My dad Roy Tryhus and Craig's father Clough Cullen were very good friends - together they started a company called KATO Toys - producing a plastic rubberband gun similar to the one kid's made out of wood during their youth. The company started out strong - the next hulla-hoop - even made it on the Steve Allen show. But like so many other small companies without a bus full of lawyers and a few hundred thousand for advertising they went bust.
Craig and I grew up in the same neighborhood and were good friends through highschool - both Eagle Scouts and we also played music together. We played as a duo - remember the "Bean Song" - the "Green Briars" ? I think we brought down the house that day in '65.
Craig Cullen died on easter Sunday last year 2011 of throat cancer. May he rest in peace...
Steve Tryhus
My dad Roy Tryhus and Craig's father Clough Cullen were very good friends - together they started a company called KATO Toys - producing a plastic rubberband gun similar to the one kid's made out of wood during their youth. The company started out strong - the next hulla-hoop - even made it on the Steve Allen show. But like so many other small companies without a bus full of lawyers and a few hundred thousand for advertising they went bust.
Craig and I grew up in the same neighborhood and were good friends through highschool - both Eagle Scouts and we also played music together. We played as a duo - remember the "Bean Song" - the "Green Briars" ? I think we brought down the house that day in '65.
Craig Cullen died on easter Sunday last year 2011 of throat cancer. May he rest in peace...
Steve Tryhus
Dennis "Kip" Alexander
This is a sad surprise. Maria and I got together with Craig several times while he lived up in Maine.
Cassie Hapke (Bunker)
Real fond memories of Craig, as a good and decent person, even as a young guy! When it wasn't that easy to be to be one.