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IC Memoires
In 1977 and 1978, the first official Rock Band came
out of IC. It was called The Pink Panthers. Laurent
Khattar was the producer. We were:
Pierre Kerbage ‘78, Keyboards and Vocals (Who now
resides in Austin, Texas and still plays Piano) pkerb-
age@networklogistic.com Went on to record with Percy
Sledge and many others, now President of Network Lo-
gistic, Inc. - a Computer Engineering Firm
Ralph Chami ‘86, Lead Guitar RCHAMI@imf.org now
lives in McLean Virginia . Ralph continues to play Gui-
tar - Ralph is now VP of the International Money Fund.
Fawzan Barrage ‘79, Lead Vocals and Acoustic
Guitar and now resides in Canada and is married
to Rima Koleilat-Barrage (also once a student at IC
where they got to know each other). Fawzan still sings
and plays guitar nearly daily. He is in Ontario, Cana-
da. barrage@sympatico.ca with his family
Emile Boustany ‘77, Drums - We believe he is still in
Lebanon and still playing drums and we do not (un-
fortunately) have his contact info.
Jamal Hamadeh ‘78,
jhamadeh@hotmail.
com is in Saudi Arabia
working as the Managing
Director of MediaInsight
We are planning a re-
union in Austin, Texas this
year in the summer.
Pierre Kerbage ‘78
One of the more vivid recollections I have of that
period has to do with sports; up until then I was a
die-hard soccer fan, and played the sport in IC with
a whole bunch of close friends. As I was considered
too short for my age, someone suggested that I should
take up basketball, as it involves “stretching for the
ball” and that would help me grow taller.Though I
had not much interest in the game, I did start playing
both in school and outside, and pretty soon got to like
the game to the extent that I completely gave up soc-
cer. Of course it helped that the IC team in basketball
was a very strong one and was winning matches with
other schools in Lebanon making our top players very
popular, especially with the girls! The good news is that
whether it had to do with basketball or simple anatom-
ical reasons, I did start to grow taller appreciably and
was soon in the average height cohort of my age!!!
Closely related to the above, was my also discovering
the sport of softball. We had a number of very pleas-
ant and active American teachers at the time (Yorkey,
Mize, Nystrom, come to mind) who introduced softball
to IC students. Very soon a few friends of mine and my-
self found out that we were quite good at the sport and
could compete with Americans in their own national
game. Our perennial rivals became the American Com-
munity School teams nearby. As our mastery of the
game progressed, not only did we start beating their
teams, but we got an additional bonus in the fact that
their girl students liked to go out with us Arabs. This
started another form of rivalry, and one which we rel-
ished as much as or more than winning softball games!!
Fouad Kronfol ‘52
I was good at English and usually got 80 in Composi-
tion. However, my friend, Eddy Zacharia, always got
100!!
When I asked him how he got that impossible grade,
he told me the secret.
“Always mention Mr. Mize in your Composition”, he
advised. The next subject to write about was “A baseball
game”. I wrote about how I.C. played against A.C.S.
and that Mr. Mize was the coach who made IC win !!
When I used that secret, I got 100 on that composition
and on all other compositions that followed!!
That is a real story.
Ramzi K. Alamuddin ‘55