Curt Brown with former
United Rubber Workers
president Peter Bommarito

Hey, Curt, plaid WAS cool!

The guy in the plaid suit is Curt Brown, during his days as the United Rubber Workers' PR guy.

Quips Curt: "If you don't throw up looking at that suit, then you don't have a pulse."

Curt Brown,
today's suit

Curt went from covering unions for the BJ (1971-74) to working for the URW and the United Steelworkers for years.

Curt has been music director and organist/choirmaster at New Life Episcopal Church, 13118 Church Ave. NW, Uniontown and teaches piano and organ at his Highland Square home. He also does organ recitals. His mother and two sisters also played the piano.

Curt was city editor of the Charleston Gazette, West Virginia's largest newspaper, when the Marshall University plane carrying the football team, staff and supporters crashed in 1970 on its way back to Huntington after a game, wiping out the Thundering Herd's grid squad.

The next year, Curt came to the BJ. And later began his PR work for the unions.

Curt was captain of his high school swim team, and also competed in swimming at Baldwin-Wallace. He studied at Oberlin College, with its highly regarded College of Arts & Science Conservatory of Music.

J. Curtis Brown, Jr., 29, is the son of Curt and Curt's late wife, Jolan "Jody" Moldvay Brown, who died Aug. 4, 1993.