CLASSNOTES C omp i l ed b y L i b b y E dwards
From the ARchives Tracy McFarlan ’41 points to his boyhood face in an all-school Brunswick photo at his home in Asheville, N.C.
1968
A Photographic Memory
Doug Abdelnour recently visited with ’Wick classmate Randy Bryan ’68. Randy has been inventing and marketing new technologies in the hybrid automotive world and combining them with emergency generators for the home and other arenas. After doing a show at an “electric car” rally in Westport, Conn., Randy met up with Doug in Somers, N.Y., while he was getting ready for another “electric car” show in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. See photo 01.
Three nostalgic alumni from the Class of ’70, Bill Starck, Royal Harper, and Tom Grunrow, helped to identify members of the pyramid in the archival photography published in the Spring 2013 issue. “I’m almost sure the blond boy (bottom center) is Stanley Van Vliet ’70. The boy on the left looks like Tom Grunrow ’70,” Starck wrote. “I don’t recognize the teacher. The photo must have been taken before I arrived at ’Wick in 1962 for 6th
50
grade.” Harper confirmed that the photo was taken
confirmed that the boy on the bottom row in
in 1960 or 1961 and that the boy on the bottom
the middle is Stanley Van Vliet. Have more
right is Barry Paterno ’70. “The boy in the middle
information? Please contact Courtney Kennedy;
row on the right is me,” said Harper. Grunrow
CKennedy@brunswickschool.org
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1975 Doug Hodge writes that, after living for seven years in Tokyo, he has returned with his family to Southern California to assume the role of COO at PIMCO. Three years ago, he and his wife, Kylie,