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However, he soon left college to enlist in the [[United States Army]]. He served as a staff sergeant and medic, having been attached to the 235th General Hospital in [[Marseille]], [[France]]. He remained in [[Switzerland]] after the end of the war in April 1945 and attended the University of Basel in [[Basel]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-08-03/clint-formby?v=1280799061|title=Clint Formby obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=August 4, 2010}}</ref> After the war, he returned to Texas Tech where he met and married the first official Tech beauty queen, the former [[Margaret Formby|Margaret Clark]].<ref name=ssdi/> Reared on a ranch near Van Horn, Texas, Margaret founded the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, first in the Hereford library and later in a large modern building in [[Fort Worth]].<ref name=margaret>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=April 20, 2003|accessdate=December 20, 2009}}</ref> While a student at Texas Tech, Formby worked as a carpenter and painter during the summer of 1948 to help his maternal uncle, [[Marshall Formby]], construct KPAN AM in Hereford. Clint Formby's was the first voice carried on the new radio station when it went on the air on August 4, 1948, exactly sixty-two years to the date of his own funeral.<ref name=obit/>​

However, he soon left college to enlist in the [[United States Army]]. He served as a staff sergeant and medic, having been attached to the 235th General Hospital in [[Marseille]], [[France]]. He remained in [[Switzerland]] after the end of the war in April 1945 and attended the University of Basel in [[Basel]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-08-03/clint-formby?v=1280799061|title=Clint Formby obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=August 4, 2010}}</ref> After the war, he returned to Texas Tech where he met and married the first official Tech beauty queen, the former [[Margaret Formby|Margaret Clark]].<ref name=ssdi/> Reared on a ranch near Van Horn, Texas, Margaret founded the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, first in the Hereford library and later in a large modern building in [[Fort Worth]].<ref name=margaret>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=April 20, 2003|accessdate=December 20, 2009}}</ref> While a student at Texas Tech, Formby worked as a carpenter and painter during the summer of 1948 to help his maternal uncle, [[Marshall Formby]], construct KPAN AM in Hereford. Clint Formby's was the first voice carried on the new radio station when it went on the air on August 4, 1948, exactly sixty-two years to the date of his own funeral.<ref name=obit/>​

In addition to his business pursuits, Marshall Formby was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state senator, a state highway commissioner, and a 1962 gubernatorial candidate. Clint Formby was an older first cousin of former state Senator [[Robert L. Duncan]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from Lubbock. Clint Formby practically grew up with Duncan's mother, Mae Robena Formby Duncan (1921–2009), his aunt who was only two years his senior.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/011809/obi_378551933.shtml|title=Robena Formy Duncan|publisher=The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' January 18, 2009|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref>​

In addition to his business pursuits, Marshall Formby was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state senator, a state highway commissioner, and a 1962 gubernatorial candidate. Clint Formby was an older first cousin of former state Senator [[Robert Duncan]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from Lubbock. Clint Formby practically grew up with Duncan's mother, Mae Robena Formby Duncan (1921–2009), his aunt who was only two years his senior.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/011809/obi_378551933.shtml|title=Robena Formy Duncan|publisher=The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' January 18, 2009|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref>​

==Radio career==

==Radio career==