I believe the man in the background with a goatee is Joe Corley who still has a major Karate School in Atlanta. Over Sensei Yamada's left shoulder looking down is everybody's friend, Dusty Young. Dusty was much hippier than George Kennedy! Dusty had a Volkwagen Van one girl gave him, and a not-quite-cured raccoon coat another girl gave him. He built and sold pyramids that had the power to focus cosmic energy to their centers, preserving food and improving your physical and mental health if you sat inside one. At an Aikido break, his wedding present to me was for me to listen to a stupendous operatic wedding march through big ear phones powered by his old VW van. He clamped the earphones on his head first to get the sound right, and handed them to me. My sweat mixed with his on the phone pads as I listened to that beautiful surround-sound music. What a wonderful gift the music was, Dusty!

When Dusty had a hard breakup with his girl, he worked his way to Hawaii on a freighter. In a park, he confronted two locals who were preparing to rape some little tourist girl. They backed him into a restroom. I asked what he did then, expecting him to have done some spectacular Aikido technique or other, and he said "I gave them a dollar apiece and they left me alone!" Quick thinking, Dusty! Later, he sold used silver mines out west. God bless you, Dusty, wherever you are, and may your spirit be forever free!