) a journey begun almost 80 years ago. I like spending some time here as it brings back pleasant memories of our time in high school. The unique journey that we all had. From starting what would become Kecoughtan traditions to dealing with national tragedy, and let us not forget that first year having the Francis Asbury kids in our halls, it was an interesting time. May we all continue to be amazed during the rest of our journey through life.

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Jan 24, 2021 at 2:29 PM

Richard and I spent a lot of time together. I learned much about horses from him and his family. I am also surprised no mention of his game winning field goal in the Warriors first football victory against the Crabbers. My mon sent me the article from the Daily Press as I was in Blacksburg and missed the game. When Richard was not working at the family stable or earning extra money doing blacksmith functions on horses around Hampton, he was praticing kicking. So I got to be responsible to shag the kicks and allow Richard to get in 2-3 times as many reps kicking. Peace, Richard, I shall always remember with fondness those times together.

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Posted on: Mar 21, 2018 at 6:35 PM

Hi Pam, here is a picture of you and your mother and my baby brother Carl taken on our front porch. I do not know the year, suspect sometime our senior year. Hope all is well with you.

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A great big Rogers Ave. hello coming at you.

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Posted on: Dec 31, 2016 at 11:02 PM

Automated message suggested I update my profile. But I am stuck in a rut enjoying the great weather down here in the Tampa Bay area. Dunedin is a town that makes many top lists of places to live out your retirement. So that is what we are doing. Not much traveling anymore, NOLA or Atlanta is about as far afield that we go. We live the same basic life of leisure that our classes had during the summers hanging out at Buckroe Beach, Foxhill/Grandview area, the military bases, Gosnold's Hope park, etc. Life has been very good to Julie and I and we are still having a blast.