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CLASS NOTES ALUMNI highlights 1 2 4 Our alumni have incredible stories and milestones to share. Here are a few highlights from Class Notes. 3 1 Kevin Cheok ’92 now serves as Singapore’s Ambassador to the 3 Bill Ditenhafer ’62, Joe Cornell ’62, and Bruce Kingdom of Thailand. Kevin joined the Singapore Foreign Service Marshman ’62 have been meeting each year in Maine to in 1996 and has held various appointments. enjoy the scenery, get caught up on classmate news, and climb a mountain to “keep young and maintain their vigor and vitality.” They have dubbed themselves the Theta Delta Chi Three (TDC3). 2 Kiira Benzing ’07 earned Best VR Immersive User Experience at the Venice Film Festival, where she debuted her latest work, This year they climbed Maine’s French Mountain to demonstrate to Finding Pandora X. Premiering the world’s first virtual repertory our contemporaries that 80 is the new 60. theater, the show blends live theater with Broadway talent and cutting-edge technology. 4 Dana Ferraris ’94, chemistry professor, had the FDA approve cedazuridine, a blood cancer-treating drug he invented more than a decade ago when he worked in the biotech industry as a medicinal chemist. Read more about Ferraris at magazine.lafayette.edu. 74 LAFAYETTE FALL 2020 5 6 9 8 7 5 Michael “Mickey” Adelman ’10, an environmental engineer 7 Victor Goldman ’96, CEO of GoldBook Financial, was recently at Stantec in Pasadena, Calif., is working on the “Pure Water included in the Phoenix Business Journal’s Book of Lists in San Diego” water recycling program, the first approved surface the Employee Benefits Consultants and Insurance Brokerage water augmentation system in California. When complete, it will categories. The firm has 100 financial professionals headquartered provide one-third of San Diego’s water supply from a sustainable across four states. local source. 8 Dave Phraner ’61 published his new book, All-Service Vehicle, 6 Chris Shumeyko ’10 became president of the United States which tells the story of hybrid gas electric buses developed in the Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA), the national mid-1930s with 600 built for New Jersey. governing body for college snowsports. 9 Charlie Churchill ’83 painted a set of 12 large-format watercolors for Elmhurst Hospital Center’s new mother/baby wing. LAFAYETTE FALL 2020 75 FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Tracy Hagert Sutka ’82 P’17 president [email protected] Bringing Lafayette to You! ALUMNI RELATIONS eptember 10 was supposed to be the day that Rachel Nelson Moeller ’88 P’21 alumnae known as the First Women of Lafayette, executive director women who graduated between 1971 and 1981, [email protected] would reconvene on campus to celebrate the 50th SAnniversary of Coeducation at Lafayette. On Sept. 10, For a list of Alumni Council members 1970, 146 women joined the ranks of Lafayette students. and Alumni Relations staff, Plans had been in the works for over a year for this reunion, visit alumni.lafayette.edu yet another event on our calendars that was not going to 223 Pfenning Alumni Center happen—in person. Happily, the reunion took place via Easton, PA 18042-1768 Zoom with over 100 of the First Women participating. 610-330-5040 When former Alumni Association President Jonathan Fax: 610-330-5833 Ellis ’98 announced “Bringing Lafayette to You” as an [email protected] Alumni Council goal, he envisioned providing events for CLASS NOTES alumni who are located all over the world. Alumni could [email protected] gather in London to raise a glass at a Wine 3/9 celebration, participate in a Faculty Road Trip lecture given by a Dale Mack, graphic designer Lafayette professor in San Francisco, or attend a Lafayette–Lehigh live telecast party in Dallas. We never envisioned that at present EVERY alumni event really does “Bring Lafayette to You.” Visit lafayette.edu and choose Technology has enabled our faculty to continue teaching and advising, our students to “alumni” to learn about special events, continue learning and socializing, and our alumni to continue connecting and networking. the Alumni Association, benefits, One of the only positives I can muster up about the pandemic is that connecting travel, and volunteer opportunities. with alumni is not limited by geography. Homecoming this year has been rebranded Go to leopardlink.lafayette.edu Homecoming from Home! The College has conducted several Town Hall events where and log in with your Lafayette user President Byerly and College leadership provide updates and field questions from hundreds name to register for events, update of alumni. Over 2,000 alumni have “attended” one of the ConnectEd events that have your profile, share photos, and been planned by Alumni Relations and feature alumni and faculty. The First Women of connect through social media. Lafayette reunion reached alumnae who may not have been able to return to campus and in many cases, reunited women who had lost contact with Lafayette for decades. LafayetteCollegeAlumni Lafayette has made it a bit easier to volunteer, right from our homes and our screens. I was able to join College staff and several alumni at all of the summer Welcome Events, @LafayetteAlumni which took place in 16 locales from Seattle to Boston for incoming Class of ’24 students and their families. Zoom made it possible for record numbers of alumni to “bring Lafayette” to the newest members of the Lafayette community. FOR MORE CLASS NEWS The Gateway Center, which offers career advice and networking exchanges to all For all class news, photographs, baby and alumni, is creatively using technology to provide externships for students during winter wedding announcements, reunion planning, and break. Through the Explore and Connect program, alumni can virtually host a student more, go to leopardlink.lafayette.edu/classnotes. seeking career experience. To mentor a student, you can register on GatewayLink Click on “search,” then type in your class year. (gatewaylink.lafayette.edu), Lafayette’s own networking platform. Updates can be made through Leopard Link Please check out all the events listed on leopardlink.lafayette.edu. I also invite you to visit the or sent directly to your class correspondent. 50th Anniversary of Coeducation website, coeducation.lafayette.edu, with links to oral histories, To volunteer to serve as a correspondent, contact the Alumni Relations office. interviews, the Skillman virtual exhibition, and special events that will take place all year. Class Notes may be edited Alumni engagement is certainly different this fall, but your participation in all of these for length and clarity. virtual events and volunteer opportunities has been heartening. We Leopards want to Please upload notes to Leopard Link connect with and support our alma mater. Thank you for all you do for Lafayette. or pass them along to class correspondents by these deadlines: With Pard Pride, Spring Issue 12/15 Summer Issue 4/15 Fall Issue 8/15 Tracy Hagert Sutka ’82 P’17 President 76 LAFAYETTE FALL 2020 For more class news and photos, go to leopardlink.lafayette.edu/classnotes; click on “search,” then type in your class year. CLASS NOTES Research Laboratory. Art and Ginny presidency. Cashiers Rose was purchased then went to Dover, N.J., where Art was a by ConMet Corp. of Vancouver, Wash., 1951 supervisory electronics engineer at the U.S. and Ed was moved to supervise a new plant Your correspondent received a welcomed Armament Research and Development at Bryson City, N.C. He became president communication from Robert P. Hamlen Command, a longtime employment, from of the Cashiers division of ConMet, N.C., about Class Notes in the summer edition which he retired in 1983. from which he retired in 1995. The Cashiers of our magazine. Robert and Jean, his Art owned a “#7 three-quarter midget plant manufactured truck door-to-door wife, are retired, living at The Atrium, race car,” which he enjoyed racing on dashboards. Red Bank, N.J. Robert retired in 2014 as Friday nights at Pine Brook Raceway near Ed committed “The Cremation of Sam chief of the power division of the Army’s Parsippany, N.J. Art’s buddy from high McGee” by Robert Service to memory, communications-electronics research school was the driver, not Art. which he enjoyed reciting at social and engineering development of Ft. Arthur and Ginny, who survives him, functions. Monmouth, N.J., and Ft. Belvoir, Va. At were married 67 years. He and Ginny Ed and Jean traveled extensively, visiting Lafayette, Robert was a Phi Beta Kappa, enjoyed recreational trips across the “back countries of Europe and the Pacific, a student of chemistry, and he earned roads” of the country. Art was a friendly including Japan, Korea, and China. A a Ph.D. in 1956 in physical chemistry at and likeable fellow to everyone. vacation to Hawaii is especially memorable Johns Hopkins. Robert also completed Art was a “tinkerer,” which he to Jean, who took up playing golf with Ed, an advanced management program at enjoyed doing in his basement garage which they enjoyed near home in North Harvard Business School. Robert’s career and workshops. Art was an asset to his Carolina, golf Mecca of the U.S. concentrated on batteries and fuel cells. Parsippany neighborhood. He fixed Ed enjoyed an outstanding business He was CEO of Exxon’s battery division everyone’s electronic devices in his garage career but is said not to have been fond of and oversaw the development of the first clinic, and he was also a kids’ popular adult “corporate” life. rechargeable lithium battery for sonar who fixed dozens of needy bicycles, all with Our classmate John H. Carpenter, 95, watches and other instruments. Robert a smile and a “you’re welcome” to the kids’ of Parkville, Md., electrical engineer, died also managed the development of alu power “thank you.” July 12.