FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Lisa Kassel ’79, president A River Runs Through It [email protected] ALUMNI RELATIONS hen I reflect on my recent visit to Rachel Nelson Moeller ’88, College Hill for Homecoming, an executive director image of a river keeps appearing in [email protected] my mind’s eye. For a list of Alumni Council members I don’t mean the Lehigh or and Alumni Relations staff, W Delaware rivers or Bushkill Creek, although they were go to alumni.lafayette.edu worthy of a visit and picturesque as always. I mean the 223 Pfenning Alumni Center energy river coursing through Lafayette’s campus. It’s Easton, PA 18042-1768 ebbed and flowed around the gorgeous architecture (610) 330-5040 in Pa.; since I was a student and long before my time. It’s what 1-800-LAFAYETTE outside Pa. drew me to Lafayette as a student, and continues to Fax: (610) 330-5833 beckon me today as an alum. [email protected] We have our homecoming traditions, of course. CLASS NOTES There’s the football game, chatting with friends at the ROY GROETHING ROY Stevie O. Daniels, editor tailgates, and memories brought back by a walk across [email protected] the Quad. But it’s the energy I feel when I approach College Hill—no doubt brought on by Gayle F. Hendricks, graphic designer the vitality of Lafayette’s students—that always affects me. This year, stunningly, that energy manifested itself in the form of a bridge. Lafayette is no stranger to bridge building. In fact, the iconic “free bridge” over the Delaware River Visit lafayette.edu and click on “alumni” between Phillipsburg, N.J., and Easton was designed by James Madison Porter III, member to learn about special events, the of the civil engineering faculty from 1890 to 1917. Alumni Association, benefits, travel, To commemorate the 150th anniversary of engineering at Lafayette, students erected a and volunteer opportunities. Go to replica of Porter’s bridge across the Quad. It went up like a whirlwind on Saturday morning LeopardLink and log in with your and disappeared just as fast when the weekend drew to a close. Lafayette user name to register for events, update your profile, share photos, It was a grand structure during its brief lifetime, emblematic of the confluence of and connect through social media. Visit engineering and the humanities. The two seemingly opposite endeavors have intertwined community.lafayette.edu for alumni on Lafayette’s campus for each of those 150 years. Lafayette students study music, theater, news and photos on the class websites, and art along with math and science. As a result, they connect with classmates and alumni chapter websites, and to contribute your whose interests expand their own. That’s who we are, and every time I visit campus, I’m Compass story about an experience energized by it. at Lafayette that changed your life. The bridge wasn’t the only skyline change. There were the long-awaited openings of Williams Arts Campus on North Third Street and Weinstein Natatorium, welcome LafayetteCollegeAlumni additions to campus in so many ways, each a product of the same vitality that courses through College Hill. These projects reflect the commitment of many alumni to affirming @LafayetteAlumni Lafayette’s continuing role as a leader in undergraduate education. If you didn’t connect this year, don’t worry. You still have an opportunity to offer students internships and externships, participate in alumni events on campus or closer to your home, and give to the Annual Fund and Live Connected, Lead Change campaign. With each of these actions, you’ll be ensuring that river continues to flow as strong as ever. Warmly, Lisa Kassel ’79, P’13 President 86 lafayette FALL 2016 For more class news and photos, go to community.lafayette.edu; click on "classes" then your class year. CLASS NOTES FOR MORE CLASS NEWS All-State Pennsylvania. He was of electrical engineering. He intramural boxing champion and a is the father of Amy Wright 1940s Artigliere ’84 For all class dean’s list student. Joseph Friedman sent an news, photographs, 1940—The headline of the 1942— On the occasion of his update saying that he recently baby and wedding June 7, 2016, Newsday article read: class’s 74th reunion, Everett drove through campus for the first announcements, “Harvey Cohen Legendary Youth Morse sent the following: “I was time since 1949 and was astounded reunion planning, Lacrosse Coach Dead at 97,” thinking a lot about you at reunion at the change. He completed and more, go to noting, “Lacrosse was a way of life time and wanted to share a few graduate work in psychology at community. for Cohen.” Harvey’s family says memories. I arrived at Lafayette Kent and then began work on a lafayette.edu. that he would not drive a car that in 1938, after graduating from doctorate at Temple. That pursuit Click on “classes,” could not fit a lacrosse goal in the nearby Solebury School. While at was interrupted when “my local then select back seat. His license plate read our wonderful college, I studied draft board did not accept the your class year. “HARVLAX.” English and business, joined Chi time for research for dissertation Harvey graduated top of the Phi, and was manager for the and announced that I would be Please continue to class from New York Military men’s tennis team my senior year. next. So I enlisted in the Navy, send updates to your Academy in 1936. He played A month after graduation, I was in went through OCS and served as a class correspondent lacrosse there and was a star player the Army! I served in the Pacific psychologist from 1953 to 1956. My or to alumni@ at Lafayette, leading Pennsylvania until Dec. 24, 1945. wife, Pearl, and I had two children lafayette.edu if in scoring in 1939 and 1940. He “Following the war, I worked and made lifelong friendships. entered Harvard Law School, but a variety of jobs, including with your class does The formal training at Bethesda his studies were interrupted by the Veterans Administration was good, but the experience not have one. To service as a second lieutenant pilot in Buffalo, a Burmese import/ at Marine Depot Parris Island volunteer to serve in World War II during which export company on Wall Street, was great. Colleagues were from as a correspondent, he dropped paratroopers for the and the Hall and McChesney Menningers, MIT, Columbia, contact the Alumni invasions of Sicily and Normandy Co. in Syracuse and Washington, etc. After the Navy I finished Relations office. and during the Battle of the Bulge. D.C. In the mid–1960s, I earned my Ph.D., then did a postdoc After service, Harvey earned my master of library science year with VA Philadelphia. A Class notes may his J.D. at Harvard in 1947 and degree from Syracuse University. psychiatrist I knew in the Navy be edited for met and married his wife, Norma. During that time I met my looked me up, and I joined him at length and clarity. He became a partner in the law future wife, who had come over Philadelphia Psychiatric Center as firm of Murtagh, Cohen and from England on a Fulbright chief psychologist.” Deadlines Byrne, Garden City, N.Y. Teacher’s Exchange. We married Joseph’s later positions Spring 2017: Dec. 8 Harvey was inducted into the in England, where we lived and include executive director of Summer 2017: April 8 Lafayette Maroon Club Hall of worked for two years before a small family-oriented clinic, Fall 2017: Aug. 8 Fame in 2014. He founded the returning to Ithaca, N.Y. I was a joint appointment at Penn Med Port Washington Midget Football librarian at SUNY-Cortland and School and the community health program and was inducted into then Ithaca College from 1965 program, training consultant to the Port Washington Youth until retiring in 1988. several agencies, and occasional Activities Hall of Fame. He “I’m 98, continue to volunteer teaching at Temple and St. also was inducted into National at our local history center, attend Joseph’s. He presented and/or Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame Rotary meetings, and love published some 17 professional and Long Island Metropolitan spending time with my wife, papers. He is past president of Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame. children, and grandchildren. Philadelphia Society of Clinical Harvey was former president This July, I hope to celebrate my Psychologists and administrator of Universalist Society and helped 99th birthday.” Everett’s contact: of the Family Institute of provide amputees with athletic 112 Blackstone Ave., Ithaca, Philadelphia. opportunities through the NY 14850. “We are now 87 and 85 and Ossining-based “52 Organization.” have been married 65 years. Our In my father’s 1940 Melange, I 1949—Harrison “Bud” Wright, daughter teaches languages. Our found that Harvey was an officer 89, who served as class president, son died of cancer at age 30 after for Kirby Government and Law died Jan. 24. A resident of an 11-year battle. We exhibit Society and Marquis Association. Bethlehem, Pa., he was married championship collies and enjoy He played football and soccer for for 64 years to Mary Louise, our granddaughters and great- two years and was on the lacrosse who survives him. He excelled grandchildren. We are in the team four years (captain his senior in several sports at Lafayette. A process of selling our home in year). He won the league high U.S. Navy veteran, Bud worked 35 Cherry Hill, N.J., to move to a scorer award as a junior and was years at PPL, retiring as manager senior living center.