Last month, as I was preparing a mailing for our classmates regarding our upcoming reunion, I called and spoke with Steve Lautermilch. When a prior mailing had bounced back to me, I realized I had an old address in Greensboro, North Carolina, for him. With the help of Mike Fry at the Josephinum, I obtained new contact information for Steve in Kill Devil Hills. So, I called. There he is, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, approximately 3 hours from Chapel Hill. We had a brief, though enjoyable, conversation. Steve said he had a deadline to meet that day. We agreed to contact each other again soon.
Then, last week, while my wife Chris and I were visiting her sister and brother-in-law in Bradenton, Florida, I looked up Dave Kattan. I was aware that I hadn't seen him for 45 years. I knocked on his door unannounced. (I had an address, but no phone number, for him.) After his initial surprise, Dave and I had a nice, two-hour visit. Dave told me that he retired from the brewery in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and that he and his sister Mary moved to Bradenton five years ago. Dave joked about their neighborhood's landscape service "boxing" everyone's shrubs and hedges. They have a lovely, spacious Florida home. When Chris and I next visit her family in Bradenton, I will again contact Dave.
What a joy it was to talk with Steve and Dave!
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