Club Night 1997

(l.-r.) Top: Tyronne Culpepper, Casey Yamazaki, Michael Goldstein, Victor Osayi
Bottom: Alan Ruben, Jud Santos

This photo was taken at the New York Road Runners' Club Night on February 22, 1997. These people represented the Central Park Track Club in accepting the second place Open A Team award. What a politically correct picture of multicultural diversity!!!

This leads to the obvious question, "Were these blokes recruited just for this photo shoot to erect a façade of multicultural diversity?" After all, at least two of them are known to be professional models. Do you know which two?

(6/18/97) By popular demand, a hot spot has been placed on the face of one of the professional models. Can you tell who the other one is?

An astute reader (who needs to get a life!) has pointed out that the above picture (which was scanned from the New York Running News, April/May 1997 edition) was different from the one that was published in the CPTC Newsletter (Spring 97 edition), as shown below.

The difference between the two photos is the absence/presence of the trophy. Who cares? We do, because there have been several stories, some diametrically opposite to others.

According to tradition, the team trophy is kept by the top scorer for the team. For 1997, that would be Alan Ruben, who was ahead of Jud Santos. Here are the various stories that are floating around.

  • The caption in the CPTC Newsletter photo reads: "Alan Ruben and Jud Santos silently wrestle for the team trophy as (the other team members) stand by." We categorically reject the idea that such behavior would ever occur among our members.
  • In the same section of the CPTC Newsletter, another story alleges that "Alan Ruben, who turned 40 this spring, offered the vase to the # 2 guy, saying, 'I'll need the space in my cabinet for all those trophies I'll be winning this year.'" Now that is more like it!
  • But aren't we forgetting that Alan's wife, Gordon Bakoulis, who is the best female runner ever from New York City (with due respect to Nina Kuscsik, Kathrine Switzer and company), has the biggest collection of hardware already so that Alan may have been warned not to bring any more (especially a second-place trophy) home?

An irate reader wanted to know where the picture of our women was. Here are the people who accepted the award for 2nd place Open A Team. Yet another politically correct picture of multicultural diversity?

(l.-r.) Top: Yumi Ogita, Sylvie Kimché, Laura Miller
Bottom: Mary Rosado, Suzanne Rohr
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