Charlie was out of touch with us over the years until he wrote his autobiography for our 50th-reunion yearbook. A urology specialist, he said from Chico, Calif., that his net worth was “a comfortable home adjacent to a beautiful golf course, with 24- and 9-year-old cars and an 11-year-old four-wheel-drive pickup that is used as a fishmobile.”
“I have seven children,” added Charlie, “five by my first wife and two by my present and beloved Loretta. The brood consists of two dentists, a minister, an insurance agent, a physician, a teacher, and a recent college graduate.”
In conclusion, Charlie, who died Jan. 18, 2014, at age 90, summed up his philosophy: “To a far greater extent than in the past (and really for the first time), I am able to accept myself and therefore you, warts and all, and thus to love you. I am at peace with you and with me.”
The class warmly salutes the wide-ranging family of this classmate we knew so briefly, so long ago.