Today the Central Michigan University family is mourning one of its own — Dick Enberg, who discovered a passion and immense talent for broadcasting while a student at CMU in the 1950s.
Enberg, a native of rural Armada, Michigan, was encouraged to pursue a degree after meeting then-CMU President Charles Anspach. Enberg's future was launched with a scholarship and soon supplemented with a job as a janitor for the college radio station.
It wasn't long before he ended up on the air, with the voice that would become legendary across the sports world, in baseball, football, tennis and more.