As I've said, we're not too concerned with the posed studio portraits. And I'm even less interested in making fun of fashions and styles. But I just want to point out this guy's hair, because he had a tremendous coif in his day.

Ben Hutson was born in New Orleans, but he always called Mobile home. He studied electrical engineering in school, and he's a senior here. His interest in electricity earned him the nickname "Juicey."

He served in the army, first at Ft. Knox and then at Brookley Field in Mobile and Hickam in Hawai'i during World War II. He left the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel, and went to work for Alabama Power for 35 years, retiring from the company as division manager. He and his wife -- she was a nurse, a Vanderbilt grad, who served as a flight nurse during the war -- were married for 63 years, until she passed away in 2008. He died the next year. Together, they had two sons and a daughter, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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