Bidwell Story - DAVE NOPEL
25 Jul 2023 |
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Chico
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Dave Nopel has spent most of his life here in Chico, and is a fourth-generation member of his family to live in the Chico area. He went through the Chico public school system, graduating from Chico High School in 1962. He spent the next four years completing most of his under-graduate courses at Chico State College, then was swept up into the United States military, 1966-69. He served as a U. S. Army finance records clerk, and spent a year in the Vietnam war zone, 1967-68. He has passed through the years since living at the edges of the American cultural mainstream. Today he finds interest and fulfillment in gardening, walking in Bidwell Park, serving as a volunteer at the Chico History Museum in downtown Chico, moving his father John Nopel’s collections of Chico and Butte County material into the digital age, and maintaining his more than fifty years of partnership with his wife Betty. His Rotary presentation will be titled JOHN BIDWELL: A LEGACY FOR CHICO.