After graduation in 1965 he accepted a teaching position in Peekskill, New York.
Ĭulver attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity and the drama club. Casey Donovan was born John Calvin Culver in East Bloomfield, New York, growing up there with his parents and older brother Duane.