Donald McCall of Truxton, Cortland County can now add Lottery Millionaire to his already impressive resumé. The 74-year-old self-proclaimed “Renaissance man” recently claimed the first of four $1,000,000 top prizes available on the Extra Play scratch-off game. The new $5 ticket offers a bonus play area on the back, making it the first of its kind to be sold in New York.

McCall said his new millionaire status is just the latest in a long series of career reboots.

“I’ve been a lot of things over a lot of years,” he said. In addition to his current duties as the Town of Truxton’s official Historian, McCall said he’s enjoying his latest incarnation as a gentleman farmer. Some of McCall’s other former job titles include chef, garage door company foreman, and nurse.

“Whatever the job, I’ve always told my kids that you get what you work for, but winning the Lottery kinda disproves my theory a bit,” he laughed. The new Lottery millionaire said his favorite job continues to be that of father to his six children, grandfather to his 16 grandchildren and great-grandfather to six.

McCall said his $1,000,000-winning experience could have ended very differently.

“I rarely play Lottery games, but if I do, it’s always a $1 game. On this day, I was standing at the counter in Kinney Drugs and the sun was shining on this ticket. I liked the idea of getting an extra chance to win so I asked for two. When the clerk handed them to me and said it was $10 I almost gave them back, but I thought that might be a real hassle for the clerk, so I kept them.”

McCall scratched off an automatic win symbol in the bonus play area on the back of the second ticket and saw the word “Jackpot” printed beneath. “I kept saying, ‘this can’t be right’ and almost threw it away, but decided to take it home instead.” Once home, McCall said he was the last to believe he won.

“My daughter kept trying to convince me I won $1,000,000, but I told her I would have to hear it from the Lottery before I would be convinced,” he said. Even after claiming his ticket in Syracuse, McCall said he remained low key. “Money doesn’t impress me anymore,” he said. “I already drive a Lincoln Town Car and you can’t get any better than that. The same goes for my house and everything I own really. I am in need of nothing.”

With that in mind, McCall said he’s considering using a portion of his $790,000 lump sum prize (net $522,822) to give back to the community. “When I was growing up, there was a carillon in the church, but that stopped many years ago. I would like to bring that back because I miss it. The community misses it.”

McCall purchased his winning ticket at Kinney Drugs on US Route 11 in Tully.

The New York Lottery contributed $11,055,392.49 to school districts throughout Cortland County during fiscal year 2014-2015.