FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Power of Networking ALUMNI ASSOCIATION David Reif ’68, president [email protected] s I write this letter, the temperature Alex Karapetian ’04, president-elect outside my window in Hartford is [email protected] pushing zero, and freezing rain is in the forecast. To those of you in the ALUMNI RELATIONS Gulf Coast and Arizona chapters, Rachel Nelson Moeller ’88, executive director Ayour Alumni Association president is always up [email protected] for a chapter visit in the depth of winter. For a list of Alumni Council members In January, the Alumni Association, working and Alumni Relations staff, with the Career Services office, held networking go to alumni.lafayette.edu events in Philadelphia and New York. These 223 Pfenning Alumni Center annual events, along with a similar night in Easton, PA 18042-1768 Washington, D.C., are among the high points of (610) 330-5040 in Pa.; our year of service. In total, about 300 alumni 1-800-LAFAYETTE outside Pa. Fax: (610) 330-5833 gathered to touch base, exchange professional [email protected] contacts, and informally discuss what is happening in their industries. Equally important, Lafayette students joined us—learning CLASS NOTES networking skills and meeting with a variety of alumni and potential mentors. Keep an Dan Edelen, editor eye on the College’s website for information about next year’s events. They are chances [email protected] not only to gather with a large group of alums in your area and business, but to provide a Gayle F. Hendricks, graphic designer service to the next generation of Leopards. Remember, the greatest resource for first jobs is an internship or other “shadowing” experience. Contact Career Services if you can offer Sharon Sanders, assistant editor an opportunity (610-330-5115, [email protected]). Visit Social Media Directory for links to One of the Association’s goals has been to increase the academic ties between the alumni groups: https://communications. College and alumni. Lafayette is now opening up to alumni JSTOR—a digital library of lafayette.edu/social-media-directory/ back issues of more than 2,000 scholarly journals. This is being made possible by the Visit www.lafayette.edu and click on Friends of Skillman Library in honor of the library’s 50th anniversary through a generous “alumni” to visit the alumni website, donation from Arthur ’55 and Barbara Rothkopf. You can access JSTOR by using your register for special events, update your alumni network ID. To obtain your network ID, visit http://help.lafayette.edu/faqs/ contact information, join the Alumni alumni. Go to http://jstor.lafayette.edu to use the database. Online Community, review benefits, find This is my last letter as president of your association. The past two years have Alumni Council members, and subscribe emphasized for me the importance of alumni to the College—and the importance of the to the monthly electronic Marquis Mailer. Lafayette experience to so many of us. The friends we made, the skills we developed, and Visit community.lafayette.edu for alumni news and photos on the class the love for learning that we absorbed have undoubtedly played a large role in creating the websites, chapter websites, and to send people we are today. Thank you for all you do to make those same opportunities available your Compass story about an experience to those who follow us. Keep up the good work. at Lafayette that changed your life. Cur non. David Reif ’68 President COMPASS: EXPERIENCES THAT LAUNCHED LIVES http://community.lafayette.edu/compass 42 lafayette SPRING 2014 CLASS NOTES FOR MORE Church. Wife Veronica died in Joseph B. Moore, Allentown, Pa., CLASS NEWS 1930s 1980. Mack remarried in 1983. died Sept. 10. Born in Maplewood, A staple at Lafayette sporting Wife Virginia died in 2006. Pa., he was a member of AIEE, For all class events and class reunions, John Roland Raver ’35, Charleston, class secretary-treasurer, a member news, photographs, Wilbur Mack ’39 loved his alma S.C., died Nov. 18. Born in Haddon of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and baby and wedding mater. He pledged Theta Xi and Heights, N.J., he was a mechanical participated in lacrosse, soccer, and announcements, swam varsity. After graduation, engineering graduate who was the rifle team. A survivor of Pearl reunion planning, Mack held numerous class officer described in The Melange as “a rare Harbor, he served in the 98th Coast and more, go to roles, including 60 years as the ’39 phenomenon—an engineer who Artillery. He achieved the rank of community. class secretary and correspondent; was seen reading Joyce’s Dubliners.” major on active duty and later was lafayette.edu. class president, 1999–2003; and A member of Kappa Delta Rho, promoted to colonel in the Army Click on “classes,” reunion chair, 1997–2014. The he served in the Merchant Marine Reserve. He retired in 1983 from and then select College awarded Mack the during World War II and later PPL Electric Utilities after your class year. George T. Woodring ’19 Service worked for Hamilton Watch Co., 43 years as an electrical engineer. Award in 2007. Mack, 97, died Jan. 2. Lancaster, Pa., until retirement in Please continue to Mack was a strong proponent 1972. He is survived by wife Maxine, send updates to your of his native Easton and a locally who requests that memorial gifts be known family business leader. sent to the College. 1941 class correspondent Since 1926, Mack Printing Co. Burt Adelman’s wife, Ruby, or to alumni@ operated in Wilson Borough, wrote that Burt is a resident in lafayette.edu if eventually expanding to four an Alzheimer unit in Pompano your class does East Coast offices and plants 1940 Beach, Fla. On occasions, she takes not have one. To before its 1999 sale to Cadmus Recent health issues will prevent him out to dinner as well as for volunteer to serve Communication Corp. Floyd LaBarre from assuming physical checkups. After serving as a correspondent, An economics and business the correspondent role for the in World War II, Burt graduated contact the Alumni graduate, Mack started in a Class of ’40. We thank Floyd for from Harvard Law School in 1948. Relations office. supervisor position at the company, his willingness to help. Contact According to The Melange, Burt was eventually rising to president, info: 50 N. Hills Dr., Rising Sun, active in campus affairs and was Class notes may CEO, and board chair. After MD 21911-1663. often on the dean’s list. be edited for retirement in 1982, he retained the Spencer Douglas, Boca Raton, Charles J. Berlau died length and clarity. role of company director until 1987. Fla., died Nov. 22. March 21, 2012. Charlie and I (Tony He garnered numerous industry Deadlines awards, including induction into Summer 2014: April 8 the Ash Khan Society of the Fall 2014: Aug. 8 Printing Industries of America. He served for 25 years on the board Alumni Spring 2015: Dec. 8 of directors of The Lafayette Bank and Trust Co. Mack also Summer was a member of and holder of several executive positions in civic, College business, and social clubs and organizations, including the Red LEARNING FOR LIFE | JULY 17–20, 2014 Cross, YMCA, Kiwanis, Pomfret Immerse yourself in three days of thought-provoking classes taught Club, Northampton County by Ilan Peleg, David Sunderlin, Nestor Armando Gil, and Liz Country Club, and International Management Club. McMahon in government & law, geology, art, mathematics, and more. Mack graduated from Valley • Boost the brain Forge (Pa.) Military Academy, • Feed your curiosity where he participated in football, • Explore campus, gather with friends baseball, swimming, and military leadership roles. In World War II, Learn more and register (by May 1) at alumnicollege.lafayette.edu he served in Anchorage, Alaska, commanding the Military Police, $650 per person (with campus lodging) | $550 per person (without lodging) and at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., where he attained captain, serving visit alumnicollege.lafayette.edu with the Postal Service there. Mack was a longtime member Cosponsors: Alumni Relations, Provost’s Office of St. Jane Frances De Chantal Alumni Relations (610) 330-5040 (800) LAFAYETTE (outside Pa.) SPRING 2014 lafayette 43 CLASS NOTES War II, he served 1942–46 in the Pacific Theater as an artillery officer. PROFile As a civilian, Art was a specialist in vacuum engineering and held Majumdar ’95 Modernizes Pediatric Dentistry several patents. Bill Baxter writes, “So sad to click on the little bios and all When Dr. Amith Majumdar ’95 launched Lehigh Valley Pediatric Dentistry, Bethlehem, in they say is another member of ’42 2006, he created an office as unique as his specialty. passed on. Leaves me to wonder With his partner, pediatric orthodontist Dr. Steven Ely, he installed digital radiography. This who has survived other than Bob process creates much less chemical waste and exposes children to 75 percent less radiation Johnston and Otto Alden. The than traditional X-rays. usual issues grinding away keep He also did away with paper files and instituted digital record keeping at a time when few me away from reunions. Mitzi no practices had done so. 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