David D. Ferman
While growing up in a low-rent corner of Wichita, Kansas during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and World War II, Dave won All-American and Quill and Scroll awards for high school journalism, and worked his way through college beginning as a 17-year old bartender and bouncer in a honkey tonk roadhouse and a cowboy on a trotting horse ranch, by playing smash-mouth defensive end and kicking footballs, rough necking in the oil patch, painting airplanes at BeechCraft, bucking rivets at...
