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Lynchburg College


alumni profile A visit to every continent


a world traveler. The Richmond native has journeyed to all seven continents. David’s first continental visit occurred


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in 1979when he was a business administra- tionmajor at Lynchburg College. He did a sixty-day summer trip to Europe and hasn’t stopped traveling since. “I like seeing places that I’ve read about


and seen in pictures,” David says, noting that he reads with the aid of a closed-circuit tvmagnifier. David can distinguish objects and walk unaided; it’s reading, he notes, that presents a real challenge. He names his favorite spot on each


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David displays the Virginia state flag in Antarctica.


continent: Switzerland’s Alps, Egypt’s pyramids, China’s Great Wall, Australia’s Ayers Rock, Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands,


the Antarctic Peninsula, and the U.S.’s Grand Canyon. David doesn’t just look from afar; he gets up close and personal. He rafted


down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon (rafting is one of his favorite pastimes); and he went turtle- and bird-watching on the beaches of the Galapagos. David has also been to forty-two of the fifty states, often traveling by train,


another lifelong interest. He recently hopped a bus to Lynchburg for his class reunion, and comes back to his alma mater as often as he can. He said Dr. Jim Price and Dr. Bill Goodman, both in religious studies, were his most memorable professors, but his favorite college memory is associated with Ronnie Wilmore, a longtime lc cook. “I enjoyed his sense of humor,” David said, adding as an afterthought that his cooking was good, too. David worked briefly as a mail clerk for the Internal Revenue Service and as a


Polaroid camera operator for the Christian Children’s Fund, both in Richmond. But he has spent most of his life as a vagabond. “The next big trip I’d like to take is to the Arctic,” he said. He plans to


visit the island of Svalbard, Norway, eighty degrees north of the equator. The lc alum is amazingly fearless and willing to try many adventures in-


cluding snorkeling and jet boating in Fiji and whale watching in Baja, Mexico. He has fallen out of the raft in a class-five rapid in the Penobscot River in Maine, a class-four rapid in the Upper Gauley in West Virginia, and into the Lower Gauley last year. “I stayed above water until somebody pulled me out,” he said, adding “I like the thrill and excitement of whitewater rafting.” He goes rafting on the James River in Richmond at least once a year. There is one place where he draws the line on thrills, however. “I don’t think I’d ever want to try skydiving,” he said.


by Shannon Brennan


avid Yates ’81 is legally blind but that hasn’t stopped him from being


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