2024 Year in Review
2 024 Year in Review Highlights January 24 attended a Daniel Island Community Speaker's event at the Daniel Island club featuring speaker Alex Pelbath, U.S. Air Force Colonel (retired) who was the commanding officer for the mission charged with evacuating all U.S. military and civilian personnel from Kabul, Afghanistan in August 2021. Despite the chaos the air force was able to evacuate 124,000 people but still left people behind. The tragic departure was embarrasing and disturbing to say the least. February 2 Forte Jazz featured the Big Band sound of Sinatra and other crooners conducted by our friend Frank Duvall. Frank is the bassist with the Charleston Jazz orchestra and also plays piano where we first met him at Charleston Place and his trio played at our wedding. In addition to teaching at the College of Charleston he has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstein, Buddy Greco and Marian McPartland. We celebrated my 81st birthday at Maison, March 19. After 18 years...