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David William Young was born March 31, 1925, in Millville, NJ, the seventh of ten children.
When he graduated fdrom Vineland, NJ High School in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve and served in Burma, China and India. He saw duty in Tinnian, Okinawa and Saipan as a radioman/gunner with Patrol Bombing Squadron 123.
Dave attended Temple University for one year and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Communication in 1951 from the University of Wyoming. while in college he held a variety of part-time jobs which included playing Santa Laus and cleaning dinorsar bones in teh paleontology lab. One of his bosses, sporting goods/ jewelry store owenr Dave Horowitz, introduced Dave to his wife-to-be many years later.
Dave spent one summer working for an older brother, Herb in a Horseshoe Basin lead mine near Montezuma, Co. Dave and two younger brothers built a road to the mine but the most efficient form of transportation was by horseback. Dave did all the cooking; when he got the cast itron stove hot enough to cook on, he couldn't get close to it.
Dave liked Wyoming, so upon graduation he went to work for KFBC radio in Cheyenne. In 1954 he moved to Sidney, NE, to manage KSID, which had been on the air two years. He was marreid to Elizabeth "Ibs" Schaffer, a physical education teacher in the Sidney public schools, in March 1961. He and Ibs bought KSID in 1962 and Dave remained at the helm until May 1986 when had an encased brain tumor revmoved.
Dave was active in civic organizaiton, worked on school bond elections, on the sidney City council and gathered news at more meeting than he could remember.
Dave served on the NBA, and was Vice-President in 1957, and President in 1958.