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Dawud Nnambi
After tasting the success of being a novice writer, I am embarking upon the path reknown - establishing a readership whetted with curiosity. I began life in Harlem, New York, the second child, but...view moreAfter tasting the success of being a novice writer, I am embarking upon the path reknown - establishing a readership whetted with curiosity. I began life in Harlem, New York, the second child, but first son of Rosemarie (Jones) and James J. (David Goodrich) Vencil. My father was overseas (Navy) when I was born in David Sydenham Memorial Hospital (October 1956) during the first "Subway Series" - a Yankees fan. Pops returned home and moved us to California until he was sent to Vietnam in 1964. Now, at eight years old, I returned to New York, with my mother, grandmother, uncle and four siblings to live in a brownstone in Bed-Sty Brooklyn - 585A Lafayette Ave. With my fathers subsequent transfers, my family, now seven children strong, eventually moved to Key West, Florida. I graduated in 1974 and joined the Navy to become a Hospital Corpsman. In 1979, I received orders to Bethesda Naval Hospital to attend Advanced Laboratory School. Over the year, I explored the many sights of Washington, DC, one being Howard University. My housemate, an A Phi Q from Tuskegee, introduced me to a Step Show at Howard, many frat parties and homecomings between Washington, DC and Pennsylvania, thusly I became enamored with Historically Black Colleges & Universities - Howard, the first campus I witnessed the Greeks and the pageantry of black college life. After retiring from the Navy and being accepted to "The House (Morehouse)," being on the yard in the AUC, I knew that I must one day pay homage. I hope my "art" may indeed "imitate life" and help us, new jack and old school, appreciate past, present and embrace the future with the purest emotion this story may evoke. 'Aseview less