Denton ISD Our Impact In Your Community Magazine October 2016 | Page 27

about everybody coming together and having the same experience in a bigger school, bigger building, with more students. DISD: Name one or two of your fondest memories growing up in Denton. DB: My time spent as a Bronco at DHS holds great memories. I had a lot of friends there and still have lots of friends from those days. Denton was a great place to grow up. My parents were really involved in town and really involved in the community theater. My brother is now the managing director of the community theater. My dad was mayor of Denton and Denton was our hometown and we loved it. I remember lots of sunny days playing with my friends and it was just a good place to grow up and to get two of my degrees from UNT. DB: I get back about 4-5 times a year. My brother is still there and I have lots of friends there. I typically go to craft beer places, eat a burger at LSA, and just go to the square in general. DISD: Any advice for students interested in filmmaking?  DB: I’m an ex-English professor, so I’d have to say the foundation for almost every good career is to become a good writer. You’ll have that as a foundation and can communicate and it will serve you well. For filmmaking, you have to have a storyteller’s mind and to be able to put English sentences together is never a bad idea. So, take your writing classes seriously because they’ll serve you the rest of your life! DISD: Tell us about your work now.  How has the documentary David Barrow catches up with his impacted your career?  retired DHS football coach, Coach DB: I guess you could say I “got Jerry Hutchins, at the film’s watch party in June.  Members of the 1972 the documentary bug.” I’m Bronco football team, Class of 1973, working on another one about and other community members held the economic pressure on a watch party to view the television As the “When We Were All Broncos” film made its the middle class and how it’s debut of the film on KERA-TV. television debut, the room became silent as several creating problems for public Denton High alumni and relatives viewed the film.  In the foreground are several family members of golf. I’m 61 years old now and Coach C.H. Collins, the district’s athletic complex I picked up golf about 5-6 years ago. Golf courses, but namesake.  They are watching an interview with especially public courses, are places where you meet all Coach Bill Carrico, the district’s other athletic kinds of people. You get paired up or put in a four-some with complex namesake. strangers and you meet all sorts of people. I fell in love with the game and with the social aspect. Around the country, DISD: Any other thoughts regarding life as a Bronco though, there are lots of public golf courses closing. TWU’s or the film? course is an example of that. I’m trying to understand why DB: I’m very grateful to lots of great teachers, coaches, that’s the case. There aren’t as many young people picking and friends. Denton is a special place. It was an up the sport and I think the time pressures of the middle interesting mix of people when Denton Public Schools class are a reason. It’s difficult for a young person to spend and the other schools came together. I am fortunate to 3-4 hours at a time golfing. So, I’m looking into why this is have been there when all of those folks came together happening and I’m actually focusing on a course in Chicago and to be able to take in the cultures and influences. where the Murray brothers (Bill, Joel, etc.) grew up. So, I’m focusing on that particular course and then the larger idea Proceeds raised from the documentary will establish and relationship between decline of golf and pressures. an endowment for a permanent scholarship fund for deserving seniors graduating from Denton High School. DISD: So, does that mean you got to interview Bill Murray? DB: No, I didn’t get to interview Bill, but a couple weeks For more information about the documentary or to ago, I did interview his brother Joel who was in Mad Men. purchase a DVD copy of “When We Were All Broncos,” I also interviewed his brother Andy; he’s got 6 brothers contact Jackie Jackson, Executive Director, and 3 sisters! Denton Public School Foundation at [phone] or [email protected]. DISD: Do you make it back to Denton often?  What are some of your favorite spots to visit or reminisce?  27