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Classmate’s Name
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Critchfield, Donald Dow
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Contact – Phone
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(202) 494-4517
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Maiden Name
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Critchfield
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Cell
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(202) 494-4517
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Nickname
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FAX
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(202) 537-8536
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DOB
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01/14/1944
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DOD
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E-Mail Address
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dcritchfield@erols.com
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Address
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4377 Westover Place, NW
Washington, DC
20016-5555
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Military Service
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Branch
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US Army Signal Corps
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Highest Rank
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First Lieutenant
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Years of Service
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1968 – 1970
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Employment History - Listed from Current to
Oldest
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Marriage History - Listed from Current to
Oldest
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Company
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DC Media, Inc.
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Current
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Married
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Position
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Freelance Producer
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Spouses Names
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Margot R. ‘Dunlap’
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Years of Job
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09/01 to Present
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Date of Marriage
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05/31/1987
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Divorce/Death
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Company
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Various Companies (PanAmSat/Net.36)
(TvontheWeb) (Home & Garden Television) (HUD) (The American Trucking
Associations) Professional Video Services)
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Position
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Senior Producer
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Years of Job
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1991 to 2001
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Company
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NBC News
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Position
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Producer
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Years of Job
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1973 to 1991
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Children
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Faith Anne Critchfield
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DOB
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05/28/1988
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DOD
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05/30/1988
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Grace Elizabeth Critchfield
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DOB
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01/16/1990
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DOD
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Grandchildren
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DOB
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DOD
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DOB
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DOD
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Education – High School
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Lincoln Northeast
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Years
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1957 - 1962
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Graduated
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Yes
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College / Tech School
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University of Nebraska
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Years
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1962 - 1968
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Degree-Major
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BA in Journalism
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College / Tech School
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University of Arizona
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Years
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1977
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Degree-Major
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Intensive Spanish
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College / Tech School
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University of Texas at Austin
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Years
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1980
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Degree-Major
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Intensive Spanish
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College / Tech School
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American University in DC
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Years
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1997
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Degree-Major
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Digital Video Editing
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Life Highlights –
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What you have told us about yourself these past 40 years
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1972 – Don attended the University of Nebraska and received an AB in
Journalism. He was in the Army and is now a journalist. He has been to Vietnam and
spends his spare time and is active in photography.
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1982 – Don is single and a
Field Producer for NBC News. For the past 2 years he was assigned to the
Miami Bureau, covering events in Latin America.
As of June 1, 1982 he was assigned to the NBC News Bureau in Washington
D.C> He served in the Army in Vietnam 1969-70. He enjoys scuba
diving and he just bought an Apple Computer, but so far it won’t talk to him
and keeps leaving little piles of computer chips in odd corners.
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1987 – Don has been busy
the last five years. He’s still with NBC News as a field producer working in
Special Projects and covering the White House. On May 31, 1987 He and Margot
R. Dunlap were married. In his spare time Don plays with his computer.
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2002 - I was married on the
31st of May 1987 to Margot R. Dunlap at St. Columbia’s Episcopal
Church in Washington, DC.
I met Margot while we were both working at NBC News in Washington. The bureau, by the way, is on Nebraska Avenue…so
early in my NBC career, I always sort of knew I'd eventually work there. My
wife experienced a mid-course correction a few years ago, and, after a long
discernment and three years of seminary, was ordained an Episcopal priest
this past year and is now the assistant rector at St. Alban's Episcopal
Church, here in Washington. Her career path included ten years with NBC
News in Washington, two years with America's
Most Wanted, and several years as a corporate investigator. I haven't actually checked the list of
clergy, but she is likely the only Episcopal priest in DC with a PI
license. We lost our first child
(Faith Anne) when she was three days old, in 1988, a result of massive and
undetected heart defects. We have a 12
year old daughter, Grace Elizabeth (DOB 16JAN90) who will be in 7th
grade this coming September. I left NBC News in August of 1991 after about 20
years and I've been a freelance producer ever since. The long list of my stops along the way,
both while at NBC News and since, is in my resume. In September of 2001 I returned to NBC News
for the first time in a decade…for a week….working in Somerset County, PA
on the United 93 crash coverage. Since
then I've worked on a contract for the Kellogg Foundation, doing news stories
about some of their grantees and on a contract for the US Chemical Safety and
Investigation Board's public relations and public outreach effort. I was
graduated from the University
of Nebraska in 1968 (I
managed to cram into six years, what normal people did in four) and was
commissioned in the US Army Signal Corps.
I was in Vietnam,
which was not nearly so unpleasant as the nine months I spent at Fort Hood, Texas. As I was released from the army in Vietnam, I began my 20-year stint with NBC
News in the Saigon bureau. After that, six
years in Houston, a couple of years in Miami
and a decade at NBC News in Washington,
DC.
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2007 - I was married on the
31st of May 1987 to Margot R. Dunlap at St. Columbia’s Episcopal
Church in Washington, DC.
I met Margot while we were both working at NBC News in Washington. My wife
experienced a mid-course correction a few years ago, and, after a long
discernment and three years of seminary, was ordained an Episcopal priest.
She is now the associate rector at St. Alban’s’ Episcopal Church, here in Washington, D.C.
Her career path included ten years with NBC News in Washington,
two years with America’s
Most Wanted, and several years as a corporate investigator. We lost our first
child (Faith Anne) when she was three days old, in 1988, a result of massive
and undetected heart defects. We have a 17 year old daughter, Grace
Elizabeth, who will be a senior in highschool this coming September. I left
NBC News in August of 1991 after about 20 years and I’ve been a freelance
producer ever since. In September of 2001 I returned to NBC News for the
first time in a decade…for a week…working in Somerset County, PA on the
United 93 crash coverage. Since then I’ve worked for the Kellogg Foundation,
doing news stories about some of their grantees and for the US Chemical
Safety and Investigation Board’s public relations and public outreach effort.
In 2005 I supervised and coordinated a thirty person staff in the production
of live and ‘taped’ news events within Top Officals 3 (TOPOFF3) in New London,
CT fot=r the third in an on-going, semi-annual, series of comprehensive,
national, terrorism response exercises.Since 2006 I’ve been producing video
training exercises, video programs and advising the Disaster Response,
Communications and Marketing Group of the American Red Cross at their
national headquarters in Washington, DC. I was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1968 (I managed to cram
into six years, what normal people did in four) and was commissioned in the
US Army Signal Corps. I was in Vietnam, which was not nearly so unpleasant as
the nine months I spent at Fort Hood,
Texas. As I was released from the army in Vietnam, I began my 20-year stint with NBC
News in the Saigon bureau. After that, six
years in Houston, a couple of years in Miami
and a decade at NBC News in Washington,
DC.
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