An earlier ’74 class notes column about foreign study brought back fond memories to Charlie Post, who was also in the program in Mainz, Germany, spring term sophomore year. Charlie recently wrote to me about the wonderful experiences he had in Germany during the spring and summer of 1972. When the semester finished, Charlie worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Oberstdorf, a skiing and hiking resort town in the Bavarian Alps. At the end of the summer he traveled to Munich to visit the Summer Games of the XX Olympiad there. After graduation from Dartmouth with a major in history, Charlie earned a master of arts degree in communications from the University of Maryland in College Park and enjoyed a 15-year career in magazine publishing with Washington Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review, People and Fortune. In 1992 Charlie joined his brother’s business, TSI Solutions in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in sales. In 2010 Charlie and his brother’s son, John, purchased the business from Charlie’s brother, and Charlie became president of the company, a value-added distributor of industrial automation technology and motion control components and systems. Charlie and his fiancée, Patti Hope, live in Decatur, Georgia. Patti and Charlie met on a pilgrimage trip to Turkey in 2013 visiting the cities where St. Paul founded churches. Charlie loves to travel and recommends Turkey as a fascinating country. As I write this he and Patti have just returned from Italy. In addition to traveling, Charlie also enjoys cooking and bicycling. He is also a member of the Trey Clegg Singers, a multicultural, semi-professional choir in Atlanta where he sings tenor. Charlie has two grown sons, Daniel, who also works at TSI Solutions, and Nathan.

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—Rick Sample, Retreat Farm, 1137 Manakin Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103; samplejr@msn.com