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 LEFT TO RIGHT.  Nancy Kress, Ignacio (Nachi) Suarez, Fernando Capablanca, Mariita Garcia Kohly (Mullen) (behind Mariita, hiding-Talo Soca), Coky Mallet, Ruben Ortiz and Juan Santalla, Class 1961. (This PIC is provided by Coky's camera, cannot remember who took the PIC).

 

Scene in the bar where the locals were singing and dancing and drinking. We sat outside en un portal al aire libre adjoining the bar where we were listening to the music and admiring the dancing. We drank and conversed a lot prior to dinner. Lots of hugs and emotional embraces.  It was hard to get everyone to move into the restaurant to start our dinner. And along with us en el portal al aire libre, we had some regular local Cubans playing domino which they do at this restaurant all the time.

 

Edgardo Marill the greatest Tech guy in Ruston as usual taking PICS (Please check his web page the PIC shall be up soon enough). Everyone just carrying on, checking the menu, talking and talking. Great Fun.

 

Juan Santalla (class 61 and great friend of Ruben Ortiz) and Ana Maria Capablanca chatting.  We had 25 people attending and we had the seats arranged in a U type format.  It was  hard to get these Rustonians to settle down and sit, since everyone was carrying on with old stories.

 

Rafael Valiente, Talo Soca y Coky Mallet, who is forever nice to everyone (Rafa still fits into his Ruston Basketball Uniform-that is after midnight).

 

 

Far Left (Paul Michael, great partner and husband to Coky Mallet), Larry Levine and Nancy Kress (Levine), Sonia de Los Heros (I could not believe my eyes how much she has changed and still beutiful as ever), Ruben Ortiz (flew in all the way from Puerto Rico), Sonia's mother (classy and fun lady what a combo), and Sandra de los Heros, who follows in the tradition of beautiful Heros Cuban women.

 

 

Sweetest Daisy and Edgardo Marill, Uva de Aragon (always ready to be part of the team, steady as she goes), the young Mariita Garcia Kohly (Mullen) with Larry Mullen her attractive husband

 

Left - Tall and friendly Larry and Nancy Kress Levine,  Right side: Paul Michael (H to Coky) and Super Nice Tom Mullen (H to Mariita)

 

Larry Levine, Rafa Valiente (with all his gold medals-what a Sportsman, and beautiful Nancy Kress Levine.  Some of us have not changed.  Nancy looks the same as she did in Kindergarten. How does she do it?

 

 Juan Santalla (61), Isabel and Ruben Ortiz, married for 150 years, with lots of new stories from P.R.

 

Fernando and Ana Maria Capablanca, married for 250 years (A.M. is a very attractive and compasionate woman) with Juan Satalla's daughter (a young gal...who could not believe the energy of these OLD Rustonians...She was so impressed with the group and its enthusiasm).  By the way,. Fernando still collects small cars.  Cannot wait to see his collection.