RE Log - Fall 2021

50 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2021 Class N e Ransom School 1957 Please consider becoming a class agent. Ridgely Foster , see Veronica Diaz ’95 1960 Class Agent: Joe Annis (jpannis@aol.com ) 1961 Class Agents: Charles Sands (sandsvest@bellsouth.net ), Edward Seward (etseward1@gmail.com ) Thank you to everyone that participated in the Ransom Class of 1961 Virtual Class Reunion last April. It was impressive to see so many classmates in attendance. Though he is no longer with us, Dan Leslie Bowden was fondly remembered. A special thank you to his grandnephew, Thomas Bowden, for joining the virtual gathering. 1962 REUNION YEAR Class Agents: James Beverley (jamescbeverley@bellsouth.net ), Arthur Smith (macuquina@me.com ) George Guess writes, I attended Ransom in the ’50s and was on the board in the ’80s when I taught at the University of Miami. I recently published Dogs of Catherine Town , which is a fantasy novel about dogs in Russia. 1963 Please consider becoming a class agent. 1964 Class Agent: Lawrence Reeder (larry@howardsreederinc.com ) 1965 Class Agents: James Hobbs (jchobbs3@bellsouth.net ), Kurt Kunzel (kkunzel5@gmail.com ), Joseph Sanders (sandersmarketing@mindspring.com ) 1966 Please consider becoming a class agent. 1967 Please consider becoming a class agent. 1968 Class Agents: Mike Maisel (bagboy@mindspring.com) , David McCrea (dmccrea1@comcast.net ), Ned Moore (Nmoore157@gmail.com) Alan Gittelson , see In Loving Memory 1969 Class Agent: Eric Buermann (eric.buermann@usa.net ) 1970 Class Agents: Chris Haub (chrisdeshaub@yahoo.com) , Steve Pearson (wadadasaw@gmail.com ) 1971 Class Agents: Mark Harrison (mark@4hranches.com ), David Skipp (dfskipp2001@yahoo.com) Mark Harrison writes, “Saturday night, 4/17/21, select and vaccinated members of the Class of ’71 gathered.” L-R: Mark Chris Stiger, Grady Neale, Ramon Lorido and David Skipp . “Next year will be greater.” Dogs of Catherine TOwn G E O R G E G U E S S DOGS OF CATHERINE TOWN G E O RG E G U E S S Charleston, SC www.PalmettoPublishing.com Russian - American professor Nicholas Krylov encounters a host of unusual characters while doing summer research on the 2018WorldCup FootballGames to be held in multipleRussian cities. A serious straydogproblem threatens toderail theGames inYekaterinburg (CatherineTown).Head city veterinarianDr. IvanKrastov isdevisingnew methods to capture andkillor train and adopt the strays and tomodernize the city’s animal control services to prevent danger to the visiting sports fans. Nicholas learns that Dr. Krastov is also working to create a new speciesofdog, the latest specimen thatwalksuprightand talks. is success has generatedhigh-levelKremlin support forhis research, especially for its applieduses to save theprestigiousGames frombadpublicity. But Krastov’s success has also attracted jealousy and animosity. His program is threatened, along with his andNicholas’s lives. e threats come fromviolentanimal rightsgroups...butalso frompeople inKrastov’s own animal control facility, colleagueswho are trying to stealKrastov’s ideas andmethods. Duringhis stayNicholashasbefriendedpolice inspectorSimonPetrovsky, aswell asAnna Irtenev, aprofessor from theuniversitywherehe isdoing his summer research. Together they ght back against those trying to derailKrastov...if they can survive long enough to succeed. 1972 REUNION YEAR Class Agent: Carlos Prio-Touzet (carlos@touzetstudio.com) Carlos Prio-Touzet , see Alexandra Prio-Touzet ’21 1973 Class Agent: Roger Bear (rogerdavidbear@gmail.com) 1974 Class Agents: Andrew Hague (ashague@yahoo.com) , Douglas Weiser (doug@4weiser.com ) Wendell Graham has assumed the role of Ransom Everglades Director of Inclusion and Community Engagement. See page 22. Thomas Wakefield (deceased), see Katie Buchanan Reynolds ’01 1975 Class Agents: Edward Casal (emc.home@gmail.com ), John Fleeman (jbflee@gmail.com ) Everglades School for Girls 1960 Please consider becoming a class agent. 1961 Class Agent: Katherine Swenson Kahan (kkahannyc@mac.com)