As promised in my last column, more about Cul Modisette: After 20 years as an advertising and public relations executive Cul changed course and opened an outdoor sports business devoted to self-propelled ecology sports requiring no machines or gadgets. He guided people into the wilderness in the United States and Canada. While doing so he came to admire the Athabascan, an Alaskan Indian nation. Cul is also the author of a book titled Honored Enemy. It deals, among other things, with Quanah Parker, leader of the Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne Indian tribes. Currently Cul operates a tree farm in Connecticut on which he nurtures red oak, white oak, black birch and northern white pine.


Dave Steinberg, at 83, is still teaching Asian studies full time at Georgetown University. His latest book co-authored with a professor at China’s Xiamen University is titled Modern China Burma/Myanmar Relations: Dilemmas of Mutual Dependence. Dave, who has spent many years in the Far East, taught summer school at Yonsei University in Korea in 2011. He does not feel ready for retirement.


Frank Gilroy has written a new book titled Private. By snail mail I received a postcard portraying a smiling and very handsome Frank in his Army uniform and announcing the book as a Kindle single.


Classmates and ladies we’ve seen during the winter include the McIlwains, Fauvers, Whitemans, Harneds, Freys, Cramers, Joel Leavitt and Vida and Joan Mauk.


Bill Sullivan writes with the sad news that Liz, his wife of 57 years, died suddenly of a septic infection. Heartfelt condolences, Bill.


I am sorry to have to report the deaths of the following classmates: Dave Beeman on March 14, 2011; Bruce Borden on October 17, 2011; Jay Buck on January 11; John Bunton on June 9, 2011; Phil Charron on November 16, 2010; Nelse Graves on January 7; Charles Hart on February 25; Stewart Kay on July 11, 2011; Raymond King Jr. on October 24, 2010; Archie MacAllaster on September 24, 2011; Andy McClary on April 23, 2011; Frank Moulton on October 27, 2010; Ralph Muehlig on March 14; Sam Rogers on October 10, 2010; Albert Rust on January 19, 2011; Ben Shaver on August 11, 2011; Cliff Spotholz on December 16, 2010; Bob Tredwell on June 18, 2011; Dick Udall on August 13, 2011.


—Nev Chamberlain, 1835 North Garden Grove Circle, Vero Beach, FL 32962; (772) 569-2893; ranevero03@aol.com