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Nancy's Bookshelf: Author David Bruhn celebrates Chico's runners

Commander David D. Bruhn, U.S. Navy (Retired), served twenty-two years on active duty and two in the Naval Reserve, as both an enlisted man and as an officer, between 1977 and 2001.

Following military service, he was a high school teacher and track coach for ten years and is now a USA Track & Field official. He lives in northern California with his wife Nancy and has two sons, David and Michael.

He is the author of twenty books, including "Toe The Mark," a book dedicated to highlighting the running programs in Chico, California, in the 1970s.

Also, Commentator Richard Parker recounts his short career as a track star.

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.