Kevin Donohue- Biography (click
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As
Bill Cosby liked to say, "I started out as a child". 17 years later, after
graduating from Brandywine I headed south to North Carolina and spent two years
with the good Benedictine (teaching order) brothers at Belmont Abbey College
near Charlotte. Around 1970 my family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida and
I spent my last two college years in much warmer climes matriculating at Stetson
University in Deland, where I earned a degree in Economics and met my future
wife Denise, another Econ major. We were married in 1973 in Jacksonville
and raised three bright and
entertaining children. We just celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary December
29th. Ryan, ou
r
oldest, works for Transportation Security Agency in Boston. Caitlin lives
& works in NYC. We have lived in Columbia for the last 34 years. Our youngest, Peter is
25 and graduated from Wilde Late High School and manages Azul 17, an upscale
Tequila bar/restaurant in Columbia. I coached Pete's basketball team
for three years
when he was 13 and we won two Howard County
Youth League divisional championships. Believe me, coaching these kids was much,
MUCH more exciting than college or the pros!
I
started out my professional career working in television at WTTG, Channel 5 (Now
Fox 5) in
Washington, DC. After working 6 years in various capacities in production,
programming and sales, I left TV in 1979 and have worked in commercial and
public radio in marketing and sales ever since. In '04 I started my
own public radio friendly ad agency;
KFD Media
that brings corporate support
(underwriting), sales management expertise & marketing to the broader public radio
community. In my spare time, I can usually be found puttering around in my yard in
Ellicott City, grounds keeping and maintaining a fleet of 2 aging vehicles
(incl. 2 classic Saabs, my favorite, an '88 Saab 900 SPG turbo with 204,000 miles & a
restored '86 900
Turbo-recently sold)
(Pictured is a 1961 Austin Healey 3000 I owned '69-'72)
all this
while growing (IMHO) the
best tomatoes in Maryland.
The idea for starting a Brandywine Class of 1967 website started when my IT-pro wife gave me an internet domain for my 50th birthday which I titled
"kevin67.com". Not knowing quite what to do with it, I started with a list of all 547 Class of '67 members and
things just grew into the Class of '67 website from there. With my youngest son, Pete's help and
expertise and content from other BHS Class of '67 classmates, I have been able to design, build and maintain this enjoyable
experiment. It has been fun. Sometimes frustrating but always rewarding
especially when everything works. I hope you enjoy the
Class of 1967 website site as much as I have
creating it. As Thomas Wolfe said you can never go home, but hopefully, with this
little bit of technological marvel, you can journey "home" again to
High, even if only for a brief visit. Kevin
Donohue
Back to home
As
Bill Cosby liked to say, "I started out as a child". 17 years later, after
graduating from Brandywine I headed south to North Carolina and spent two years
with the good Benedictine (teaching order) brothers at Belmont Abbey College
near Charlotte. Around 1970 my family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida and
I spent my last two college years in much warmer climes matriculating at Stetson
University in Deland, where I earned a degree in Economics and met my future
wife Denise, another Econ major. We were married in 1973 in Jacksonville
and raised three bright and
entertaining children. We just celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary December
29th. Ryan, ou
r
oldest, works for Transportation Security Agency in Boston. Caitlin lives
& works in NYC. We have lived in Columbia for the last 34 years. Our youngest, Peter is
25 and graduated from Wilde Late High School and manages Azul 17, an upscale
Tequila bar/restaurant in Columbia. I coached Pete's basketball team
for three years
when he was 13 and we won two Howard County
Youth League divisional championships. Believe me, coaching these kids was much,
MUCH more exciting than college or the pros!
