![]() “And I don’t golf, so public address is my hobby.” “Public address is kind of my hobby everybody’s got theirs,” Peach said. Linking a passion for sports with broadcasting, Peach found his niche. Even when he was a kid, Peach recalls being more interested in the sportscasters than the players themselves, admiring the likes of Jim McKay, Pat Summerall and Dick Enberg. Peach always had an affinity for the art of calling a sports game. ![]() “I remember being, ‘Wow, we got 3,000 people. “Back then, it was a big deal when we had 3,000 people in the arena,” Peach said. The experience at Hinkle Fieldhouse was just a little bit different in those days. Once he became a student, Peach got involved with 104.5 WAJC, Butler’s student-led radio station, where announcers would travel with the team and be the radio voice of Butler basketball. Although the Bulldogs lost to the Sycamores, Peach’s love for Butler basketball was born. For Peach, Butler has been in his sights since the beginning.Ī 14-year-old Peach sat in Hinkle to watch then-sophomore Larry Bird take on Butler as his sister, a student at the time, performed in the Butler marching band. Peach, Butler’s public address announcer for men’s basketball, has become an integral part of that gameday experience so many have enjoyed at Hinkle. This moment - and several more similar to it - have become a regular experience for thousands of Butler fans who have witnessed a game at Hinkle Fieldhouse over the majority of the last three decades. Photo courtesy of SANDIFER | CO-SPORTS EDITOR | Harris! A three!”ĭave Peach’s call chimes through a roaring Hinkle Fieldhouse after Butler’s star freshman guard buried his fourth 3-pointer en route to the Bulldogs’ upset win over No. He chronicles his journey from 14-year-old watching Larry Bird to working his dream job. David is survived by his brothers Michael ’61 and Paul, sister Elizabeth and long-time partner Niwach Sudta.Dave Peach has been Butler’s public address announcer for the better part of three decades. “He was one of the best writers around.” David continued to maintain close ties to Dartmouth, serving as a Dartmouth club secretary in 1994 to 1995 and class agent from 1993 through 2001. “I admired him greatly,” said Denis Gray, former bureau chief of the Associated Press in Bangkok. David served on the board of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand. He continued working as a journalist and freelance writer in Bangkok and in 1989 donated seven boxes of his papers on the last days of the American presence in Vietnam to the Dartmouth College Library. In 1982 he moved to Washington, D.C., to research and write a book about his experiences in Vietnam, resulting in The Fall of Saigon, published in 1985 by Simon & Shuster. David worked for NBC radio and Newsweek in Bangkok and New York. In 1974, working for NBC News, he was an eyewitness to the last few months of the war and one of the last journalists airlifted from Saigon in April 1975. ![]() ![]() Starting in 1971, David made several trips to Vietnam. David embarked on a career in journalism and from 1966 to1974 was features editor of Playboy. ![]() He was a brother of Kappa Sigma and member of Casque & Gauntlet. A native of Wakefield, Massachusetts, David graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth as an English major and senior fellow. David Butler ’63 died unexpectedly January 10 at Thonburi Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. ![]()
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