THE GAME CHANGER Deloitte’S Cathy Engelbert ’86 Is the First Woman to Lead a Major U.S

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THE GAME CHANGER Deloitte’s Cathy Engelbert ’86 is the first woman to lead a major U.S. professional services firm SALUTING THE CLASS OF 2015 Nearly 2,000 new graduates officially became Lehigh alumni during the university’s 147th commencement, held May 18, 2015 under sunny skies at Goodman Stadium. Photo by Ryan Hulvat

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Volume 101, Number 2, Summer 2015

DEPARTMENTS

3 LETTERS 4 FROM THE PRESIDENT

ON CAMPUS 6 A Milestone Worth Celebrating 7 FOUR QUESTIONS Bill Moyers 8 Introducing Data X 9 An Open Conversation 24 The Game Changer 10 The Case for Public Education 11 A Walk on the South Side Cathy Engelbert ’86 has made business history. Earlier this year, when she was named CEO of Deloitte LLP, she became the first woman to lead a major RESEARCH U.S. professional services firm.By Mary Ellen Alu 12 Cultivating Big Ideas at Mountaintop 13 SCHEMATIC: Global C0 Dispersion An Eye for War 2 30 14 Seeking Speedier Drug Delivery John Pettegrew examines the sense of sight as an effective tool for making war. 16 Reality Re-examined By Kelly Hochbein 17 The Domestic Inspiration for China’s Foreign Behavior

CULTURE 34 Putting Lehigh in Focus 18 A Visit from America’s Poet 19 The Invisible Red Silk Thread For more than a year, Chester Toye ’17 has been capturing the many faces of Lehigh as part of a public art project that he hopes will unify students and make 20 EXHIBIT el otro lado del alma campus a more open, welcoming place. By Mary Ellen Alu 21 Fashioning Furniture

ATHLETICS 22 Athletes to Watch. Teams to Watch 23 Coen: It’s Time to Turn the Page

NOTES 40 LEHIGH DISPATCH 74 IN REMEMBRANCE 80 NOSTALGIA: Reunions

ALUMNI PROFILES 43 Mark Osler ’98 and Bob Gallup ’86 58 Anthony Brichta ’04, ’05G

ON THE COVER: Cathy Engelbert ’86 drew headlines from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and other top outlets earlier this year, when she became the first woman CEO of powerhouse accounting and auditing firm Deloitte LLP. She sat down for an interview at Lehigh and posed for a photo shoot at Deloitte’s Manhattan headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Photo by Christa Neu

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STAFF

EDITOR Tim Hyland [email protected]

ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mary Ellen Alu, Kurt Pfitzer, Kelly Hochbein

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Geoff Gehman, Lori Friedman, Rob Nichols

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Kurt Hansen

ART DIRECTOR Gearing up for the 150th Beth Murphy DESIGNER From one celebration to the next Ryan Wise

PHOTOGRAPHER Christa Neu It seems like only yesterday that the Lehigh sat down with Bulletin associate editor Mary El- community assembled in New York to celebrate len Alu for an interview shortly after assuming BUSINESS SUPPORT Sue Gaugler the 150th playing of The Rivalry, our storied her new role, and in our cover story (“The Game football series against that school over in Easton. Changer,” Pg. 24), you can find out how this Le- CONTACT US But even with the memories of that weekend still high pioneer managed to break the Big Four’s Lehigh University Alumni Association 27 Memorial Drive West fresh in our minds, we now find ourselves pre- glass ceiling—while also finding enough time to Bethlehem, PA 18015-3734 paring for yet another celebration this fall. coach her daughter’s basketball team. (610) 758-3135  Fax: (610) 758-3316 Or, actually, a few of them. In May, Lehigh announced an exciting new Hotline: (610) 758-alum As we put this summer issue of the Lehigh initiative that will vastly expand its capacities for Bulletin to bed, everyone here on South Moun- teaching and research in computer science and CLASS NOTES AND REMEMBRANCES tain is working diligently to prepare campus for data analytics. Through Data X (“Introducing Diana Skowronski a truly historic occasion. Data X,” Pg. 8), the university will not only re- (610) 758-3675 In early October, Lehigh faculty, staff, stu- cruit new faculty working in computer science, [email protected] dents, alumni and friends will gather to celebrate marketing, bioengineering, journalism and oth- SUBSCRIBERS the kickoff of our university’s 150th anniversary. er fields, but also expand course offerings and For address changes, send the mailing label, along with Events will span four days, Oct. 1-Oct. 4, and will provide more Lehigh students than ever before your new address, to: include a very special Founder’s Day celebration; the opportunity to acquire a grounding in this Alumni Records / Lehigh University 125 Goodman Drive John D. Simon’s formal installation as our 14th increasingly essential field. Bethlehem, PA 18015-3055 President; a campus-wide block party; the ded-  From soccer to cross country, women’s 610-758-3015 ication of the newly renovated Williams Hall; a volleyball to football, there is much optimism [email protected] Homecoming showdown against Yale; a series surrounding Lehigh athletics as the fall season ADVERTISING of academic and cultural events, and so much approaches. In our fall sports preview (Pg. 22), Sue Gaugler Lehigh University more. It figures to be quite a weekend, and one you can read up on all of the teams and all of the 125 Goodman Drive well worth looking forward to. You can learn more athletes that figure to make an impact this fall. Bethlehem, PA 18015-3754 (610) 758-3015 about all of the events surrounding the 150th We hope you enjoy this issue of the Bulletin [email protected] weekend—and additional events that will take and welcome you, as always, to contact us with LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN place throughout the 2015-2016 academic year— questions, comments, criticisms or praise (we’re Vol. 101, No. 2, Summer 2015 on pages 38-39. especially welcoming of the latter). You can Of course, there is plenty more worth reading email me directly at [email protected], or send Published three times a year by the Lehigh University Communications in this issue, including the following: snail mail to the address at the right. and Public Affairs Office, in coop-  Lehigh prides itself on educating great Thanks as always for reading. And go Lehigh. eration with the Lehigh University leaders. And “great leader” is certainly a fair de- Alumni Association, Inc. scription of the woman who graces our cover this month. Cathy Engelbert ’86 made history earlier this year when, by being named CEO of De- loitte LLP, she became the first woman to lead a Sincerely, major U.S. professional services firm. Engelbert Tim Hyland, Editor

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in February. They were co-captains Dan Nolan leaps across the goal line and part of a very strong team for for the first touchdown in a 1957 game three years (you could only play against Columbia University. varsity for three years at that time). The team won the Lambert Cup. Dan and Pete were on The Ed Sulli- van Show, and both are in the Lehigh Hall of Fame. Most importantly, the two were outstanding individuals. I believe a brief review of their careers would be fitting and well-received by your readers. I hope you agree that this might be a good time to comment on some past glory days and honor two Lehigh past stand- outs. Thank you for your consider- ation on this matter. Richard T. Briggs ’58

Editor’s Note: Dan Nolan ’58 led Lehigh to a 22-5 record over three seasons as quarterback, including an 8-1 season in 1957 en route to Lehigh’s first-ever Lambert Cup trophy. Nolan, who received a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy, played a brief stint with the Pitts- burgh Steelers before becoming a KARL MARX OR THE MARX BROTHERS? Roman Catholic priest. Just some comments on Phil Edmunds’ letter. Pete Williams ’58 captained His political diatribe calling Barack Obama a Marxist, without any the 1957 squad and went on to backup evidence, is appalling. earn All-America, All-East and During his term in office, the stock market has more than doubled in All-Pennsylvania distinction value, financial institutions have been rescued, and two major automakers that same season. He earned his saved. Some Marxist! degree in business administration I, too, am a Marxist! But I don’t adhere to Karl’s philosophy but to those and went on to spend 38 years at brothers who made all those delightful comedies in the 1930s and 1940s. In IBM, where he worked in human fact, I think he is a Marxist, too. Like Harpo, Mr. Edmunds just honks his resources, both domestic and horn. But many of us are not laughing. international. Myron “Mike” Pomerantz ’47 The football team gained national attention when it ON POLITICS AND FOOTBALL received the Lambert Cup I appreciated Phil Edmunds’ reminder of Andy Larko’s heroics in the 1961 on The Ed Sullivan Show. Lehigh-Lafayette game. Andy was a good friend and teammate of my fraternity brother in Beta Theta Pi, Ed Winchester. HALL OF FAMERS With respect to the political side of Phil’s letter, I remember Martin Co-captains Dan Wolf’s (he is the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times) Nolan, left, and Pete Williams led writing that President Obama was a “pragmatic centrist” and being puz- the Lehigh team zled how he could be characterized otherwise. I am also grateful that the that won the Supreme Court is dealing with ObamaCare and not considering whether to Lambert Cup. take away our Medicare coverage. Bob Coo ’63

IN REMEMBRANCE OF TWO HALL OF FAMERS As the result of two recent deaths from the Class of 1958, I believe a brief article concerning Lehigh football in the late ’50s might make for a well-received article in the Lehigh Bulletin. The two men who were so important a part of Lehigh football were Dan Nolan, quarterback, and Pete Williams, tackle (offense and defense). Unfortunately we lost Dan [in 2013] and Pete

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‘An Experience Like No Other’ Reflections on a year in the Lehigh presidency

By Kevin L. Clayton ’84, ’13P, Interim President

ty initiative that will expand Lehigh’s capacities for teaching and learning in computer and data science across our four colleges. We are also taking the initial steps in an ambitious campaign to update our campus. We’re calling it Creative Spaces, and it will focus on the renovations of the University Center, Chan- dler-Ullmann, and Christmas-Saucon. We also made significant progress with respect to furthering our partnership with the City of Bethle- hem. We partnered with the Bethlehem Economic Development Corporation to reinvigorate the South Bethlehem community by launching the Community Ambassadors Program. In addition, we embarked on a series of collaborative initiatives aimed at providing enhanced safety for our students and community residents alike. JOHN KISH IV This was undoubtedly a year brimming with ac- There was nothing “interim” about the wonderful year we had at complishments, both inside and outside the class- Lehigh University, thanks to the hard work, dedication, and patience room, for so many members of the Lehigh family. of a lot of people. Their successes are our successes. And Lehigh’s fu- From academic achievements to athletic triumphs to community ture is extremely bright. engagement in South Bethlehem, the members of our campus com- This past academic year we selected John D. Simon munity challenged themselves, gave of themselves and achieved much to serve as our 14th president. Having had the oppor- for Lehigh. tunity to spend significant time with John on the Lehigh shined brightly on the national stage as we celebrated the transition over the past several months, I could not be 150th playing of The Rivalry in New York City. The nation took notice more confident that we have found the right individu- as we rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange and as Le- al to move Lehigh forward. John has immersed him- high’s Choral Arts performed at Carnegie Hall. Our fiercely loyal alumni self in learning about our past, our present, and our from near and far gathered to support our football team at Yankee Sta- aspirations for the future. He has reached out to and dium. Though we may not have emerged victorious from that particu- connected with members of our community. With larly iconic gridiron, our Lehigh pride remained steadfast, as always. the entire campus community in support of John, I Here on campus, we were thoughtfully engaged on a number of know Lehigh will exceed its goals. fronts. We welcomed the Class of 2018, one of the most academically Like all of you, I look forward to celebrating our impressive and diverse classes ever admitted to Lehigh. We hosted Sesquicentennial this fall. And I am eager to witness great minds and stimulated powerful conversations across cam- an even brighter future, ushered in by the thought- pus. A few examples would include the MLK Celebration, a lecture ful and dynamic leadership of our new president and by Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie, journalist Bill Moyers giving the the hardworking and brilliant individuals that make Tresolini Lecture, alum Brooks Zug speaking as part of the Gruhn Lehigh great: our faculty, staff, students, alumni, and Distinguished Finance Speaker Series, and the inaugural Women in local community. Business conference. Our campus community made notable strides I’ve had many unforgettable Lehigh experiences in toward improving our campus climate and becoming more inclusive, my lifetime. This past academic year, in which I had as evidenced by the further empowering of the Council for Equity the opportunity to lead our great university as your and Community (CEC). interim president, has been a tremendously positive Our world-renowned faculty continued to challenge our students experience like no other. It has truly been an honor and conduct meaningful and innovative research that only furthered to serve in this role. I thank you for your unwavering Lehigh’s reputation as one of the nation’s top universities. Our amaz- confidence and support. ing students analyzed, achieved, spoke up and spoke out, making new We should all be extremely proud of what we’ve ac- discoveries through our many innovative and exciting programs such complished together this past year. Our beloved alma as Mountaintop. Thanks to the approval and endorsement of our mater is extremely well positioned for the next 150 Board of Trustees, we officially launched Data X, a strategic universi- years. Go Lehigh!

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erd Thun’s Lehigh legacy will touch generations of students for as long as the university stands. Serving as Lehigh’s director of Planned Giving from 1973 to 1995, Thun built an advancement Fprogram focused on raising scholarship support and increasing the university’s endowment–two resources that ensure talented students can receive an excellent Lehigh education regardless of their ability to pay. Thun credits his wife, Elizabeth, with helping him develop relationships with some of Lehigh’s most generous benefactors. “The diversity of the student body is important, and investment in the scholarship program is really needed to maintain that balance,” said Thun, who believes so deeply in supporting bright students and attracting a distinctive student body that he established two scholarships that have already helped 13 young men and women. To assist in building the best incoming class from a diverse community, one of the Thun scholarships is offered to undergraduate students whose parents immigrated to the United States and became U.S. citizens. Thun has many fond memories of his own experiences as an active Lehigh student. He was a member of Sigma Chi and also a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honorary fraternity. He enjoyed being editor of the Epitome yearbook and said it was like “running a small business.” He holds the late Dr. Robert D. Stout ’41G ’44G, his former metallurgy professor and advisor, in the highest regard. After graduation, Thun was an engineer at SKF Industries for almost a decade before joining the university staff. While at Lehigh, he created the Tower Society to recognize alumni and friends whose generous gifts support the endowment program. This fall, the Tower Society will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. Thun has been honored for decades of professional and volunteer service that he provided his alma mater. He received three of Lehigh’s prestigious awards: the Paul J. Franz Award, the James Ward Packerd Award, and the Alumni Award. He continues to generously support the university and established a Charitable Remainder Unitrust and two additional gift annuities with Lehigh. By doing so, Thun has provided for Lehigh’s future and receives “good income” during his lifetime. “There are a lot of advantages to having a long- range plan, especially tax advantages,” he said. Thun reflects that from his college days through retirement, Lehigh has been very rewarding to him. “Everything I’ve done with the university has worked out well. That is why I For information on how you stay close to Lehigh.” can make an impact through a planned gift, please contact Lorraine Wiedorn ’84G ’13P ’17P at (610) 758-4874. ON CAMPUS NEWS FROM LEHIGH

A Milestone Worth Celebrating Lehigh readies for its Sesquicentennial

In the summer of 1865, Asa Packer—entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist—made good on ENDOWMENT GRANT: his promise to give back to the region that had ALUMNI, FRIENDS given him so much. He founded Lehigh Univer- DELIVER ON GLOBAL sity with the hope that the university would EDUCATION provide the young people of the Lehigh Valley In 2011, Lee Iacocca ’45 with the knowledge to succeed in a fast-chang- challenged Lehigh alumni and ing world. friends to match a $5 million A century and a half later, the Lehigh com- endowment grant that he munity is getting ready to celebrate not only FIGURE 1 provided for students to gain Packer’s great vision, but also what the univer- life-changing international sity he built has become—and where it’s headed internship experiences. in the years to come. Since then, 43 donors have

This October figures to be one of the most ex- In 1865, answered the call, collec- citing in Lehigh history, as students, faculty, Asa Packer tively doubling the fund that staff, alumni and friends will kick off a year of celebration commemorating the donated 57 will ensure opportunities of acres on South university’s Sesquicentennial. From Thursday, Oct. 1, through Sunday, Oct. 4, Le- Mountain and real-world global learning for high’s campus will come to life with a series of events, from the formal installation $500,000— students in perpetuity. of John D. Simon as president to a weekend-long 150th block party to the dedica- the largest “Today, 40 percent of gift to any tion of the newly renovated Williams Hall and more. educational Lehigh students participate The celeberations will begin on Oct. 1 with the kickoff 150th block party, facility at the in a study abroad or interna- time—to which will take place at locations on and around campus and will include a stu- establish tional internship program,” dent talent show, academic events, guest speakers, concerts, a farmer’s market Lehigh said Interim President and more. That same day, the university will formally rename Campus Square in University. Kevin Clayton ’84, ’13P. “The honor of Gregory C. Farrington, who served as president from 1998 through 2006 generosity of Lee Iacocca and and made great strides in building stronger bonds between Lehigh and its com- others has positioned Lehigh munity. The next day, the campus community will gather for the annual Found- to stay in the forefront of er’s Day celebration, which this year will be made all the more special as Simon preparing students to lead in is officially installed into office as Lehigh’s 14th president. A community parade global careers.” will follow, along with a campus-wide birthday party featuring food, entertain- Program interns are se- ment and a light show. lected through a competitive Saturday, Oct. 3, will feature a packed schedule—from the Williams Hall ded- application process. Iacocca’s ication to a special Homecoming tailgate to the Mountain Hawks’ big showdown initial gift enabled 10 interns against Yale—while Sunday will see the block party reach a fever pitch with con- to work abroad in 2012. Be- certs, lectures, art exhibits and more happening all throughout campus and South cause of the funding increase Bethlehem. from other donors, 68 interns Even more events are being planned for the week- traveled to 23 countries in end-long celebration, and additional gatherings will be 2014 to immerse themselves held at Lehigh and elsewhere throughout the remainder in the culture of their desti- of the year. To keep up to date with the latest schedule, nation. The endowment fund and to find information on tickets and more, visit will now allow 85 students to lehigh.edu/150.—Tim Hyland participate annually.

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FOUR QUESTIONS WITH Bill Moyers, Legendary Journalist

STATE OF AFFAIRS Journalist Bill Moyers, who visited Lehigh in April, on politics, Selma CHRISTA NEU and global warming

You officially retired—again— not change the world, but we can march. He didn’t. From his years Sen. James Inhofe, 1 from public television. The shame the guilty. Then, get behind in Congress he was a master of 4 R-Oklahoma, chair of the last time you retired, it was for 17 the movement to amend the Consti- timing and he believed Congress Senate Environment Committee, days. What might coax you out of tution to declare that corporations wasn’t ready to take up another brought a snowball to the Senate are not people and money is not floor earlier this year to discredit retirement one more time? The major bill (on voting rights) so speech. Check it out at freespeech- global warming. Given the critical 2016 presidential race? soon after enacting the Civil Rights forpeople.org. Start a local chapter. nature of this issue, how would I was 70 when I first retired and 75 Get political (which means linking Act of 1964. But as the march you characterize our national when I retired a second time. At 80 arms with kindred spirits, even if on Selma unfolded and the white discourse? it’s for real. If I have any contribution they are only a few, where you live). supremacists viciously attacked the to make next year, it will be to help marchers, he moved immediately Half the country is serious about others be heard. We need many new and within days called on Congress it, the other half is in denial. and younger voices speaking up for As LBJ’s press secretary, to act. Also, the film minimizes the And James Inhofe and his crowd democracy. 3 you had a front-row seat to drama of the speech he made to will appear in history as willfully the civil rights movement’s critical Congress in which he turned the ignorant philistines who sabotaged You have been passionate moments. While you found the mantra of the civil rights move- the future. 2 about ‘the corrupting power film Selma to be powerful, you ment—“We shall overcome!”—into of money in politics.’ What’s the also found it flawed. What best chance for change? concerned you most? a national exercise of will. It was one of the great dramatic moments First, tell the truth: as the late President Johnson was made of American history and the film- Jessica Mitford once said, we may to appear as if he opposed the maker missed it.

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Introducing Data X New initiative will expand Lehigh’s capacities for teaching, research and learning in computer and data science

According to government estimates, there will be FIGURE 2 chair of computer science and engineering. Lopresti’s 1.4 million new computing-based jobs cutting across all work in fundamental algorithmic and systems-related fields and industries by 2020, but only 400,000 college questions in pattern recognition, bioinformatics and graduates qualified to fill them. Lehigh aims to ensure computer security has placed him at the forefront of his that its graduates are better equipped to join those ranks. field. “Computer science as a field has grown over the Interim President Kevin Clayton and Provost Pat- past several decades to infuse basically every discipline rick V. Farrell have announced the launch of Data X, at Lehigh,” Lopresti said. “Software and data impacts a strategic initiative that will significantly expand Le- everything that we do now and is pervasive in business The Bureau high’s capacities in computer science and related fields, of Labor and industry as well.” while increasing access to such courses for students of Statistics Student enrollment in computer science courses all majors. Through Data X, Lehigh will hire new facul- projects that at Lehigh has increased 163 percent in five years. By over the next ty in computer science, marketing, bioengineering and 10 years, half investing in Data X, Lehigh hopes to meet this rising journalism, infuse computer science concepts into areas of all jobs that demand and give students a competitive advantage in are created of study across the university, and position Lehigh as a will be in a market where more employers rely on computer-sci- leader in a critical field. the area of ence competency. “Lehigh has long been a national leader in interdis- computing. The broader goals of Data X are to build upon Lehigh’s ciplinary teaching and research,” Clayton said. “Data X existing core of computer science courses, develop connec- will build upon this strength at a time when computer tions across the university’s four colleges and support cut- and data science are shaping discovery and development ting-edge research. The new faculty in computer science in our economy, culture and society.” and related fields will make computer and data science Data X will be led by Daniel Lopresti, department courses available to students from a wider range of disci-

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“COMPUTER SCIENCE An Open Conversation AS A FIELD HAS GROWN OVER President-elect John D. Simon answers student THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES questions in town hall meeting TO INFUSE BASICALLY EVERY DISCIPLINE AT LEHIGH ... Perched on a stool in Lamberton Hall and flanked by Provost Pat Far- SOFTWARE AND DATA IMPACTS rell and Brad Scheler ’74, chairman of Lehigh's board of trustees, Presi- dent-elect John D. Simon emphasized the importance of communication, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO NOW responsibility and trust during an April town hall meeting presented by Lehigh’s Student Senate. AND IS PERVASIVE IN BUSINESS Simon, Farrell and Scheler fielded student questions about various AND INDUSTRY AS WELL.” campus issues, including the role of student government, Greek life, global engagement, student housing, health, and diversity and inclusion. –DANIEL LOPRESTI When asked about the positives of Greek life in the Lehigh community, Simon addressed the value of structured community and the responsibility plines. They will join a distinguished group that that accompanies it. He also discussed how this type of community-build- includes six computer science and engineering ing is not limited to fraternities and sororities, and how the residential ex- professors who have received the National Sci- perience is an essential part of learning. ence Foundation’s (NSF) CAREER Award. Simon stressed the role of communication in a campus community, “The market now for computer science is noting that “you can’t discuss the issues when you’re in crisis. incredibly aggressive,” said Lopresti. “A strate- “Lehigh is not in crisis. It’s an important conversation to have when you gic initiative like this is exactly what we need can sit down and really talk about what goes on," he said. "Having that con- to compete for the very best talent.” versation in the absence of crisis will allow us to work together better if we Lehigh is uniquely positioned for the ini- do have a crisis.” tiative. Its location between Philadelphia and Simon emphasized, however, that the absence of crisis does not indi- New York places it in the center of an area of cate the absence of serious issues. It's essential, he said, that the university rapidly emerging innovation and offers an be willing to listen. opportunity for partnerships with regional “Unless we’re really will- companies that have global reach. In addition, ing to have a very serious and Lehigh’s commitment to interdisciplinary open dialogue about these is- studies and research gives students of all back- sues, what drives these issues, grounds the chance to utilize the most recent what it is about the culture of technologies in data and computer science. the institution that needs to David Griffith, professor and chair of mar- be changed to actually make keting, called the links between computer progress on these issues, we science and marketing "exciting"—and said won’t make progress,” said Lehigh through Data X is "poised to make a big Simon. splash in the area of marketing analytics." For Students in attendance his part, Jack Lule, department chair of jour- appreciated having the op- nalism and communication, said incorporat- portunity to share their ing digital media into Data X is a logical step. thoughts with the university “The biggest thing that’s happening within leadership. journalism right now is what’s happening at “[Simon, Farrell and Lehigh,” said Lule. “The disciplines are com- Scheler] all were really recep- ing together and different groups are working NEU CHRISTA tive to everything undergrad- on the same problems. The most interesting uates and graduate students brought up, and I think the conversation was questions and answers are coming at the edges a really good one,”said Kerry Mallett ’15, president of the Student Senate. of these disciplines.” “I don’t think we could have found anybody on the planet better than Anand Jagota, professor of chemical and John Simon to be our next president,” said Scheler. “I have to say that I biomolecular engineering, said Data X arrives didn’t think he’d be such a dedicated consumer of Lehigh paraphernalia, as huge advances are being made in market- which is great, but I think that if you had said, ‘Design for us an ideal of who ing and data analytics and in bioengineering. should be our next president,’ we achieved that.” “Data X plays upon our existing strengths,” To Scheler’s point, Simon, who wore a Lehigh sweatshirt over his he said. “It’s a natural way for us to proceed.” dress shirt, revealed that he’s been reading up on—and is excited about— —Kelly Hochbein Lehigh’s traditions. To learn more about Data X, visit lehigh.edu/ “I think if my back will tolerate it, I’m going to do the bed races,” he said datax. with a laugh.—Kelly Hochbein

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U.N. PARTNERSHIP This academic year marked the 10th anniversary of Lehigh’s partnership with one of the world’s most influential organizations, the United Nations. In 2004, Lehigh became just the sixth university in the world to gain official recognition as a nongovernmental organization by the U.N. De- partment of Public Informa- CHRISTA NEU CHRISTA NEU A Case For Public Education Activist Diane Ravitch calls public education the ‘civil rights tion. Thanks to the relation- issue of our time’ in appearance at Lehigh ship, students and faculty can attend U.N. programs and host international dignitaries and events on campus. “Having U.N. NGO status Education historian and Activist Diane Ravitch, a lightning rod in the distinguishes Lehigh from its national debate on school reform, presented her case for public education in a peers,” says Bill Hunter, direc- well-received lecture in February at the Zoellner Arts Center. tor of international outreach Hosted by Lehigh’s College of Education, Ravitch engaged in an imaginary, yet and manager of the program at spirited, debate with a school reformer who she said likely would argue that the Lehigh. “We have taken a very nation’s public schools are failing, test scores are declining and drastic measures FIGURE 3 proactive and formal initiative are needed to save the nation from certain ruin. to engage directly with global As she fiercely countered those contentions, Ravitch argued that public schools decision-makers. Lehigh must be saved for a future generation of children. She called the protection of pub- students now have open door lic education from attempts at privatization as “the civil rights issue of our time.” Craig Hochbein, access to one of the world’s assistant “The public schools are the people’s schools,” said Ravitch, author of Reign of most important bodies, a place professor of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Pub- where decisions regarding Educational lic Schools. “Their doors are open to all… Public education must be, as we once Leadership their future are made.” at Lehigh, hoped, a bastion of equal opportunity. Public education is a public trust. It is not In 2006, Lehigh created questions the a business opportunity.” content of the world’s first NGO Youth education Ravitch, recently named by Education Week as the education scholar with the Representative Program, activist Diane greatest public influence, spoke at Lehigh as part of COE’s Distinguished Lecture which allows students to work Ravitch’s Series. The College of Education plans to host a speaker who presents an opposing lecture. with NGOs from around the To read his view in the fall. world. The model has been ad- commentary, Ravitch was an assistant secretary of education and counselor to education opted by the U.N. worldwide. go to go.lehigh. secretary Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H. W. Bush edu/ravitchcom Lehigh makes the U.N. ac- mentary from 1991 to 1993. She is a research professor at New York University’s Steinhardt cessible to all students, help- School of Culture, Education and Human Development. ing faculty members integrate In an hourlong presentation, Ravitch argued that public schools are not failing it into their curricula. and cited several factors: National Assessment of Educational Progress test scores and graduation rates are at their highest in U. S. history and dropout rates are at A DOCUMENTARY their lowest. ABOUT THE PROGRAM’S “Public schools are not mediocre,” she said. “They reflect their communi- HISTORY AND ITS FUTURE IS ties. Some are outstanding. Some are good but not great. Some are the heart of AVAILABLE AT GO.LEHIGH.EDU/ their community. Some struggle because they serve impoverished communities. UNITEDNATIONS We should help them, not close them.”—Mary Ellen Alu

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A Walk on the South Side Lehigh grad student aims to improve walkability, and perceptions, on Bethlehem’s South Side

Michael DeCrosta ’11, ’15G is hoping it’s the little things that will make a big difference on Bethle- hem’s South Side. With a $2,500 Lehigh grant, DeCrosta is hoping to improve walkability on the side streets that link the lower part of the Asa Packer campus to Third and Fourth streets and the South Bethlehem Gre- enway. Those side streets, he said, are “a necessary component” to South Side’s revitalization. “There’s sort of this perception of the South Side as being unsafe or being dirty or being dangerous,” said DeCrosta, who conducted online surveys with students and focus groups to gauge views. “That’s a really simplified view of what it is. In the big picture, the South Side is a really cool place. “There are good restaurants, there’s a big arts CHRISTA NEU culture, there are really cool small businesses,” he said. In addition to ArtsQuest, which provides art and educational programs, he pointed to the Gre- enway, a linear park built atop a Norfolk Southern right-of-way. “There are all of these great things in Lehigh's Environmental Initiative, and Karen Beck Pooley, who also teaches that I feel students could be interacting with more courses at Lehigh through the Environmental Initiative. He also reached out to that would make them even greater.” Dale Kochard, Lehigh’s assistant vice president of community and regional af- In his conversations with students, DeCrosta fairs, who helped him connect with key people on campus. tried to figure out why they had a poor opinion of “Small impacts done in multiples can have a larger impact,” Kochard said. the South Side, especially since there were many “The overall vibrancy of a commercial community is dependent on how many businesses they frequent. What kept coming up as feet you can put on the ground.” issues were the side streets that connect Third and Lehigh also has partnered with Bethlehem to create the Community Am- Fourth streets, including Adams and Webster. bassadors Program, with services that include daily removal of litter and graffiti As a first step, DeCrosta and other students fo- from public areas and the maintenance of tree wells and flowers. cused their attention on a section of Adams Street “There’s a lot happening on the South Side,” said Kochard. “A lot is in the that students view as dark, dirty and sort of mys- works, both big and small.” terious and where Lehigh has a storage warehouse DeCrosta is hoping fellow Lehigh students will build on the momentum. that looms large on the block. Murals and better “Every sort of second that students feel uncomfortable sort of sticks with lighting are among their proposals. them and feeds into this perception that the South Side is this awful, dangerous, In applying for the Lehigh grant, DeCrosta was unsafe place,” DeCrosta said. “It also makes them less likely to go back in the guided by Breena Holland, associate professor of future and that hurts small businesses, that hurts the student experience. That’s political science and a participating faculty member not good for anyone.”—Mary Ellen Alu

HERE’S WHAT DECROSTA WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN:

Murals Lighting and Bike Rack Though Lehigh has plans Dumpster relocation Since Adams Street to rehab its storage ware- DeCrosta and fellow intersects with the house, DeCrosta is look- students Emily Gibbs Greenway, DeCrosta is ing to have murals put in and Eddie Morgan hoping to install a bike the building’s indented are talking with man- rack in the area and spaces as a temporary agement at Campus Hill Side porch restoration put up a message way to brighten the area. Apartments to improve DeCrosta wants to paint board where people The murals could be lit street lighting and the building’s side porch can hang fliers. by small solar-powered relocate a Dumpster. in historically appropriate LEDs and be representa- colors and repaint the tive of the South Side. Lehigh University sign He is seeking approvals. on the building.

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Cultivating Big Ideas at Mountaintop In its third summer, Lehigh’s unique Mountaintop initiative will see more than 150 students working on 38 different projects

2015 PROJECTS On opening day, students and mentors arranged tables and chairs, rolled out rugs, set up desks and even café umbrellas, defining the spaces in which they will collaborate on projects that include:

Designing exoskeleton appliances to aid in rehabilitation for patients with muscle disorders of the hand

Examining the geography of bias using data-driven techniques to answer novel questions about how biases vary geographically, and the underlying reasons for why CHRISTA NEU CHRISTA

Big ideas need room to grow. They also need quite a few whiteboards. Creating an agricultural A sea of whiteboards—some immaculate and untouched, others already covered with system that can be colorful preliminary thoughts—awaited the teams of students who arrived on May 19, one maintained in extreme day after Commencement, at the soaring former Bethlehem Steel research bays that today conditions with as few serve as home to Lehigh’s Mountaintop project. supplies as possible Now in its third year, the Mountaintop initiative—which has drawn coverage from The New York Times, Fast Company and numerous other media outlets—this summer will host Exploring the technical 151 students and 44 faculty mentors working on 38 projects cutting across all disciplines. aspects of ocean wave “It was exciting to have the first students and mentors here at 7:30 a.m. to set up their energy, an emerging source of work spaces,” said Alan Snyder, vice president and associate provost for research and grad- clean, renewable electricity uate studies. “It will be more exciting to see what they do as they explore their topics and develop their ideas.” Using advanced design Some participants arrived already equipped with big ideas. Some are starting from scratch. tools in combination with In an area labeled “Fort sDev” on a whiteboard at the heart of their team’s space, Chase vernacular materials to Brewster ’16, Erin Sowell ’16 and Carolyn Koch ’16 gathered around a table. Each will work advance the quality of on a separate sustainable development project, the details of which remain—for now— specific building components somewhat undefined. Brewster, Sowell and Koch’s teams will address sustainable 3D (blocks, roofs, windows, doors, printing, filtration and ocean farming, respectively. “It’s very open,” Brewster said. “When structure) in the context you do chem labs freshman year, you fill in the blank. Here [we say], ‘Well, here’s our goal. of West Africa to improve Let’s see what’s going to happen.’” environmental performance Nearby, under a café umbrella set up for a “summery vibe,” Celia Fung ’15 met with grad- and occupant experience uate student Nick Ungson ’13 and mentor Dominic Packer, associate professor of psychology. Their group—which also includes Devon Carter ’16, Nathan Keim ’17, Alexandra Pizzuto ’17 and Audra McComb ’17—plans to use data to examine how intergroup biases vary by location. “[Biases are] still out there and it’s having a huge effect,” Fung said. “This project is significant because we’re actually examining data and delving more into the subject.” Added Packer: “Our goal is to find something new that hasn’t been studied before. We’ll see if we can pull that off.”To learn more about the Mountaintop initiative, visit lehigh.edu/ mountaintop.—Kelly Hochbein

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SCHEMATIC Global CO2 dispersion

1 CO2 in the air… The authors’ 1 model shows atmospheric levels of CO2 rising from 280 parts per million in 1850 to 390 ppm in 2008. Depending on future emission rates, atmospheric CO2 levels by 2100 could range from 450 to 900 ppm.

2 …and water Due to CO2 growth in the oceans, the model projects a worldwide oceanic pH level 2 of 8.25 in 1850 falling to 8.10 by 2015 and to 7.8 by 2100.

3 The CaCO3 factor Because 3 acidity rises as pH drops, the model forecasts declining oceanic levels of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), a function of pH and a key ingredient of coral reefs and animal shells. HARRY CAMPBELL HARRY

An Introductory Global CO2 Model by William software programming languages Matlab and R, Schiesser and Anthony McHugh, professors of and historic and current data to chart and project chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Brit- the levels of global carbon dioxide from 1850 to ish colleague Graham W. Griffiths is scheduled to 2100 in the upper and lower atmosphere, in long- be published in July by World Scientific Publishing and short-lived biota, in the upper and lower lay- Co. The book uses ordinary differential equations, ers of the ocean, and in the marine biosphere.

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Seeking Speedier Drug Delivery An electrical engineer seeks to streamline discovery of epilepsy medications

About 125,000 Americans each year develop epilepsy, a brain disease marked by recurring seizures that are sudden and unpredictable and can have dangerous and even fatal consequences. There is no known cure, but medications can control seizures. Some 30 percent of epilepsy patients, however, suffer seizures that do not respond to existing medications, says Yevgeny Berdichevsky. And the PUBLISHED MELODRA- gradual onset and slow progression of the disease complicate efforts by re- MA’S SOCIAL IMAGINA- searchers to identify and test new anticonvulsant drugs quickly. TION Melodrama is criticized Berdichevsky, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engi- for favoring sensationalism neering, recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to over subtlety, says Matthew help speed the process of drug discovery by testing multiple potential epilep- Bush, but it is a central sy medications simultaneously. By performing drug assays on 1-inch-square element in both high and pop- chips imprinted with microwells, he reduces the area required to grow indi- ular culture. Bush, assistant vidual epilepsy cultures, or tissue samples, and makes it possible to test as professor of Spanish, is the many as 18 drug candidates at one time. author of Pragmatic Passions: A network of microfluidic channels divides the samples into experimen- Melodrama and Latin Amer- tal groups while enabling the “feeding” of the samples, which require large ican Social Narrative, which amounts of glucose and amino acids. The channels, which Berdichevsky is was published late last year by developing with help from Jing Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineer- Iberoamericana / Vervuert. ing, also facilitate the application of drugs, inhibitors and other molecules. YEVGENY The book discusses five The individual research techniques that Berdichevsky employs—im- BERDICHEVSKY, novels: The Death of Artemio assistant professor printing electrodes on a chip and patterning the chip surface with microflu- of electrical Cruz by Carlos Fuentes of idics—are well-established. What makes his approach novel, he says, is com- and computer Mexico, Gabriela, Clove and bining the two techniques to engineering, seeks Cinnamon by Jorge Amado perform experimental tests to speed up the of Brazil, Doña Barbara by process of drug on 3D tissue samples. Rómulo Gallegos of Venezuela, discovery. “Our goal is to increase Tungsten by César Vallejo of the rate of drug development Peru and Bewitched by Love by by significantly improving the Roberto Arlt of Argentina. scalability of long-term elec- Each literary work, says trical monitoring of epileptic Bush, has inspired telenovela, activity in vitro,” he says. “In film and theatrical adaptations. the end, the testing of multi- Several have been adapted to ple drugs at a time is an engi- the screen more than once. neering problem.” In Pragmatic Passions, Bush Berdichevsky hopes to maintains that melodrama is scale up his testing plat- utilized to highlight injustices form so that it can screen while chronicling trends in

LINDA NYE LINDA small-molecule inhibitor can- society and politics. didates in drug libraries. “What we’re doing is early-stage drug target discov- “People tend to think that ery. If we find that a molecule inhibits epileptic activity, that tells us what melodrama is simplistic,” says protein is causing epileptic activity and would be a good target for a drug.” Bush, “and that it is just for Berdichevsky, a faculty member in Lehigh's bioengineering program, passive consumption, which began studying epilepsy five years ago at Massachusetts General Hospi- supposedly typifies popular tal. He and his collaborators, including graduate and undergraduate stu- culture. That’s not necessarily dents, have published articles in The Journal of Neuroscience, Lab on a the case. Melodrama plays Chip, the Journal of Neuroscience Methods and the Neurobiology of Disease. on people’s anxieties and on —Kurt Pfitzer their thinking about the way society works.”

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biggest obstacles to its commercial use in the Israel E. Wachs, left, and Christopher Kiely liquefaction of natural gas. Wachs and Podkolzin demonstrated that this deactivation can be re- versed and catalytic activity fully restored. They also showed that the distribution of the molybdenum nanostructures can be controlled, enhanc- ing catalytic activity. This improvement could make it easier to process natural gas into liquid fuels and chemical feedstocks, the researchers say, and could help reduce the more than 140 billion cubic meters of natural gas that are discharged each year into the atmosphere, often at remote oil wells where shipment of natural gas is not feasible. The other coauthors of the Science article were Jie Gao and Yiteng Zheng of Stevens Insti- tute and Yadan Tang and Jih-Mirn Jehng of Le- high. Tang completed her Ph.D. at Lehigh in 2014. Jehng is a former visiting scientist. Kiely’s collaborators at Utrecht used a mod- ified impregnation technique previously developed by Kiely and researchers from Cardiff University in the UK to fashion a catalyst of nanoparticles containing ruthenium and palla- dium on a titanium dioxide support. Using Le- high’s world-class electron microscopy facilities, Qian He ’12 Ph.D., a coauthor of the article now with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, imaged and

CHRISTA NEU CHRISTA chemically analyzed the Ru-Pd nanoparticles. Biomass is composed mostly of cellulose. During processing, cellulose is degraded into levulinic acid (LA) and then hydrogenated into Opening Up Possibilities for gamma-Valerolactone (GVL), a chemical building block that can be converted into fuels, sol- Greener Natural Gas vents, plastics and perfumes. The Ru-Pd catalyst Engineers expand opportunities for natural gas and biomass developed by the Utrecht group, says Kiely, converts LA into GVL much more efficiently than other metal catalysts. “Many value-added products can in turn be obtained from LA,” the Utrecht group wrote in Two professors renowned for their work in catalysis have made discover- Nature Communications, “including polymer ies that could accelerate the push for greener and more efficient fuel sources. monomers, solvents, plasticizers and fuel com- Israel E. Wachs and his colleagues have achieved a molecular-level under- ponents and their precursors. Many of these standing of a catalytic reaction that directly converts natural gas into valuable routes actually involve GVL…as intermediate, liquid fuels and feedstocks for the chemical industry. The researchers showed making the hydrogenation of LA to GVL a reac- that the activity of a molybdenum catalyst can be enhanced and restored. tion of immense importance.” Christopher Kiely and his colleagues have verified the superior perfor- Biomass can be generated from plants that re- mance of a nanoscale alloy catalyst in bringing about a key reaction in the pro- grow and have few competing uses. These include cessing of biomass into fuels, plastics and other renewable products. switchgrass and other non-edible plants, corn Wachs, the G. Whitney Snyder Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular En- husks and straw, forest foliage, lawn clippings, gineering, collaborated with researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technol- tree trimmings and some fast-growing trees. ogy in New Jersey. The group reported their results in April in Science. “We currently get a lot of building blocks Kiely, the Harold B. Chambers Senior Professor of Materials Science and from petroleum,” says Kiely. “But there’s a finite Engineering, worked with researchers from Utrecht University in the Nether- supply of oil. We can regrow biomass.” lands and University College London in the United Kingdom. The researchers The lead author on the Nature Communica- reported their findings in the March 17 edition ofNature Communications. tions paper is Wenhao Luo of Utrecht. The other In their research, Wachs and Prof. Simon Podkolzin of Stevens Institute authors, in addition to Kiely and He, are Meenak- and their students combined state-of-the-art spectroscopy techniques, reac- shisundaram Sankar, Pieter Bruijnincx and Bert tion rate measurements and quantum-chemical calculations. Weckhuysen of Utrecht, and Andrew Beale of The rapid deactivation of the molybdenum catalyst has been one of the University College.—Kurt Pfitzer

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QUALITY AUDITS Reality Re-examined An awareness of how clients' persuasion tactics can Assistant philosophy professor investigates the branch influence auditors' work is key of philosophy that studies existence to delivering a quality audit, according to research co-authored by Sanaz Aghazadeh, assistant accounting professor. Metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that studies existence, holds that In the study, co-authored reality is absolute and definitive, composed of many big things and dependent in by Kris Hoang, assistant some important way on smaller things. Although this picture—a model in which accounting professor at Tulane reality has a hierarchical structure and a fundamental level—has intuitive ap- University, the researchers peal, it does not stand on such firm footing as one might expect, says Ricki Bliss. examined the relationship between the pressure to satisfy clients and auditors' response to clients' persuasion tactics, particularly when those clients speak confidently about their company’s financial data. They found that stronger pressure to serve clients, such as when the audit firm will be reviewed by the clients at the end of the process, led auditors to perceive executives’ statements as an attempt to persuade them, rather than an innocuous message. Still, auditors were deterred from pursuing objective evidence, affecting the audit’s quality. The research caught the attention of James R. Doty, chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Metaphysics holds that reality has a specific nature and it must be consistent who mentioned the research with that nature. In particular, most metaphysicians believe that reality is hier- as an important area of study archically structured by various kinds of dependence relations. Bliss, assistant professor of philosophy, argues that reality doesn’t possess this type of structure and examines why philosophers adhere to this traditional picture. She investigates various theories of reality’s fundamental structure and assesses their nature and possibility. She takes a different tack, employing non-Western thinkers in her approach. “Much of what I’ve done is try to explore the different kinds of arguments philosophers offer in defense of this standard picture,” she says. “Alternatives to traditional views of reality have been well-explored in Indian and Chinese Bud- dhist traditions, for example. In the Western tradition, we’ve assumed this standard hierarchical picture, with a fundamental level that seems so obviously true during an American Account- that nobody thinks of an alternative, whereas in Buddhism, people have been ing Association meeting. questioning this picture of reality for a long time. Parts of Eastern literature pro- “Auditors need to be more vide a treasure trove for well-developed accounts of alternatives to a picture we aware that these persuasion in the Western tradition have never bothered questioning.” attempts are happening," said Bliss assesses the notion of reality in light of the explanations for which we Aghazadeh. "Younger auditors are told we ought to believe it. The justifications only add to comprised notions are used to using more tech- of reality. Her work also examines how we think of cosmological questions sur- nology-based communication rounding existence. She reasons that, in most cases, these large universe ques- tools...but should be encour- tions, and how they are used in arguments to lead us to the conclusion that God aged to ‘get in the client’s face’ has to exist, are misunderstood, and that these misunderstood variations are se- to ensure they are obtaining mantically defective. “It’s a very intuitive picture, but it’s not necessarily right,” the information they need to Bliss says.—Rob Nichols conduct a quality audit."

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The Domestic Inspiration for China’s Foreign Behavior In her second book, a Lehigh scholar seeks to refute conventional wisdom

During the first decade of the 21st century, says “I argue instead that China was assertive in rheto- Yinan He, China endured a succession of trials: An ric, not in policy actions, and [that] the primary driv- earthquake in Sichuan in 2008 killed more than 80,000 ing forces behind its official discourse about the West, people, ethnic riots in Tibet and Xinjiang left hundreds especially the United States, lie more in domestic po- dead, government corruption caused unprecedented litical dynamics than external interactions.” social unrest, and dissidents published a human-rights He cites the case of Liu Shaoqi, the second most manifesto demanding an end to one-party rule. powerful man in China under Mao Zedong, who spoke YINAN HE, At the same time, while other countries struggled, out against the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, associate professor of international re- China enjoyed record economic growth and surpassed was placed under house arrest and died there in 1969. lations, believes a Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. The accusation against Liu—that he had become too careful reading of And the Beijing Olympics of 2008 stirred a deep sense closely allied with the Soviet Union and the U.S.—is China's domestic of national pride. part of another pattern in Chinese history: the linking politics can explain its occasionally He, an associate professor of international rela- of domestic “troublemakers” with foreign “others.” aggressive tions, believes a careful reading of China’s domestic In 2009, she notes, the Chinese government sen- international politics can help explain its occasionally aggressive tenced Liu Xiaobo, one of the authors of Charter 08, to behavior. international behavior. She discussed this dynamic at 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state pow- the recent convention of the International Studies As- er.” The government media attacked Liu, who would sociation in New Orleans in a paper that will be part of receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, for serving as her second book. the “political tool of Western interests,” she said. “Many studies have been conducted to make sense He’s first book,The Search for Reconciliation: Si- of China’s ‘assertive’ foreign policy since 2010,” He no-Japanese and German-Polish Relations Since World wrote in the paper. “Conventional wisdom attributes War II, was published in 2009 by Cambridge Univer- this assertiveness to Western provocation, to China’s sity Press. It discusses the contrasting paths taken by newly gained economic power, and/or to belligerent two pairs of former adversaries in the last 70 years. domestic public sentiment. —Kurt Pfitzer

PROTESTERS in Hong Kong demand release of Liu Xiaobo, a jailed Chinese human rights activist. Yinan He argues that domestic politics play a role in China's rhetoric toward Western nations.

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voice. Imitation, said Collins, is the first step. Voice, Form Rather than the result of an introspective quest, he said, “the location of your voice as an external and Looney Tunes source is in the library, it’s in the anthologies, it’s in the voices of other poets.” Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins shares Instructing students to assume reader indif- insights and influences with students ference, Collins explained that a successful poet perpetuates a particular lie: “that you love poetry more than you love yourself.” “The reader is coming to the page because of his Billy Collins is known for his approachable, witty and conversational or her love of poetry. [It has] nothing to do with you poems. So, when meeting with Lehigh students prior to his poetry reading at all as a person. If you exhibit in your poem your in April in the Zoellner Arts Center, the former U.S. Poet Laureate appropri- own love of poetry, then you have a linkage. The ately opened with a poem. reader loves poetry, you love poetry... You do it by “What else can I do?” Collins asked with a shrug before reading and dis- one word: form. cussing Questions about Birds, which he used as a framing device for the hourlong conversation. Collins has published 10 collections of poetry and has been “I LIKE POEMS THAT TAKE published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar and The Paris Review, among others. His ME SOMEWHERE, PARTICULARLY last three collections, including 2013’s Aimless Love, have broken sales records for poetry. The New York Times called him “the POEMS THAT START IN most popular poet in America.” KANSAS AND GO TO OZ.” “I like poems that take me somewhere, particularly poems that start in Kansas and go to Oz. I have very little tolerance for –BILLY COLLINS poems that start in Oz or start in Wonderland. I love to be carried to these exotic and strange places but I don’t want to be just dropped into “The more you think about form, the more you them in the first line,” said Collins. get your mind off yourself and on the poem,” said Collins shared his influences, poetic and otherwise—John Donne, Collins. “You need to get the reader to love you. You Charles Simic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hemingway, Penelope Fitz- do it through form, through pleasing the reader.” gerald and Warner Bros. cartoons—and what drives him. Poets, he said, learn Collins closed with another poem, Questions from reading and imitating other poets. about Angels, a vivid illustration of his distinctive “People who write poetry are basically people who have read poetry and voice. are moved by their reading to acts of emulation. The teachers of poetry are Collins’ visit was part of the Notations Series, in the shelves of the library and in the anthologies. You learn by emulation.” which is sponsored by the Lehigh University Cre- Emulation, however, according to Collins, is not driven by the apprecia- ative Writing Program in collaboration with the tion of exceptional work. Visiting Lecturers Committee. Collins’ appearance “What drives you to emulate is jealousy,” said Collins. “Professors call was supported by the Ann Neitzel Endowment this literary influence, but it’s actually seething envy. And if you don’t have Fund for Poetry and Creative Writing, with addi- the envy, you won’t be a writer.” tional support from the Friends of the Lehigh Uni- A common question among aspiring writers is about how to find one’s versity Libraries.—Kelly Hochbein

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The Invisible Red Silk Thread Lehigh helps theatre troupe create a cross-cultural parable

Dongning Wang approached a middle-aged Asian man outside the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, where busloads of Asians arrive daily to escape New York City. Why, she asked the man in Chinese, was he sitting on the curb without shoes or socks on? The man said he was relaxing in “the countryside,” basking in the sun 80 miles and a world away from his home in Chinatown, to improve his poor health and bad fortune. Wang, an adjunct lecturer in modern languages and literature, was collecting stories for a two-part play about integrating Chinese and Amer- ican cultures produced by Touchstone Theatre of South Bethlehem. The first part, “Journey: Dream of the Red Pavilion,” staged last year, featured four women acting their Asian-American experiences. One of them was Wang, a Beijing native who TOUCHSTONE THEATER received a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1998 in materials science and engineering. Wang also appeared in part two, Journey from the East, an adaptation of a popular 16th-century Chinese novel about a monk’s mission to secure saving scriptures from the Buddha. Journey from the East was staged in One man said he took the bus to Bethlehem not A UNIQUE April on the South Bethlehem Greenway, where Wang and her students to gamble but to earn $15 to $20 by selling a free PERSPECTIVE interviewed Chinese New Yorkers on gambling visits. gambling card worth $45. Dongning Journey began as a discussion between Norman Girardot, profes- Wright anchored Journey: Dream of the Red Wang (center) sor emeritus of religion studies and an authority on Chinese sacred Pavilion with the hybrid lives of four women: with Liana Irvine (left) systems, and Jp Jordan, Touchstone’s artistic director. Constance Emma Chong, a Chinese-American Touchstone and Emma Cook, a professor of Chinese language and literature, helped Wang ensemble member; Liana Irvine, a Bethlehem Chong, has make the transition from materials scientist to cultural historian and high schooler adopted as a Chinese infant by an leveraged cheerleader. American family; Qiyi Zhu-Stoffey ’95 Ph.D., a her own Wang began documenting Lehigh’s large and largely overlooked China native and AT&T engineer, and Wang, a experiences relationship with China in 2007. Aided by graduate students from Christian who follows the Daoist philosophy and those China, she traced the association to the late 19th century, when Chi- that dreams are real. of others to nese students came to Bethlehem to study engineering to modernize “Dongning has such a natural, powerful pres- help create a their country’s steel industry. ence,” says Wright. “She really represents how two-part play The project launched Wang’s career as an academic diplomat. one person can be changed by history, and how about Lehigh's relationship Through the Chinese Bridge Project in the College of Arts and Sci- one person can change history.” with China. ences, she helped Girardot, Cook and Tony Viscardi, professor of ar- Wang personifies the Chinese belief that ev- chitecture, build a Chinese bridge over a South Mountain stream to eryone and everything is tied by a thread of in- symbolize the connection between Lehigh and China. visible red silk. Inspired by Touchstone Ensemble Associate Mary Wright, “People share more in common than differ- Wang started Storytelling and Collecting, a course customized for ences,” she says. “The world would be a better the Touchstone project. Wang and her students interviewed a large place if we tried to understand each other in- assortment of Chinese-speaking visitors to the Bethlehem casino. stead of guessing.”—Geoff Gehman ’89G

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EXHIBITION el otro lado del alma: Syncretisms in Contemporary Cuban Photography

Obscure rituals, sacred objects and secret societies inhabited the exhibition el otro lado del alma: Syncretisms in Con- temporary Cuban Photography, recently on display in the Main Gallery of the Zo- ellner Arts Center. The exhibition show- cased the influence of Afro-Cuban spiri- tuality in photography and video art and traced the development of photographic traditions within Cuba. Translated, el otro lado del alma means “the other side of the soul.” In the exhibit, photography revealed the syncretisms of Santería, which originated from the blending of African spirituali- ty, Spanish Catholicism and the beliefs of Cuba’s native inhabitants. Featured artists included Mar- ta María Pérez Bravo, Sandra Ramos, Humberto Mayol, Juan Carlos Alóm, Tania Bruguera, Raúl Cañibano and Rene Peña. The exhibit was curated by Moritz Neumüller and produced in cooperation with the Fototeca de Cuba, Havana’s Museum of Photography. To see images from the exhibit, go to www.luag.org and visit past exhibitions.

ARTISTS: ON LEFT: RENE PEÑ A , JORGE LUIS Á LVAREZ PUPO, RAÚ L CAÑ IBANO ABOVE: MARTA MARÍ A PÉ REZ BRAVO

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TAKING SHAPE Amy Forsyth, top right, assists Ilana Abrams '18 with her final project. Below, Chris Campbell '15 builds a nightstand.

Fashioning Furniture Amy Forsyth’s furniture design class allows creativity to take permanent form

If determination has a sound, it might be the pounding of a hammer, the scrape of with a separate structure on top. “They’re just a chisel or the repetitive scratch of a sander. Those are the noises that echo down the models that I throw away. It’s really nice to be halls of Chandler-Ullman from its first-floor woodshop and benchroom on a particular making something that I’ll have forever.” Tuesday in April. “This class has been pretty great,” add- If determination has a sound, it’s the soundtrack of Amy Forsyth’s furniture ed Chris Campbell ’15, also an architecture design class. student, whose final project is “more of a Most students in the class are studying architecture or product design. For their nightstand.” “I took [the course] because I first assignment, students start with basswood. They create several designs, generat- really wanted something that I could make ing about 10 ideas and drawings and eventually settling on one, for which they first and keep and hold on to... I didn’t work in build a model. The semester begins with a carving project. woodshop a whole lot in my past studios... “Basically they start with a chunk of wood and they have to remove material, so it’s so it’s been good to learn how to use a lot of all about subtraction and shaping. They do it by hand,” said Forsyth, associate pro- these machines.” fessor of design. “I build furniture myself,” said Forsyth, Past projects have included masks, candlesticks and walking sticks. This semester, who began her career as an architect be- each student hand-carved a spoon using tools like spokeshaves and files. Then, after fore discovering her love of furniture-mak- learning how to fashion half-lap joints, mortise and tenons, and the more complicat- ing. “But [with this class] I also get ed hand-cut dovetail joints, students applied their skills to a second assignment: a to help a lot of people make a lot of really display or stand for the spoon that incorporated at least one type of joint. The results cool stuff. I could just do it myself, be by ranged extensively in shape, size, design and composition, all concrete illustrations myself in my shop making it, but this way of creativity, skill and determination in mahogany, cherry, maple, bloodwood and, in I get to influence a lot more things happen- some cases, a combination of several. ing. It’s fun to see more projects happen- “As an architecture major I do get a lot of chances to make things with my hands, ing and [students are] very enthusiastic but they’re always kind of impermanent,” said Alex Adanski ’16 as she worked with a about it, which is always really fun too.” chisel to refine the joints on her final project, a chest on stand, which required a base —Kelly Hochbein

SUMMER 2015 | 21 ATHLETICS

Fall Sports Preview ON THE UP Little was expected of Lehigh’s men’s soccer team in The Lehigh teams, student-athletes 2014; in fact, a preseason poll predicted the Mountain and events worth watching Hawks would finish the year 10th in the Patriot League. But when all was said and done, coach Dean Koski’s team finished with a 10-8-1 overall mark, including a 5-3-1 record in the Patriot League, and earned a No. 4 seed in the conference tournament. The team also saw its final RPI jump from 187 in 2013 to 78 in 2014. With the return of rising freshman Doyle Tuvesson ’18, who chipped in five goals and four assists in 2014, and defender Justin Worley ’17, the team has a great chance to make another leap forward in 2015.

RUNNING FOR GLORY Last season, Elizabeth ‘Biz’ Weiler ’16 became the first All-American in the history of Lehigh’s women’s cross country BUILDING ON A BUDDING program. Weiler finished SUCCESS POWERHOUSE the NCAA Championship The women’s soccer The 2014 season 6K race with a time of team will enter the fall saw Lehigh’s women’s 20:41.4, capping a year looking to build on a volleyball team finish that also saw her turn spring that saw it go with a 22-10 overall in a record time at the undefeated against record, including a Goodman Campus cross college competition. record-setting mark country course. She’ll be Among the standout of 14-2 in the Patriot looking for even greater Justin Worley ’17 spring performers were League. To replicate honors in 2015. will play a key role in the men’s rising sophomore de- their success in soccer team’s drive for the fender Alyssa Riporti 2015, the Mountain Patriot League crown. ’18 and her classmate Hawks will rely on the Adrian Vitello ’18, who leadership and skill of played in 15 games in setter Amy Matula ’16, 2014 and may take on who earned first-team a more attacking role all-league honors in 2015. after an outstanding 2014 season.

FALL SPORTS: BY THE NUMBERS

LEHIGH ATHLETICS 14 10 TEAMS STARTERS that were awarded Academic Progress that football coach 7 6 9 Rate Public Recognition Andy Coen will have PLAYERS SHUTOUTS PLAYERS Awards from the NCAA returning for the that men’s soccer from the women’s volleyball RECORDED this spring. The awards Mountain Hawks in coach Dean Koski team named to the Dean’s by the women’s soccer are given to teams scoring 2015. The program will welcome into the List last season. In all, 14 team in 2014. in the top 10 percent in will be looking to program this fall. players from the team their respective sport bounce back after a The new recruits earned Academic Honor with their APR. 3-8 season in 2014. come from six Roll honors, tied for most different states. in the Patriot League.

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pleased that those leadership messages have been well-received by everyone on the team.

HOW DID SPRING WORKOUTS GO? This was a different kind of spring. We had very small numbers, because we graduated back to back classes of 25 and 22 and weren’t able to keep up with those numbers with recruiting. We also had seven guys out with off-season surgeries and some kids who were unable to play for us last year who were still going through the rehab process. That added to our issue with having small numbers. All spring, then, we weren’t going to be as physical as usual but we spent more time in the film room, did a lot of walk-throughs, and I think we were more efficient in what we were doing. I think we made some real strides. Given the numbers, I think it was a really successful spring.

YOU WERE ABLE TO BRING IN A LOT OF TALENTED PLAYERS WITH THIS MOST RE- CENT RECRUITING CLASS. CAN WE EXPECT THOSE FRESHMEN TO PLAY A BIG ROLE THIS SEASON? We did have a very strong class. We’re bringing in 31 players and our expectations will be a little bit higher for those kids. I think what we’re seeing, as ‘They Want to Get a Ring’ we’re getting deeper into the scholarship process, is Lehigh football coach Andy Coen says the Mountain Hawks that we’re recruiting some really talented players— especially at the skill positions. We’ll be counting on are poised to bounce back in 2015 those kids to make an impact.

WHAT DO YOU SEE AS YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES HEADING INTO 2015? It’s time to turn the page. Last season, our strength was on the offensive side That was the message that Lehigh football coach Andy Coen delivered to his of the ball, and that will still be the case. We played squad when it convened for off-season workouts this spring. In the wake of a a sophomore quarterback in Nick Shafnisky; he disappointing 2014 season that saw the Mountain Hawks struggle to a 3-8 fin- was up and down but we’re hoping he can be more ish—including a difficult loss to Lafayette in the 150th playing of The Rivalry, consistent for us this year. He was dynamic in held at Yankee Stadium—Coen says both his coaching staff and his players are some games and struggled in others. We moved fully committed to righting the ship in 2015. the football well. But defensively we struggled and There are certainly lessons to be learned from 2014, he says. But neither he we’ve made some changes. We were a 4-3 team last nor his players are dwelling on last season's events; rather, they’re doing every- year, and this year we’re moving to a 3-4. I think the thing in their power to take the program back to the top of the Patriot League. strength of our defense right now is at linebacker, Coen, who is entering his 10th season as Lehigh’s coach, spoke with the so it makes sense to have four of those guys on the Bulletin just after the conclusion of spring practices, sharing his thoughts field. Beyond that, we need to be more aggressive about his team’s improved attitude, some planned tactical changes, promising and more attacking on the defensive side of the ball, new players and more. and that was a big part of the focus this spring.

LAST SEASON WAS A DIFFICULT ONE FOR THE PROGRAM. HOW DO YOU THINK THIS TEAM WILL HOW HAS THE TEAM RESPONDED? COMPETE IN THE PATRIOT LEAGUE? Well, as soon as we came back after the break and had a chance to meet with In this league, I really believe that anybody can beat the kids, the message was about turning the page. One of the first things we did, anybody. We have a great group of seniors in this because we have a really great leadership program here, was to get all of the class. They’re a very united group, and I’m really kids together and get them caught up on some leadership training. Some of our happy with where we are. They want to get a ring. senior leaders and others on the team got together over the course of six Fri- Our goals here have always been to beat Lafayette days, early in the morning, to get a better understanding of ourselves and how and win a Patriot League title. We’ve won three ti- we would be holding the kids accountable going forward. Then we met with the tles since I’ve been here, and we lost two others on rest of the team in smaller groups and passed along that leadership message. I the last day of the season. Heading into this season, just recently finished up all of my exit interviews for spring ball, and I feel really I think we’re a pretty motivated group.

SUMMER 2015 | 23 THE GAME CHANGER Cathy Engelbert ’86 helped Lehigh clinch its first East Coast Conference women’s basketball title. Now as CEO of Deloitte LLP, she’s making history as the first woman to head a major U.S. professional services firm.

STORY BY MARY ELLEN ALU • PHOTOS BY CHRISTA NEU SUMMER 2015 | 25 orty-one floors up, Cathy Engelbert ’86 has a prime view of the Empire State Building and the Freedom Tower from her glass-front corner office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Behind her desk are photos of her posing with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Federal Re- serve Chairman Ben Bernanke, along with photos of her son Fand daughter. Here in Midtown Manhattan, Engelbert, 50, leads professional services firm Deloitte LLP, where she oversees some 70,000 employees in nearly 90 U.S. cities and India and nearly $15 billion in annual revenue. That Engelbert rose through Deloitte’s ranks to become its chief executive officer in March was news. That she was elected CEO by the firm’s partnership was also historic—she’s the first woman to lead a major U.S. professional services firm. When her selection was announced earlier this year, the Twitter world was filled with congratulatory messages: “Here’s to glass ceilings being broken!” and “Wow, this is incredibly in- YOU DIDN’T JUST BREAK THE GLASS CEILING, spiring.” She did rounds of interviews, including with Fortune, YOU SHATTERED IT. WHEN YOU GRADUATED FROM Forbes, Bloomberg, Accounting Today, The Washington Post, LEHIGH IN 1986, DID YOU IMAGINE YOU’D BREAK Meet the Press and Delta’s Sky magazine. She received hand- BARRIERS? written notes and emails from both men and women, with some I definitely did not imagine that at all. At Lehigh, I actually start- being especially moving. One father wrote that his 6-year-old ed out in one curriculum and then switched over to the business daughter, while being tucked into bed one night, “lit up as if I school and accounting. I thought I wanted either computer en- showed her a secret forest” when told a woman was now in gineering or computer science at first. And then when I got here, charge of his organization. “I just want to send this to you as a I had to take this Fortran [Formula Translation] course, a pro- father so you know the impact you are having already on the gramming language used by engineers. And I said, This isn’t for lives of a generation [that] you may not even realize,” he wrote. me. So I transferred to business. I don’t remember who gave me Engelbert joined Deloitte 29 years ago, after graduating the advice to transfer to accounting, but it was the best advice from Lehigh with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. Academ- I could have gotten because the person said, You’ll get a job. It ically accomplished, she had interviewed with Deloitte and really was an important decision along my path to go into, first, other firms at Lehigh’s Christmas-Saucon Hall. By then, she business and then accounting within the business school. said, she had come out of her shell socially. Standing 5-feet-9, she was also athletic, serving as captain of both the women’s TALENT ASIDE, HARD WORK ASIDE, HOW DID YOU basketball and lacrosse teams in her senior year and learning DO IT? IN ENTERING A MALE-DOMINATED FIELD, leadership skills. WHAT’S BEEN MORE CRITICAL—MENTORS OR YOUR “The one thing that struck me when I was being interviewed WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS? by all the accounting firms was that everyone said, ‘Lehigh pro- It’s a little of both. I’m one of eight kids with five brothers, so it’s duces the most well-rounded people in the work force,’ ” she said. kind of a male-dominated family. I came to Lehigh when it was When Engelbert arrived at Deloitte’s Philadelphia office four-to-one, male to female, kind of male-dominated. I then went after graduation, just 7 percent of the organization’s partners into the public accounting profession. It was extremely male-dom- and principals were women. That number has since grown to inated. So I think it was my training from family, school and then 25 percent, following an initiative to boost retention and ad- into a profession that I actually just felt comfortable with. I was a vancement of women. Eventually, Engelbert moved to the orga- sports buff because of having five brothers and a father who played nization’s offices in the New Jersey-New York area, developing big-time college basketball. The one thing that struck me when I a track record of serving several of Deloitte’s largest and most was being interviewed by all the accounting firms, was that every- complex global clients. She was previously chairman and chief one said, Lehigh produces the most well-rounded people in the work executive officer of Deloitte LLP’s audit subsidiary. force. And I’ll never forget that because I always had that on my As a wife and mother of two teenagers, Engelbert recognizes mind to prove that I could do it all. she’s a role model for those who wonder whether they can bal- I talk about mentors and sponsors separately. Mentors are ance work and family. With a nod to the mentors and sponsors the ones you can really trust and who kind of become personal who helped her shape her career, she said she intends to “pay friends and can help you navigate whether to take an opportu- it forward,” with hopes of leaving a legacy around the evolu- nity or not. The sponsors are those who sit in the room when tion of Deloitte’s diverse leadership. To that end, she returned decisions are being made about you and say, I think Cathy to the Lehigh campus in late March to take part in an inaugural needs to build that capability or Cathy really needs this client “Women in Business” conference, run by students in the Col- assignment to make her more well- rounded. lege of Business and Economics, where she had thrived. She also It was the sponsors who really gave me the opportunities. sat down for an hour-long interview with the Bulletin prior to The mentors helped me say yes or no. The sponsors said, Let’s the conference and shared her story. put Cathy in this role because I think she’ll benefit from that.

26 | LEHIGH BULLETIN YOU MENTIONED “DOING IT ALL.” YOU RAISED TWO given that I just took over as the CEO at Deloitte, is not an easy CHILDREN WHILE PURSUING A DEMANDING CAREER. thing. But I will do it. I guarantee you. Yes, two children, teenagers now. DID YOU FIND THAT YOU HAD FLEXIBILITY IN THE ONGOING DEBATE OVER WHETHER WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE? SHOULD “LEAN IN” TO THEIR CAREERS, HOW WERE You have to ask for it. You have to manage around it. And YOU ABLE TO BALANCE FAMILY AND CAREER? professional services is actually a profession where you can For me, it was about knowing that it wasn’t linear, that there were ask for that flexibility at different points of time in your life. different needs over the course of the different ages of my chil- I coached my daughter’s basketball team from fourth grade to dren. I have a supportive husband as well. So I had different needs eighth grade. I actually couldn’t do that today but at the time when my children were newborns versus toddlers versus middle I was on one large client, which was not that far from home, schoolers versus now high schoolers, or teenagers. I laugh be- and I could do it. You have to find the points with your work cause obviously when they were newborns and toddlers I used to and your life that you can ask for that flexibility and that run home from work and feed [them] and go back to work. Luck- you know you can leave at a certain time. But that doesn’t ily, I was working close to home back then and wasn’t doing a lot mean you don’t work hard, that doesn’t mean you don’t want of travel. And now sometimes I walk in the door and they might promotions. acknowledge me, they might not because they’re teenagers now. The travel is less flexible sometimes, and that’s the chal- I’ve become a chauffeur, a chef and an ATM, and that’s about it. lenge, especially for young women who want to raise families (laughs). I’m joking a little bit here. They’re so important to me. and think, Oh, do I need to be on the road all the time and how One of the reasons I was able to do it is I had a supportive am I going to do this? At one point I actually raised my hand spouse, reliable child care and really a passion for making sure I and said, I just flew 130 times in a year. I’m having my second spent quality time with them. It wasn’t always easy. It isn’t always child. I don’t want that job anymore. Can I get a job that gives easy today. I’m a little obsessed right now. It’s my daughter’s last me a little more stability closer to home? And I got that for year in high school. She’s a very good lacrosse player. I’ve said I three or four years, and then I was ready to go back on the road want to get to at least 70 percent of her games this spring, which, and do some things to build my capabilities.

Cathy Engelbert (12) played basketball and lacrosse at Lehigh. She was named Most Valuable Player of the East Coast Conference basketball tournament in her senior year.

SUMMER 2015 | 27 YOU COME FROM A FAMILY OF EIGHT CHILDREN, WHAT WERE YOU LIKE AS A COLLEGE INCLUDING FIVE BROTHERS. TELL ME HOW THAT STUDENT HERE? MIGHT HAVE FIGURED INTO YOUR SUCCESSES. Well, I started out very quiet. So the other thing that Lehigh did I’ve been reflecting on that a lot more since getting this role, was to bring me out of my shell socially. I don’t know the turn- around how that did shape me. My father worked three jobs, ing point, maybe sophomore year. But I came out of my shell and my mother worked too, sending eight kids through college, and really enjoyed the experience here. five at Villanova, one at Lehigh, very excellent colleges. I reflect Academically, I was always a pretty good student in high back at the competitiveness and the leadership that you get in school. I was in the top 10 of my graduating high school class. a family of eight, competing literally for things like cereal and And then you come to Lehigh where everybody was valedic- snacks. I joke with my sister, whom I’m very close with—she’s torian and top 10 in their class. It kind of shocked me from an 13 months younger—that we used to hide Pop-Tarts in our room academic perspective to be with my peers who were just as because our brothers would steal them from us and eat them. smart or smarter than I was. So it was the competitiveness, and really my father working the And then the athletic part of really getting the camaraderie three jobs. That was the dedication and hard work part, because and then the leadership. I captained both basketball and la- he had a goal, he had a goal to crosse my senior year here and send his eight kids to college. that was kind of my first flavor He accomplished that goal. of leadership, as I went on to Unfortunately he died young, WHAT I’VE BEEN INSPIRED really learn a lot around what at 51 years old, but it was af- that was about, to motivate the ter I graduated and had started BY THE MOST ARE THE players and help the coach with with Deloitte. the team from a leadership HANDWRITTEN LETTERS perspective. WHERE IS YOUR HOMETOWN? I HAVE RECEIVED SINCE WHAT STANDS OUT IN Collingswood, New Jersey. There YOUR MEMORY? are a few of us Lehigh-ers from MY ANNOUNCEMENT WENT From an athletic perspective, we Collingswood. In fact, I picked won the East Coast Conference Lehigh—I was being recruited OUT ... PEOPLE IN THE basketball championship my lightly for lacrosse at some other senior year. That clearly stands schools—because someone from WORKFORCE, MOSTLY out. It was at Rider University. Collingswood the year before me We were an underdog and we had come here. She had the la- won. In lacrosse we made the crosse coach take a look at me. It’s WOMEN BUT SOME MEN, NCAA tournament my junior funny how you look back at differ- year. We were ranked at one ent decisions you make and why WHO SAID, ‘I READ YOUR time in the top 12 in the nation. you make them. And I was a walk- We went down to the University on for basketball. Muffet McGraw STORY. I’M INSPIRED.’ of Maryland, this huge school in [now Notre Dame University’s this huge stadium, and lost pret- women’s basketball coach] was AND THEY ACTUALLY ty bad to Maryland. David ver- my basketball coach for four years. sus Goliath. We were definitely She dropped me a note recently INSPIRE ME TO BE THAT David in that case. to congratulate me and said, I re- And then academically, there member the first day you walked in ROLE MODEL. were some unbelievable profes- the gym in Grace Hall when we had sors in the accounting and busi- tryouts. I was a walk-on. She didn’t ness schools. Obviously, [Ac- know who I was. counting Professor] Ken Sinclair. Today in NCAA Division I, you could never play back-to-back I loved economics here, especially macroeconomics. I had sports like that, basketball and lacrosse, because lacrosse starts great professors, great advisers in the business school. I per- before basketball is over. Back then I might have missed two sonally liked finance better than accounting when I was here practices. Now you would miss half the games. at Lehigh, but I think that helped me, actually, when I got to the real world, to combine that. I became what we call a fi- WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE? nancial instrument specialist at Deloitte, helping clients un- I probably would have chosen lacrosse because that’s what derstand financial products to manage risk like interest rate brought me here. Basketball, I ended up being the MVP [Most risk and foreign currency risk. That gave me a huge niche, Valuable Player] of the East Coast Conference tournament while where a lot of people got to know me. I got to work with trea- I was here. We were 24-4 my senior year, a huge success. It would surers and CFOs across corporate America as they figured out have been interesting if I had to choose one over the other, but how to use derivatives to manage their financial risk. Lehigh sports were different back in the ’80s. You could play multiple set forth the platform for which I would eventually get into a sports. Many athletes did. specialty like that.

28 | LEHIGH BULLETIN HOW ELSE DID LEHIGH SHAPE YOU? It shaped me into a much more well-rounded person. From the day I started at Deloitte, people would say, Oh she has presence beyond her years. Well that’s what I got at Lehigh, the executive presence. And that’s an important part of leadership because you need to gain followership from people who report to you. If they see you’re able to handle stress—people call it grace under fire or be your best in your darkest moment—in a way that is measured, you’re the calming influence. Those are all things I learned from my schooling at Lehigh. And quite frankly, the camaraderie at Lehigh, the atmosphere when I was here was so in tune to developing that because of the Greek system and the social system. I couldn’t have done it if I didn’t have that part of my personality kind of come out of that shell and have confidence that I could be someone contributing value to the business community. That is really, I think, what Lehigh gave me.

HOW SIGNIFICANT WAS A LEHIGH DEGREE LEHIGH ACCOUNTING STUDENTS HAVE COME TO TO YOUR CAREER? DELOITTE AND YOU’VE BEEN GRACIOUS WITH YOUR Huge. Christmas-Saucon was where I interviewed [with the ac- TIME WITH THEM. WHAT ADVICE DO YOU GIVE THEM? counting firms.] I spent six years in our Philadelphia office. Af- My advice is to take advantage of building your skill set. The fu- ter the sixth year, I was looking for something different to make ture of our work force is going to be around big data and analytics myself well-rounded, that same theme from what I learned and data scientists and being able to take data and visualize it and here. I went to our national office and did accounting research help companies manage their business to a profitable and sus- for two years. It was technically in Connecticut, and then I tainable point. So take advantage [of the courses offered.] I’m on came to the New York/northern New Jersey area and have been the Accounting Advisory Board at Lehigh, so I know Lehigh of- back and forth between those offices since 1994. fers a lot of these things. And not every student takes these courses because they may not be looking at the future. There’s cloud, YOU SEEM COMFORTABLE BEING A ROLE MODEL. there’s cyber, there’s digital, there’s 3D. There’s so much evolving DOES IT EVER BECOME OVERWHELMING? around this, around technology, that if accounting and business People who know me well know that I am uncomfortable with students don’t build capabilities and can’t evolve with the pace of the attention around being the first woman CEO of a major U.S. change that companies are faced with, they’re not going to be as professional services firm. What I’ve been inspired by the most successful. Companies are not going to want to hire them. We do are the handwritten letters I have received since my announce- a ton of training, but you can differentiate yourself quickly if, as a ment went out in February from people at colleges and uni- student, you’re maximizing your experience. versities across the country. People in the work force, mostly women but some men, who said, I read your story. I’m inspired. YOU’VE SPOKEN ABOUT YOUR DESIRE TO And they actually inspire me to be that role model. These are “PAY IT FORWARD.” HOW WILL YOU DO THAT? amazing letters. I have emails from people at Deloitte, a woman So pay it forward to me is a little like “lean in” around talent. So who said, I had twins a year and half ago. I’m now pregnant with pay it forward is coming to an event tonight at Lehigh. Now I my third child. I didn’t think I could do this. I read your story and started in New Jersey today, went to New York and now I’m here now I’m going to stay. Amazing, amazing. in Bethlehem. But this is important to me, to work with young men and women and make sure they see the value they can pro- EVEN BEFORE YOU BECAME CEO YOU WERE vide in a profession like ours. And they feel they can stay and have PROBABLY A ROLE MODEL. a rewarding profession while balancing home life. So people were watching me around what time of night I sent If I can leave a legacy, I’d like it to be around the evolution of emails. What I would do because I coached for five years, I our diverse leadership at Deloitte, and that’s what I really want to would go home at a reasonable hour, coach my daughter’s pay it forward on. I was given opportunities that I can’t even fig- basketball team, then come home and boot my computer up ure out today how I was picked. But I think it was that sponsor sit- and send emails at 10 at night. People were like, Gosh, Cathy’s ting in the room saying, Let’s give Cathy this opportunity, and that always working. Well, that’s not a good role model. But I said, helped me. So that’s what I want to do for our young people is say, Wait, I just spent three hours coaching, then having dinner Don’t be afraid of taking risks. Don’t be afraid of an opportunity. with my family. People didn’t see that part. So I became very Don’t be afraid of an overseas assignment. Become technological- cognizant, probably about six, seven years ago that I was a role ly savvy. Now kids today are much more apt to do things than my model and that people were looking at the way I was balancing generation was. The world is globalizing. And I want to help these family and work. It is not always easy. It can be challenging. young people today realize who they’re going to need to be in 2030 Are there things I’ve missed that I regret? Sure. Nothing ma- and 2035, so I’m taking a much longer-term view on paying it for- jor though. ward. Who’s going to evolve into the leaders of tomorrow? L

SUMMER 2015 | 29 AN EYE FOR WAR

30 | LEHIGH BULLETIN AN EYE FOR WAR JOHN PETTEGREW EXAMINES THE SENSE OF SIGHT AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR MAKING WAR STORY BY KELLY HOCHBEIN

ILLUSTRATION BY LEVENTE SZABO

uman beings have this pesky thing called empathy,” says John Pettegrew, associate professor of history. “They have learned and find it valuable to put themselves in the shoes of somebody they don’t know. That is bad for killing, Hwhich makes it bad for war.” Pettegrew’s forthcoming book, Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq, examines how the U.S. military and aspects of popular visual culture work together to “stylize the eye and create a patterned experience of viewing and seeing war to encourage a large number of young Americans to do what the Pentagon itself believes is antithetical to human nature”—to kill. During World War II, U.S. Army Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall, an official Army combat historian, interviewed soldiers to determine the non-firing rate among Ameri- can troops in combat. According to Marshall, up to 85 percent of American troops who had been trained to target the enemy and pull the trigger on their loaded guns did the opposite on the front lines: They either did not fire or aimed and deliberately missed. “The act of killing is not in close keeping with predominant views of human nature,” says Pettegrew of this apparently innate hesitation. “The Pentagon wanted to overcome that point of hesitation, which it has successfully done since World War II.” “We [the United States] haven’t fought a war on our own soil since the Civil War,” says Pettegrew. “So my basic research question was: How does the U.S. get a large number of men and women to leave their homes, travel across an ocean, land on foreign soil and, while staying in the line of fire, take the life of a perfect stranger? My answer is [in part] through the eye.”

SUMMER 2015 | 31 OUR UNCHANGING VIEWS OF WAR

Pettegrew describes two patterns of seeing in combat. The first, he says, is the use of film and video games to create a sense of excitement and challenge in combat, making it seem a close and personal task that requires skill and courage. The second, he says, is to create distance in combat.

ESTABLISHING A HEROIC IDEAL The modern pro-combat vernacular dates back to the post-Civil War era, Homer’s Iliad “is one long recital of when short stories, novels and other forms of fiction embraced the theme how Diomedes and Ajax, Sarpedon and of martial heroism and the challenge to do in battle what others have done Hector killed,” as the Harvard philosopher before. World War II brought about the birth of the combat-film genre, with and psychologist William James said. John Wayne the archetype of the hyper-masculine American soldier. These films were “incredibly powerful in reaching into boys’ and young men’s lives at home, at the Saturday matinee, and in school, creating this larger-than-life ideal of the gung-ho warfighter,” says Pettegrew. Today, he says, the Pentagon works closely with Hollywood in a mutually beneficial relationship that yields authenticity for war films and an opportu- The most accomplished nity for the Pentagon to communicate its heroic vision of military service. novelists in Western Clint Eastwood’s recent film,American Sniper, which depicts the life and literature—Leo Tolstoy and Ernest Hemingway, military service of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, exemplifies this relationship. for instance—seized upon “There’s no better example of how Hollywood—working with, in this case, war as the most compel- the Navy SEALs and the Marines—creates this huge commercial recruitment ling human drama. poster for American military service,” says Pettegrew. “From my perspective, as a historian interested in how systems of violence serve nationalist ends, the primary act of war is not dying for one’s country; it is killing for one’s country. There’s no better example of that core truth than American Sniper. He is made a national hero for his ability—at great removal from his targets—to kill 140- some of the enemy.” The Hollywood com- Beyond Hollywood films, Pettegrew also examines an amateur genre that bat-film genre came into its own during World War developed during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. During that time, many II, with larger-than-life American soldiers began bringing handheld and helmet-mounted digital vid- images of John Wayne eo cameras into battle, filming firefights and later using basic editing software “hitting the beach” and to create videos of the experience. Pettegrew calls these videos “war pornog- killing Japanese soldiers in movies like The Sands of Iwo Jima. raphy” because they are meant to reproduce the behavior being enacted on film. The videos, often set to heavy metal music, focus more on weaponry and maneuvers than violence and gore. Their creators first shared the videos via email or on websites developed specifically for regiments. The advent of You- Tube in 2005, however, changed everything.

Pettegrew has spent months examining countless examples of these do-it- The advent of first- yourself videos and the thousands of comments posted by viewers. person shooter combat “For me, as a historian, to be able to go through viewers’ descriptions of videogames in the 1990s what they were feeling while watching war pornography was just invaluable,” brought a new level of reality to visions of says Pettegrew, describing how the comments on YouTube videos were more war. U.S. armed forces primary source material than he could ever handle. used video games to train and “pump up” “It’s not foolproof evidence, but for cultural history in the realm of the troops for battle. militarization of American society, I couldn’t pass it up. It’s very suggestive of the impact of popular visual culture on the sensibility of young people... As a historian that’s a crucial starting point in understanding how the eye is constructed for fighting and killing in war,” he says.

Many American troops OVERCOMING HESITATION carried video cameras Increasingly realistic, Hollywood-style first-person shooter video games pro- into battle in Iraq and vide an even more immersive experience for civilians and soldiers alike, blur- Afghanistan and would ring the line between simulated and actual warfare. Pettegrew says one such edit and overlay their footage with heavy metal game, the Beirut, Lebanon-set Close Combat: First to Fight, is the result of a col- music. With the 2005 laboration between a private commercial video game producer and the Marine founding of YouTube, the DIY combat video Corps, whose goal was to train Marines for urban combat in Middle Eastern became what Pettegrew calls “war porn.” cities—a major institutional concern following the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, as represented in the book and movie Black Hawk Down.

32 | LEHIGH BULLETIN FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, AS A HISTORIAN INTERESTED IN HOW SYSTEMS OF VIOLENCE SERVE NATIONALIST ENDS, THE PRIMARY ACT OF WAR IS NOT DYING FOR ONE’S COUNTRY; IT IS KILLING FOR ONE’S COUNTRY.

—JOHN PETTEGREW

“The United States has the most pow- posite of the first. The goal is to completely distance the act of killing, to sepa- erful military in world history, but if it has rate the shooter from the target. For instance, drones, initially used for recon- to fight in the middle of a crowded urban naissance but now also used as weapons, provide this separation. space, boots on the ground in small teams “Drones have become so central now to United States war making. [They] are the only way to avoid heavy civilian ca- are the ultimate example of this second strategy of separating the shooter sualties. The U.S. military needs to be able from the target,” says Pettegrew. to train these men to work through city Pettegrew describes the ethical and philosophical study of drone warfare blocks, distinguish between civilians and and the questions it raises: Is this even war anymore? combatants and work as a team to effective- “War’s definition basically is that two groups of individuals put themselves ly kill the enemy,” says Pettegrew. into mutual risk. The only sort of ethical support for killing another person is Close Combat, used in training for Ma- that you are running the same sort of risk of that being done to you. If the per- rines in the lead-up to and early years of the son on the other side hasn’t done anything to you, and if you are in no way in Iraq War, was also released commercially danger, what is the ethical support for taking his life? It’s something other than for entertainment purposes. There is lit- the definition of warfare that the West has understood for centuries.” tle difference between the two versions. As A related form of warfare, which Pettegrew calls “fascinating and extreme- such, says Pettegrew, the commercial ver- ly bothersome,” is the development combat robots. He suggests that the wars sion serves as a way to develop among young in Iraq and Afghanistan might be the last major conflicts in which the United players a yearning for military experience. States uses predominantly human force. It becomes a type of indirect recruiting tool Pettegrew wrote Light It Up in close connection with the Veterans Empa- and, for active-duty soldiers, an “important thy Project, an oral history of combat veterans’ experiences in the post-Sept. point of continuity between civilian and 11 wars. The project, which Pettegrew directs, aims to bridge the gap of under- military life.” standing in the United States between civilians who have never served in the military and the many veterans who have by creating a context for understand- CREATING DISTANCE ing the realities of war. The second pattern of seeing in combat, “My next study is on love and peace,” says Pettegrew. “It’s a perfect balance Pettegrew says, is, in a sense, the exact op- to the past years of studying warfare.”

SUMMER 2015 | 33 PUTTING LEHIGH IN FOCUS STORY BY MARY ELLEN ALU PHOTOS BY CHESTER TOYE

These are the many faces of Lehigh: black, white, Asian and Latino; serious, funny, wide-eyed and playful. For more than a year, Chester Toye ’17 has been capturing students’ images in black and white for a public art project that he hopes will unify students and improve the campus climate.

Toye’s project, “Lehigh in Focus,” grew out of a design class he took in his first year at Lehigh. He needed to replicate an artist but add his spin. Finding inspiration in graffiti artist Steve Powers and the French street artist JR, Toye ultimately decided to use his photography skills to create student portraits that reflect Lehigh’s diverse student population. Toye also saw his project as a way to heal any simmering wounds from November 2013, when racial slurs were spray-painted on UMOJA House and the building was egged. Confused at the time, Toye wondered whether Lehigh was the place for him. In middle school and high school, he said, he had worked hard to improve his surroundings and leave a mark. Af- ter the incident, he joined the more than 1,000 students, faculty and staff who gathered on the University Front Lawn one night in protest over what had happened. Toye listened as student after student expressed their disappointment in the vandalism. “It gave me hope,” said Toye, 20, a former lacrosse player who is pursuing an Integrated De- gree in Engineering, Arts and Sciences (IDEAS).

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SUMMER 2015 | 35 Toye hopes the project can help prevent hurtful acts such as the UMOJA House vandalism and help reduce any fears or prejudices that people have based on someone’s skin color.

With a public art project, he felt he Asa Packer campus. A collection of 32 of his they make. But we all have these unique, could create “something that was positive images will also go up inside several Lehigh and in some cases similar, personalities.” and uplifting, to give the campus some buses that loop around the university’s Toye’s interest in photography hap- character and kind of help bring people three campuses. pened naturally. Looking back at photos together.” He persevered. A $3,000 Strohl “It’s kind of surreal,” said Toye. “It’s of himself as a toddler and adolescent, he grant from Lehigh, along with faculty, been a year in the making.” always had a camera in his hand. (And, to staff and administrative support, helped The images carry no text, no names. his parents’ chagrin, he broke a few.) One to move the project forward. When people view them, he said, “I just summer when he had shoulder surgery, he Hoping to populate the campus with want them to see people for people. I just was unable to do anything athletic, so he the diverse student images, Toye saw his want them to kind of forget about every- took photographs. He is self-taught. efforts start to pay off this year when a thing else and just focus on the personality. For the ongoing project, Toye asks stu- 46-inch-by-76-inch portrait went up in- It doesn’t matter where someone’s from, dents to present a face that reflects their side the Packer Avenue bus shelter on the the color of their skin, how much money personality. Initially, he had to do some

36 | LEHIGH BULLETIN coaxing to get fellow students to partici- with blue skin. You’re not comfortable person—Toye himself. He said he not only pate, but now that his work is more widely around them, so you avoid them your feels better about Lehigh but also about known, he finds that students ask to be a whole life,” said Toye. “If I put up a pic- his place here. part of the project. And, they usually like ture of someone with blue skin on cam- The project “helped me to see how what he is able to capture. pus, and you have to walk past it every many awesome people we have here on Toye hopes the project can help pre- day, you’re going to become comfortable campus. Students, faculty, administra- vent hurtful acts such as the UMOJA with it. You’re going to get used to seeing tors, everyone wants to help me out, help House vandalism and help reduce any these images, and hopefully, you’re going me to push this,” Toye said. “It just really fears or prejudices that people have based to get used to different kinds of people, shows that if you’re motivated and pas- on someone’s skin color. and subconsciously, become more of an sionate about something, if you work hard “Say you hate people with blue skin. accepting person without really having enough, you can make it happen. You can You don’t have a reason for hating them, to do anything.” do a lot here. You’ve got to be willing to put but you’ve never been around a person The project has already helped one the time in.” L

SUMMER 2015 | 37 CELEBRATING THE SESQUICENTENNIAL LEHIGH@150 OCTOBER 1–4, 2015

his October, Lehigh will launch the year-long celebration THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 of its 150th anniversary. Beginning with Founder’s Day FARRINGTON SQUARE DEDICATION Morton Street, Asa Packer Campus featuring the installation of John Simon, Lehigh’s 14th Recognize the contributions of Gregory C. T Farrington, Lehigh’s president from 1998 president, the Sesquicentennial will culminate in the launch of our to 2006, as Campus Square is renamed campaign in conjunction with Alumni Weekend and Commence- in his honor. SESQUICENTENNIAL BLOCK PARTY ment in May 2016. The Sesquicentennial will offer a host of Zoellner Arts Center, Tamerler Courtyard, engaging events and programs designed to showcase Lehigh and and surrounding locations Kick off a multi-day party celebrating the arts— immerse you in our past, present, and future. visual, performing, literary, technical, and engineering. Centered at Zoellner and spilling Watch for your invitation this summer, plus more details at www.lehigh.edu/150. out across campus, the Block pARTy’s compel- Tickets and advance registration will be required for select events. ling and imaginative selection of events will serve to capture the creative talent and spirit of innovation at Lehigh and the surrounding community. Includes: • Farmer’s market • Academic discovery showcases • Guest speakers • Vocalpalooza, Lehigh’s student talent show

38 | LEHIGH BULLETIN SESQUICENTENNIAL BLOCK PARTY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 (continued) Zoellner Arts Center, Tamerler Courtyard FOUNDER’S DAY CEREMONY and surrounding locations FEATURING THE INSTALLATION Enjoy indoor and outdoor performances, food, OF LEHIGH’S 14TH PRESIDENT and family events with national touring acts; Packer Church local, faculty, and student artists; Southside Be part of one of Lehigh’s oldest and most businesses; local restaurants; and campus revered traditions. This year’s celebration groups. Activities happen all day from Zoellner of leadership will be made all the Arts Center to Chandler-Ullman. A full listing more special as Lehigh University will be available at www.lehigh.edu/150. installs John Simon as its 14th president as part of the ceremony. Morning and afternoon events include: Tickets will be required. • Concerts, family, and cirque-style events • Lectures, readings, and poetry slams OUR LEHIGH • Art exhibits COMMUNITY PARADE • Open house at the Baker Institute for Immediately after Founder’s Day, the Marching Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation Introducing President 97 will lead the way to where the day’s festivities • Community exhibits and showcases will continue. Join the short procession as • Demonstrations interactive floats, performers, students, and • Gadget and maker fair community groups wind their way from Packer JOHN Evening events include: Church to Zoellner Arts Center. • Guest artist performance BROWN AND WHITE BIRTHDAY • Theatre Department performance SIMON CELEBRATION • University Productions late night show Zoellner Arts Center, Tamerler Courtyard for students Eight cities. 50,000 alumni. Wish Lehigh a happy 150th at this campus party HOMECOMING TAILGATE One amazing, not-to-be- featuring a hearty buffet, an awe-inspiring per- Tent outside Goodman Stadium formance from the Department of Music, a light missed, presidential tour. Cheer on the Brown and White with fellow show extravaganza, and a special birthday toast. alumni, parents, students, and friends at the Mark your calendar to help the Lehigh SESQUICENTENNIAL BLOCK PARTY Lehigh Family Tailgate. Enjoy hearty tailgate nation welcome President John Simon (continued) fare, games, and refreshments. Fun for all to your area! This September and Zoellner Arts Center, Tamerler Courtyard, ages! Includes the Athletics Partnership and surrounding locations Sesquicentennial Celebration, welcoming former October, Simon takes to the road in a Performances continue throughout the athletes from all sports and classes to celebrate whirlwind of regional events, offering evening with special events by our students 150 years of Lehigh athletics together. more than two-thirds of all alumni and internationally acclaimed guest artists, LEHIGH FOOTBALL as well as late-night student programming. Lehigh vs. Yale nationwide an opportunity to meet Includes the Department of Theatre’s Expected kick-off at 12:30 p.m. him, hear his first impressions, and opening night performances. Visit www.lehighsports.com for relay their experiences and insights details and tickets. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 into the university. MOUNTAINTOP AND DATA X: NEW SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 INITIATIVES ON THIS MOUNTAIN ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO SESQUICENTENNIAL BLOCK PARTY ALL ALUMNI AND THEIR GUESTS. Zoellner Arts Center, Black Box Theatre (continued) Learn how the university is changing the face of Zoellner Arts Center, Tamerler Courtyard higher education through two powerful new prior- SEPTEMBER 10 OCTOBER 25 The fun continues! Morning and ities devoted to equipping students with the skills New York City Southern California they need to excel in our 21st century. afternoon events include: • Global fair OCTOBER 26 • Mountaintop offers students a unique, SEPTEMBER 15 • Guest artist performance self-directed learning experience in Boston Northern California • Theatre Department performance amazing reclaimed spaces. SEPTEMBER 16 OCTOBER 27 Details at www.lehigh.edu/mountaintop. Chicago • Data X infuses computer and data And that’s just a start! Philadelphia science as foundational elements of THROUGHOUT THE SESQUICENTEN- SEPTEMBER 17 OCTOBER 28 a Lehigh education—reflecting the NIAL YEAR, LEHIGH WILL HOST: Washington, D.C. Pittsburgh pervasiveness of emerging technology. Details at www.lehigh.edu/datax. • Symposia and lecture series • Guest speakers and performers Stay tuned for Florida tour stops being planned for February 2016. WILLIAMS HALL DEDICATION • Exhibits and gallery talks Herbert A. Roemmele ’53 Global Commons • Music and theatre performances Located in the heart of campus, historic Williams • Student projects Details and locations are to Hall has been transformed into a dynamic center • Community service opportunities for the study of globalization, as well as a hub for • And much more be announced. Not close to key student services. Stop by to admire the new an Our Lehigh event? Watch More events are being facility, thank those who helped make it possible, for how you can share your stories with and gain new insights into the world around us. developed, and the schedule is subject to change. President John Simon virtually through Visit www.lehigh.edu/150 the Our Lehigh website for alumni, to be for the latest news. launched late this summer. NOTES

several people inquire, where is on a destroyer in the Pacific and Lehigh and is that the year you was expecting to participate graduated! in an attack on Japan, but the atom bombs changed things. Carson F. “Kit” Dick’s business career Diefenderfer, included a quarter century with ’44 526 Wood Street, Bethlehem Steel. He sounded Apt. 418, Bethlehem, PA 18018. chipper while talking about (610) 867-8037(H); nancykitD@ his extensive family. He pops aol.com and Ted Heck, 1064 only two pills a day, a pretty LEHIGH DISPATCH Lindsay Lane, Rydal, PA 19046. good score for a nonagenarian. (215) 884-8843 (H); Dick walks often and when he’s Editor’s note: Welcome to Lehigh Dispatch, where you can find [email protected] off his feet, he watches a lot of out what your fellow alums are up to. Thanks to our dedicated A superannuated class corre- television, particularly sports correspondents for the work you do to keep our extended Lehigh spondent has a win-some, lose- programs. some job. The latter category A call to Trenton got a community together, and special thanks to Lehigh Dispatch Ed- includes not being able to talk response from Bob Moss, who itor Diana Skowronski, who can be reached at (610) 758-3675 or to a classmate because he has earned a B.S. in mechanical en- [email protected]. either passed on or is incom- gineering and an M.A. in urban municado for health reasons. In planning. He’s still working 25 a telephone search for items for to 30 hours a week, counseling Charles H. column materials that are this edition, a half-dozen calls people with problems of sub- Carter Jr., St. submitted from all class cor- were unanswered. stance abuse. Bob came up with ’41 Mark Village, Apt. respondents prior to placing I did talk twice with the an amusing comment that he 403, 2655 Nebraska Ave., Palm them in the Lehigh Bulletin. We daughter of Phil Berg and was had almost failed a class in met- Harbor, FL 34684-2608. (727) discussed my problem of arriv- sorry to hear that my name allurgy, because the classroom 784-7416 (H); ccarter412 ing at an interesting article for didn’t register with him. I was was too close to Packer Chapel @verizon.net the Class of 1943. sure he would remember our and he relaxed to the music of My computer, actually comput- First discussion was time on the freshman wrestling the Bach Choir. ers, are both giving me trouble. to compare the number of team and especially our first One of his comments was My eyesight is not good and my students at graduation (500) meeting of the 1940-41 season. about the beauty of our campus. record of no blank columns in versus the number remaining It was at Penn State and Phil, a Another was that he really 73 some years is in jeopardy. in 2012 (70) and the number in superb athlete, had performed feels that when we became a So this column is an appeal 2015 (48). well in a match but lost to a co-ed college, there was a great asking one of you to volunteer However, we received a former high school state cham- improvement in the social to take my place. It has been fun telephone message from Dave pion. He wrestled at 175 pounds environment. and a joy to write this column Troxel’s nurse, who advised and I was the heavyweight at Jack Rader was a class- over the years, but it is time me that Dave was moved from more than 200. We were lead- mate of mine at Liberty High to step aside. Thanks for your assisted living to medical care ing when I came to the mat. in Bethlehem, and got a degree support and God Bless. and therefore he is unable I pinned my opponent in in industrial engineering. A to help prepare our column. the second period and was so brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Editor’s note: To Should any of the classmates high that I got careless and the he lived at home in the western share your news or have interesting news for this Nittany Lion pinned me quickly part of the city. ’42 if you would be in- article, please get in touch with in the third period. He got five Lucky for me and Cliff terested in becoming your class’s me or Diana (610-758-3675). points, I got three and we lost Raidline ’49. Jack’s father was a correspondent, reaching out to I had an interesting visit the match 19 to 16. I had hoped Cadillac dealer and Jack would classmates and writing a column to Florida. My wife, Suzy, and to replay that embarrassing take a car off the lot, pick us up three times a year, please contact I along with our daughters scenario with Phil. and drive to South Mountain. Diana Skowronski at 610-758- Pamela Schwartz and Jody In looking for happier We were freshmen with a per- 3675 or [email protected]. Haller flew from Allentown to memories, I used our 50th Re- sonal chauffeur! Sarasota from February 28th union Yearbook and a current Jack is still very active, Les Titlow to March 14th. We had a great list of ’44rs supplied by the despite knee replacements. He 583 Riverwoods time on Anna Maria Island alumni office.Dick Horlach- and his wife hit tennis balls at ’43 Way, Bethlehem, for 2 weeks, weather perfect er answered the phone in their two homes: Amelia Island PA 18018. (610) 691-0531(H); with sunset on the beach. One Butler, Pa. He commuted from in Florida in winter and Moun- [email protected] interesting item, remember the Allentown while earning BS tain Springs in the Poconos in I had a meeting with Diana hats that we wore on a reunion and MS degrees in engineering. summer. (Betty and Bill Hit- Skowronski, who is in charge that had Lehigh ’43 marked Between his degrees, he spent tinger were neighbors there.) of securing and editing all the boldly? My wife and I had two years in the Navy. He was Talking with Walt Margie

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was fun. A Sigma Chi lad at Dick MacAdams, degree, become professor and A heartfelt good-bye to Lehigh with a B.S. in chemi- 7066 Edinburgh head of the electrical engi- these three classmates: RIP: cal engineering, he changed ’46 Drive, Lambert- neering department at the Willard S. Boothby, Richard F. directions and earned a medical ville, MI 48144. (734) 856- prestigious University of North Greene, and James Felker. degree from Temple Universi- 1097(H); [email protected] Carolina (at Charlotte). He also En Avant! ty. He practiced medicine for Sad to say, the most recent issue worked for the research division 50 years, mostly at St. Luke’s of the Lehigh Alumni Bulletin at Westinghouse Laboratories Edward C. Luck- Hospital in Bethlehem. His recorded the deaths of three of and, also, for the Naval Research enbach, 459 Pas- wife, Helen, is a graduate of the our classmates. Bill Boothby, Laboratory. ’47 saic Ave Cottage hospital’s School of Nursing. Richard Greene, and James B. He resided in Hilton Head 508, West Caldwell, NJ, 07006. They have a summer home Felker. Island, S.C., at the time of his (973) 227-3723 (H); at Harvey’s Lake. Although Of the three, I knew Bill death. [email protected] Walt now uses a walker, they Boothby best because he shared Bill Boothby, although Hi fellows. This is our 68th year are inveterate travelers with so many classes with me since graduating with an engineering of freedom after graduating. amusing recall of travels to he was enrolled in the indus- degree, was really a finance guy My, how the time flies. If France and England and a trial engineering curriculum. I through and through. He and we could only remember what memorable trip around South knew Richard Greene…to some Tony Fortosis ’44 headed up the happened in all this time. America, with a look at Ant- degree…because he, too, shared business end of the Brown and It surely seems time for arctica. many freshman year courses White as a duo. More than that, reflection, and to consider all Maybe I’ll learn more about but, since he followed the elec- Bill’s father was an import- the “what ifs” that might have their visit to spectacular Iguazu trical engineering curriculum, ant investment banker in the happened. Falls on the Argentina/Brazil we followed a different path af- Philadelphia environs. With a All in all I, myself, do not border when I accept Dr. Walt’s ter the second semester. James background such as that it was have too many regrets. I picked invitation to lunch. Felker, I did not know at all. not surprising that Bill moved a great company to work for, Epilogue. I apologize for Mr. Felker may have left into the investments arena worked on great projects, saw omissions or problems with Lehigh early to serve our coun- soon after graduation and left the world, married a great girl, timing. Class notes are submit- try and that’s why I did not the solution of engineering prob- and met many great people. I ted several months before you make his acquaintance. (His lems to others. wonder if the new graduates see them in the Alumni Bulletin. obit mentions that he served I remember Bill as a will have the opportunities that I wrote these notes at home as a first lieutenant in the soft-spoken guy with good we had. in late February. But I could Army Air Corps.) His obit also manners, intelligence, and evi- In reading the articles about have been in Alsace/Lorraine in mentioned that he earned a B.S. dence of excellent up-bringing the research projects that are eastern France. Several towns degree in engineering and was oozing out of every pore. His being carried out at Lehigh now, were having 70th anniversary a member of Lambda Chi Alpha sense of humor was first rate… the technologies seem to have celebrations of their libera- fraternity during his Lehigh one example…Professor Bela become much more complex. tion by my infantry division years. He, like I, lived in good K. Erdoss, in classes devoted to This is not too surprising as in World War II. An organizer old Allentown, Pa.! teaching undergrads how to an- we had to use slide rules to do of the event in the village of Richard Greene, I remem- alyze forces developed in coiled all our calculations. There was Etzling invited me to come ber as an extremely intelligent springs by the use of funicular nothing like using a slide rule to over for a salute, because I had undergrad who always seemed diagrams. Bill, with humor, design a seven tower light ends captured a nine-man squad of to comprehend what was referred to these as “funny pe- distillation system having 27 German soldiers there during being taught with ease. Ah, yes, culiar diagrams.” (I realize that components in the streams and the attack. t’was not that case with me. I that’s not leg-slapping humor with internal recycles. Figuring Connie and I decided not struggled. but it struck my funny bone at where the decimal places were to go, despite fine memories of Personally, I never got much the time and has remained with in the component concentra- our trip to France 10 years ago past the basic EE equation: me all these years.) tions was pure hell. I’m sure when everybody in the country E=IR. I guess that my brain did Bill exuded Philadelphia the new grads don’t know all was observing the 60th anni- not have the capacitance for high society. In fact, every time the fun we had doing this. ( The versary of Victory in Europe. much more than that. Oh my I see the movie version of that plant worked.) It took about gosh, you may be assured, I tried great Philip Barry Broadway three weeks. It could probably Editor’s note: To hard enough, but my cranial re- hit, “Philadelphia Story”, as a be done on a computer now in share your news or sistance was not to be overcome. movie starring Katharine Hep- a couple of hours. But I found ’45 if you would be in- For example, to this day, I still burn, Jimmy Stewart, and Cary that computers didn’t really terested in becoming your class’s don’t understand why Thomas Grant, I can’t help remember- shorten the time too much to correspondent, reaching out to Edison touted DC over AC as the ing Bill Boothby. do this sort of a job, as we then classmates and writing a column safer means for long distance He eventually rose to be a did many alternative case to three times a year, please contact transmission of electrical power. giant in Philadelphia financial optimize the final design. Diana Skowronski at 610-758- Mr. Greene went on, not circles, retiring as a partner at Ruth and I are still enjoy- 3675 or [email protected]. surprisingly, to earn a doctor’s Paine Webber…no mean feat. ing our cottage at Cranes Mill

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CCRC though the aches and that’s how the English language Iacocca Hall at Lehigh. He was a the Class of 1949 there. pains are sneaking up. keeps evolving, for better or talented athlete who had played Our president, Mark, and I But I am still looking forward worse) temperatures well below baseball for the York (Pennsyl- speak often. He has had another to golf on a par three course freezing, snow may be on the vania) Pirates and was an avid recent bout with right knee when the snow finally melts. ground until summer. (Note: no tennis player into his 80’s. Jim is surgery, including 3 days in the This global warming has mention of Al Gore.) survived by his wife Doris, a son hospital. His son came from really resulted in very serious This weather brings to mind and daughter, four grandchil- Johnstown to help bring him cold spells here. I’m trying to the blizzard of early 1948. That dren, and a great grand-daughter home from the hospital and a read the IPCC fifth assessment was a BLIZZARD! I was home (see In Remembrance). granddaughter flew up from report on global warming on a in Larchmont, N.Y., between Our ace reporter, Bill Florida to help out at home. He’s computer download. It is the semesters, when we were in- Hahn, and I spoke recently. He getting around well, but driving toughest reading I have ever undated by more than 3 feet of had spent Christmas in Blacks- is temporarily restricted. tried to get through. And, of snow. Nothing moved for two or burg, Va., with Ernestine and Mark spoke to Quent course, they start with their three days. I couldn’t dig my car family and will go back there Jurgensen, who lives with his result and seem to try to justify out, so I returned to Bethlehem for Easter. He’s having a bit of wife in a retirement community it. The recent cooler years we via the Lehigh Valley Railroad a problem with a knee but is in Las Vegas. Quent recently have experienced are called a (Asa Packer’s “baby”). I recall getting around OK. celebrated his 90th birthday global warming hiatus. But there lots of snow on campus, but no Bill spoke to Kenneth Job’s with several family members, is a lot of data presented in the interruption of classes. That’s son, Ken Jr., at their company most of whom came in from the report particularly when the about all I can remember. office, Job and Job Consulting East. He also renewed acquain- past history of glaciations is ana- Anyone with a better memory Engineers, Rochelle Park, N.J. tances with a long-lost buddy lyzed. I have not gotten through might relate their own experi- Ken Sr. is president and works from World War II. They met in all that yet. I find it hard to read ences of that storm. from home. The company was Arizona, where they reminisced on the computer. I would much Gini and I had a nice founded in 1928 by his father. about their wonderful adven- prefer a book. It is interesting Christmas note from Bob and Their main business is land sur- tures through Africa, Italy, and to compare the data with their Priscilla Hicks. Bob says if veying. Ken served four years Europe, with entertainment pro- preceding 2007 report. you’re thinking about down- in the army in World War II. vided by the former Third Reich. I haven’t heard from any sizing, do it now. He says they His first employment was with Again, not so timely, but of you. Please send an email or “have a garage and several the New Jersey Port Authority men’s winter athletics are write if you can. I am sure you closets full of things we’ll never and then with Job Engineering. going well. The wrestlers are have many tales to tell. use, or find again.” He has attended many football 12 and four, including a loss to Gini and I are contemplat- games and wrestling meets over higher-ranked Cornell, where Walter R. West, ing a move, but for a different the years. the final score didn’t reflect the 728 Norristown reason. We have a two-story Bill reports that William closeness of most of the bouts. ’48 Rd., F108, Lower house, with a full basement and Dorman of Corning, N.Y., We are expected to have a very Gwynedd, PA 19002. (215) 283- garage underneath at ground passed away on Nov. 16, 2014. talented team next season. The 9669 (H); [email protected] level — easy in and out. Howev- He is survived by his wife, basketball team has won seven er, the continual up and down Helen, two daughters, Phyllis of their last eight games and is Bob Macauley, steps is getting to be too much. and Diane, and five grandchil- in contention to lead the Patriot 10 Hitchcock Rd., As far as saved “things”: just as a dren. William was employed League after a decisive win over ’49 Westport, CT start, we have four generations by Corning Glass at graduation Army. I expect to be back on the 06880. (203) 226-5839 (H); Bob of hand, bench, and power tools, and worked there for over 35 links in spring and hope to con- [email protected] lawn mowers, snow throwers, years. He volunteered in several tinue scoring about my age (now Readers of this column will and family uniforms from two areas after he graduated. 90) or better. Yes, golfers, from probably have little interest in World Wars, etc., etc. That’s a Warren Heintzelman the forward tees, and if I lose cold weather by publication real problem. died in January 2014 at the age any more distance, it’s back to time, but it’s at center stage in I am sorry to report the of 90. Bill spoke with his wife, archery — if I can find someone the Northeast now. After surviv- death of our class treasurer, Carolyn, who is in a retirement to help pull the bow. ing the early January blizzard Jim Vogelsong, in German- home. Warren is also survived Condolences to the families that didn’t quite “blizz,” (only town, Md., on Jan. 8, 2015. Jim by two sons. He spent two years of our departed classmates. seven inches of snow instead served in the Army Air Corps in the army as an air cadet of the 1 to 2 feet predicted), during World War II and then during World War II. After Donald F. with a follow up snowfall of 2 graduated Phi Beta Kappa with graduation he was a project en- Williams, 1055 inches a week later, we are now honors in engineering and gineer for the Army for over 35 ’50 Cetronia Road, expected to receive another 8 later earned a master’s degree years. He lived in Germany for Apartment U - 2, Breinigsville, inches overnight. With current in mathematics from Rutgers in three years, and his work took PA 18031. (610) 395-1928 (H); and future-cast (after all these 1961. Jim worked for Bell Tele- him to many countries. Warren [email protected] decades “forecast” apparently phone Labs until his retirement visited campus often, especially The planning event for any spe- isn’t good enough anymore, but in 1986 and then volunteered at the chapel and the wall listing cial event may be interesting,

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PROFILE Robert Gallup ’86 and Mark Osler ’98

Lehigh and The World Trade Center An Enduring Tie Dates Back a Half-Century

Mark Osler ’98 and Robert Gallup ’86 are “Our plan uses these bollards as the skeleton LEHIGH ENGINEERS adding another chapter to the long association and spine for a temporary deployable flood wall,” have played key roles in the between Lehigh and New York City’s World Trade says Osler. “We’ve designed vertical beams that World Trade Center’s history. Center. The two civil engineers have helped design fit over each bollard together with aluminum stop The late Prof. Lynn Beedle and a flood-mitigation plan to protect the new WTC logs that slide down, one on top of another, to cre- current emeritus Prof. John W. from a massive storm like Hurricane Sandy. ate a waterproof barrier. The use of segmented Fisher evaluated the design val- Osler is assistant vice president and Gallup is panels or flood logs for a flood wall system is well- ues of the original Twin Towers director of civil engineering for Michael Baker In- known in the industry. Ours is the first design that in Fritz Lab in the 1960s. At the ternational, which is developing the plan for the utilizes bollards as an independent support from construction site, George Tama- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Osler the building.” ro ’61G oversaw field inspec- is assessing sea level rise, hurricane storm surge, The flood system wall can be assembled in tions and engineering services. coastal flood risk and hydraulic loading. Gallup two days. Its height can be tailored to the se- oversees civil and structural design aspects as verity of a storm by using more or fewer panels. project and client manager. The Baker design also analyzed the subterranean The new WTC houses the 9/11 Museum and hallways, doorways and other openings that are Memorial Plaza, five office towers, an underground likely to convey floodwaters that encroach into the Transportation Hub, and half a million square feet underground portion of the WTC. of commercial space. One World Trade Center, at “Protecting an interior like this is a unique as- 1,776 feet the tallest building in the Western Hemi- pect of this project,” says Osler. “Our plan coordi- nates various rings, or levels of protection: a floodwall system at street level, flood-proofed openings at garages and other exterior points After the 1993 terrorist at- of entry, and flood-proofed interior tack, Richard Garlock ’93G pathways.” assessed damage and helped The mitigation design antic- determine how to shore up ipates an increase in the levels of support systems. After the the Atlantic Ocean. “Sea level has 2001 attack, Garlock helped been rising about one inch per guide search and rescue decade in the New York City area teams, Fisher served on the and this rate is likely to acceler- national commission investi- ate,” says Osler. “We helped the gating the collapse of the tow- Port Authority evaluate the data ers, Carl Petrillo ’62 helped and choose how aggressive they build the temporary PATH rail wanted to be in estimating future station and Tamaro helped su- rises.” pervise reconstruction of the Gallup has worked in New York underground diaphragm walls City for 20 years. “Performing and lateral support system. complex infrastructure design and Mitch Simpler ’77 was chief construction in Lower Manhattan mechanical design partner for is like no other place in the world,” the new WTC stage-one mas- he says. ter plan and the stage-two sphere, opened last October and replaces the Twin Osler studied coastal engineering with Robert design of the Transportation Towers of the original WTC, which were destroyed Sorensen, professor emeritus of civil engineering Hub. James Durkin ’84 was on September 11, 2001. and author of half a dozen books. construction manager for the The Baker plan, says Osler, features an alu- “The World Trade Center is a national shrine Transportation Hub and One minum flood system wall that extends more than with emotional and financial importance,” he World Trade Center, and Tara 5,000 linear feet and fits onto the security bol- says. “It’s incredibly rewarding to be able to con- Stacom ’80 secured the leas- lards—steel posts filled with concrete—positioned tribute in a positive way to the people who live and ing contract for One World along the 16-acre site’s perimeter roadways. work there.”—Kurt Pfitzer Trade Center.

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but also frustrating as we try to cated surgeries: “…one through If health holds out till 2016, Lehigh Alumni Club: At the anticipate all the personal needs the nose and one through the I hope to go back to Lehigh for meeting, the speaker was Dr. of those returning for Reunion eye socket.” After a follow-up our 65th class reunion and to Rich Aronson, long-time pro- 65. At this writing, this stage is scan, Tom’s doctor reported “… see many of you there. fessor of economics at Lehigh. being put on like a warm coat your cancer is gone.” Tom is From the Brown and White His topic: Lehigh’s Martindale by your committee and class calling this result a miracle. for April 13, 1951 (front page Center. John said this was a officers. Thanks to the experi- headline): very good presentation with enced alumni office staff, many Tom Dowdell, “Musifestival Opener witty, stand-up comic flavor. concerns become “no issues.” 3414 Waterford Set for Tonight” Everyone paid attention. The As of the end of 2014, there are ’51 Drive S, Fargo, The Lehigh Spring class was well represented by 351 members of our class with ND 58104. (701) 526-3485 (H); Music Festival nine classmates: Kerr, Robert known addresses from whom [email protected] Many of us were in that Arndt, Arnold Fortney, we like to have activity news Don Smith: I thought I’d bring production as well as the rest of Robert Kiesling, Edmund and response to Reunion. you up to date with some hap- the “cast of thousands,” Lehigh Purdy, Neil Randall, Richard I phoned our president, Ed penings. My wife Lois passed Glee Club, Concert Band, Cliff Schaphorst, and George Kaup, who is also experienced away in May 2012. I moved to Cleffs, with Cliff Cleff Combo, Young. Thank you, John. Al- with reunion-planning; he is Luther Crest in September 2013 Beaver College Glee Club, ways good to hear from you. well and ready to jump into ac- with fiancée Roberta. We found dancers from Lehigh and Cedar My two favorite Christmas tion aimed at making Reunion a classmate Drew Wiegner Crest and soloists from Moravi- card ’52ers once again included 65 a memorable occasion. moved in about the same time. an and Lehigh. me on their list: Allen Levan Vice president Paul Kunkel Luther Crest has Service Electric The show featured “Lehigh and Mary Jo Johnston, widow has had major surgery, but TV Cable, which gives us access Victorious,” a celebration for our of Jim. has moved back to the Phoebe to LU home sporting events. senior year undefeated football I received a compelling Home to recuperate and be with This is indoor living at its best in team and a tender rendition of biographical sketch on Charles his wife, Doris. the winter time. Please keep the Kurt Weill’s “Down in the Val- E. Scovil, Fairhope, Ala.: Born Our treasurer, Cliff Freund, cold weather in Fargo. ley” (ed.: the Lehigh Valley?). 1928, Queens, N.Y. Raised in is not apt to disappear during Jim Gill writes: Interesting Ah…the Spring Music Festi- Montclair, N.J., and attended these record-breaking cold to read your enthusiastic review vals…love ’em or leave ’em. You public schools. Enlisted in Army days; 100 bucks is judged to be of Fargo with the history of the can’t forget them. And maybe 1946. Spent 1947 in Japan. insufficient funds with which reason behind your move there spring will come here sometime. Graduated Lehigh 1952, degree to escape to a warmer place in 2005. Give my best to Phyl. Send me your reactions to in geology. Met wife during col- than New Jersey. We would not On December 17th, about a the weather as you (we) age. lege years, married 1951. Three even have the 100 dollars had month from the date of this writ- children. Hobbies: Photography I not mentioned the absence ing, there will be a Leavetaking Pat Moran, 8209 and astronomy. Became inter- of money in our treasury at a Service at St. Andrew’s Episco- N. Sable Way, ested in astronomy at about meeting up at Lehigh and Gene pal parish in Winthrop, Maine, ’52 Prescott Valley, age 10. Retired 1988, Curator, Chovanes put in that amount where I have served as Vicar. It AZ 86315 (520) 979-2733; Stamford, Conn., Observatory, to rectify the situation. Put ’em also marks the 60th anniversary pmo [email protected] Stamford Museum and Nature together for Gene. of my ordination. The bishop of Every few months I receive a Center. Awarded many astrolog- Our Reunion committee the Episcopal Diocese of Maine “care package” from my Texas ical commendations. In 2001, chairman, Gene Chovanes, has will be here to accept my resig- connection, Bill Murray, Sug- received the Peltier Award of finally made a move toward re- nation. I am looking forward to arland, Texas. His latest offer- the Astronomical League for tiring from the patent attorney the next chapter of life. ings include: “A fine is a tax for contributions to popularizing business he started in 1957. As I am so lucky to have all doing wrong. A tax is a fine for astronomy. An asteroid, #3949 of Dec. 31, 2014, Gene has down- three of our children living near doing well.” John Roberts, Chief Scovil, was named after him for sized to accommodate only a me in Winthrop. We usually Justice, Supreme Court. “One his work in astronomy. few personally held clients. mark the weekends with seven useless man is a shame. Two is a Charles goes on to tell us he Good move, Gene. Now drop the or eight of us (when grand- law firm. Three or more is a con- was raised Presbyterian from shingle altogether. children are willing to hobnob gress.” John Adams (1734-1826). age 5, became an ordained el- Bob Limons and his wife, with us) around the table in my “Politics is the art of looking for der about 1957 in Aurora, Colo., Peggy, no longer walk long apartment. We all miss Kay, who trouble, finding it, misdiagnos- and moved to Connecticut in distances, so find this winter’s died in 2008. ing it, and then misapplying the 1959. Exposed to miracles of record-breaking cold to not As a licensed marriage and wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx healing in 1967 at Rye, N.Y., make it more fun to get their family therapist, I continue (1895-1977). You get the idea. On Presbyterian Church, he be- exercise. to see clients and to attend to other musings. came charismatic. In 1972, he The good news from Hawaii therapy conferences in Boston From John Kerr comes an died of exposure to toxic fumes is that Tom Fisher phoned to and Washington, D.C., annually, update on the recently formed and overwork. “The Lord sent report “…his brain cancer is to keep up with advances in the (April 2014) southeast Pennsyl- me back to work for Him,” gone…” He has had two sophisti- field. vania and northern Delaware Charles says, and he is now

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pastor of a small group of men. with information and seeing ners of the annual December cial. It was a moving experience 2015: Now completely retired that this column gets to Lehigh Holiday Model Train Show at as they openly embraced us in and living with son Gary in Al- on time. Bill seems to be doing the New York Botanical Garden their culture. abama. Thank you for sharing, well health-wise, which is what in the Bronx. All the best and God Bless. Charles. we want to hear when we are all Bob amassed a rare I would like to hear from 83 to 85 years plus. complete collection of U.S. Robert E. Kiley, more of you ’52ers, with YOUR Pete Huester sent a lovely stamps from 1847 to 1947. 3256 Wingfield life experiences! Christmas note of his where- They sold at auction for more ’55 Lake Road, Wil- abouts during 2014. His son has than $8 million in 1998. One liamsburg, VA 23185-7519. Clifton “Tip” been most helpful in the rentals of the stamps, an 1868 1-cent (757) 258-3148 (H); (757) 258- E. Mowrer, of their Cape Cod property as “Z-Grill,” was purchased for 3162 (Fax); [email protected] ’53 622 Edgeboro well as maintenance. Pete’s $935,000, at the time a record I finally made it to a football Blvd., Bethlehem, PA 18017-5110. hobby is playing the clarinet, price for one U.S. stamp. Our game; it was family weekend, (610) 865-0399 (H); cebrmow and he’s been taking lessons and classmate was an amazing man and a large crowd was present. @verizon.net seems to enjoy it very much. in many ways and he will be My daughter Susan was there As I sit down to write my missed. This week, Ellie and and husband Jim to see their Le- column due now for Lehigh, all Bert I attended a Ringling College high freshman Margy. She was I see out my window is snow Schweigaard lecture by Dan Buettner. His with a number of classmates and and more snow. Received a call ’54Olsen, National Geographic assign- their parents. Our classmates from Bob Littner who was (Oct. 20-May 15) The Landings, ment to study longevity took were represented by members leaving for a couple of weeks at 5430 Eagles Point Circle #401, him to communities where of the 60th Reunion Committee. his time share in Florida. He is Sarasota, FL 34231-9179. (941) people thrive to 100 and more. They met in the morning to still recovering from neck and 923-4210 (H); (May 16-Oct. 19) He found five communities in work with school staff people back surgery and warm weather 41 Clock Tower Lane, Straus the world where there were 12 to put together an enjoyable sounds good at this point. Jean Park, Brevard, NC 28712-3556. times more centenarians than Reunion this May 14–17. They and his daughter are going along (828) 877-4551 (H); bertso anywhere else. His best seller, were: Dick Smith and Char- to help him. Joe Workman just @mac.com The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons For lotte (Norristown), Lou Peter returned from a month at his Ellie and I lost 18 friends last Living Longer From People and Dusty (Wayne, N.J.), Don condo in Florida with Eleanor. year and in the last two months Who’ve Lived The Longest (sec- Steeber and Lois (Richmond, He said they plan to return two Kap friends: Al Bailey and ond edition published Novem- Va.), and Ken Hendrix and Pat in April for another month of Tom MacCabe ’53. Our class ber 2012 — 4 1/2-star-rating by Girke (Bethlehem). Ken and warm weather. also lost one of Lehigh’s stron- Amazon Books), explains why Robie Verostick (Montclair, I developed some health gest supporters, Bob Zoellner. they live longer. Since his book N.J.) were there and Bill Shunk problems right after Christmas In the early 1990s, Bob and his came out, Buettner has im- (Bethlehem) gave us some of his and had my daughter Susan wife, Victoria, committed $6 plemented Blue Zone lessons tones. I heard Ed Hatfield was take me over to St. Luke’s Rt 33 million to establish the Zoellner to 23 communities in the U.S. in the area, but I can’t guarantee North (a new hospital). When Arts Center, a 105,000-square- working to embrace a longevity that rumor (Chestertown, Md.). we arrived I was having con- foot performing arts venue culture. His group outlined Lee Butz (Allentown) sent junctive heart failure and they which opened in 1997. Bob was patterns of life learned from me a nice note about the last got my heart working again but co-captain of the ice hockey studying people in Sardinia, page of the Winter Bulletin that it will take six months to get team at Lehigh and graduated Okinawa, Holancha, Costa pictured Lynne and me and the back. We had planned to go on as one of Buele’s Coolies with Rica, the Greek Isle of Ikaria, subject of planned giving. Lee a two week cruise in January an EE degree. He then served and Loma Linda, Calif. Field of course built many structures so that was cancelled. Tony two years in the Air Force. In research distilled nine lessons that stand on Lehigh with the Latour still pitches in at the 1956 he founded the Wall Street that Buettner shares; natural help of his children, especially volunteer’s desk at admissions firm of E.J. Roberts.Later he movement, eating less, a plant improvements to the library. Art and does great work as usual. joined Edmonds & Hanly and based diet (he emphasized Swallow thanked the editor, who His willingness to sub is greatly became managing partner beans), red wine in modera- acknowledged the passing of appreciated. I recently read in in 1964. In 1976, he founded tion, a life of purpose, relax- Gloria Deas (Emmaus) “whom the Allentown Morning Call Alpine Associates Advisors, ation, belonging, families first, he dated starting in 1949.” Art that John Seebald of York, a firm specializing in merger and picking the right tribe. is the brother-in-law of Corky Pa., passed away in November arbitrage, long and short equity Ellie and I had a taste of Flynn (Lake St. Louis, Mo.) Art’s 2014. He was a U.S. Navy pilot trading, and bankruptcy related this when in 2006 I underwent second niece, Tara Sabharw- and had retired. John had just investments. He managed the proton beam therapy for pros- al, will be in the class of 2019. celebrated his 57th wedding firm with Victoria. Alpine now tate cancer in Loma Linda. The Art calls himself a class of ’55 anniversary with wife Suzanne manages $1.7 billion in assets hospital and city are largely oc- wanna-be. in York. and its core arbitrage business cupied by Seventh Day Adven- The Rivalry was the talk of I owe a debt of gratitude to has never had a losing year. tists who practice a vegetarian the fall (no pun intended). I first Bill Latshaw for providing me They were also founding part- diet, are quite religious and so- learned about this through Don

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Steeber (who heard it through computers. He is a good man. Nu brother Nick Cali. Their to Argentina. They enjoyed a Yankee Stadium executive Sad to say, several class- friendship dated from high good weather and very near ap- who was in Bethlehem after a mates passed during this school days in New York State proaches of humpback whales. game. Personally I thought it period: Gordon Fiegel was a and Frank served as best man in In August the Hartigs made was a crazy idea. How could class officer for many years. Nick’s wedding. Last summer, their third trip to Botswana, you fill Yankee Stadium for a Lou Peters gave me that infor- after Frank and his law partner Africa, with a group of only Lehigh-Lafayette game? Well, mation. Gordy lived in the Al- son and their wives attended seven, staying in four tented I was there, and it was packed. lentown area. Don Steeber told a trial lawyers’ conference in camps. Along with numerous The Verosticks, Ken and Robie, me about the death of Edward Sonoma, Calif., Nick and his close-up views of wild animals, were there for the weekend Henschel. Ed was a Theta Delta wife, Cindy, joined them from one night they were surprised with their boys. Ken Hendrix Chi brother. Pat Girke sent me Oregon for a week’s reunion. as an elephant walked through and Pat Girke were trying to a card about the passing of her In spite of Nick’s coping with their camp. keep warm on the cold day. My daughter. Kelly was, of course, severe heart problems and nu- I also enjoyed hearing from Lehigh granddaughter, Margy also the daughter of Lou Girke, merous surgeries, Frank wrote Ann Sneden, Bob’s widow, who Taylor ’18, was there with her who died many years ago. In the that “Nick’s passion for life was celebrated her 80th birthday father, Jim Taylor. I heard previous Bulletin, I mentioned infectious and he greeted each with a large family reunion in that Lee Butz (Allentown) was some activity of Ross Ford in day with humor, strength and Walker, Minn. there also. In fact I later had our Williamsburg community. gratitude.” A milestone in spring 2016 a message from his daughter Today I must tell you of his I enjoyed hearing from a will be our 60th class reunion Shari. I was thrilled to hear passing. See In Remembrance. number of classmates during at Lehigh. Planning is under- from her; here is what she the December holidays. Susie way, with details to come in the wrote: “Lee Butz’55 attended William T. and Phil Hower wrote from months ahead. Stay well and the Lehigh-Lafayette game in Burgin, 534 W. Concord, Mass. Phil wrote that keep in touch. Yankee Stadium with his son ’56 Beechtree Lane, he is “still doing the day job,” Greg ’79 and daughter Shari ’81. Wayne, PA 19087. (610) 688- commuting three days a week James E. Wat- Lee and his wife, Dolly, live in 7374 (H); [email protected] to Manchester, N.H., for his son, 774 Highview Allentown and will be celebrat- Have you thawed out? What a work at Texas Instruments. He ’57 Drive, Wyckoff, ing their 59th wedding anni- winter: seemingly endless rain says he might try three days a NJ 07481. (201) 891-1246 (H); versary in March. Although his out west with blizzards crossing week next year. [email protected] son Greg now runs the family the country, especially ham- Janet and Bruce Waechter In November my son Todd construction management mering New England. Here’s to called 2014 ”a year of transi- Watson ’94 and I went to the business, Lee continues to go spring! tion” as they moved from their Big Game—Lehigh v. Lafay- to work every day. Lee and A sun-seeking Lehigh group home of 44 years in Ambler, Pa., ette—in Yankee Stadium. The Greg were instrumental in the gathering at the Ritz Carlton to a nearby retirement commu- good news is that Lafayette transformation and revitaliza- in Naples, Fla., in February nity. Their children Rick, Sue started its third-string QB; tion taking place in downtown included Loretta and Ron and Jill, from Boston, Indianap- there was a great turnout of Allentown.” Thank you Shari. Weber and John Milnor. Both olis and Minneapolis, came to 47,000 fans; and we had good Van and Alice Van Hoesen classmates are members of the help the “old folks” settle into seats for a baseball venue. But (Naples, Fla.) sent Merry Tower Society, sponsor, along their new residence. there’s always bad news too: Christmas and New Year with the Asa Packer Society, of Bob McGrory reported Lehigh could not stop Lafay- greetings. They are in good the reception and brunch. As that they “did make it to the ette’s running or passing; we health, Van playing golf and the event ended, Ron reports Lehigh-Lafayette debacle” (in had a big loss; the day was cold; both playing bridge with each that John, a former Lehigh New York City). He said “it was and Todd and I (along with other and managing to remain cheerleader, “wowed” the fun to be there but oh . . . what many other LU fans) left at on speaking terms. They have crowd as he led a big cheer. The a rout.” (Lehigh 7 vs Lafayette halftime. We were seated with celebrated their 60th wedding group earlier heard talks by 27). Bob and Carolyn fulfilled a Ruth and Walt Mannherz and anniversary a number of times Everett Van Hoesen ’55, host, longtime wish to visit Yellow- their large extended family, on trips to Ecuador, Galapagos and Daniel Lopresti, interim stone National Park, where Sue and Dave Walker, and and Naples. They are also tak- dean of the P.C. Rossin College their grandson Adrian had a Pat and George Lucas ’56. I did ing steps to move into a health of Engineering and Applied job. They were treated to sights hear that Charlie Strauch facility, as Lynne and I are con- Science at Lehigh. Members of of many gorgeous mountain had a Friday night party in his sidering. Meanwhile they have the donor societies were also streams, mud pots and geysers. New York City apartment, but four great-grandchildren to invited to events in Orlando Joni and Bob Hartig once missed seeing him or any other visit. Van also hosted a Lehigh and Palm Beach. again traveled to faraway ’57 mates at the game. This fall get-together in Naples, Fla. I was pleased to hear from places. In January a small ship we will be back in Bethlehem Bobby Blum (Roseland, Frank Cafaro, although he carrying a hundred guests took for the 151st contest; Lafay- N.J.) is keeping me on my toes wrote with the sad news of them to the Falklands, the ette did give up its home game by warning me, and maybe you, the death in October 2014 Antarctic Peninsula, a return in Easton to play in Yankee of the dangers that lie in our of his good friend and Sigma visit after 21 years, and back Stadium, so let’s hope for a good

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recruiting class this year and a Marika, who lives in Santa Fe, because of travel bans. It was so week of winter. 2014 started better outcome than this cold N.M. bad that the Buffalo Bills-New with bushwalking for a week in November yielded. George Ritzinger sent me York Jets game scheduled to Jindabyne followed by becom- I haven’t heard from many greetings from Wayzata, Minn., be played in Orchard Park was ing ball manager for Sydney classmates recently, so I’ll where he has lived for the last moved to Detroit. The worst Veterans Golfers Association update you on my four remain- 40 years. He retired from a part, we couldn’t hold the game with 1,100 members and fields ing Theta Delta Chi brothers: DuPont/Dow joint venture 16 telecast because of the travel of 140 receiving ball prizes for Al Olsen is a VP of Olsen & years ago, and says that there’s ban, and Buffalo Wild Wings three grades of competition Thompson P.A. in Morristown, not much Lehigh activity in his was closed. along with nearest to the pin N.J., where his sons Jonathan area, but he’s usually able to But many of you made it awards. ’84 and Peter ’86 are president meet with many of his Kappa to New York City, Yankee Sta- Lee’s back is “unwell” and a VP, respectively. Al is still Sigma brothers from ’55 to ’58 dium, and Carnegie Hall. Bob walking the course twice a week living on his old farm but he’s each February in Tampa. Some Christie sang with his son and and stretching, not playing well getting ready to downsize to a ’57 guys who usually make it with Bruce Gilbert and Bill helps, but open air and good small condo in the area. are Bill Thomas, Chris Klinck Bux at Carnegie, but Brooks humor with the mates is very Phil Stromenger is and Jim Gardner. What a great Goldman missed the festivities easy to take. enjoying the good life with his idea—who else gets together with a broken foot. The Willoughby Sympho- wife, Peggy, down in West Palm like this? Bert Elsner, Joyce, grand- ny Choir year opened with a Beach, Fla., where they are Send me some emails on daughter Abby Winter ’15, her program of opera choruses in walking distance of a great your news and activities, and I sister Julie and parents Cindy with two sellout houses in the shopping district called City hope to see you all in Bethle- Elsner Winter and Mike braved Concourse Chatswood. To be Place that offers restaurants, hem for the big 60th reunion the cold drafty stadium after continued!! movies, entertainment, and in 2017! the bus caravan from Bethle- The boys at Gary’s Barber stores for anything they might hem of 27 student and 27 alum- Shop can’t wait for the Bills’ need. Phil and Peggy have a Bill Helfrich, 80 ni buses. Bert walked around season to start following a house built in 1920 near Grand- Southwick Drive, the upper deck at halftime and winning year, a great defense, view Heights, which is the ’58 Orchard Park, only ran into Bill Bechtold a new owner, and new coach, highest elevation point in the NY 14127. (716) 662-7927 (H); and his grandchildren from our Rex Ryan, who wins every press city. They just celebrated their [email protected] class. It was rumored that Pete’s conference. 27th wedding anniversary and Our class’s sad news continues ran out of Greekers during Greekers to Pete Williams, a are able to travel to New York as Dick Briggs called to say halftime? great friend of Lehigh! City often to see family. This that All-American tackle and Bob Christie was worried summer Phil and Peggy will fly Beta Pete Williams passed about the winter on Long Is- Bob Teufel, 1 to Norway to visit his daughter, Friday, February 20, from an land, so he bought a large snow- Stoklea Drive, Em- her twins, and other relatives. apparent heart attack. He had blower as insurance for it not to ’59 maus, PA 18049. Fred Kohler finally retired been progressing nicely at happen—he was glad he did that (610) 967-2049 (H); (610) 393- a couple of years ago from the home. Dick and I would like to because it happened, and he 0565 (C); [email protected] and University of Maine in Augusta, see the Bulletin honor both Pete really used his new toy. He will John Canova, 8008 Rachelle where he taught chemistry and and Dan Nolan and the teams be hosting the ’58 tailgate next Place, Vienna, VA 22182. (703) physics for many years. Fred in our era for all the memories year (if the team is respectful) 821-0410 (H); [email protected] has 70 acres of trees and woods they contributed to Lehigh and so we hope to see you at the Once you get past the score of in nearby Belgrade, where he our classmates, including the Homecoming game against Yale the 150th LU/LC game, it was enjoys the rural lifestyle, but is Ed Sullivan Show appearance. on October 3, 2015. one fabulous weekend and a sure to get up to Quebec City, What a winter—everyone in Received emails from the marvelous display of Lehigh Canada, and down to Boston, Long Island, Boston, all of New ’58 Phi Delts planning their talent. The overflowing educa- Mass., a few times a year. Once England had a Buffalo winter. September Jersey shore gath- tional seminars and tours, re- the snow melts, Fred and his Orchard Park was unbelievable ering in Bayhead, N.J., hosted ceptions, and musical presen- wife, Linda, will hop in their old with lake effect snow starting by Ned Voss and Stu Sherk. tations were superb. Can’t wait GMC 2500 truck (the one with four days in “Snowvember” Watch out for the hurricanes, for the 175th Rivalry Weekend! the slide-in camper on back), that piled seven feet around Stu!! Of course I realize most of us and head out to Montana to go our town house. We couldn’t Did you see Roger Penske will be 102 by then, but with fishing and visit Yellowstone open any doors with the dog ’59 winning at the Daytona a proper diet of Greekers and before the tourists arrive. being the biggest problem. We 500? He has got to change the Yuengling we can make it. Our fourth Theta Delta finally took the window out of car colors! The Teufel family head- Chi brother, Dick Reinhold (a the storm door and “tossed” her Lee Owens opened his 2015 quarters was the New York major Pittsburgh Steelers fan!), into a small clearing. The high letter “G’day from girt” worried Athletic Club on Central Park is still living in Germany, but lofts, etc., finally arrived from about the hottest spring, South where John Canova hopes to be back stateside this all over the East Coast by Sat- summer, and fall with tomatoes and spouse Ellen joined us for summer to visit his daughter, urday, but we had no place to go ripening on the vine in the first a cocktail before they dashed

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off to a Phi Gam reception and tive Downey guided us through considered a trip to Russia the city 100 police cars and 23 Anne and I to Carnegie Hall. the maze back to the NYAC. until the invasion of Ukraine EMS units.” Roger has been My fraternity brother Bob Fellow class scribe Canova encouraged them to tour closer generous not only to Lehigh Kiley ’55 stopped by to chat and I vowed to pick out other to home. Taking the ferry from over the years, but his Indy and we bumped into Keith Rust classmates in the Yankee Sta- Portland, Maine, to Yarmouth, Ticket Package usually gleans ’57 in the lobby. The Carnegie dium crowd but with our eyes Newfoundland, they enjoyed the highest bids at our reunion Hall concert featured Lehigh welling with tears at the score wine, dinner and their cozy auctions. Just think how much Choral Arts directed by Steven spotted only Bill Beattie and cabin for the 10-hour trip. we could get for one of those Sametz singing his original John Stanley yelling “coach “Newfoundland is sparsely police cars!!! Carmina Amoris. If you recall put us in. We can stop those populated and they are the the excellent, talented Glee guys!” nicest people we have ever met. Williams E. Club presentation at our last At an earlier, happier (we Really want more tourists.” I Millsom, P.O. Reunion dinner amplified by won) Lehigh home game, I ran have spent years fishing in both ’60 Box 3225, 54 one hundred you have some into our class treasurer, Glenn Newfoundland and Labrador Boardwalk, Groton Long Point, idea of the quality. Choral Arts Kinard, sporting his 59 at 50th and can attest to Leon’s analy- CT 06340. (860) 536-2926 is one of Lehigh’s cultural gems reunion hat. Glenn and his sis about the warm people. (H), (860) 235-3618 (C); bill. and hopefully we will have an- spouse will be at Wimbledon Fortune magazine had a [email protected] other opportunity to hear them 2015 adding to his list of Grand recent two-page feature on Hello Classmates, at Carnegie. Jim Swenson Slam events. Now he needs Roger Penske highlight- I am writing this from Jupi- was spotted making his way only the Australian Open to ing not only his racing and ter, Fla., as I escaped the snow through the concert crowd. complete his tennis bucket business success but praising in Connecticut to spend some Fraternity brothers Dan list. He still plays tennis and his revitalization of Detroit. time in sunny Florida. Bayer and Gerry Downey manages to put in 1,000 hours a “Clean Downtown, an initiative Have not seen a lot of class- joined us in the stands. And year with Air Products working he started with other business mates down here except for Bill after the game with all 48,256 on LNG projects. leaders, tasks 50 people with and Dottie Ross. Attended their exiting fans seeming to crowd Class president Leon cleaning 200 blocks each day. annual Super Bowl party as did into the subway, New York na- Harbold and wife Lynne had Penske also recently bought John and Louise McWilliams.

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Also there were Harry and be a blast even though the team Columbia meet. Like the many ones—most recently in Punta Meredith Brooks ’59. Bill and did not hold up its end of the of us who refuse to retire fully, Cana and Ocean Reef in the John are both in good shape bargain. Lehigh and Lafayette Toby has cut his accounting Keys. Rich Miller has been at and enjoying their time in Flor- were everywhere in the city and practice to 3 days a week to Ocean Reef since Moses got the ida although Bill still returns the university events were done allow time to be the founding Big Ten. Rich has had more than to Philadelphia every week to to perfection and well attended. member and treasurer of the St. his share of marlins boated and manage his business interests. It was electric to be part of a Louis County Parks Founda- now is into bone fishing from a Those of you who did not sellout in Yankee Stadium for tion, a group that seeks to raise skiff when not golfing there. He make it to NYC to attend the Lehigh. funds for the seventy-one St. and wife Margo have downsized Lehigh-Lafayette football game Many from the class were Louis County parks. to a condo after many years of missed a good time. Manhattan there but getting together was While we didn’t meet up entertaining their clan in their was full of grads and students nigh to impossible. with Toms Royal in New York, beautiful home on the lagoon. from both schools. Many The Dynamos of Ethical Be- he told me they were going to Birk Drury dodged Hur- members of our Class attend- havior, Mike Hoben and Pete the Carnegie Hall concert in ricane Sandy selling out prior ed a performance at Carnegie Hagerman, were early arrivals. advance. We had dinner with to her arrival and is living near Hall while others attended Amazingly, the endowment they Bill Ross ’60 and Dottie who Harrisburg when he’s there— a wrestling match at the NY created approaches $300,000 confirmed all loved the perfor- seems the grandchildren are Athletic Club, where wearing with three lectures annually mance. Toms writes from Vero all over the place and he’s a a jacket and tie was required. over the last three years. We Beach that he just returned constant visitor to Medford, NJ., Something new for the Lehigh always have ’61 participation from several days in Cuba Burlington, Vt., and points west. spectators. at these events with Mike before our illustrious leader By the time you read this On Saturday morning, Tom working closely with deans of decided to open up relations. the Easterns at Lehigh will be Bliss, with help from Bob Voc- the three colleges to structure Toms describes Cuba as a total history and hopefully a group cola, arranged for a nice brunch the importance of ethics going time warp in the sixties as they of Phi Delts will have witnessed at a midtown French bistro. At- forward from Lehigh. Look for tooled around in a 1957 Ford another day of fame for old tending from the Class were the information from us before the Fairlane. Younger alums, take a Lehigh—Ken Smith notes that Ira Friedmans, the Blisses, the next event—a great way to stay tip from Toms—a tremendous Tom Whitten, Dick Book- Bob Voccolas, the John McWil- connected. economic opportunity as things binder, Roy Martins and Art liamses, the Pete Beyers and Ed Watters attended the move ahead. Rogers all will be part of their yours truly and his fiancée, Gill. game with me and wife Carol Roy Cravzow missed the gathering at Stabler. We then all took a subway train Anne. Fortunately, we had 150th festivities because he and Norm Reinik is never to Yankee Stadium to watch a access to the Delta Sky Box for fiancée Wanda were just return- lost for email words—usually very forgettable football game warmth and spirits. Ed is a big ing from Brazil taking care of humorous or political. The good as Lehigh was totally outplayed supporter of the Martindale his export business. For Roy it news is he’s having a lot of fun and outcoached by Lafayette. Center and accompanied the was his 40th trip while Wanda polishing his golf game in Big However, that did not diminish group in May 2014 to Portugal has only been there 10 times. Bear followed by a celebratory the spirit of the Lehigh crowd. while they studied that coun- Pity, pity. They were celebrat- Manhattan—man after me own If any of you have sent me try’s economy. Friday night ing the 50th anniversary of his heart. He writes that Chuck an email or letter since my last we had dinner and drinks with Fulbright Scholarship. Roy has Mihal cancelled his Super Bowl column I will have to include it Bob Colonna and MaryJane, generously included Lehigh in reservations by November—it’s in my next column as I had to recently married in 2013. His that celebration. To see Roy is tough being a Browns fan! Ru- flee my house to prevent being company, Innovative Systems, to see a 75er in a fortyish mind mors that he’ll pay for the band buried with 27 plus inches of is international in scope in the and body. We should all be in his at the 55th next year if they snow and did not bring my files data management field taking shape. win are unconfirmed. Chuck is with me to Jupiter. them to UK frequently with From Las Vegas Joe Bar- enjoying retirement from the You should read this col- clients around the globe. As tish checked in—still involved banking business while he waits umn about the time of our 55th Bob puts it, MaryJane is a life with the Navy—consulting on for next year. Norm also noted Reunion. I look forward to see- partner who works with him in unmanned aerial systems plus I should lend my ski poles to ing many of you at the Reunion staff management. Do we see on the admissions review panel John McCaskie, who slipped and hope to get good material another Warren Buffett in the for the Naval Academy in his on ice and did the broken hip for my next column. making? district. Celebrity of the month thing while working on a bridge We met Dick Moll and goes to Dick Knoebel—he job for Swank Construction Robert Paternos- Camille at the financial investor was recently inducted into the where he is chief engineer. ter, 448 Bellflower program. They have moved to Amusement Park Association’s As for me, I spent a few days ’61 Blvd. Suite 303, Bethlehem and love it, attend- Hall of Fame. Dick gets excited schussing Keystone, Colo., like Long Beach, CA 90814. robert ing lots of Zoellner and other about the Knoebels Amusement a 40-year-old (the knees were [email protected] Lehigh happenings. They met Resort he runs and is a maven sore for a week) then off to SW Guest Post—Paul Smith: The up with Toby James and Peggy on roller coasters. For relief Florida till the snows quit. As 150th weekend turned out to Friday night in New York at the he takes to the deep for the big chairman, I am son Chris ’93’s

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biggest fan watching our com- des, Carol and Bill Munson an attack by a group of high Robert Matthews is pany prosper, and the grand- (Sunderland, Vt.), Laurie and school hoodlums who pulled another member of our class kids are primed to be the third John Nichols (Monroe Town- him by the hair from his car located by Dave, who might generation of our business. ship, N.J.), and Pat and Carl following his high school senior have a second career as an in- Final words—mark down Straub (Riverside, Conn.). prom. The trauma caused Alo- vestigative reporter beckoning. to come to our 55th, stay in The group gathered for a wine pecia Universalis resulting in If we found an entry for Bob touch—give Bob Paternoster tasting dinner prior to game the loss of all of his body hair. in a biographical dictionary, it your news and include a piece day. The dinner was hosted After Lehigh, Claude overcame might read: U.S. Peace Corps; of your giving to Lehigh for the by Carl in his wine cellar at the social stigma and enjoyed NYU Grad School professor; endowment for ethics men- his corporate headquarters a rewarding professional Chair, Department of History, tioned previously. And speaking in Yonkers, N.Y. Jay reports career ultimately as an agent Fieldston School; and author of giving, we never appointed an that “the food and wines were for American General Life and and foreign policy advisor, agent (i.e. no one volunteered). absolutely exquisite with some Accident Insurance Compa- based in Madrid. Bob spent Vice President Watters and I vintages dating back to 1982, ny. He is a highly respected two years in the Peace Corps, held an executive committee 1980, and 1963. We reconvened Rotarian and known in the working in Venezuela, followed meeting and determined we’ll at the wine cellar the next day community as the “bald headed by two years of research on organize things with warm and for a festive brunch. This was insurance man” according to Latin America for his doctor- fuzzy emails to maintain “her highlighted by a phenomenal his wife, Patsy, of 29 years. He al dissertation at New York glorious name.” magician who entertained us has gone into fourteen prisons University—a fitting culmina- during brunch. We then headed in Chicago, Texas and Georgia tion to his majoring in foreign Philip J. Kinzel, to Yankee Stadium by bus for as a volunteer with Bill Glass careers at Lehigh and his work 11 Cleveland Road, the game and later returned Ministries. The Ministries in the Peace Corps. Matt and ’62 Caldwell, NJ to the wine cellar for more mission is to advance the his wife, Roberta, lived in 07006. (973) 226-8618 (H), 973- comradery.” The group stayed gospel of Jesus Christ to the Venezuela for two and one-half 226-1430 (B), (973) 226-1432 at the Westchester Marriott incarcerated. As a member of more years and began raising (Fax); [email protected] where the Lafayette football Gideons International, over their first child, Aaron, there. My column deadline comes team was also staying. the past thirty years Claude has In the years following Venezu- in the middle of February and Beverly and Kent passed out over 5,000 Bibles. ela, Matt became a professor, it’s cold in Caldwell, N.J. But Westhelle (Savannah, Ga.) The Bibles are paid for by the teaching graduate students in Plymouth, Mass., our class joined a group of Theta Delts volunteers and distributed for approximately 25 years at President Bob Downing is including Cindy and Dick Con- to hotels around the world. NYU’s Center for Latin Amer- looking at five feet of snow nell (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Claude’s unselfishness and ican Studies. From 1989 to as he prepares for his March Sandra and Dave Fraboni generosity carries through as 2002, Matt chaired the history presentation at the National (Green Valley, Ariz.), Mary a lifelong member of Lehigh department at the Fieldston Sigma Phi Flagship Banquet and Jim Murchie (Maryville, University’s Tower Society. School and taught courses in Philadelphia. Bob is the Tenn.). If you haven’t already on U.S. history, international keynote speaker. Included among the 48,000 please consider making a con- relations, and the cold war. The historic event last were our son Phil Jr. ’92 and tribution to the Class of 1962 During his time at Fieldston, November in Yankee Stadium son in-law Jim and daughter Vietnam Memorial Endowed and for two years thereaf- brought the largest gather- Maria, Lafayette ’02 and ’04 Scholarship Fund in order ter, Matt maintained his ties ing ever of Lehigh alumni to and our 9-month-old grandson. to provide scholarships for with NYU, teaching classes in New York City. Eleanor and I For Lehigh fans it was a bitter- Lehigh students committed to international politics, political enjoyed a tailgate party at the sweet experience being at this ROTC and serving our country. economy, and history. Much of home of Ron Johnson along historic game but coming out Matt’s present work consists of with Mimi and Don Kane, Don on the wrong side of the score. Daniel Turse, consulting with the Norwegian Young, Pete Braun and Ron’s Patsy and Claude Marlowe 25517 Briarwyke Peacebuilding Resource Center family. live in Kingsport, Tenn., and ’63 Drive, Farmington (NOREF). Currently, Matt and Don Young, spending the had planned to make the 150th Hills, MI 48336-1656. (248) his wife, Roberta, who has a winter in Sanibel Island, Fla., game but gave up their tickets 473-9287 (H); danielturse doctorate in English literature sold his sailboat and replaced it due to health issues. Claude @yahoo.com and decades of experience as with a Honda CTX 700 motor- was diagnosed with Vascular The flow of material from a college administrator, spend cycle. He can be seen and heard Cognitive Impairment (VCI) David Ritterpusch’s book of eight months a year in the tooling around the back roads following five coronary arrests biographical sketches contin- heart of Madrid, enjoying its of New Jersey on nice days. in 2007. Claude felt that he ues. Followers of this column great museums, fine theatres, Joyce and Jay Flynn joined was somewhat discriminated may wish to read the forth- and excellent restaurants. a group of Delts at a pregame against while at Lehigh because coming book, Life Since Lehigh, They divide the remaining four party with Diane and Carl of “my peculiar appearance.” for more detailed statements months between their large Petrillo, John Hayes (Palm Claude lost all of his body hair about how our class has evolved brownstone in Brooklyn and Beach, Fla.) and Jeanne Ged- as a result of trauma following over the past 50 years or so. a cabin on a lake in northern

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New Jersey. David A. declined with the economy last James A. Tiefen- Another “find” by Dave is Riemondy, 774 year. So he and Pat spent lots brunn, 1201 Wilfred G. Mango Jr., Bill to ’64 Malibu Lane, of time “on the road” visiting ’66 Butztown Road, many of us, who was a senior Indialantic, FL 32903. (321) family and old friends and #31, Bethlehem, PA 18017. (610) executive for various interna- 777-9659 (H), (321) 288-2476 exploring aviation history sites. 691-1714 (H); [email protected] tional companies in the 1970’s (C), (321) 777-4852 (Fax); Larry reports that his college Classmates who attended the before taking over the George [email protected] roommate Ridge Prevost and 150th Lehigh-Lafayette game at A. Fuller Company in 1978. By the time you read this we his wife, Debbie Janson, are Yankee Stadium this past No- After serving as Fuller’s presi- will, hopefully, have forgotten doing well in Tulsa. vember shared their thoughts. dent and, then, chairman, Bill the rough winter the east coast Barry Jenkins thought the acquired the company in 1981. was having in February as I Ronald L. Work- events and activities around Over the years, Fuller built write this short column. It’s man, 1981 Berrel the game were fantastic, but skyscrapers, stadiums, and hos- not so bad here in Florida but ’65 Court, Yardley, PA of course was disappointed in pitals, as well as helping main- I know it’s still winter because 19067-7225. (215) 702-7041 (H); the actual game. Barry, a very tain such national landmarks the pelicans are feeding in the [email protected] loyal wrestling fan, also had as the Lincoln Memorial, the canal. They’ll move back to the As I write this the temperature to choose the Lehigh–Colum- Washington National Cathe- ocean in the spring. here in Pa. is in the low teens, bia wrestling meet over the dral, the Tomb of the Unknown Lane Jorgensen reports but it is sunny and pleasant, Carnegie Hall presentation. Soldier, and the U.S. Supreme that “the 150th Lehigh-Lafay- with no more snow forecast for Lehigh destroyed Columbia. Court Building. Under Bill’s ette Game weekend in New at least a few days. I am enjoy- Barry saw Alice and Bill Kuhl. leadership, the company de- York was terrific except for the ing the panoramic photo that Dave DeAngelo also attend- veloped and constructed major final score. The atmosphere at now hangs on my study wall ed the wrestling match, and commercial, residential, and Yankee Stadium was electric. that I received for Christmas of reported that our new Lehigh military facilities, worldwide, There was something for all our 150th meeting with Lafay- president and his son attended. its influence being felt in Latin during the extended week- ette. We had a great contingent Dave actually emailed from the America, Africa, the Middle end. With Yankee Stadium’s at the game, and truly enjoyed Lehigh-Northwestern meet he East, Asia, and the former Sovi- football seating arrangement our visits. The game, the less was attending in Evanston. He et Union. Since Lehigh, Bill has completely filled, the Lehigh said the better. is impressed with our current earned an MBA in management vs. Lafayette ratio was 2:1 in By the time you read this, team. and international business, attendance, so we won that our 50th Reunion will be his- Jeff Poindexter reported married Charlene, an executive metric. The Betas were in full tory. We will have met for good that he and Peggy hosted the vice president of Manhat- force, as usual, at a ’64 event. times, done some reminiscing game at a sports bar in Reno, tan-based La Prairie, and raised At pregame festivities on iconic about our days at Lehigh, per- with about nine Lehigh alumni four children: Christian, Peter, Arthur Avenue in the Bronx haps raised our glasses to those attending. Hank Schlenker David, and Alison, the first and , in a ‘Tally-Ho East’ atmo- who could not be with us, and said it was “chilly” at Yankee last continuing the string of sphere, were John DeNoia, led the Class of 2015 to their Stadium and the final score familial Lehigh grads, stretch- Bruce Leinster, John Leek, graduation ceremony as we did was “unfavorable.” Now that ing back to Bill’s dad, Wilfred Bill Low, Bill Dwyer and 50 years ago. is a spin doctor! He reported Sr. In 1993, Bill received the Ken Turner, along with Bob I will provide more details that a large group of Betas Distinguished Alumni Award. Schmidt, Henry Schlenker and about our reunion after it oc- met ahead of time for a beer, Bill became passionate about Jim Marchant from the Class curs, but I do know that we owe including Jim Marchant and skiing, sailing, and playing of ’66. Also there were Ted a tremendous THANK YOU to Bob Schmidt. Joel Goldstein tennis, and the importance of Muendel and Lane Jorgensen all those who made it hap- was unable to get game tickets, philanthropy, giving widely of from our class. Ted railed pen—especially Rein Mannik, so he attended a viewing site in his time, talent, and treasure up with a Baltimore Amtrak our reunion chairman, John New Jersey. He won the prize to such institutions as the New contingent including many Phi Varady, our class president, for “oldest class,” finding that York Medical College, the Unit- Gam alumni. Wives, partners and Rick Penske, our reunion many there were not even born ed Nations, Marymount Man- and family members were all fund chairman. I don’t know in 1966. Joel, forever young, hattan College, the Stanwich part of the celebration and yet how many records we was getting bored, so he “unre- School in Greenwich, Conn., weekend. Surely there were broke, but I suspect it was tired” a bit and took a tempo- Lehigh’s Business Advisory many other alumni represent- incredible. Thanks also to all of rary law job. Council and its Tall Buildings ing our class in the 58,000-per- the Reunion Committee mem- Tom Miller was invited Council, and the New York son crowd and at the many bers who cajoled and pleaded to sing with the Lehigh Choral Association for the Blind (“The Lehigh TV cast venues across with their living groups to Union at Carnegie Hall during Lighthouse”). the country.” attend and support. Much hard Rivalry Weekend. Fifteen fami- See you next time, when Larry Bothe continues to work that is appreciated by all ly members, including their two I continue writing about the fly and instruct new pilots in of us. daughters, and friends from as metamorphosis of our class- Seymour, Ind., although he says More to follow in my next far as Seattle, Atlanta, Germany mates since Lehigh. the number of new students column. and Israel joined in a mini-

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reunion at the concert. Tom quite a team to reach out to you. to the business school under- Lehigh fans at one football ran into old friend Bob Alper, Jeff Gallagher has created a graduates about “The Keys to game. An equally great pleasure who was in the audience. Tom Facebook page for exchanging Success.” While on campus, I was visiting the home of one of and his wife, Renay, continue thoughts and ideas. It is titled visited with a number of faculty our fraternity brothers, Marc to enjoy retirement in Atlanta. “Lehigh University Centennial and administrative people, in- Particelli, in Greenwich, Conn. Peter Miller reported that he Class Reunion.” It is easy—join cluding acting president Kevin We joined four other brothers and Patti enjoyed a few winter Facebook, find the page, Jeff Clayton, and toured the Entre- and a few of their wives, Del months in Scottsdale, away will authorize your member- preneurial Lab. Based on that Bloem, Steve and Janet Sotzing, from the cold and snow at their ship, and you will have com- day’s experience, I can say that Aubrey and Marianne Glad- home in Omaha. Next they are plete access. There is no cost. Lehigh is in very good hands. stone, and Tom and Connie off for a European river cruise. While the university organizes “Finally, 34 years after Hodson. The host and the other Pete and Patti have two daugh- the majority of reunion events, founding Harbour Vest Part- brothers are all members of the ters and three granddaughters. we do need your input of ideas ners in 1982, I am planning to Class of ’68. We had not seen Golf is taking up a fair amount and your volunteer help to slow down a bit in 2016 and any of them in over 45 years. It of Pete’s time, and he serves make the weekend successful. continue to commit significant was a grand time telling stories as a rules official for Nebras- Now is the time to contact time to the firm, but on a more of college and beyond to catch ka events. He has had recent friends in your living groups, selective basis. The time has up on our lives. contact with Tricia and Hal athletic teams, musical orga- come to spend more time with Yeich and Char and Dennis nizations, clubs, etc. to come my seven grandchildren.” Dick Bell, 2016 Singleton. and attend with you. We also Jeff Grossberg wrote Redwood Avenue, Tina and Al Minoff live on need ideas on a class “theme,” me last June. “Well, I’ve been ’68 Wyomissing, PA Chicago’s North Shore. Al says parade costume and song, and thinking about doing this for 45 19610, [email protected] that his “career” for the last souvenir memento. Should years. I tend to move slowly. I The 150th Lehigh-Lafay- 20 years has been as a private we put together a “1966-2016 remember my Lehigh days with ette game, played in Yankee investor. “One client. Moi. No Yearbook”? Can you volunteer great fondness, especially my Stadium, was cold but nothing whining.” His two sons are as editor? Contact Harry times with my Sammy brothers. like the game in 1987, the last grown and working. Eric is an Brown now at 856-437-6311 “I’ve traveled an unusual game at Taylor Stadium. At that antique and classic car spe- or [email protected] path, I suspect, for Lehigh grad- game, the wind chill was -17, cialist at Bonham’s in NYC and with ideas or to volunteer. uates of the ’60s. I dropped out which was made worse sitting Craig works at Airbnb, a San of law school and became a wild on the concrete seats, but at Francisco internet startup. Tina Eric Hamilton, hippie, starting communes, least the drinks stayed cold. was born and raised in Chicago, 24982 Mineral writing for Rolling Stone and We lost but playing in Yankee but has family in Greece, so ’67 Springs Circle, helping set up Woodstock. I Stadium (over three times the they make an annual trip there. Stone Ridge, VA 20105-5613. lived in an ashram (a spiritual Goodman seating venue) was Ken Mull reported that he (703) 542-6071 (H); ehamil community) for 13 years and an an experience that the team, retired two years ago. He and [email protected] eco-village for seven. Over the band, cheerleaders and choir his wife now travel extensively, In December I heard from decades since, I ran a number will never forget. The athletic most recently Arizona, Iceland, Brooks Zug. He wrote, “Since I of nonprofits and foundations, department did a superb job in and China. In his spare time, haven’t sent anything to you for a philanthropic advisory com- planning activities on Friday Ken assists at church, “plays” quite a while, I thought I’d send pany and raised lots of money. and taking a chance on staging with his six sports cars in their the attached photo of my family For the last twenty years, I have the game in Yankee Stadi- heated garage, and visits with taken in NYC just prior to the been president of Guidestone um. The game was a sellout his grandchildren. Ken has a 150th Lehigh-Lafayette game. Consulting and have worked (+48,000) and was broadcast on son, daughter, and three grand- As you can see, even my young- with over 200 progressive busi- the CBS network. children. His wife has three est grandchild, age 5 months, is nesses and nonprofits. Happily, Danny and Leslie Paulo- daughters and two grandchil- a Lehigh fan. I am passionate about the work nis moved to Colorado. They dren. Ken attended the 150th “The Game wasn’t very I do. climbed Pikes Peak (not by car). game and plans to attend our exciting, but seeing Yankee “My two sons are married Their children and grandchil- upcoming 50th reunion in 2016. Stadium filled with 48,000 and, thankfully, flourishing. I dren are scattered from South Speaking of which, it is only Lehigh and Lafayette fans haven’t stayed in touch with Africa to Hawaii. about one year away. Activities was. And all the Lehigh events many of my Lehigh friends and Rob Gould has been enjoy- span from the evening of May during the weekend gave me would welcome hearing from ing his summer home on Lake 19 to graduation for our adopt- the opportunity to catch up you. I really appreciate getting Winnipesaukee in New Hamp- ed class of 2016 on the morning with old friends, including our the Bulletin and catching up on shire. He attended a golf outing of May 23. Most activities are classmates Doug Lane and the lives of former friends and in Bethlehem in June with his on Friday/Saturday, May 20-21. Andy Segal. fellow students.” fraternity brothers from the Under the leadership of Hank “In other news, in October D’Arcy Roper and I also at- late ’60s and early ’70s includ- Schlenker reunion work has I spent a day on the Lehigh tended the 150th. The greatest ing Bruce Haines ’67, who is a been underway, and he has built campus, where I gave a lecture excitement was seeing so many partner in the Hotel Bethlehem

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ownership. The nascent yearly Viet Cong leaders who are the John Stryker lives in St. Mound and he spends about event will be organized by Greg central protagonists of his Thomas, Virgin Islands, and is 10% of his time consulting for Hix ’70 next year. Rob and Su- story. Dave said it was through an avid pilot. Tom Hennessy the engineering, construction san went to Oktoberfest in Mu- his own experiences in advising is in Appleton, Wis., and runs sales marketplace “just for fun, nich, where they met up with and living with a South Viet- his own chemical company. 10% traveling domestically and family, including his son, Evan namese army unit, his experi- Bob also learned that Ned Lore internationally to fill in the ’05. He described the event as a ence in Jungle School and from lives in Austin, Texas. missed areas, and the balance huge house party of yesteryear. his reading of Patriots: The Viet- How is your long-term on hobbies to do things he Rob continues to be an active nam War Remembered From memory? At the last reunion, never had time to do.” Last year participant with tailgate with All Sides, written by Christian Greg Young volunteered to he built an Adirondack Guide his fraternity brothers. G. Appy. look into the flagpole adoption Boat, investing about 500 Rich and Karen Boyer have Dave self-published his ceremony and the passing of hours transforming Western retired to the Myrtle Beach, book through Create Space, the 50th anniversary cup to Red Cedar strips into a classic S.C., area. Rich continues to a subsidiary of Amazon. In the class of 2019. This August 1890s-era double-ended rowing enjoy motorcycling. order to meet their standards, 2015, at the Lehigh flagpole, the boat. With that bug behind him, Please send any informa- Dave told me that it took him Class of ’69 president will adopt he’s now building a sizeable HO tion for the column. I wish two years to edit the book. the Class of 2019 with a short scale railroad with a 1940-1960 everyone good health. But it means the book is now ceremony. We will be invited to Northeast, predominantly available to all of us at Amazon. this event soon. Pennsylvania Railroad theme. A. Raymond It’s a very readable book that Four years from next May, From Ron Dankowski Schmalz, 325 provides a unique insight into the Class of ’69 will pass along ([email protected]): After ’69 Lowell Ave., Mill the life of an American infan- a 50th anniversary reunion cup 42 years I’ve retired from Valley, CA 94941-3845. (415) tryman serving in Vietnam, a to the Class of 2019. For at least Catholic Community Services 388-3263 (H), (415) 317-0923 unique experience that was a the past six years and probably of Southern Arizona. For the (C); [email protected] part of our very own genera- longer, Lehigh has supplied the past 33 years I was executive Dave Van Wye has written his tion. You can learn more about Reunion cup for that ceremony. director of Catholic Social first book,Saving Ben Tre. It is the book at a blog Dave has It is the same cup used year Service in Tucson. In retire- a story set in Vietnam in 1970 created: http://savingbe ntre. after year. Lehigh staff store it ment, I’ll be lead faculty area about an Army lieutenant on a weebly.com. between uses. chair in the College of Social MAT (Mobile Advisory Team) Dave and Liz Van Wye are At the Class of ’69 gradua- Sciences for the University assigned to a South Vietnamese avid sailors on Chesapeake Bay. tion, however, Greg recalls the of Phoenix at their campus in Army unit protecting Ben Tre, Robert Smith and his wife, Class of 1919 passed along an Tucson. Our first grandchild the capital of Kien Hoa prov- Marsha, are avid sailors in San engraved 50th anniversary cup was born in September and ince and a town the Viet Cong Francisco Bay and in the Delta. to the Class of 1969 that may I’m sure he’ll be keeping me wanted to take back. Dave built Bob updated us on his efforts also have had the Class of 2019 busy. Peter Gartman reports on his own experience during to renew contacts with some of engraved on it. Lehigh staff are that son Paul is a sophomore at the war in a similar unit. Dave his Phi Sig classmates as part not aware of this cup. If you Garnet Valley HS, Glen Mills, holds a Combat Infantryman of our Reunion. Bob and three remember the cup and perhaps Pa., and by late February had a Badge and a Bronze Star for his others got together in New even its whereabouts, could you 27-3 season record with 13 pins service in Vietnam. Jersey. Three of the four are let me know and I will pass the while wrestling at 152, 160 lbs. Dave was inspired to write retired. John Werring, and information along to our Class Former LUAA President and his book in 2008 when the Iraq Frank Donohoe retired years detective, Greg Young? alumni trustee Bill Hamilton War was escalating, and some ago while Bob retired two years (willia [email protected]) people were expressing feelings ago. John is now an avid, and Denny Diehl, 28 wrote: “I’m leaving the practice and questions about the war accomplished, golfer. He and Chancery Court, of law after 30 glorious years similar to those of the Vietnam his wife are active in their local ’70 Millville, NJ to embark on a new career as War. He found that writing the country club. Frank enjoys 08332. (610) 698-7136; provost of Bryan University book and remembering many of woodworking, and he and his denn [email protected] in Tempe, Ariz., and executive his own experiences was thera- wife are building a second home May 14-16: Grateful as I am director of a foundation at the peutic in many ways. By writing in the North Carolina moun- to be alive and still kicking, I University of Florida College of a story instead of a memoir, tains. encourage all to try to attend Law. All the kids have headed to Dave was able to take more Bob also reports that Tom our 45th. Enjoying semi-retire- various colleges and univer- artistic license in considering Zink remains active with his ment, Bob Clement, after a sities, so I thought I would do the war and its impact on both commercial real estate devel- Navy stint in D.C., had a 37-year the same! LOL.” From anoth- American soldiers and on the opment company in Maryland. career with Jacobs Engineering er lawyer, Reggie Jennings Vietnamese people. Guy McNett couldn’t join the Group in South Carolina, Texas, (rallenje [email protected]): I asked Dave how he wrote group in New Jersey, but he and California and the Nether- “the most exciting news is the the parts of his book centered his wife are living in Crescent lands. He and wife Julie live November BALANCE Banquet on the Truong Son Patriots, Mills, Calif. (Sierra foothills). outside of Fort Worth in Flower that took place at the Marriott

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Marquis Hotel in NYC. This is a at the 150th, both still practic- of our classmates who are now I find it interesting that they landmark in the relationship of ing law; Jeff in Honolulu and retired. were all graduates of the college alumni of color to Lehigh. Sev- Steve in Philly. Unlike those Steve Gross is a CPA and of engineering. Plans are afoot eral hundred of us assembled two, I’ve been retired from tax preparer in Cambridge, to recruit classmates from for fellowship and an inspiring (PPL Corp. and Air Products) Md. He and his wife, Frances, other majors to help in these documentary and program. I for two years and thoroughly relocated to Maryland from organizing efforts. Stay tuned. remain impressed by the seri- enjoying it. Keeping pace with Huntington, N.Y. several years ousness with which the univer- two grandkids, volunteering ago. Charles S. sity takes diversity—as shown and fly-fishing while still living Bryan Groh is of counsel “Chuck” Steele, by the administration’s signif- in Allentown and married to (an attorney) with Evans and ’72 2080 Flint Hill icant representation there. It Judie (43 years). Planning to Dixon in St. Louis, Mo. He Road, Coopersburg, PA 18036. was great to see ex-President attend the 45th Reunion and obtained his law degree at St. (610) 737-2156 (M); chuck. Peter Likins as panelist in a hope to see Theta Xi brothers Louis University in 1985. He [email protected] far-reaching discussion of and others.” was a partner at Hinshaw & challenges we face as alumni of Culbertson prior to joining David J. color. Vice Provost Dr. Henry Samuel R. Dugan, Evans and Dixon. Morrison, 936 Odi is to be commended for cat- 143 Pinecrest Syracuse, N.Y. is the home ’73 N. Second St., alyzing the active engagement ’71 Lane, Lansdale of Paul and Debbie Evans. Paul Harrisburg, PA 17102. (717) 574- of this neglected segment of our PA 19446. (215) 368-1895 (H), is an agent with CH Insurance 5370 (H), (717)780-2657 (B); alumni base. Of course, partici- (800) 666-2671(B), (215) 348- Brokerage in Syracuse. [email protected] pation was skewed towards our 7035 (Fax); samuel.dugan@ Bob Fariss is a business My classmates who were younger alumni. It is my hope wellsfargoadvisors.com or transfer specialist and exec- members of Phi Delta Theta that our more vintage alumni [email protected]; www. utive advocate with Murphy will be delighted to hear that consider reengaging. Lehigh wfadvisors.com/samuel.dugan. Business and Financial Cor- our re-colonized chapter, which continues to be a great cutting John and Barbara Hannan poration in Colleyville, Texas. has been non-residential since edge institution that—in my traveled east from Arizona this Murphy is one of the largest its establishment two years ago, view—it is foolhardy to not fully past fall for a wedding. They business brokers with offices has been awarded a vacated exploit for its many advantag- stayed with a fraternity brother, in North America. Bob is also house in Sayre Park in much the es both while on campus and John Diederich ’73 and his wife fitness franchise developer same way our former house was beyond. Chuck Lieb is a font of Rosemary, in Malvern, PA. This for Fit For Life Centers in the reassigned a decade or so ago info, starting with “Bob Fonte, being Lehigh-Lafayette Week- Dallas/Fort Worth area. Fit when the original chapter was director of public parks and end, the Diederichs decided to For Life works with 7 personal disbanded (under the harsher recreation in Cleveland; retired invite other Psi Upsilon frater- fitness categories and teaches realities by which national Ron Kovatis summers in Sea nity brothers to their home to its members how they interact fraternities and the Universi- Isle City, N.J.; winters in Dallas, watch the game. We hadn’t seen as we exchange nominally good ty have disbanded numerous Texas; Corey Wolford’s a re- each other in almost ten years. decisions for better ones. fraternities in recent years). In tired teacher living in Bingham- The camaraderie was certainly Bob Asher and his wife a competitive process in which ton, N.Y., and helps his brother better than the game. John is a Christine have relocated from several homeless Greek units manage a dairy farm; Mike sales engineer for Mechanical Simsbury, Conn. to Winter vied for two available houses, Holva just retired as director Products SW Inc., manufac- Park, Fla. Bob’s extensive Phi Delt was awarded the former of operations, Trans-Bridge turers’ representatives of career in the insurance in- Lambda Chi Alpha house at the Bus company, remaining in HVAC engineered equipment dustry included employment top of “the Hill.” They will move Bethlehem; Ted Bayer recently in Phoenix. I guess he really at Travelers, where he was a in in August. sold his legal practice and now did pay attention in Dr. Stern’s product director, Aetna, ISO Therefore, I hope to see consults in the SF area, also on thermodynamics class after all. and INA. Bob was an umpire in Rob Johnston, Jim Sever- the advisory board for Lehigh’s According to LinkedIn, the Simsbury Babe Ruth league son, Paul Filipowich, John real estate management curric- Jim Cardell has retired as a from 1994 to 2014. He must Kreider, John Eldridge ’75, ulum; Miles Belic is a happily software engineer at EMC. Jim have developed a very thick Jeff Kuntz, Matt Prince, Don retired school teacher (in and his wife Linda reside in skin. Parents haven’t gotten any Spielvogel, Curt Cochrane ’74 Steelton, Pa.); Denny Diehl….” Holliston, Mass. LinkedIn also kinder over the years. (among brothers from other (blushing; cannot publish): suggests that Chuck Feit- The Reunite ’71 steering classes) at the new Phi Delta Charlie Lieb is still employed ner has retired as senior vice committee continues to plan Theta House this fall! with major furniture manufac- president global compensation for our 45th and 50th reunions. And here is what I believe is turer, Knoll, Inc., living in Beth- and benefits at ICT Group, Inc. Members of the committee in- the last of the messages received lehem while trying to stay out in Newtown, Pa. ICT is a global clude Marty Matijasich, Eric in response to my broadcast of all activity surrounding his provider of outsourced custom- Flicker, Jim Lichtenwalner, email last year seeking news youngest daughter’s upcoming er management and business James Dale, Ron Simpson, from all of you, a follow-up note wedding. Jeff Schulter “met outsourcing solutions. Jim and Sam Dugan, Mike Pavlides, received many months ago from with Jeff Lau and Steve Miller Chuck join a growing number Pete Blau and Tom Swarr. Larry Powell: “Hi, Dave ....

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in addition, a reminder that I I got an interesting letter Clear Teaching credential. She She lost her job as a clinical transferred prior to graduation, from Suzanne-Elizabeth taught school for a combina- liaison in a massive state bud- but am still trying to renew Warsaw-Warner, one of tion of nine years, including six get cut in 2011. contact with Ronald Heckman several people who promised to years on staff at American River “Thankfully, I still had a and Peter Hummel ’75 Any write me after our last reunion. College, as well as junior high current license in security and way you can help? I became a Unfortunately, it was too long math and high school geometry. had several years experience corrections counselor/EAP co- for me to use in its entirety, “I also became involved as a field supervisor in a local ordinator for NYS Department so I’ll have to summarize and with the Community Crime agency. I even was chosen of Corrections, retiring in 2006. quote from it. The rest of my Prevention Programs and for one assignment to escort I am now a United Methodist news will have to wait until became District 3 Coordinator prisoners for the Sheriff’s De- pastor serving in Ellenville, N.Y. next issue. for the Sacramento County partment and ICE Police out of Not sure what the third career Suzanne-Elizabeth gradu- Sheriff’s Office and the DA’s of- the country flying 3,000 miles, will turn out to be.” ated with degrees in psychology fice, working closely with local 18 hours, every Saturday for News is always welcome! Tell and social relations, worked sheriff and police departments several months. us about your retirement, your at an Allentown nursing home while at the same time teaching “More details on that I can- grandchildren, your travels, or for a year and then as a staff school,” she wrote. not release, but I was paid very your undergraduate memories. psychologist for the State of “I have been in Arizona for well for it.” Please send me an email! Alabama for three years. After 20 years now, and work has tak- She discovered she might marrying a career Air Force en me to the path of psychol- qualify for widow’s Social Secu- William R. White guy and living on bases that ogist, psychotherapist, senior rity benefits, even though she Jr., 5418 Holiday included Nellis Air Force Base case manager and clinical liai- and her late ex-husband had ’74 Drive, Allentown, in Nevada, she studied for her son for the Regional Behavioral been divorced. This allowed PA 18104. [email protected] master’s in psychology. Health Authority of Maricopa her to retire at age 60 and begin It seems to be feast or famine They moved to Long Island County, while also becoming collecting widow’s benefits, al- for our class column. This for three years, then to the Sac- state licensed in security and though she would be restricted issue, I’m not only feasting, I’m ramento area, where she earned becoming a Scout for one of the in how much she could earn overstuffed. a master’s level Professional local police departments.” in part-time jobs while she

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was collecting Social Security. tion is also extended to Barb ly a partner at Adler Pollock & Does anybody have a Her security work was perfect. Turanchik who facilitated Sheehan in Providence where Corvette or a new GM vehicle “Not many jobs let you work an the purchase of our class hats I was general counsel for on their List? Preston Crabill odd amount,” she wrote, “and which will also be used for our Cumberland Farms. In 2012 I plans to retire in 2016 after I enjoy the diversity of doing 40th Reunion Celebration. was named Lawyer of the year 40 successful years at GM. many different assignments The Class Officers perceive the by Lawyers Weekly. I enjoy Preston says to contact him at and going all over the state at Rivalry Game as a pre-reunion traveling. Also, I am an avid [email protected] for a times to do them.” She also still activity. Hopefully, those in fisherman.” GM Executive Discount. Really! does some police work. attendance will have helped to When we graduated, the Lehigh’s honor! Adjusting to even par- encourage classmates to make Class of 1935 was having their John Bolebruch is enjoy- tial retirement was difficult it back to Lehigh during the reunion…back then we saw ing the challenges as a partner for someone accustomed to weekend of May 14-17, 2015. them as SO OLD….and here we of 15-member investment working multiple jobs. “At first You will recognize Lehigh are…do the years not fly by? banking boutique, Corporate upon entering retirement,” she but a lot has changed during Fuel Partners in NYC. They wrote, “I felt uneasy, almost like these 40 years. Lehigh has Mark E. Goeh- primarily do mid-size indus- culture shock. In the morning I partnered with the Bethlehem ring, 10 Princeton trial deals. John, with the help always felt I had to be some- and Lehigh Valley commu- ’76 Drive, Shamong, of John Irvin, is invaluable in where, doing something other nities to create resources for NJ 08088. (609) 841-0389 (C); accumulating class donations than enjoying my home. It took the students, alumni, and our MarkGoehringLU76@gmail. for our reunion(s). me about three months to lose south side neighbors. We will com; Facebook: Yes. John Irvin partnered with that feeling like I had to be busy benefit from the partnership by Alert! Alert! Our 40th Re- a friend from Lafayette to be all the time.” She worked on participating in some of these union is May of 2016. It is also CFO and member of Board of that by giving herself projects unique activities. Lehigh’s 150th , called our ExOne. They took ExOne, a at home and doing puzzles. We are happy to announce Sesquicentennial! Bucket List manufacturer of 3D equipment “Now after two years of re- that Steve Folsom has agreed times, my friends...See you for aerospace and industrial ap- tirement, I love being at home to be our class technology in 2016! Speaking of 150th, a plications globally, to go public and having the freedom to take officer. Steve resides in the belated, but very deserving some years ago in a very suc- a walk, sleep in late or just lis- United Kingdom and works hats off to Lehigh on a great cessful offering. John is now a ten to music. I stopped feeling in the electronic data systems four days for the 150th Lehigh special advisor to the CEO and guilty about not working myself field. He has been our unofficial vs Lafayette Game at Yankee enjoys time with his grandchil- to death. I had to teach myself it technology officer for several Stadium. Lafayette won on the dren and wife Colette in their was OK to enjoy my day and be years and has been instrumen- field, but Lehigh won over NYC N.H. home. In hearing from free with my time.” tal in maintaining our class with nonstop events at small Tom Peters, he is easing into website. and large venues everywhere. retirement after many years Marilyn Blach- Also, Julie Griscom I was exhausted on Sunday! I with FLSmidth, Inc., a global er-Reich, 324 McGraw volunteered her time saw hundreds of people from specialty industrial material ’75 Lincoln Ave. and expertise to create a won- our class, surrounding classes, handling company in Bethle- Highland Park, NJ 08904. (732) derful dining experience on professors/coaches, and past hem. I hear he still insists on 846-1484 (H), (908) 231-0443 Saturday night of the Reunion events/reunions. his wife working and winding in (B); [email protected] Weekend. We appreciate her My wife, Mary, and I thank to retirement at a slower pace! At the time of this writing, willingness. Paul Leitner and wife, Martha, Let it snow, let it snow! With the 150th Lehigh-Lafayette Here is an update on for a great dinner and fun to the overabundance of snow this Rivalry at Yankee Stadium Michael Kelly who kindly sent kick off our NYC stay. What year, John Ondrejack wrote has yet to happen. However, information via email back a view of Central Park and to reminisce of freshman year much hard work went into the in September 2014: “I am an the Hudson from their place! living in Dravo, and whenever planning for our class. I would attorney with over 36 years of Paul is now President of the it snowed there were massive like to thank Jeff Sherman experience in construction, University Club in NYC. Back snowball fights. Many tried to for arranging the pregame real estate, and corporate to the Bucket List, Tihamer hit the windows of the kids that events at the New York Yankee litigation. I reside in Westport, Toth-Fejel says: were studying! He said Preston Steakhouse inside the stadi- Mass., with my wife, Patrice. Live long enough to see the Crabill and Jim Stewart were um. The menu offerings and I have two children. My son is problem of old age solved; learn a part of those snowball teams... atmosphere were well planned. a science and policy associate everything; Love everyone; and the streaker team! I can re- The expectation is that there at the Billfish Foundation in do everything! Tee attended member a no-classes snow day will have been 80 participants Ft. Lauderdale. My daughter, Coach Thad Turner’s 75th we had in I believe 1976 where just at this event! Also hugs to a Lehigh graduate, recently birthday last summer, but he it was fun and mayhem on the Thom Hirsch who arranged graduated from law school and said nobody wanted to wrestle! Hill that day! I saw John at the for our tickets early on to is practicing in Massachusetts. He writes glowingly of his Lehigh exclusive Earth, Wind, insure that we had smooth I have my own law firm in young children Sophie, Miriam and Fire concert and extrava- access to the event. Apprecia- Providence, RI. I was previous- and Stephen. ganza at the 150th in NYC, and

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he kept saying that it would be Help me out here folks… Global’s “2013 Top Rated Lance M. Bell, great to get Theta Xi guys back drop me an email with some Faculty” and gave lectures in 952 River Run Dr., for the 40th Reunion. I agreed. news! Portland, Ore., Williamsburg, ’79 Macedonia, OH. We are recruiting for the 40th; Va., and Louisville, Ky., as well 216-937-2581 (B); lanceb344@ please email if you want to help. Gail D. Rein- as serving as a senior instructor gmail.com Cheers. hart, 215 N. at Boston University. Greetings from Cleveland, where ’78 Center St., #1407, Bob Brown continues his Dorothy and I are getting ready Ann Louise San Antonio, TX 78202-2723. work on Lehigh’s board, as to depart for a vacation on the (Werley) Price, 2 [email protected] well as keeping in touch with Big Island of Hawaii. We’re look- ’77 Colton St., Farm- After missing a column, for his Alpha Chi Rho brothers, ing forward to whale watching ington, CT 06032. (860) 677- once I have plenty of news. I’ve including Dave Moore, Terry and a helicopter flight over the 1295 (H); [email protected] heard from quite a few of you Pilch, Zack Lilienfeld, Paul active volcano. The only piece of information since my retirement. And yes, Thomas, Rich Gimigliano, Thank you to James Falk, I have from anyone about retirement is the theme of a John Schatz ’77, Nick Bard ’77, who posted photos from the Lehigh- Lafayette game con- number of those communica- and Tom Faughnan ’79. Over Lehigh-Lafayette festivities, nections comes from Carol tions. the past year the Crows got including scenes from Dorrian’s Herzon, who writes that “the Like me, Peter Gorden- together in Chicago, Ill., for in NYC, where the special Lehigh Lehigh-Lafayette game may stein couldn’t attend our 35th Paul’s daughter’s wedding, and menu included Greekers. Bruce have been slow going, but see- reunion, since he had to attend in Las Vegas, Nev. for… well, Colligen, Lori Southworth, ing my closest friends Diane his partner’s retirement party you know, what happens in and Joanna “Jodi” Smith Wolf and Abbie Esterman after 35 years of service to the Vegas… Capps were featured in those

‘76 made for a great day. Also City of New York. Peter has After 33 1/2 years as a copy photos. Barry Hamlette also saw Clayton Paul Weaver, worked from home as a real editor with the Times Her- shared that he was thrilled to “Weave” for short, Randy Cole estate agent for many years, ald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., sing with the Lehigh Choir at and Randy Harbold. For all and now his partner is around, Dennis Sprick took a buyout Carnegie Hall. those classmates among the which Peter isn’t used to. He and retired with a pension at I also enjoy the photos 48,000-plus, that I did not get just keeps reminding him- the end of 2013. Thus began posted by John Cowperthwait to see, I, Carol Herzon-Loney, self that his partner provides his next full-time career, ’80 who lives in the Wilmington, send well wishes to all.” health insurance benefits and a as a massage therapist and Del., area. John loves sailing, and I have to say that it was pension. CranioSacral therapist with the photos from Lewes, Del., are exhilarating to walk around Peter has been in touch The Heartful Touch, a one-man stunning, especially the views the city and see so much brown with Ken Motschwiller, who business he’d run part-time of the water and the sunsets. He and white…really everywhere! was his roommate for three since 1998. Also occupying his also enjoys skiing and has posted But other than my sorority years, and Ken’s wife Beth. Ken time is his singing. In Janu- beautiful photos of ski trips. sisters, Amy Wenhold Silva ’79, and Beth have become empty ary 2012 he joined the New From my LinkedIn contact Lori Southworth ’79 and Jodi nesters, leaving Long Island for York City Gay Men’s Chorus, updates, Andrea Reese joined Smith ’79, I’m afraid I don’t a rental apartment in Manhat- which presents five concerts a Wells Fargo last year as a market have much to report on class tan while they decide where year. This summer the group research manager. She conducts sightings. they’d like to buy an apartment performed in London and market research in wealth, bro- I had dinner with Donna in the city for their retirement Dublin. Additionally, Dennis kerage and retirement products Tice McGee and her husband years. has performed solo cabaret and services. Kris ’76 this winter here in Steve Collins reports that gigs at the Duplex nightclub I and our fellow classmates Florida. They have a home near he left the corporate world, in Manhattan, and has several would love to hear from you! us down here, so winter always where he was a global VP for more in the works. Not everyone is on Facebook provides a great opportunity to Schering-Plough, for a business Finally, from the press or LinkedIn, so this column get together with them. They opportunity in St. Petersburg, clippings, Dr. Joanna Fisher provides another opportunity to are still living in Simpsonville, Fla. He currently own a jani- is currently president-elect, share news and life events. S.C. Donna stays out of trouble torial supply company, Coast and will shortly take over as with some golf, gardening, Brothers, and buyitbythecase. president, of the Pennsylvania Gary Chan, bridge and being grandma com, which sells products on Academy of Ophthalmology. (847) 902-8881 (Gigi)…and planning her chil- the internet. Joanna is a board certified ’80 (C); gkchan80@ dren’s weddings! I also heard from my most ophthalmologist and has alum.lehigh.edu Speaking of sorority sisters... faithful e-mailer, Rob Nahigian been in private practice in the Hello, fellow classmates! I next week I am playing golf of Auburndale Realty Co. in Philadelphia area since 1986. hope you are all doing well. My with my college roommate, Newton, Mass., who contin- She earned her medical degree thanks to everyone who sent Jill Sugarman Van Hoesen, ues to be recognized for his through the accelerated six me your updates. Bill Troy so hope to have some news of expertise as an instructor on year B.A./MD program from says hello from Woodridge, Jill and Rick for the next issue. commercial real estate topics. Lehigh and the Medical College Ill. Bill is COO for IOI Lod- They still live in Los Gatos, Calif. He was selected as CoreNet of Pennsylvania. ers Croklaan, a fats and oils

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PROFILE Anthony Brichta ’04, ’05G CHRISTA NEU

Let It Flow Anthony Brichta ’04, ’05G has opened the first distillery in Allentown since Prohibition

In October 2012, Anthony Brichta ’04, ’05G was helping a fellow shelf.” The distillery offers weekend tours and tastings. Visitors can alum celebrate his 30th birthday at a craft distillery in Brooklyn. buy bottles of its liquors, or a cocktail made with them. The spirits, Less than three years later, Brichta, a practicing lawyer, is making which have names of local significance, also are available at the mi- rum, gin, bourbon and vodka of his own. nor league baseball Coca-Cola Park and the Hamilton Bar & Kitchen, Along with his uncle, John Rowe, a pilot and former air traffic both in Allentown. controller, Brichta has founded County Seat Spirits in Allentown, Sand Island Rum is named for Sand Island in Bethlehem; Lock Pennsylvania. It is the first distillery in that city since the days of Keeper Gin for the canals of Easton; and Class 8 Vodka for the old Prohibition. Mack Trucks assembly plant. Its bourbon, still aging, will be known “Craft distilling is still relatively new,” said Brichta, as he provided as Hidden Copper Bourbon, a reference to the Liberty Bell having a tour of his distillery, tucked inside a former Mack Trucks assem- been hidden under the floorboards of Zion’s Reformed Church in Al- bly plant that has been reimagined as a business enterprise center. lentown in 1777 to protect it from the British. “There are some parallels to [the growth of] craft brewing. People Brichta, who received his bachelor’s in political science and econom- are looking for different flavors, different types of products and more ics and his master’s in politicial science, is part of a Lehigh family. His local products.” father, two sisters and a brother are graduates. His father, Bill Brichta Thanks in large part to an easing of state and federal regulations, ’76, ’81G, ’10G, also worked at Lehigh in information technology. craft distilleries are trending up. Without a lot of formal training in distilling, Anthony Brichta and In 2003, there were about 70 small distilleries across the country. his uncle have learned the processes through research and trial and Now, there are about 630. error. They also do blind taste tests. The goal is to grow the business, “We’re a grain to glass distillery, so we do the whole process,” said and so far, Brichta said, County Seat Spirits has been well received. Brichta. That includes selecting the grains, milling them on site, “We hope that [customers] end up getting a product that they can fermenting, distilling and bottling. “Other than tiring, it’s pretty re- be proud to drink, proud to support, and that also tastes better than warding. You get to actually see a product that you make out on the what they’re drinking now.”—Mary Ellen Alu

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supplier for the food indus- Lehigh-Lafayette Football came through and we have the al artisan piece out of a tree try. Bill’s family includes six game at Yankee stadium. Jeff following updates: We heard trunk in the garage (picture children, ages from 7-year-old and Barbara Yocum Slayton from Debbie Banks Weidman long white hair and goatee), twins to 17 and remarks that are now empty nesters. Their who went straight from Lehigh his company is actually a he will not be retiring for a daughter Melanie is a senior to Columbia University School major manufacturer, making long time. What a great sense majoring in accounting at of Law and now practices with and selling to the commercial of humor! Bill has stayed in James Madison University and her husband, Peter, focusing on markets, restaurants, casinos, touch with Bob Zillig ’81, who their son Michael is a freshman special education and real es- offices, and you name it. We also retired from Kraft Foods. Bob studying mechanical engineer- tate. They have their own firm heard from John Braithwaite, was a colleague of mine during ing at Georgia Tech University. outside of Philadelphia, and vice president of Equus Capital my time at Kraft. Bob and his Jeff works for Generac Power have also partnered in raising Partners in Philadelphia. John wife, Connie, have since moved Systems and Barbara works for three daughters. The oldest recently went to see Lehigh to Maryland and are enjoying Lockheed Martin. Jeff joined a is a Lehigh grad who has just take on Villanofun in basketball life. Gene Vivino retired from very large contingent of Alpha delivered grandchild #1, a boy! where he saw classmate Jack Becton Dickinson in January Sigma Phi brothers at the 150th To quote Debbie “yes, I guess McGowan hobnobbing in the to start his own consulting Lehigh-Lafayette football game we’re that old!!” Though if Lehigh athletics suite. Neither business focused on planning and had a great time playing you’ve seen Debbie she doesn’t will likely admit it but that is and development for emerging his first wales and tails game look like anyone’s grandmother probably one more basketball markets, with a focus on China in years. Jeff remarks that by a long shot. Debbie went game than they ever went to in and broader Asia. Gene and his Joe Cooke is still the best at to the game in November with four years at Lehigh (not count- wife have returned to sunny the game. My wife, Helen, our some of the LU group she stays ing nude hoops at Beta). Has San Diego, Calif. Gene’s son is a daughter Laura ’17 and I also in touch with, including Amy anyone seen or heard from Joe member of the Lehigh Class of attended the 150th game. It Mishkin Brosof, a school Hockman ’83, Susan Moyer 2016 and Gene is a member of was a spectacular event despite psychologist who also lives out- Shevlin or Patrice Wilchek the Lehigh Leadership Council. the final score. It is always side of Philadelphia with her Machikas?? Brian Woolford retired in great having the chance to optometrist husband Jeffrey Email is Lehigh81@gmail. June 2014 after completing 19 meet all my Lehigh friends and and their two daughters; Roger com, please send info. years at Family Health Centers meeting new ones. Helen and Bomgardner who is a senior of San Diego, Calif. Brian was I are enjoying life in Longboat vice president at TD Bank John P. Belardo, honored by his many friends, Key, Fla. It is truly amazing who also has three kids and a 152 Berkeley Cir- colleagues and family for his 25 when we wear our Lehigh gear grandson (trending amongst ’82 cle, Basking Ridge, years of providing comprehen- how many people come up to our peers at the moment); and NJ 07920. (973) 425-8755 (B); sive, compassionate, primary us to express their connection Del Markward. Del is in the jpbelardolehigh82@gmail. and HIV specialty care to the with Lehigh, whether as alum- commercial real estate busi- com. On Facebook, like Lehigh San Diego community. Brian ni, parents, family relation- ness, having started his own University Class of 1982. celebrated his retirement with ships, friends or retired faculty company, the Markward Group, Richard Webb dropped me a his dad by taking a road trip members. So I encourage all in 1996 and then merging it line from Sewickley, Pa., where to Las Vegas, Nev. in his new of you to wear Lehigh proudly. with Colliers International in he is chief investment officer Kia Soul. In August, Brian You never know who you will 2008. Which is really interest- at Marbury Wealth Manage- participated in Gay Games 9 in meet! “80 Go Go!” ing since that happens to be ment, LLC. During Lafayette Cleveland, Ohio, and won the the company I now work for in weekend, Rich hosted a dinner silver medal in tennis mixed Michael and Carol Stamford, Conn., and I had no in N.Y.C. at Del Frisco’s Steak doubles! Brian is enjoying the Gordon, 42 Randi idea about until I heard about House in mid-town for a large retired life, biking, swimming, ’81 Drive, Madison, it from Debbie. Del also has two group of his Chi Psi fraternity doing weight training, playing CT 06443. (203) 245-8001 (H), kids, both currently at Penn brothers after which all attend- tennis, learning golf and having (203) 326-5844 (B), (203) 641- State. Del, I’ll call you, maybe ed the Brown and White party more time for leisure reading. 7951(C); [email protected] we can do some deals. at Terminal 5 on Friday night. Rob Donohue celebrated We have had a little bit of an In other news, a few col- Mark Yeager, ’81, then host- the 25th anniversary of his information drought since the umns ago we asked if anyone ed a pre-game tailgate party New Jersey ophthalmology flood of good intel obtained had seen or heard from Bryson Saturday morning at Connolly’s practice. Rob and wife Susann during Lehigh-Lafayette week- Kershner and there was Pub on 45th Street. Attendees are proud parents of Amanda end in NYC last year. I think actually a response, proving from our ’82 class included Mae Donohue, who is a mem- after that weekend, we seemed again that someone is reading Pete Marquardt, Randy ber of Lehigh’s Class of 2017. to be riding an emotional high, this stuff. Bryson was located Blasdell and Dan Butler. Amanda is a political science on love and good feelings for in Valley Forge where he owns After graduating Lehigh, Rich major and is aiming towards our Alma Mater (so what if the BK Barrit, a custom furniture worked in the financial markets a career in public health. team had an off year, it’s a long manufacturing company. trading interest rate, currency Rob and Susann are proud rivalry)....So after a brief hiatus, Although Bryson looks like he and credit swaps in New York to have attended the 150th a few dedicated informants could be carving an occasion- City, London and Tokyo, with

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shorter stints in Paris, Hong New York for their prestigious up with fellow Lehigh alums to Israel pretty often and the Kong and down under in Syd- Emerging Voices lecture series. was a blast! If I missed seeing boys come here a lot too. Pam ney. Rich observes that living In 1998, Craig won a fellowship you, please email me (nancyli- Budman-Verarrt ‘83 and I live in Sydney before the advent of in sculpture from the Connecti- [email protected]) with a town apart and see each other the internet was like being on cut Commission of the Arts. any news. regularly. She and her husband a different planet since theIn - In the past 10 years Craig and We tailgated at a garage Niek are great and are now ternational Herald Tribune was Linda have won over 20 awards, across from Yankee stadium empty-nesters. Her kids study the only delayed abroad view grants and prizes, including with Paul and Karen (’84) at Univ. of Michigan.” of happenings back in America. Newick’s Third Place prize Bukowski and Paul’s Phi I was excited to receive the Rich and his wife, Jill, are proud in the Astronaut’s Memorial Delts brothers. Paul and Karen following wonderful news re- parents of 6-year-old twin Design Competition for Cape recently relocated to Denver, garding Dianne (Goetz) Yamin: girls in first grade, Maren and Canaveral in 1998. Check out Colo. because of the Lockheed Hon. Dianne E. (Goetz) Grace, who join older brother some of Craig’s award winning plant closing in Newtown,Pa. Yamin was inaugurated this Grant, in third grade. Being at and innovative projects and de- We will miss going to Lehigh morning (Jan. 7th) for her the tail end of our classmates signs at www.newickarchitects. games with them. Other Phi 7th four-year term as Judge in the child-rearing category, com/Projects1.htm. Two of my Delts who joined us were: Hen- of Probate for the District of Rich and Jill may be looking at favorites are “Water House” ry Hall, Bob Murphy and his Danbury. She was re-elected in six-figure college tuition in the and “The Bunker.” wife Kim, Greg Novek, Kevin November, running unop- years to come. Patrick Eichner’s daugh- Nulton and his wife Elise ’85, posed, as she has for some 20 Kenneth Shriber attended ter Meghan, Lehigh ’12, just Rob Vandervalk and his wife years… When she was first the Lafayette game at Yankee finished her master’s program Jane, Dick Dunne ’80 and his elected in 1990, she was the Stadium with his brother, down in Dallas at Southern wife Nancy, Scott Faktor ’81 youngest judge ever to serve Mitchell Shriber, ’79, who Methodist University and is and his wife Donna, Bob Roth in the State of Connecticut, flew in from Tampa. Ken lives starting her practice counseling ’82 and his wife Mary, and Sean and the first woman Judge of in Chappaqua, N.Y., with the children. Pat’s son, Patrick, Murphy (’84) and his wife Lau- Probate ever for the District of Clintons and his wife, Marcy, just finished his career playing ra. There were well over 100 Danbury. Between 2008 and and their children, Abigail and football for Johns Hopkins people at the tailgate. 2010 she served as President Jeremy. Ken and Jill moved to University where he and his Lisa Anderman and her Judge of the entire Probate Ju- Chappaqua from N.Y.C. in 2008. classmates were 39-1 in the family also joined us at the dicial System in Connecticut. Following a successful 22-year regular season over those four tailgate. By chance, I had met Also in 2008, she was elected career in the downstream oil years (an overall record of 42- her parents, Arthur (’56) and chairman of the Board of the and gas business at Exxon 5), the most successful in Johns Carole, at a Lehigh event in the Greater Danbury Chamber of Company, USA, and Exxon Hopkins history, also finishing summer and she followed up by Commerce, as its first woman Mobil Corporation, Ken formed in the top 20 in the country all writing me with the following chairman in its 94-year history. Petroleum Equity Group, LTD, four years. Patrick looks for- news: “We are living in Great Great job, Dianne! We are a niche mergers and acquisition ward to graduating in May 2015 Neck, N. Y. I spent some time proud of all of your accom- advisory firm to small and mid- with a Writing Seminars degree in Israel 1994-2000 working as plishments! size fuel distribution business- and hopes to make a career in an attorney in Jerusalem and Enjoy your spring and es and retail store chains. PEG’s sports journalism. then moved back here to New please keep sending your news! goal is to bring big oil expertise I attended a post-Lafayette York along with my husband Please email me (nancyli- to these companies while pro- game gathering of 43 Pi Lamb- Oded Daskal and my son Daniel [email protected]) with viding strategic thinking and da Phi brothers, spouses and (now 16). We have twin girls, any news. Looking forward to advice on mergers, acquisitions, friends at Volare Restaurant in 14 years old.(Arielle and Noa). hearing from you! valuations, deal structures, Greenwich Village where our Now I’m doing commercial real modeling, and coordinating honorary and legendary house estate and development. Oded’s Sara Dillon, capital raising. Continued brother, Stan King, was feted older kids (first marriage) are 345 W 84th St. best wishes to Ken for PEG’s and celebrated for his soon to living in Israel. Matan (26) was ’84 #2, New York, success! be released Phoenix Publish- dancing with the Bat Sheva N.Y. 10024. (212) 362-9678 (H); Craig Newick is a prin- ing House fiction novel,Every Dance Company and now [email protected] cipal in Newick Architects in Stanking Act in the World and studies music composition. The day before the big Le- New Haven, CT. After Lehigh, Mine. He has a busy schedule with high-Lafayette game in New Craig obtained a Master of school and travel for dancing. York City in November, class- Architecture degree from Yale Nancy Liu, nan- Yonatan (22) just finished mate and Interim President University. In 2000, Craig won cyliulehigh93 his army service and is a very Kevin Clayton rang the closing an Honor Award from AIA ’83 @gmail.com talented pianist/keyboard bell on the New York Stock Connecticut. In 1996, Newick What an amazing Lehigh-La- player. He spent the summer Exchange with other Lehigh and his frequent collaborator, fayette 150 Rivalry Weekend! touring Europe with his band representatives, a mountain Linda Lindroth, were selected We won’t mention the score. It and just recently released a hawk, and some people from by the Architecture League of was bitterly cold, but meeting new CD. We are back and forth the other college. I arranged for

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a large group of Lehigh alumni, even those families which have European director in charge of Phil Anthony, Bruce Gibson, mostly from the class of ’84, the support, resources and medical and orphanage work Judy (Hanauer) and Dave along with partners, spouses information to get through the in Romania, Moldova, Iraq and Spring, Jim Gasek, Rob and friends to come onto the process. The good schools have Uzbekistan. More recently, Randall, Alan Brodherson floor of the exchange for the bell a lot of applicants. I think there Laurent set up a health clinic and Bob “Rooster” Conway, ringing. We had a bigger group are over 70,000 eighth-graders for displaced and persecuted plus Jill Gershon, Eve (Ger- than the “official” Lehigh guest who apply every year. Close to men in Chiapas, Mexico and riets) Mongiardo, Rebecca group and a MUCH bigger group 4,000 students auditioned for devised an automated patient (Shapiro) Sendel and Delta than that other college. So, at the drama program at LaGuar- admission process prior to the Phi’s Chris Baran. In addition least we “won” that event. I may dia with about 99 being ac- EMR area. to the great visit to New York, be missing some of the people cepted. By the numbers alone, Clearly Laurent has had an Derek reports life in Denver who were there, but here is an it is harder to get into this HS impressive and most interest- is awesome and wishes he had attempt at a list: than it is to get into Harvard, ing past, and has truly made made the move earlier. While Elaine Gebhard King, and it doesn’t have the lowest his mark. While his story is Brown and White representa- Greg Korst and Jill Radding acceptance rate in the city. A unique, it turns out we all have tion is usually limited to Grand Korst flew in from California. few years to breathe and then our own stories to tell. That’s Central Station’s Zaro’s display Holly (Carlson) Foster and it’s on to the college application what makes reunion weekend case, Eve noted Brown and Jon Foster flew in from Wash- process. great—not only seeing old White was everywhere, from ington. Marian Nalitt and friends but making new ones, every coffee spot, all the way Devin Murphy, Susy Eckert Anthony Arturi, and finding out about folks you onto the No. 4 train. Shea, Pamela Gural-Bear and 171 Manning barely knew and the cool stuff Invoking Mel Brooks from Sherman Bear, Aliki Astreou ’85 Ave., River Edge, they’ve been up to since 1985. History of the World Part I, and Tom Keeting came in from NJ 07661. (201) 483-7664 (H); I hope to see you at reunion. I Ann (Rutledge) Oswald, notes, Pennsylvania. Patricia (Burke) [email protected] wouldn’t miss it! “Nothing, I have absolutely Savage, Suzette Stoddard, Classmates, nothing (to update)!” though Laura Gill, Peter Olsen, Lois You may have once received Dave Polakoff, Ann did note she was at the (Schmalz) Miller and Jeffrey a “World’s Greatest Dad” or 400 E. 71st Stadium and Friday night’s Miller came in from various “World’s Greatest Mom” mug. ’86 St., #3K, New “EW&F” concert. parts of New Jersey. John Or perhaps you have received York, NY 10021-4874. david@ You can’t spell Yankee Forster and Celeste (Primi- a corporate award, like a “Star dpolakoff.com or Classcolumn@ stadium without SAM, and ani) Forster ’89 came in from Award” that entitles you and lehigh86.org. Sammy boys, family and friends Connecticut. Irene Math was your family a trip to a resort “I close my eyes and feel like it numbered over 175 at Dorri- in from New York (outside of somewhere to convene with was back in the day. But those an’s on Friday night and over New York City). Mary Stewart other “stars.” I once won Pi times have long been through. 300 in the Bronx. ’86 Sammies was down from New Hamp- Lambda Phi “Athlete of the The dying of the light is gone, included David Greenbaum, shire. And Elizabeth (Batesole) Year,” although given my be- but it’s back in the day, like R. Scot “Scooter” Bross, Hainey ‘83 and her husband loved joker brothers I suspect a wish that comes half true honorary ’86 SAM (actually a from Texas were also there. irony played a large part. None- (Blues Traveler).” Pi Lam) Joel Bross ’55, Brenda We cheered Kevin on, had a lot theless, our classmate Laurent “If you remember Lehigh/ (Tabora) and Scott Kay, Alan of fun, went for drinks in the La Brie has received an honor Lafayette 150, you weren’t Bluestine, Brian Okun, Marc seventh floor bar, and best of all I daresay is unique among our really there,” is my truncat- “Thomas Malthus” Mathios, I didn’t get fired. number— “Most Interesting ed, transliterated tale from Jeff Silverman, Joel Stutt- And, for everyone who was Biomed of 2014”. my Taylor hallmate, Derek man, Alita (Nemroff) ’87 and following my family’s high Laurent is well deserving of deBastos’, recollection. Derek Glen “Coach” Friedman and school application saga. My this honor and perhaps others characterized it as “the cocktail yours truly, plus Susan Lustig, daughter, Zoey Mae, got into yet unbestowed. He has led party for 40,000 people” and Steven Berns, and Ronni her top public school choice: several significant humanitari- had to later ask his former (Levine) Aronow. LaGuardia High School for the an efforts around the globe. He Lehigh roommate if they saw Brothers, and friends, from Arts (the Fame school). She received an MBA while serving each other that weekend. the Swamp enjoying the game was accepted into both studios as the medical logistics officer The Sig Eps met on Friday included Hawkeye, Trapper, that she auditioned for, vocals in charge of a disaster relief at McSorley’s, then went to Duke, Dago Red, Painless, and drama, and has chosen hospital in Italy, later complet- an Upper East Side dinner Radar, Hot Lips, Dish and Staff to pursue drama. New York ing a masters in biomedical at an unnamed location (not Sergeant Vollmer. City may be unique in that you engineering. Under the Clinton unnamed for security purposes; Frank Munero, Rich Bas- HAVE to apply for public high Administration he was selected Derek just couldn’t remember). tian and Peter Boyle watched school and every school has a as one of a dozen workers who As usual, Derek flew himself the game from Turtle Bay Grill different application process petitioned to evacuate human- and the family from Denver, but met up for the Theta Chi and admissions policy. There itarian workers from Saddam Colo. Derek recalls, via mobile après game at John’s of Times is a lot of stress on families, Hussein’s Iraq. He became the phone pictures, seeing Sig Eps Square (I know there’s a John of

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Times Square, but didn’t know They have one child, a daughter me know what you did and who Fritz Schweitzer, Jim Stone, he had a restaurant… HEY Katarina Illona. Katie is a stu- you celebrated with. Mariana (Gonzalez) Gilbert, NOW!) with Gayle (Fay) ’88 and dent at Penn State Berks – yes Brian and Aimee (Politziner) TJ Higgins, Vince Mueller, with her dad! She is CAS major Kellie Fisher, Jalazo, Hank Jenkins, Ben Diane (Dewitt) ’87 and Mark (Communication Arts and 34 Valentine St., Tiley, Tom Glancey, Stacie Frisch, and Missy (Peters) Science). Rob is very involved ’88 Monmouth Beach, (Caplan) Kiratsous ’89, Robin and Bruce Thoet ’87. Frank is a with volunteer activities, as NJ. 07750 (917) 209-5508; Shatto Labiak, Joe Long, partner in the firm where’s he’s the director of music at MBS [email protected] Chris Pappas, Gioia (Ligos) been for 24 hours (typo, make RCC (the fourth oldest Catholic I would love to sit here and Macey, Meighan Meeker, that years), recruiting software church in the Original 13 Colo- recall all sorts of information Kerry (Loughman) O’Hearn, sales professionals, mostly in nies), an assistant scoutmaster / about classmates that I gar- Tom Johnson, Scott Runkle, the D.C. area. Frank and wife secretary of the Troop Com- nered during Lehigh-Lafayette Tim Russell, Lisa (Milano) Mary have two daughters: mittee / unit commissioner of weekend. Sadly, I saw everyone Schneider, Carmine and Sarah, a University of South Boyertown BSA Troop 503 (the for about 1 minute each and Linda (Bellantoni) Venezia, Carolina frosh, and Olivia, a oldest continuously chartered my brain didn’t not retain one Sharon (Siegel) Voelzke, high school junior. Rich, a serial troop in the Boyertown area), useful piece of information. Jillian (Spitalnik) Winoker entrepreneur, has started/sold and the statistician / scorekeep- All I can say is WHAT FUN I and about 350 other people, two businesses, First State er / press box public address had seeing so many classmates and I really didn’t want the Recycling and Diamond State announcer for the rather pres- as well as so many old friends night to end, or the weekend Warehousing, and is onto tigious Boyertown Bears legion from our days at Lehigh. It for that matter. Saturday was numbers three and four, Orga- baseball team. Just typical ac- was absolutely great to see the colder than expected, and with nizational Boot Camp and All tivities for a Lehigh grad! Thank Empire State Building lit up in some multi-class gathering of Hands on Deck (disappointing- you Rob for reaching out. brown and white, to have the friends started off at Dorrian’s ly, nothing to do with sailing). We all had a wonderful time Marching 97 throughout the for bloodys. Then sporting my TJ, my old frosh roommate, at the 150th Lehigh-Lafayette city, to see the schools open the “Lafayette Sucks” button and a loves wrapping himself with weekend. All of the different stock exchange, and get caught one of the great Lehigh scarves rubber. Recall his earlier living groups had gatherings up in the Lehigh spirit for days that Amy Frei had made to marketing days with Scher- throughout the city. The on end. My weekend kicked keep us warm, headed to the ing-Plough, home of Durex, Sammys met at the Dorian, off with cocktails withBob stadium. I’m not going to lie. It and now, tired of his latest gig sponsored and organized (lots Mueller and Jim Bowman on would have been better to win. at Pfizer, home of the blue pill, of hard work!) by Andrew Thursday and ended at Yankee Congratulations to the he’s president, consumer U.S. Levy. The Alpha Sigs were at Stadium in the Delta Suites Coles on another Lehigh and Canada, for Bridgestone a bar on the Westside, we saw with the family, Bob, Jim, Chris undergrad, as so, Bobby will be America’s Tire Operations. Jeff Dekorte, Rick Herwig, Marshall, Keith Curtis, Amy in the class of 2019. Both Dave If “The Tragically Hip” think John Lauer in from Washing- (Sugarman) Zuckerman, Martin and Dale Prestipino “It Can’t Be Nashville Every ton State, Tim Farrell and DJ John and Suzanne (Vranka) have kids joining him in next Night,” go ask TJ, because that’s Jeffris there. My Dg friends, Gabriele, Dirk Friedkin, Jeff year’s freshman class. I believe where he’s headed. Kathy Reichert Koenig, Enslin, Jordie Hitch and I just saw statistics that said More L/L 150 in the next Daniela Boebert Titter- many of their kids. 17 percent of the last class was column. “It’s been such a long ton and Phil Titterton, Jill The highlight of the comprised of legacies. If your time, I think I should be goin’, Tirnauer (who flew in from weekend for me was the party kids are considering Lehigh, yeah” (Boston). Pakistan), Andrea Worth I threw Friday night. I felt like highly recommend junior year Robik, Karyn McMenamin I was back on the hill. It was that they head back for the Laura M. D’Orsi, Cravens, Adrianne Kodisch great to hear all three Lehigh Legacy Day program the devel- 26 Falcon Ridge McMullen, Mary McGovern bands play (MCAs, The Con- opment office throws. ’87 Circle, Holmdel, Kirk and I met at Lisa Hakim’s nection, and Millie’s Closet) And since no one has both- NJ 07733. (732) 332-1149 (H); apartment in NYC for brunch and Bob and Janet (Pickens) ered to write :)…. I have been [email protected] and then headed to the game. Cole showed us that they still adjusting to commuting and be- I have heard from Rob Zam- It was amazing traveling on the have their musical chops. And ing a homeowner and enjoying banini. He began grad school in New York city subways with the classmates who were along life down at the Jersey shore. August of 1988, got his master’s people screaming “Go Lehigh!” for the ride included Jim, Bob, I get to see more of Keith and in January of 1993, and finally At the game, we also saw many Jordie, Keith, Dirk, Suzanne, Karin (Verkooyen ’90) Curtis his Ph.D. in June of 2000—all ’87 AXPs such as John Herd, John, Anne (Plympton) An- and Carmine and Linda Vene- from Lehigh! He is now a pro- John Herr, Dan Popky ’86 and quillare, KT Moore, Kirsten zia, and even was able to get fessor at Penn State Berks—and Tom Koenig ’86. It was also Chapman, Sheri (Bevan) Scott Draper out for a night. has been there since August of fun to see Lambda Chis, John Comisac, Dave DiBrigida, By the time you get to read this 2001. Beltz ’86, Karl Pupke and Todd Karen (Kornheiser) Farber, column, the winter will be far Rob and his wife will be cel- Ebert. There were many other Todd Ferber, Amy (Kantrow- behind us. Hope to catch some ebrating 25 years of marriage. gatherings of ’87 alumns. Let itz) Frei, Liza Kahn Garber, of you back at Lehigh.

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Jocelyn (Gitlin) looking for a fantastic series to two children, Eva 12 and Kyle of a pediatric cancer, has been Deutsch, 9 watch, check out The Americans 9 ,who keep their parents very an inspiration to so many and ’89 Vincent Lane, on FX! Charlie Fersko had a busy coaching various basket- led the Teen Ride as Cycle for Armonk, NY 10504. jocelyn- role as a “bug sweeper”—not an ball, softball and baseball teams Survival has stormed the coun- [email protected] insect, but a hidden micro- throughout the year. Home is try raising money for research Now that winter is over and we phone, you know spy stuff—for Wyckoff, N.J. but the family tries to eliminate all rare forms of are all out and about enjoying the government! Here’s to you, to spend the month of August cancer (and will raise well over the warm long days of summer, Charlie, hope to see you on at Seaside Park on the Jersey $20 million this year). Well please write and tell me what future episodes. Shore. Carrie said it’s a great done, team Becker! Jeff has also you are up to! The saying “no break from all the activities found himself back on campus news is good news” does not Elizabeth during the year to just sit and as his oldest daughter, Peri, is apply here. All our best wishes (Short) Stothoff, watch the kids surf and skim enjoying herself (and no doubt and congratulations to Julie ’90 15 Finn Road, board all day! She is a part-time working hard) as a freshman Kime Traina, her husband, Pittstown, NJ 08867. (908) 735- marketing consultant currently at Lehigh. He reports that it is Mike, and their five children. 4778 (H); ess@inlineservicesinc. working at Unilever. great being able to experience Julie and Mike’s daughter com Susan Samson Miller Lehigh again through the eyes Peyton was featured in an What a great NYC turnout married Dave (an accountant of his daughter, and now Sydney article on Philly.com. “She’s we had at the 150th Lehigh vs from Bucknell) 14 years ago and is talking about making Lehigh been a rock for us,” said Terry Lafayette football game! has three beautiful daughters, her top college choice next year, Rakowsky. The words carry a In the words of Fernan- Grace 12, Meghan 11 and Allie 8. so he has begun playing the lot of weight when the coach of do Lamas (a.k.a. Billy Crys- They are all swimmers like their lottery in hopes of a jackpot win! the Central Bucks West girls’ tal), “You look... mahvelous! mom. Coincidence? I think Jeff recently joined the Jordan, basketball team talks about se- Absolutely mahvelous!” And not! Home is Morristown, N.J. Edmiston Group as co-head of nior Peyton Traina, who helped you know who you are Class of and in this small Lehigh world technology investment banking. the team make it into the PIAA ’90! It just can’t be possible it’s they actually live in the same Carolyn Townsend (Pennsylvania Interscholastic been 25 years since graduation neighborhood as Susan’s room- Shields has also been returning Athletic Association) basketball because we all still look like mate of 4 years, Pam Humbert to South Mountain from her semifinals. “Her impact on the fresh-faced undergrads (minus Russell. After a 14-year career home in Arizona. Her son Liam program is immense,” accord- the big hair). in accounting at Wyeth Phar- ’18 is a fifth generation Lehigh ing to Philly.com. “A co-captain, Over 80 of us were at 36 maceuticals Susan took 10 years family member. Check out this she plays great defense and thanks to the hard work of off to be home with the girls and legacy—her great-great grandfa- always hustles.” “On any other Jim Giddon, Jen Jacobson is now working as a bookkeeper ther Charles graduated in 1895, team in our conference,” said Nelson, Jacques Rousseau, part-time. great grandfather Fred in 1933, Rakowsky, “she’s a star, a key to Bryant Saydah, Dereck Jill Ricken lives in San and her father Fred in 1958. that offense, scoring 20 points Fitteron, Kim Malone, Eric Juan, Puerto Rico with her two I have mentioned before a game.” Wertz, John Baliotti and Tom children, Leonardo 14 and Nadia in this column Rich Verma’s After years in finance, Flynn. I must say it has been 11, where she works in Project appointment as our US Ambas- you’ve got to love the fact that quite a while since I walked into Management for EVERTEC, the sador to India. When he was Seth Weber is giving back and a bar and recognized almost leading transaction processing sworn in at the end of Decem- teaching a finance class at Le- everyone. business in Latin America. ber there was quite a cheering high. Who wouldn’t love to be Tom shared there was a There is no escaping soccer fe- section from Lehigh! Included a fly on the wall during one of mini Sig Ep reunion that same ver down there, and all three of in that posse were Jen Jacobson his lectures? Seth’s daughter as weekend at the Hofbrau Bier- them play for multiple leagues, Nelson, Bill Rossi, Eric Wertz, well as Wendy Klein Gracias’ haus including Dave Fox, Craig plus both kids are on basket- Chris ’89 and Nicole Pollaert daughter will be in Lehigh’s Greene, Bryant Saydah, Chris ball and cross country teams. Witt, Steve Ploder ’91, Dave class of 2019. Congratulations Hauck, Tom Infantino, Jim Jill said she has not missed a Breinig and Tom Ferrara. Le- to both of them. For those of Mintzer, Shawn Farrell ’89 and reunion yet and the 25th was high’s Interim President Kevin you that need a new blog to Bon Kaufferman ’89. Tom said going to be no exception despite Clayton was also there to wit- keep you busy, please check that unlike the old days they the distance. ness the momentous occasion. out a great food blog www. were all in bed by 11:30 p.m. Jeff Becker had a few Jennifer Schindler slyrooster.com by our very Gamma Phis had a great updates for us as well. Jeff, and Lowitt recently celebrated her own Dani Rasmus Crichton. showing that weekend and all of his wife Amy, have been busy twentieth wedding anniversary Her witty blog is filled with them looked they were having A fundraising and helping coor- with her husband Mickey. Her delicious healthy recipes that LOT of fun! Many of them were dinate the local efforts for the family includes David 13, Andy are terrific. I’m having a party nice enough to hear my pleas Cycle For Survival event held 11, and Molly 7, who all call Riv- this weekend and I am using for news and sent the following: annually in New Jersey (also erside, Conn., home. She is still her recipes as my inspiration. Carrie Purvin has been mar- attended by Steve and Stacy practicing law and is Of Counsel Definitely check it out, you will ried to Kevin, a criminal defense Saul). His beautiful 16-year-old at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & be hooked. Finally, if anyone is attorney, for 15 years. They have daughter Sydney, a survivor Bentley in NYC.

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Diana Zoller Per- Samantha Addonizio-Butts Larry Webster, who must have had a better offer kins, 610 Texas St., and Paul Mazzella. I don’t have lwebster19@ that weekend… ’91 San Francisco, CA room to mention all the other ’92 gmail.com I hope you all enjoyed the 94107; [email protected] AWESOME people who made it holiday season. My family and Well, it was worth all the hype! to the party, but let’s just say it Christopher I traveled to Nuevo Vallarta, Lehigh/Lafayette 150 in Yankee was like the best late night Sigs P. German, 111 Mexico for a weeklong adven- Stadium was the most memo- party ever! Saturday morning ’93 Glezen Lane, ture. There were plenty of fun rable game since that freezing came too quickly (as it did many Wayland, MA 01778, cpger- water activities and relaxation, cold one in Taylor Stadium our days during college), but it was [email protected] but the highlight was a charter freshman year. While the weath- worth it to start the day at Studio Well, it has been a mixed result fishing trip with my sons during er was far from cooperative this 36. In attendance were: Jill so far this winter in greater Bos- which they caught a couple of year for this Cali girl, running Merriam Dulitsky, Jill Was- ton. The Patriots, led by Lehigh enormous Mahi Mahi (25 and into old friends, the laughs and serman, Amy Silver Kramer, alum Tom Brady (just making 35 lbs, respectively). The captain the memories were worth every Stephanie Gitkin Hawk, Jen- sure you’re all paying atten- filleted the fish and the chefs at shiver! Three cheers to Kellie nifer Bofinger Tucker, Pamela tion…) won Super Bowl XLIX in the resort prepared an excellent Fisher ( ’88) for throwing the Corr Stewart, Steve Ploder, entertaining fashion—so much dinner for the family – a true most amazing party Friday night Devin Gross, Brett Sherman so, that I’m sure NBC garnered ‘ocean to table’ experience. at Draught 55. There are so and Craig Albert. After the lon- record-setting ratings. On either You may all be surprised to many stories to tell and so many gest subway ride EVER with Jim side of that game, we have been hear that I did receive corre- laughs to be re-lived but I don’t Giddon ’90, Mark Strauch ’92 setting records for snowfall and spondence from a classmate… think I’ll have space to tell them and about 80 other Lehigh ‘En- incidents of ‘snowrage.’ Lori (Schlauch) Trechter has all. So this will be sort of like gineers,’ we made it to the game. Prior to winter getting into been fairly busy as a mother of one of those not-so-deep Oscar I’m sorry I missed seeing Melis- full swing, it was good to catch 6 children—4 boys and 2 girls, acceptance speeches—it’ll have sa Golden, James McDermott, up with some folks in NYC at ages 4 to 15. Can you say ‘no a LOT of names in it. Without Larry Raia, Lisa Thompson, the 150th playing of The Rivalry. free time’? Since leaving the Air further ado, I’d like to thank The Mike Moss, Tom Spiegel, Some fellow Delts and I took Force 15 years ago, Lori has been Academy…oh wait. I would like Scott Austin, Ajay Bhatt, Pete the Meat Packing District by home-educating her children to thank Susan Lanter Blank Ruggiero, Chris Schwab, Elisa storm! We surveyed much of the and playing chef, housekeeper, for motivating me to buy a plane Davis Hecht, Chuck Zimmer city that weekend and reverted nurse, and taxi driver. She and ticket and for housing me (and … but had a blast running into back to the old Lehigh days her husband, who just retired Beth Matonis Gilfeather). Carla Goldberg Greengrass, playing many games of Beirut from a career in the Air Force, The weekend wouldn’t have Kim Bach Como, Andrew at a German beer garden and are halfway through a year-long been complete without running Schwartz, Brent Brookler, another sports bar in the Village. trip through the United States into my freshman roommate, Dave Providenti, Eileen Carey The late afternoon game time in their RV before they return to Jennifer Neiman Gottlieb, Barna and Jamie Barna, John allowed us plenty of time to their home in Colorado. The pur- and other Williams Hall friends: Dalena, Christina Petrillo ‘prepare’ to root for Lehigh. We pose of the trip has been about Melissa Peller Eydenberg, Elwell, Michael and Holly made our way north to the Bronx much more than seeing many Emily Thornton Salmore, Hoffman Ash. The AOPi’s were with Mad Dog 20/20 in tow. beautiful sites. Their family has Jackie Montana Mitsch, Mary well-represented in Section While we patronized multiple had opportunities to serve at D’Agostino, Doug Devincens 317: Elisa Chiusano Stein- venues along the way, much of nursing homes, soup kitchens, a and Brenton Karmen. (Where gruebner, Gaby Bridenbaugh our time was spent at a multi- teen pregnancy shelter, and even was Furt?) Meanwhile, back to Jenkins, Stacey Winter, generational Delt luncheon at a tape a radio show on marriage Kellie’s fantastic party...My FFF, Karen Pupke, Merrill Norton nice location in the Upper East and family life. Their journey Pam Sprayregan-Weissman Mahoney, Tricia Nowalk Billy, Side. It was good to see friends has been chronicled in a blog at was seen on the dance floor Laura Sanders and Kirsten crossing many pledge classes. www.handsandfeettour.com. dancing to Paul Witte’s band! Halvorsen Vogeley. Dana Sus- I particularly enjoyed catching Sounds like a great education for Also taking funny pictures in man made it to the Friday night up with Ari Ginsburg, who I the whole family and a great way the photo booth or just hang- party and it was great to catch have not seen since graduation. to give back to the community. ing out like it was 1991 were: up with her after many years!! Though the outcome of the game As for the rest of the class, Risa Fisher, Alison Fendrick he night continued at Session 73 was not ideal, it was good to see I know the environmentalists Coyne, Larry Max, Pete Stein, and Dorrian’s with such a great Donny Most on the jumbotron appreciate you for ‘keeping it Brad Batcha, Lisa Borneman, crowd, including Kyle Baker, supporting the Mountain green’ and conserving plenty of Lisa Chajet, Andra Beddia Slim (Jim Garrett) and many, Hawks. Greg “Kegger” Saun- space and paper in the Alum- Holcomb, Denise Leonard many more. Thanks to Megan ders invited Jack Mitchell and ni Bulletin. However, I would Kellerk, David Weiner, Pete Ayer Karmen ’92 for organizing!! me to partake in a Beta post- like to be able to report on the Stein, Peter Ripp, Ross Inteli- It truly was a weekend to re- game party at an Australian bar breadth of great achievements of sano, Steve Frankel, Mindy member! And to those who could on the Upper East Side – it sure the class of ’93. I suppose I could Sovel, Kim Hausmann Athan, not make it to celebrate Lehigh, would have been nice to share a make up some good creative Andrea Wiesel Weissman, we missed you! couple laughs with MJ Forrest, nuggets, but that wouldn’t be

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responsible journalism… Please year old Bucks County farm- out of second-story windows and Jamie (Scanlon) Diperna send some updates soon. house. and roofs for fun! While this ’97 and many more. Enjoy! Rachel (Davis) Kohl, a is great for ski country, it isn’t We did our best to cheer clinical psychologist, lives in boding well for commuting to on Lehigh, but with kids we Michael B. Chicago with her husband, work and we’ve used up all of only lasted a little while into York, 215 W. Chris, and three kids, Drew (9), our snow days. Hopefully by the the third quarter. Could it have ’94 88th St. #5D, Ethan (7) and Reese (3); Trina time you are reading this bulle- been any colder on those upper New York, NY 10024. (212) 769- Buhler Foltz and Garry Foltz tin the flowers are in bloom and level bleachers? Despite the 2837 (H); michael.york live in Colts Neck, N.J., with the snow is a distant memory! weather it was such a thrill to @nyplaw.com their son Kyle (14) and daughter So this is my first bulletin see so many Lehigh fans in one Lehigh-Lafayette was definitely Camryn (12). Recently promot- since the Big Game. No, not place. It seemed as if NYC had every bit as great as I had hoped ed Colonel Andy Morgado the Super Bowl (way to go, turned into Lehigh’s campus it would be. It was great to catch is completing his second year Patriots!) but Lehigh-Lafayette for the day. As we drove into up with old friends who had trav- of a War College fellowship in at Yankee Stadium! I thought the city everywhere we turned eled to NYC for the weekend. Kansas, teaching at the School of I would see many of you and we saw someone with a Lehigh Bret Almassy threw a truly epic Advanced Military Studies. He be able to fill up bulletin upon sweatshirt or coat. It was a party. Although I didn’t get to will be leaving Kansas shortly bulletin. Unfortunately, I only fantastic day of Lehigh pride no talk to everyone I would have to take command of the 3rd really ran into the group I matter what the score was! liked, it was even nice to see the Brigade, U.S. Army Cadet Com- was with and a few others. My I did get one piece of news Facebook and Instagram posts mand headquartered in Chicago. dreams of loads of information from Gordon Meyer. Gordon from our classmates. The game? Although his son Ian has been for my bulletins were unfortu- writes, “my wife Suzy Meyer Well, really, did you really care fighting leukemia for the last nately dashed. I did happen to and I just had our first child, who was going to win? I could three years, Andy was happy to see Amy (Pastore) Harlacker very excited to welcome Philip- bore you with stories from the report that Ian is doing well and while I was trying to get some pa Ruth Meyer to the world and weekend, but I am certain that is now in remission. Through hot chocolate for my kids. I ran future Lehigh class of 2036! you all have your own that will the Make-a-Wish Foundation, into Amy again a month later Little Pippa has been receiv- make you smile for years. But my Andy and Ian attended Game 6 over Christmas break when ing warm wishes from fellow personal highlight of the week- of the World Series at Kaufmann she was up in Maine skiing at Lehigh Alum starting with my end: I was speaking to a class- Stadium—a rare occurrence for a Sunday River. She was there brother Chris Meyer ’97, Class- mate of ours who I have known lifelong Royals Fan. with her husband, Steve, and mates Ryan Adams, David since freshman year—probably Finally, Hilary Brown her two sons who if I remember Oring, Anne-Marie Crowell the first day I was on campus. I Tabish is starting a campaign to correctly are eight and 10. They Campbell, Stephen Carter have even gotten to know her “stop idiotic reckless snow- live in Fairfield, Conn., and ski Byatt ’97, Roswitha Graser, husband over the years—great boarders, which is the vast in Vermont a lot. It was great to Rosenna Mazzei ’95, Julie Egl- guy. I was telling him a funny majority of them.” She will be catch up with them. off Hoskins ’95, Claudia Miklas story (because well, I am really marching to Washington soon I spent most of the ’95, Sam Childs ’95, David Brad- funny) while he was drinking a enough. Lehigh-Lafayette day with ley Bux ’97 as well as faculty art beer. As I hit the punchline, and Again, great to see so many a bunch of friends and their and design professor Berrisford he is mid-sip, he laughs uncon- of you in November. But if my families from the Class of 1997. Boothe.” My congratulations go trollably and does a huge spit e-mail is still sitting in your We had a great lunch upstairs out to Gordon and Suzy, enjoy take which completely covers his inbox, it’s not too late to reply! at Eately in mid-town where parenthood! wife with beer. I honestly have an old friend is executive chef I also wanted to include a not laughed that hard in years. Bridget before joining the throngs on heads up so you can start chat- I e-mailed ALL of you the O’Connell, 1840 the subway to Yankee Stadium. ting with your Lehigh friends week before the game, and a ’95 Sycamore Street, Todd Goberville ’98, his wife, about our big 20th Reunion, huge number of you responded. Bethlehem, PA 18017. (610) 868- son and daughter came up from which will be coming up at the It’s going to take me at least a 6605 (H); [email protected] sunny Florida to cheer on the end of May in 2016. Start book- year to print all of the respons- Brown and White. Mark Mal- ing your vacations now, folks! It es, so bear with me…Anthony Jen (Crimmins) seed ’97 joined us from Alexan- will be a reunion that you don’t Rutch lives with his wife, Julia, Keen, 17 Windsor dria, Va., with his wife and two want to miss. Can you believe and three daughters in Macun- ’96 Drive, Foxbor- sons. Matt Stannard ’98 came it’s been 20 years since we were gie, Pa., while working at Air ough, MA 02035, 508-543-5036, from Bethany, Conn. with his walking through the UC, Rauch Products and Chemicals. Dave [email protected] wife and son and daughter and and Linderman Library?? Some King is the CFO of a large build- Happy Spring everyone! As I Joe Caloiero ’98 and John-Paul days it feels like just yesterday er/developer in the Philadelphia write this in mid-February, New Caloiero ’02, ’05G also joined to me and I can’t believe we area. He has three children, England has received more us. Joe lives in Hershey, Pa., are “grown ups” now! Let’s Shannon (17), Isabella (11) and snow in a month than ever and JP lives in Philadelphia. At relive some of those memories Anthony (9). He is currently in before. There is so much snow the game we met up with Bizzy of classes and fun. Honestly, I the process of rehabbing a 200+ that kids have taken to jumping Conte ’97, Derek Diperna ’97 don’t really remember those

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classes, but I do remember olyn Klimas, Mike Dynan and Karen (Smith) through this column. Have having loads of fun, so let’s look his wife Amanda, Jon Strauss Fischer, kms5le- someone in mind that you’d like forward to the best parts of and his wife Jennifer ’99, Dan ’99 [email protected] to hear from? Drop me an email Lehigh without any of the work! Burkey and his wife Ramona, Hello 99’ers! I don’t know about with their name—and an update I’ll see you in May 2016! George Stathopulos and his you, but I have never been so about yourself—and I’ll call Please don’t be shy and wife Holly, Joe Schwendt and happy to welcome spring! And them out in my next column. So send me any information about his wife Laura (Dombrowski) from the slow news period, it for this round, Charlie Tier and yourself, be it a new job, new Schwendt, Mike Burke and seems that many of us were Nicole (MacNeill) Kymissis baby, marriage, etc. Especially his wife Jennifer (Middleton) hibernating this winter. Luckily - are you reading this? If so, let those of you who aren’t on Burke and Erin (Speck) Gerhart for us though, two of our class- us know what you’re up to!! And Facebook, we don’t know what ’00. mates were keeping warm and feel free to include someone is going on with you, please let Andrew Reid writes that provided us with updates on you’d like to hear from as well. us know! there was a large contingent their lives—thanks!! Thank you for reading and of ATOs including himself at For the past eight years, please let me know if you have Lopa (Patel) Zie- the game: Brian McDermott, Loredana Chiodi has been any news you’d like to share. linski, Madison, Andrew Frangella and Mike working as a middle school Wishing you all the best! ’97 N.J., Lpzielinski Sferra. teacher at Aventura City of @gmail.com James Gellas writes that he Excellence School, a charter Corina Fisher, I hope everyone in the class of recently had the privilege of be- school located in Aventura, Fla., (732) 688-3671 ’97 is doing well. It was great ing a host for Lehigh Silicon Val- just north of Miami. Loredana ’00 (C); corina_fisher to see so many people from ley 2015, an immersive program teaches eighth grade language @yahoo.com our class at the 150th game. I conducted by Lehigh’s Baker In- arts and sixth grade research Greetings class of 2000! Since only wish that I had recorded stitute and led by Professor Dale / critical thinking skills. She our last column, another updates at that time! As always, Falcinelli. He met approximately further explained this means she classmate checked in with some please send in any news when 50 graduate and undergraduate proofreads and grades papers all exciting news. you have a moment. students and shared with them day, every day (when she’s not in Brandi Gilmore McFar- Congratulations to Chris- Lehigh’s influence on his life class or tutoring). Unfortunately, land wed in July 2013 and tina (Lotito) and Nicholas and career and provided tips on her busy schedule doesn’t allow life changed quickly! In May Lieberman ’07 who welcomed how they can take advantage of her to head to the beach that 2014, Brandi and her husband Cole Nicholas in February 2015. opportunities in the Valley. He is often, but living right near it is welcomed their daughter Callie. Cole joins older brothers Parker also working with a team to help the second best option! Weighing in at 8 pounds 13 and Jake and the Liebermans launch Lehigh’s “Innovators” Goddonny Normil has been ounces and measuring 21 1/2 reside in Montville, N.J. alumni affinity group, for alums living and working on and off in inches, she has bright blue eyes interested in technical inno- the Gulf Cooperation Council or and lots of hair. Talk about a Gregory Kuk- vation. He is happy to connect GCC, in Qatar, the United Arab bundle of pink perfection! The linski, gjk4@ with any members of our class Emirates, and the Kingdom of happy family currently reside in ’98 alum.lehigh.edu interested in this new affinity Saudi Arabia since 2008. He is the Lehigh Valley. It was great to see so many of you group and can be contacted at: currently back in Qatar working Please take a few moments at the Yankee Stadium for the [email protected]. in the construction / project to contact me with an update 150th playing of the Lehigh-La- On April 20, 2015, Aliza management arena for ASTAD about yourself or about a friend fayette football game. Despite Stern will be running the Boston as their project reporting man- in our class. If you haven’t Lehigh not being able to pull out Marathon, which is her first, ager. Goddonny was recently already done so, I invite and the win, kudos to the Lehigh staff for the Dana-Farber Cancer joined there by his wife, Theresa, encourage everyone to join our for a well-planned weekend. I Institute and in honor of another and his adorable children— class Facebook page by search- had the opportunity with a few Lehigh alum who is fighting daughter, Tahlia (7), and son, ing “Lehigh University Class of of our classmates to attend a cancer. Mattéo (5). As much as they miss 2000.” I look forward to hearing pre-game social with 250 of our I got an opportunity to take home, they were happy to escape from you soon! fellow Lehigh alumni at Peter a tour of Williams Hall under the arctic blast this past winter Dillon’s Pub. Thanks to Jen Gon- construction and it is moving and love the sun and warmth Sabrina McGuigan, zalez ’08 and Fred Zamparelle along quite nicely. Starting next of the desert. Goddonny has mcguigan_sabrina ’08 for organizing this event. semester, it will be home to Stu- offered, if you would like advice ’01 @yahoo.com I got to see the following dent Affairs, Modern Language on career options in the Arabian members of our class. I apologize and Literature, Religion Studies Gulf region, he can be reached at Noelia Cabrera, if I missed anyone. If so, please and Sociology & Anthropology. [email protected]. noelia.cabrera@ let me know and I will post in the Class of 1998 Facebook Page: While these two updates are ’02 gmail.com next column. At the game was: www.facebook.com/groups/ fantastic—thanks again!!—it was In October of 2014 my husband Alan Fornwalt and his son Ben, Lehigh98/ a relatively slow news period, John Ross Montford and I Eric Kolasa, Heather (Krey) My Lehigh (Class of 1998): so I thought it might be fun to welcomed a wonderful baby boy Kolasa, Brian Fronapfel, Car- www.mylehigh.lehigh.edu ask specific people for updates named John Dylan Montford.

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He is the fifth John Montford in with Julia Koeppel on August 31, Dana Ryan and her fiancé, maybe unaware), there is a the family and has brought us so 2013 in Setauket, N.Y. in a beau- Brian Kelly, both residents of pretty long lag time between much joy already. It has been a tiful ceremony on a Long Island San Francisco, were engaged the actual writing of the Class magical adventure ever since!! bay. Taylor Christman, Matt over the December holidays and Notes column, and when that I absolutely love this quote and Bell, and Mark Shannon served celebrated a beautiful June wed- column actually sees the light had to share it with you: “Making as groomsmen. Several 2004 ding on Nantucket. Sarah Silve- of day, and the eyes of the Class the decision to have a child—it classmates and Lehigh Alumnae rio, who is living and working in of 2009. For example, its cur- is momentous. It is to decide were also in attendance. Bryn New York City, shared news of rently mid-February, snow day, forever to have your heart go and Julia enjoyed a honeymoon her engagement to Nick Camp- and, with the added bonus of walking around outside your traveling the coast of Spain. He is bell. Fellow classmate, Michaela the wind chill, about 5 degrees body. ”—Elizabeth Stone a DevOps manager at Cablevi- Pawlewicz, also said, “Yes,” to a outside. It’s ironic, considering Now keep the good news sion Systems and the two reside proposal from her fiancé. We are many of you will be reading coming Class of ’02!! in North Babylon, N.Y. certainly all sending warm wish- this column sometime in early Remember friends, no note es and a lifetime of happiness to summer, which allows me to Safiya (Jafari) is too little or too late. I look these happy couples! sit here and daydream about Simmons, 1841 forward to hearing from more of Calvin John Smiley sunshine and warm weather, ’03 Bruce Pl. SE, you in the very near future and (graduate degree ’09) received and hopefully some quality Washington, D.C. 20020. safiya_ hopefully, by then, spring will his Ph.D. in Sociology from the time with friends and family on [email protected] have sprung! Graduate Center of the City Uni- some beach, somewhere, some- versity of New York along with time very soon. Needless to say, Allison Mohler, Melissa a certificate in Africana Studies. writing the column is often my 8 North Maple (Alexander) Dr. Smiley defended his disser- own personal version of time ’04 Street, East ’05 Dallmeyer, 4217 tation, Existing But Not Living: travel, and I hope you enjoy the Hampton, CT 06424. bisetoile Fremont Ave. N. Apt. 4, Seattle, Neo-Civil Death and the Carceral ride. Okay, now let us move on @aol.com WA 98103. melissa.dallmeyer@ State, for which he conducted to the important information, I had a tweet make it onto the gmail.com research at a community-based the class updates. Congrats to Yankee Stadium jumbotron reentry organization in Newark, Adam Kasper, who graduat- during the Lehigh-Lafayette Katie Murray, N. J. He plans to continue his ed with his MD from Temple game, but that was my only katiemurray2006 research in the United States University in 2013, and is now a victory that day. At the moment ’06 @gmail.com and abroad, looking at how other second year pediatrics resident I’m writing from the island in democratic nations deal with at Baystate Medical Center my kitchen wishing I was on an Krista Kobeski, prisoner reentry. Dr. Smiley will in Massachusetts! Very cool island as the third winter storm 2336 California begin a tenure-track assistant update from Garrett Smith and plows its way into Connecticut. ’07 Street, Apt. 3, professor position at Montclair Lauren Anderson-Smith. I long for the green of my yard, a Mountain View, CA 94040. 650- State University, N. J., in the They are both currently living place where my poor puppy can 796-2021; [email protected] justice studies department. Con- in southern Italy for a year relieve himself, and the June Mark Shumski and Kara gratulations on these incredible while Garrett is assigned days I’ll be making up as a high Shirley were married on June achievements! there as a trainer through school teacher in New England. 14, 2014. Classmates Ross Feld- Please be sure to send any his job with Boeing. Lauren But for today I have a cup of tea man and Steve Rosinski were news—career milestones, life is working remotely to help and the news of our classmates groomsmen in the wedding. events, new cities, new schools, start a nonprofit in the D.C. to keep me warm. Both Mark and Kara are optom- adventures—to KaitlynNoon@ area promoting the practice Steve Giordano is current- etrists in the Pittsburgh area gmail.com. Our Class of 2008 of forest gardening to address ly living in warm and sunny residing in Oakmont, Pa. network cannot thrive without food justice and climate change Orange County, Calif. working you! issues. They’re both trying as a business analytics manager Katie Noon, hard to pick up the language for DIRECTV. He and his wife KaitlynNoon@ Bobby Buckheit, and see as much of the country have a daughter, Emily, turning ’08 gmail.com LehighClass2009 as possible. Can’t wait to hear 3 in March, and a son, Matthew Care to admit it or not, us ’08 ’09 @gmail.com how your year in Italy goes! In born November 4th. In January grads have been out of college First off, thanks to everyone other news, Amanda Daddona he appeared as a contestant longer than we were in it! The who sent me information for recently finished her master’s on the new game show, Sports good news however, is that we the writing of this column. The in American studies at Trinity Jeopardy! have not slowed down one bit! more information I get from College! In addition to continu- Jackie Gardocki Cabell Life milestones and various ca- ya’ll, the less I actually have to ing at his postdoctoral fellow- and her husband Anthony reer and academic achievements write…so it’s a win-win for ev- ship research at the National welcomed baby girl Evangeline continue to be the norm for this eryone, more news about 2009 Institutes of Health, Bobby Jaela Cabell into the world on talented group of individuals. and less work for me, so thank Buckheit (shameless plug, I September 11, 2013. In proper Lehigh fashion, let us you very much. So here we go. know) got an adjunct professor Bryn Chung tied the knot toast these moments! As many of you are aware (or position at Mount St. Mary’s

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University in the fall of 2014. Nicholas J. have taken us in the last 5 Editor’s note: To Kyle Dunleavy is still working Anderson, Nick years, I hope to see everyone at share your news or at Robert Half as a recruiter, ’10 Anderson@alum. reunion! ’12 if you would be in- specializing in accounting and lehigh.edu Keep it real. -Nick terested in becoming your class’s finance opportunities, but has Five years have passed since our correspondent, reaching out to recently switched coasts and class graduated from the world’s Sri Rao, classmates and writing a column moved from New Jersey to San greatest institute of higher sridevi211@gmail. three times a year, please contact Francisco. Special congratu- education. Our reunion is going ’11 com Diana Skowronski at 610-758- lations to Sean Glendening, to be a blast—I’m very excited to Hello, Class of 2011! Can you 3675 or [email protected]. who graduated this year from see everyone. Let’s check in with believe that next year will be our Albany Law School magna a few of our classmates at the 5-year reunion! I cannot believe Editor’s note: To cum laude, was admitted to 5-year mark: how fast time is flying. Our class share your news or the New York bar, and ap- Let’s start with the wed- has been busy with graduate ’13 if you would be in- pointed by Governor Andrew ding bells! A couple of 2010ers, school, new jobs, growing terested in becoming your class’s Cuomo as an attorney in the Kathryn Murphy and Charlie families, and basically changing correspondent, reaching out to Excelsior Fellowship program. Anderson, were married back the world. classmates and writing a column Zoe Zachariades and Boris in September 2014. Andrew Stephen Jabaut signed a three times a year, please contact Kaidanov, both class of 2009, Horgan was recently married, 2-year fit modeling contract Diana Skowronski at 610-758- welcomed a son, Athen Steller he is now a lieutenant in the with Bicoastal, an LA- and NYC- 3675 or [email protected]. Kaidariades, on Jan. 27th, Marine Corps, he and his wife, based company and just walked 2015. Athen was 20 inches and Christine, recently moved to for New York Fashion Week in a Editor’s note: To weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces, North Carolina. Kate Poulillo is runway show at the Gansevoort share your news or and the family is doing very now engaged to Alexander Ziets Park hotel in the Flat Iron ’14 if you would be in- well (albeit on little sleep)! I ’11, and Meghan Tammaro was district. He also got the Coast terested in becoming your class’s always want to save some space recently engaged to Steven Levi- Guard’s Master, 100 Ton License correspondent, reaching out to in the column to celebrate class tus ’09. Finally, Andrew Thome and is doing some captaining of classmates and writing a column of 2009 love. Very heartfelt and Stephanie Zimmerman boats on the side. three times a year, please contact congratulations to the local were engaged in December Avie Zhao graduated from Diana Skowronski at 610-758- Baltimore couple (well, local to and will be getting married in American University Washing- 3675 or [email protected]. me), Brian Dillon and Jessica November. They met freshman ton College of Law in May 2014 Woods, who were recently en- year in Lower Cents. and became a licensed attorney Rachel Mayer, gaged! A heartfelt congratula- Some of our classmates have in the State of New York in [email protected] tions to Christina Diggs ’07 and new jobs: Avi Lessner moved January 2015. ’15 Chelsea Crisafulli, who were to Israel where he is working as Chris Cassidy moved to As I write my third and final married on September 20th, a paratrooper in the IDF. Kay Houston, Texas. Currently in column of my undergraduate 2014, in Groton, N.Y., but by the Kutner started a new job with the full time MBA program at college career, I must admit that time this column prints they Amazon working in finance— the University of Houston with I am beginning to feel sentimen- will likely almost be celebrating that’s prime! Rich Paul is now a focus in corporate and real tal. Our acceptance letters to Le- their one-year anniversary. the director of development and estate finance, he is expected to high granted us four years at this Same story goes for Ryan marketing in Orlando, Fla. Alex graduate in May 2016. institution. Four years to form Ingalls and Ted Smith ’08 who Lehmann got a job as a finite Alexander H. Ziets got en- impenetrable bonds with people got married in July of 2014. element analysis engineer at Ap- gaged to Katherine Poulillo ’10 we had just met. Four years not Ted played football for Lehigh ple, and he and fiancéeMorgan in August 2014. Jarrett Haklits only to expand our minds in the and Ryan was a member of the Molnar moved to California. got married on April 25, 2015. classroom, but to also have deep women’s basketball team. So Some of our classmates Jaclyn (McGowan) Es- late night conversations outside congratulations on your nup- have pursued further degrees: posito was a business infor- the classroom. Four years to tials, and early congratulations Andrew Spiro finished his mation systems major. She got attempt to mature while still act- on your one year anniversary MBA and will be working as a married to Michael Esposito ’12 ing like fools, checking off acts to both happy couples! Special consultant with Gartner in NYC. on October 4, 2014. They met at from our bucket lists that would congratulations to Andrew Victoria Hessler finished her Lehigh sophomore year and got be inappropriate for college Hermalyn ’10 and Sarah Fudin master’s degree in accounting engaged last November 2013 at graduates to perform. Four years who were engaged in November and info systems from UMUC. Lehigh Laf! They love Lehigh to learn about ourselves, decide of 2014. Also, Henry Hecht and Brando “The Mando” Feil will and never would have found on what type of person we want Sara Flesch were married on be moving to D.C. in August to each other if it didn’t exist! to be, and determine what our Oct. 3, 2014, in Bay Head, N. J. start his MBA at Georgetown— I love hearing about all the futures will bring. While all of As always, if you have news we’ll hang out, bro. Max Ducha- wonderful things you are all us may not have it figured it out, or want to reconnect, feel free rme is returning from Lithuania doing. Please feel free to email many have chosen our paths for to email at LehighClass2009@ for an MBA at Wharton. me at [email protected] at the time being, journeying into gmail.com! Wherever our paths might any time with your updates! the working world in the hopes

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of becoming “real people.” very diverse and predominantly strate their color consciousness. because it is the country with Over the next few months, minority. In contrast, she says She says, “Being black in the Ca- the most slave castles in Africa. Marty Melochick, Kyle Lum, that at Lehigh she is usually the ribbean is different than being Thousands of people of African Kelsey Yevak, and Jessica only woman in her classes, let black in the African continent, descent travel there every year, Scott will be starting careers in alone the only black woman. which is different than being she says. IBM’s Consulting by Degrees “Obviously, I’ve known black as an African-American.” “It’s kind of like their Program. Nearby in Philadel- my whole life that I’m black, With the help of her adviser, Mecca, going home and seeing phia, Maggie Boyle will be I’ve never had a problem with Kwame Essien, assistant pro- those sites of memory, getting working for Vanguard and Katie it—but it wasn’t until I got to fessor of history and Africana an opportunity to feel closure Walters for Cigna HealthSpring, college that I had to really start studies, she began the first about a history that we don’t Inc. After moving to the Big asking myself what does that part of her research during the know much about,” she says. Apple, Maddi McLeod will mean?” she says. summer of 2014. She received She plans on interviewing be working for Lord & Taylor, “I learned that, even though a grant to conduct research returnees, who are people of Kristen Goodman and Clare it might have been uncom- about skin bleaching in Accra, African descent from places McDowell for JP Morgan, fortable that I didn’t see many Ghana. While there, she inter- like the U.S., Britain, and the Marissa Rozensweig for people who looked like me, that viewed representatives from 20 Caribbean who decided to move Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Cath- I should embrace it and learn cosmetic companies to see why to Ghana. She says, “I really erine O’Grady for KPMG, and more about myself.” She adds people in Ghana skin bleach. need to explore, what does that Christina Bauer, Christopher that she learned to be “unapolo- She said that it’s a crucial issue, mean, for grief to be a part of Steele, and Jasmine Ameerally getically a black female.” because Ghana is a poor country your everyday life?” for Ernst & Young. DeVaughn This meant many things and many women have a very Roberts has signed on to work for Lyasha. Her goal is to study limited income, yet they spend Samantha for Air Products and Rebec- law once she graduates from most of it on skin bleaching. Tomaszewski, ca Youssef will be working Lehigh, so she decided to focus After these interviews, her ’17 [email protected] for Wells Fargo. In the realm her undergraduate studies interest in color consciousness Hi there! I’m excited once again of higher education, Joanna on history. She expanded her grew, making her ask further to be writing about the marvel- Warren will be pursuing her studies to include a triple major questions like, “Where did this ous class of 2017. Sophomore Ph.D. in molecular biology, Jess in history, Africana studies and color consciousness begin, how year has been very exciting for Moore will be attending medical English. do we end it?” She decided to us as we are no longer the new school, Erin Pamukcu will be “I learned that I could still dedicate her senior thesis to class on campus. attending law school, and Laura do what I love, which is history, answering those questions. Even though I’m writing Casale plans on staying at and I could focus on the type of This summer, she will this in early spring, many of the Lehigh to earn a master’s degree history that I needed to know continue her research while class officers in the sophomore in English. for myself or about myself,” she participating in Lehigh’s United class already have their plans As we all diverge on our own said. “I felt like me declaring my States Indonesia Partnership for the summer decided. paths, we must never forget what Africana studies major was me Program, where she will spend Our president, Frederick brought us together—Lehigh. being unapologetically black.” two weeks studying religious Coleman, will be traveling I challenge the Class of 2015 to Lyasha is also the president pluralism in Java, Indonesia. to Ghana for an independent stay connected, to stay involved, of the Black Student Union, “One of the cool things about study research opportunity and to constantly honor our in- which she says feels like a Lehigh is that it’s so flexible,” with Prof. Kwame Essien. He’ll stitution. Sure, we all started our family. The BSU serves as a she says. The program director be spending four weeks re- adult lives here in Bethlehem, support system, she says, as well knew about her research and searching telecommunications Pa., but now after graduating as to spread awareness. Last arranged for her to also conduct and tech device behavioral from Lehigh, the possibilities are semester, she helped organize independent research by in- usage of the Ghanaian people. endless. Take risks, explore the Black Lives Matter, “a memorial terviewing Indonesian women He will speak to Ghanaian world, and keep me in the loop. in honor of Michael Brown and about skin bleaching. locals and learn how much of I cannot wait to spread the word others across the country that In addition, she will an impact things like mobile about the first amazing adven- have faced the same fate. be returning to Ghana this devices and the Internet have tures you have in your “Life after “We wanted to bring life summer for the second part on daily lives. Lehigh.” back into some of those young of her project, called “Sites of Our vice president of unity, men who were brutally killed,” Historical Memory and Tour- Caitlyn Wilson ’16, will be Kelsey Leck, she says. “That was probably ism in Afro-Diasporic Ghana.” participating in a Lehigh Moun- [email protected] one of the most important James Peterson, director of the taintop project. She’ll be doing ’16 things I’ve ever done.” Africana studies program, is her research with Prof. Murray Lyasha Bishop, got the idea Some of her other import- adviser for this portion of her Itzkowitz. The project is titled for her current research while ant work includes The Color research. Color consciousness “Developing an Experimental transitioning into her first year Consciousness Project, which is is also about historical sites Approach for the Conservation at Lehigh. The Reading, Pa., her research about how people of memory, Lyasha says. The of Highly Endangered Desert native says her hometown is in different regions demon- reason she picked Ghana is Pupfish.”

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Our vice president of mar- Copti ’15. The band has played spore formation. Their article Zheng Han, a Ph.D. candi- keting, Cory Spranger ’16, will many shows at Lehigh and in PLOS Computational Biology date in the department of in- - be interning in Hong Kong for recently traveled to six colleges in October 2014 (DOI: 10.1371/ dustrial and systems engineer six weeks through the Iacocca on their Spring Break tour. journal.pcbi.1003912) describes ing, won the American Express Internship Program in the com- They’ve also held a Kickstarter physical principles that may be ML challenge at the annual mercial development sector of campaign that was fully funded key ingredients of successful Machine Learning Symposium Hutchinson Port Holdings. He in order to finish recording engulfment across all kingdoms at the New York Academy of will be working on independent songs in a professional studio. of life. Sciences and is planning to projects and business strategy “I love working with a group Sarabeth Brockley, who graduate in 2016. analysis. of motivated, intelligent and received an M.A. in environ- Rob Thodal, a Ph.D. candi- Our vice president of giving, talented guys to create music mental policy design this date in mechanical engineering, William Sullebarger, will out of nothing and then to take spring, is working at United has been instrumental in the be interning for Trendlines, a that music and share it with our Nations headquarters in New operation of the Numerette technology startup in Tel Aviv, fans and friends. It takes a lot York in the Water, Energy high-speed boat that was from June to August. He will be of work, motivation and vision and Development Branch of designed and built at Lehigh doing software development. to move a band along at this the Division for Sustainable and is planning to graduate this I, our class correspondent, rate, especially when it is done Development. Her interests are summer. am still in the interview process on our own. But every second environmental policy, inter- Zümbül Atan, who earned for internships. As a journalism of that work is worth the music national environmental law, a Ph.D. in industrial and sys- major I’ve applied and been ac- that we create, the energy of climate change, social justice tems engineering in 2010, is an cepted to a few newspapers. I’m performance we get to feel, and photojournalism. Recent- assistant professor of industrial still waiting to hear back from a the priceless moments we get ly, she served as a civil society engineering and innovation few more and will hopefully be to spend as a band and the observer to the UN Frame- sciences at the Technical Uni- making my decision soon. connection we gain to our fans,” work Conventions on Climate versity of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The plans of the five of us Eckersley said. Change (UNFCCC) in Peru the Netherlands. She received are just a taste of what the class So the class of 2017 is (COP20), Warsaw (COP19) TU/e’s education award for of 2017 is able to accomplish. keeping busy both academi- and Copenhagen (COP15), and best master teacher of 2014. We’ll be doing so many things, cally and socially. It’s a little reported for the Adopt a Nego- The award recipient is chosen all over the globe. I know many scary to think that we will be tiator platform. Her previous by students. Zümbül’s research of my peers are going to be halfway through these four experience as a Moravian Col- and teaching focus on mathe- abroad thanks to programs like amazing years at the end of this lege graduate and as Returned matical models for supply chain the Iacocca Internships. semester. But we’re making the Peace Corps Volunteer (Peru management and inventory Gladys Castellon, member most of it! 2011-2013) encouraged her to optimization. of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority work toward environmental Matt Kampner ’07 M.S. Inc, is working on coordinat- Megan Olivola, policies rooted firmly in sound (mechanical engineering) is ing a Greek Seasons event at mmo218@lehigh. science and community. the lead engineer for SpaceShip Lehigh. It is an event MSU does edu 2, The Spaceship Company ’18 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS (Virgin Galactic). Matt has in different chapters around the country. Each Greek organiza- GRADUATE SCHOOL AND ECONOMICS design authority and approves tion will be in the fashion show, Please submit your news to Greg Heller-Labelle ’10G is all systems and structures for representing the four seasons, Diana Skowronski at dls213@ co-founder and CEO of The SS2, the first Space Liner that using their organization’s lehigh.edu. Colony Meadery (Lehigh Val- will transport tourists to space. colors. ley’s first meadery) in Allen- Matt manages all technical as- “I think that it has the COLLEGE OF ARTS town, Pa. He earned his MBA pects of the vehicle. He earned potential to really bring to- AND SCIENCES with the Corporate Entrepre- his B.S. in materials science gether all the councils since it’s Nikola Ojkic, who received neurship concentration. and engineering from Lehigh something fun that we’d all be his Ph.D. in physics in 2012 in 2005. doing together. As for the entire working with Prof. Dimitrios COLLEGE OF As a result of the Healthcare Lehigh community I think it Vavylonis, continued his re- ENGINEERING Systems Engineering program, would be fun to watch and be a search in theoretical biophysics Ehsan Ghazanfari, who Michael Kimball ’13 made part of the mini games,” Castel- as a postdoctoral researcher received a Ph.D. in civil and a career shift from informa- lon said. at Imperial College under the environmental engineering in tion technology to systems Another fun thing to sweep guidance of Dr. Robert Endres. 2013, is now assistant professor engineering in the healthcare the Lehigh campus is the band They collaborated with an at the University of Vermont. industry. By blending past - Steel City Sunrise. Sophomore experimental group at the Yi Dong, who received a experience with the unique cur drummer Evan Eckersley is University of California at San Ph.D. in civil and environmen- riculum, Michael has recently involved along with Mikale Diego to develop a model for tal engineering in 2013, is now taken a new position as director D’Andrea ’15, Jacob Newman forespore engulfment by the a postdoctoral fellow at the of management engineering ’14, John Pehnke ’16 and James mother cell during bacterial Colorado School of Mines. at St. Luke’s University Health

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Network in the Lehigh Valley. tions as a doctoral candidate in- Office of Naval Research and commercial airplane programs This is a new department in the cluded six peer-reviewed jour- the Pennsylvania Infrastruc- and active in structural design, organization that he is building nal papers, a book chapter and ture Technology Alliance. His research and teaching. to transform the way health- several papers in conference research was published in After completing his Ph.D. care is delivered. proceedings. She earned a P.C. journal articles, conference in structural engineering in Yu Hin Hau (Billy), who Rossin Doctoral Fellowship and proceedings and book chapters. 2013, Duygu Saydam joined received an M.S. in mechan- received a scholarship to attend He was awarded the prestigious a leading consulting company ical engineering this spring, the International Confer- 2014 J. James Croes Medal in Pittsburgh, specializing in won the NASA Distinguished ence on Structural Safety and from the American Society energy structures. He evaluates Performance Award in 2014 Reliability. Benjin completed of Civil Engineers for a paper the safety of critical structures for his contributions at Glenn her B.S. at her hometown uni- published in 2013 in the Jour- such as nuclear power plants Research Center. Billy was versity in China with the first nal of Structural Engineering. during natural hazards includ- involved in development of the rank in graduation. She is now Soliman is now a postdoctoral ing earthquakes and tornadoes. next-gen extravehicular activi- employed at a U.S. company in research associate in the civil ty spacesuit and an experimen- Pittsburgh, where she analyzes and environmental engineering tal high power CubeSat project. the safety of critical structures department In addition, he participated in such as nuclear power plants. Alberto Deco earned his designing trajectories for a hy- Mohamed Soliman ’15 Ph.D. in structural engineer- pothetical mission to study sub- recently received his Ph.D. in ing in 2013. After working surface Martian soil through structural engineering while as a postdoctoral researcher kinetic penetrators. conducting research funded by at Lehigh, he joined Boeing Benjin Zhu received her the National Science Foun- Co. in Long Beach, Calif., as a Ph.D. in structural engineering dation, the Federal Highway structural analysis engineer. in 2015. Her numerous publica- Administration, NASA, the Deco is involved with multiple

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tors. He served in LUAA Alumni the Lehigh tennis team, and was Admissions Outreach. a brother of Sigma Phi fraternity. Mr. William H. Barnard ’42, His father, Hugh G. Van Der Veer Middlebury, Vt., Feb. 22, 2015. ’03, his brother, Hugh G. Van Mr. Barnard held membership in Der Veer Jr. ’40, and his child, the Mustard and Cheese Society Lindsley D. Van Der Veer Jr. ’72, and the Lehigh debate club, and graduated from Lehigh. was a brother of Delta Tau Delta Mr. Kurt H. Weber ’42, IN REMEMBRANCE fraternity. He worked as an en- Hendersonville, N.C., Jan. 23, gineer for Bendix Aviation Corp. 2015. Mr. Weber was a brother of The alumni and university communities extend their sympathy and Grumman Aircraft Corp. Mr. Psi Upsilon fraternity. He worked Barnard’s brother, Al F. Barnard for the physics department of to the families of the alumni listed. Obituary sources include ’32, graduated from Lehigh. Muhlenberg University, Amherst relatives, alumni, and friends. Send details to Diana Skowrons- Mr. Frank H. Rich Sr. ’42, College and the University of ki, Alumni Association, Lehigh University, 27 Memorial Drive Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2015. Pennsylvania, and worked as West, Bethlehem, PA 18015; (610) 758-3675; [email protected]. Mr. Rich held membership in Pi general manager of the lighting The following were reported to us as of February 28, 2015: Lambda Phi honor society and group for General Electric. the Brown and White staff, and Mr. Robert R. Young ’42, He won the Alumni Award, held was a brother of Kappa Alpha Raleigh, N.C., May 1, 2012. 1930s membership in the Lehigh Wres- fraternity. His son, Ned S. Rich Mr. John F. Conforte ’42, Mr. Frederick S. Townsend tling Club, and served as LUAA ’85, is a Lehigh alumnus. Canadian Lakes, Mich., Nov. 29, ’33, Hollis, N.H., Nov. 11, 2014. class president, LUAA class Mr. Henry A. Seebald ’42, 2014. Mr. Conforte played for Mr. Townsend worked as a teller secretary, LUAA class treasurer, Wyomissing, Pa., Oct. 19, 2014. the Lehigh baseball and outdoor for New Haven Savings Bank. and LUAA class correspondent. Mr. Seebald played for the track teams and was a brother He held membership in the Asa His son, Douglas G. Paul ’83, is a Lehigh football and rifle teams. of Sigma Nu and Pi Kappa Alpha Packer Society. His granddaugh- Lehigh alumnus. He served as a captain in the fraternities. He served in the U.S. ter, Carolyn S. Shields ’90, and his Mr. Louis T. Girdler Jr. ’41, U.S. Army during World War Marine Corps during World War son, Frederick S. Townsend Jr. Mobile, Ala., Dec. 16, 2014. Mr. II. He worked for Remington II. He worked for the Interna- ’58, are Lehigh alumni. Girdler served in the U.S. Navy Rand, Teledyne Isotopes, and tional Dairy Company of Cali- Col. Thomas V. Murto Jr. during World War II. He worked as a computer programmer for fornia, General Motors, and as a ’39, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 23, as president for Standard Auto- Beneficial Corp. He received the substitute teacher for Big Rapids 2015. Col. Murto held member- motive Parts Co. Alumni Award, served as LUAA middle school, Lakeview adult ship in Phi Beta Kappa honor Mr. J. Dukes Wooters Jr. class correspondent, LUAA class education classes, and several society and was a brother of ’41, New Canaan, Conn., Jan. 21, Reunion chair, and LUAA class high schools. His son, Jeffery M. Theta Xi fraternity. He served in 2015. Mr. Wooters held mem- secretary, and served on the Conforte ’71, is a Lehigh alumnus. the U.S. Marine Corps as a marine bership in Omicron Delta Kappa LUAA class Reunion committee, Mr. George S. Hartman ’43, aviator during World War II and honor society, Delta Tau Delta LUAA general Reunion commit- ’48G, Bridgewater, Va., Jan. 25, the Korean War. He worked for honor society, the Mustard and tee, and the 50th Reunion fund 2015. Mr. Hartman held mem- Deering Milliken as department Cheese Society, the Lehigh out- committee. His brothers, John bership in Tau Beta Pi honor coordinator of non-computer door track team, and the Lehigh W. Seebald ’53 and F.W. Seebald society. He served in the U.S. parts, for the state of Texas in the debate club, and was a brother of ’50, are Lehigh alumni. military during World War II. He department of human resourc- Sigma Chi fraternity. He served Mr. Louis E. Sharpe ’42, worked as a chemical engineer es, and for Scientific Methods. in the U.S. Army during World Nashua, N.H., Jan. 20, 2015. Mr. and director of health safety and He held membership in the War II. He worked as director Sharpe held membership in Tau environmental engineering for Asa Packer Society and Tower of marketing at Reader’s Digest, Beta Pi honor society and the the Electric Storage Battery Co. societies. chairman and chief executive Lehigh concert and marching and EXIDE and worked as a pri- officer of Cotton Inc., managing bands, and was a brother of vate consultant in the battery and 1940s director at Galen Associates, Alpha Tau Omega. He worked for health and environmental fields. Mr. Douglas C. Paul ’40, and president of Eye Surgery Kollsman Instrument and Sperry His brother, Ray H. Hartman ’50, Hackettstown, N.J., Feb. 16, 2015. Fund Inc. He served as a Lehigh Gyroscope. He was a member of graduated from Lehigh. Mr. Paul played for Lehigh’s ice Fund agent and a member of the the LUAA alumni band. Mr. John M. Stockbridge hockey, lacrosse and wrestling Reunion calling committee. Mr. Eugene R. Springer ’43, Chillicothe, Ohio, Dec. 12, teams, and held membership in Mr. Robert M. Baker ’42, ’42, Palos Verdes, Calif., Jan. 20, 2014. Mr. Stockbridge played for Phi Gamma Delta honor society Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 15, 2014. 2015. Mr. Springer worked as an the Lehigh wrestling and lacrosse and Army ROTC. He served as a Mr. Baker was a brother of Alpha engineer for North American teams and was a brother of Chi first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Tau Omega fraternity. He served Rockwell. Psi. He worked as a sales engineer during World War II. He worked as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Mr. Lindsley D. Van Der for General Electric and Rexnord for Bethlehem Steel Co. before during World War II. He worked Veer ’42, Verona, Pa., April 27, and co-founded Central Center working for H.M. Paul and Son. as an accountant for General Mo- 2014. Mr. Van Der Veer played for Hardware Store.

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Dr. William C. Walker ’43, ’44G, ’46G, Stone Mountain, “I’m not going to leave Ga., Oct. 28, 2014. Dr. Walker held membership in Tau Beta Pi honor society, played for the the classroom” Lehigh outdoor track and cross country teams, and was a brother of Chi Psi fraternity. He worked as the associate director of the National Printing Ink Research Institute, as research assistant professor for Lehigh, and for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. His brother, Frederick W. Walker ’36, graduated from Lehigh. Mr. Edwin P. Marx ’44, Houston, Texas, Feb. 7, 2015. Mr. Marx served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Mr. Robert C. Ottens ’44, Westminster, Calif., Dec. 23, 2014. Mr. Ottens was a brother of Sigma Nu fraternity. He worked for Philco and Sperry COURTESY OF VIRGINIA TECH Gyroscope, and for McDonnell Douglas and Northrop Corp. as a radar designer. Mr. Donald R. Diggs ’45, Hockessin, Del., Dec. 26, 2014. Mr. Diggs participated in the Lehigh debate club and was a brother of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He worked for DuPont Co. He served as a class com- Paul Ernest Torgersen ’53, former pres- gineering moved from the bottom 10 percent mittee member and on the 50th ident of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the top 10 percent in national rankings for Reunion fund committee. He and State University, died on March 29. He research. As president, Torgersen oversaw a held membership in the Tower was 83 years old. record $337 million fundraising campaign and Asa Packer societies. A New Jersey native, Torgersen attended and the near doubling of the university’s en- Mr. Edwin F. Hussa Jr. ’45, Lehigh on a tennis scholarship. He earned dowment. U.S. News & World Report ranked Jersey City, N.J., Oct. 20, 2014. a B.S. in industrial engineering and an M.S. Virginia Tech’s engineering and business Mr. Hussa was a brother of Theta and Ph.D. at Ohio State University. He colleges among the top 50 in the nation. Xi fraternity. He served as a lieu- served on the faculty of Oklahoma State Uni- Torgersen was elected to the National tenant in the U.S. Army during versity from 1959 to 1966 and spent the rest Academy of Engineering in 1986. He re- World War II. He worked as an of his life at Virginia Tech, serving as head ceived the Virginia Engineering Educator engineer for General Electric. of the department of industrial engineering of the Year Award in 1992. He served on the Mr. C. Townsend Wilson and operations research, dean of the College Virginia Governor’s Task Force on Science III ’45, Williamsville, Del., Jan. of Engineering, president of the Corporate and Technology, was appointed to the Na- 1, 2015. Mr. Wilson played for Research Center, and president from 1994 tional Research Council and authored or co- the Lehigh soccer team and was to 2000. authored five books. a brother of Sigma Phi frater- Torgersen taught at least one class each A building and a bridge on Virginia Tech’s nity. He served in the U.S. Navy semester throughout his tenure at Virgin- campus, a student scholarship, and an annu- during World War II. He owned ia Tech. In an interview with WDBJ-TV in al award to the football player who best ex- and operated Clayton’s Toys and 2014, he described his response when he was emplifies commitment, hard work and effort Gifts. His daughter, Ann W. Car- asked to serve as president: “I made a con- bear Torgersen’s name. roll ’86, is a Lehigh alumna. dition: I’ll become an administrator, but I’m Lehigh awarded Torgersen an honorary Mr. Joseph J. Ryan ’46, not going to leave the classroom.” He taught Doctor of Engineering in 1997. In 2010, the in- Viera, Fla., Dec. 9, 2014. Mr. his final class at Virginia Tech in spring 2014. dustrial and systems engineering department Ryan served as a sergeant in the During Torgersen’s tenure as dean, from awarded him its Distinguished Alumni Award U.S. military during World War 1970 to 1990, Virginia Tech’s College of En- in Academia.—Kurt Pfitzer

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II. He owned and operated Ryan Whitten ’75, and his granddaugh- Administration hospitals. tion for Libby Owens Ford. Studio and worked as a staff ter, Susan E. Whitten ’06, are Mr. Robert L. Slater ’48, Dr. Harris Lavine ’49, San photographer for Lehigh’s sports Lehigh alumni. Nov. 24, 2014. Mr. Slater served Pablo, Calif., April 28, 2013. Mr. programs. Mr. William L. D’Olier ’48, in the U.S. Navy. He worked as an Lavine was a brother of Pi Lamb- Mr. Robert L. Clifford ’47, Bakersfield, Calif., Dec. 3, 2014. industrial engineer, general man- da Phi fraternity. He served in the Chester, N.J., Dec. 2, 2014. Mr. Mr. D’Olier served in the U.S. ager, and executive vice president U.S. Navy. He worked as a private Clifford was a brother of Delta Marine Corps. He worked as a for Fairchild Industries Industri- practice physician. Upsilon and Alpha Chi Rho fra- geologist. al Products Division. Dr. Kenneth P. McCarty ’49, ternities. He worked as a state Mr. Theodore R. Hodges Jr. Mr. Milton Allen ’49, Coates- ’51G, East Berne, N.Y., April 20, supreme court associate justice ’48, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., ville, Pa., Jan. 19, 2015. Mr. Allen 2014. Dr. McCarty was a brother and as a commissioner for insti- July 5, 2014. Mr. Hodges played served in the U.S. Army during of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. tutions and agencies for the state for the Lehigh baseball and World War II. He worked as He worked for Hercules Inc. as a of Pennsylvania. tennis teams and was a brother of the eastern regional operations resident scientist. Dr. George J. D’Angelo ’47, Pi Kappa Alpha and Psi Upsilon manager for Luria Brothers Inc. Mr. William M. McCue Jr. North Andover, Mass., Nov. 23, fraternities. He worked for Great He held membership in the Asa ’49, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Jan. 2014. Dr. D’Angelo was a brother Lakes Gas Transmission Co. Packer Society. 11, 2015. Mr. McCue served in of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and Mr. Charles H. Messerve Mr. Harvey E. Anderson ’49, the U.S. Army Air Corps during played for the Lehigh wrestling ’48, Sun City West, Ariz., Nov. Bradenton, Fla., Feb. 10, 2015. Mr. World War II. He worked for team. He served in the U.S. Navy 18, 2014. Mr. Messerve was a Anderson was a brother of Sigma SIFCO industries. during World War II. He worked brother of Chi Phi and Delta Phi Chi fraternity. He worked as the Mr. Lynn W. McQuade ’49, as a thoracic and cardiovascular fraternities. He served in the president of Rochester Coca Cola Ardmore, Pa., Nov. 20, 2014. Mr. surgeon. He received the Alumni U.S. Navy. He worked in the oil Bottling Corp. McQuade was a brother of Theta Award, served as the Planned industry. He served as the LUAA Mr. Kenneth L. Coghlan Xi and Theta Chi fraternities. He Giving Class Chairman, served club president. ’49, Manchester, N.J., Dec. 18, served in the U.S. Army during on the National Leadership Com- Mr. William B. Poland Jr. 2014. Mr. Coghlan was a brother World War II and the Korean mittee, and held membership in ’48, Towson, Md., Jan. 25, 2015. of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He War. His son, James J. McQuade the Tower Society. Mr. Poland held membership in worked as the director of busi- ’84, is a Lehigh alumnus. Mr. Dante DeBerardinis ’47, the Mustard and Cheese Society ness development for Singer-Ke- Mr. William A. Nichols ’49, Gulf Breeze, Fla., Dec. 16, 2014. and was a brother of Phi Gamma arfott Corp. Charlotte, S.C., Feb. 13, 2015. Mr. Mr. DeBerardinis worked as an Delta fraternity. He served in Mr. William H. Dorman ’49, Nichols held membership in the engineer for Ingersoll-Rand. He the U.S. Navy. He worked for the Corning, N.Y., Nov. 16, 2014. Mr. Mustard and Cheese Society and served in the U.S. military during Naval Research Laboratory in Dorman served in the U.S. Army was a brother of Kappa Sigma World War II. Washington and as the head of during World War II. He worked fraternity. He served in the U.S. Mr. George F. Hewitt ’47, the Aerospace Data Standards for Corning Glass Works. His Marine Corps during World Napa Valley, Calif., Dec. 6, 2014. Office for NASA’s Goddard Space son, William D. Dorman ’68, is a War II and the Korean War as Mr. Hewitt was a brother of Phi Flight Center. Lehigh alumnus. a lieutenant. He worked as an Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Alpha Mr. Joseph L. Ross ’48, Mr. Donald A. Fickes ’49, executive for Esso Standard Oil fraternities. He served in the Allentown, Pa., Nov. 10, 2014. Mr. New Cumberland, Pa., Nov. 10, Co. He held membership in the U.S. military during World War Ross played for the Lehigh soccer 2014. Mr. Fickes was a brother Tower and Asa Packer societies. II. He worked as a mechanical team, ran for the Lehigh outdoor of Kappa Sigma and Delta Tau Dr. Harry E. Reiff ’49, ’50G, engineer and field engineering track team, and was a brother of Delta fraternities. He served in Warminster, Pa., July 3, 2014. manager for IBM. Sigma Chi fraternity. He served the U.S. Army Air Corps. during Dr.Reiff served in the U.S. Army. Mr. George H. Wagner ’47, as a sergeant in the U.S. Army. He World War II. He worked for He worked in the research and Fairport, N.Y., Jan. 18, 2015. worked as an engineer and man- the Harrisburg steel division of development division of Smith, Mr. Wagner ran for the Lehigh ager of corporate telecommuni- HARSCO Corp. and as a design Kline and French. outdoor track team and held cations for Pennsylvania Power engineer for U.S.N. Ships Parts Mr. Karl D. Rittenhouse ’49, membership in the Lehigh & Light Co. He served as a LUAA Control Center. Mullica Hill, N.J., Jan. 2, 2010. debate club. He served in the U.S. class officer and held member- Mr. Harry W. Grell Jr. ’49, Mr. Rittenhouse was a brother of Navy. He worked as a market- ship in the Tower Society. ’50G, Holland, Ohio, Dec. 24, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. ing manager at Bell Brothers Mr. William A. Salmond 2014. Mr. Grell held membership Dr. Albert H. Rubenstein Research. He held membership ’48, Amelia Island, Fla., Jan. in the Mustard and Cheese Soci- ’49, ’93H, Portland, Ore., April in the Tower Society. 23, 2015. Mr. Salmond played ety and was a brother of Lambda 13, 2013. Dr. Rubenstein held Mr. David R. Whitten ’47, for the Lehigh basketball team Chi Alpha fraternity. He served membership in the Omicron Del- Meadowbrook, Pa., Sept. 10, 2014. and was a brother of Delta in the U.S. Navy. He worked as ta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor Mr. Whitten ran for the Lehigh Upsilon fraternity. He served in a mechanical engineer for the societies and the Lehigh debate cross country and outdoor the military during World War Toledo Lakefront Dock Co. and club. He worked as a professor track teams and was a brother II. He worked as an assistant as the chief instrumental fuel and of engineering and management of Chi Psi and Phi Sigma Kappa administrator of the design power engineer and director of sciences and director of the fraternities. His son, Thomas J. and construction of Veterans energy utilization and conserva- master’s of engineering manage-

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ment program for Northwestern served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Thomas and Betts Corp. as a metallurgical engineer for University and as the founder Army during the Korean War. He Mr. John S. Houston ’50, Technical Materials. His son and president of International worked as an episcopal priest and ’51G, Naperville, Ill., Nov. 5, Michael D. Shaw ’92, is a Lehigh Applied Science and Technology as a mechanical engineer for Fox- 2014. Mr. Houston served in alumnus. Associates. boro Company and Ionics, Inc. the U.S. Army Air Corps during Mr. Walter L. Siebeck- Mr. George E. Scheller ’49, Mr. David T. Cummings World War II. He worked as a er ’52, Woodstock, Ga., Feb. Long Valley, N.J., Jan. 26, 2013. ’50, Mansfield, Pa., Feb. 10, manager of market development 5, 2015. Mr. Siebecker held Mr. Scheller served on the staff of 2015. Mr. Cummings played for for BP Amoco Corp. His brother, membership in the Mustard the Brown and White and was a the Lehigh lacrosse team, held David R. Houston ’49, graduated and Cheese Society and was brother of Chi Psi fraternity. membership in the Lehigh Glee from Lehigh. a brother of Alpha Chi Rho Mr. Francis E. Stauffer ’49, Club, marching band and choir, Mr. Fred G. Josenhans ’51, fraternity. He served in the U.S. Temple Hills, Md., May 21, 2014. and was a brother of Phi Gamma Glen Allen, Va., Dec. 1, 2014. Mr. Army during the Korean War. Mr. Stauffer was a brother of Psi Delta fraternity and a member of Josenhans played for the Lehigh He worked for Westinghouse Upsilon fraternity. He served in the Army ROTC. He served in the University baseball, basketball, Elevators and Lerch, Bates and the U.S. Army during World War U.S. Navy. He owned Tioga Pe- football, and swimming teams, founded an elevator consulting II. He worked for the Depart- troleum. He played in the LUAA held membership in Tau Beta Pi firm. His father, Carl E. Siebeck- ment of the U.S. Navy and for alumni band and held member- honor society, and was a brother er ’43, graduated from Lehigh. Metropolitan Edison Power Co. ship in the Tower Society. of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He Mr. Willoughby C. Block- His grandson, Christopher A. Mr. Edward B. Levine ’50, served in the U.S. Army during er ’53, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 29, Miller ’98, is a Lehigh alumnus. Westfield, N.J., March 12, 2014. World War II. 2014. Mr. Blocker played for Mr. Daniel E. Vath ’49, West Mr. Levine ran for the Lehigh Dr. Charles P. Miller ’51, the Lehigh ice hockey team, Lawn, Pa., Dec. 31, 2014. Mr. outdoor track team and was a ’52G, Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 10, 2015. held membership in the Lehigh Vath was a brother of Phi Delta brother of Pi Lambda Phi frater- Dr. Miller held membership in marching band and Glee Club, Theta fraternity. He worked as nity. He served in the U.S. Navy the Lehigh concert and march- and was a brother of Pi Kappa Al- a project engineer for Gilbert during World War II. He worked ings bands. He worked as the pha and Psi Upsilon fraternities. Commonwealth. for IBM. president of Miller Resources He served in the U.S. Navy during Mr. James H. Vogelsong ’49, Mr. Richard C. Peterson ’50, Inc. He held membership in the the Korean War. He worked as Gaithersburg, Md., Jan. 8, 2015. Wisconsin, Wis., Dec. 5, 2014. Mr. Asa Packer Society. a real property appraiser and as Mr. Vogelsong held membership Peterson served in the U.S. Army Mr. William H. Spooner ’51, the president of Lugene Opti- in Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta during World War II. He worked Hanover, Pa., Nov. 3, 2014. Mr. cians and Optical Corporation Pi honor societies. He served in for Riegel Paper Co., Bergstrom Spooner was a brother of Sigma of America. He was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps during Paper Co., Consolidated Papers, Chi fraternity. He served in the the LUAA alumni band. World War II. He worked as an and Wisconsin Tissue Mills. U.S. Navy during World War II. Mr. John F. Collins ’53, electrical engineer for Bell Tele- Mr. Richard E. Bradley ’51, He worked as a quarry superin- Palmyra, N.J., Jan. 18, 2015. Mr. phone Laboratories. He served West Hurley, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2014. tendent for Bethlehem Mines. Collins played for the Lehigh as the LUAA class treasurer, as Mr. Bradley held membership His father, Albert P. Spooner ’11, basketball team and marching a class committee member, and in the the Mustard and Cheese was a Lehigh alumnus. band and was a brother of Chi on the LUAA class Reunion com- Society and was a brother of Mr. Louis M. MacGregor Psi fraternity. He worked as the mittee, and held membership in Sigma Nu and Lambda Chi Alpha ’52, Old Fort, N.C., Sept. 16, 2014. vice president of the manu- the Asa Packer Society. His son, fraternities. He served in the U.S. Mr. MacGregor was a brother of facturing plant at Aluminum Thomas L. Vogelsong ’76, is a military during World War II. He Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. His Shapes. He held membership in Lehigh alumnus. worked as an engineer for IBM. father, Louis J. MacGregor ’19, the LUAA alumni band and the He served as a class committee was a Lehigh alumnus. Asa Packer Society. 1950s member and on the LUAA class Mr. Bruce A. Nickel ’52, Dr. William H. Engle ’53, Mr. Douglas S. Adams ’50, reunion committee. Ridgefield, Conn., Jan. 22, Union City, N.J., Dec. 24, 2014. Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 22, 2014. Mr. Thomas H. Edelblute 2015. Mr. Nickel played for the Dr. Engle was a brother of Psi Mr. Adams held membership in ’51, Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 24, 2014. Lehigh rifle and outdoor track Upsilon fraternity. He held mem- the Lehigh Glee Club and was Mr. Edelblute was a brother of teams and was a brother of Del- bership in the Tower Society. a brother of Theta Xi fraterni- Theta Xi fraternity. He served in ta Upsilon fraternity. He served Dr. Joseph E. Geusic ’53, ty. He served in the U.S. Navy the U.S. Navy during World War as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Berkeley Heights, N.J., Dec. 13, during World War II. He worked II. He worked for the U.S. State Force during the Korean War. 2014. Mr. Geusic worked for as a manager of purchasing and Department, as an engineer for He worked as a manager at IBM the AT&T Bell Laboratories and transportation for Western U.S. Steel Corp., and as president Corporation. the Micron Advanced Research Electric Co. of Kuhn Construction Co. Mr. D. Peter Shaw ’52, Institute. Mr. Frederick G. Clay ’50, Mr. Charles T. Fryberger II Barrington, R.I., Feb. 11, 2015. Mr. Stephen J. Hayden ’53, Sharon, Pa., Feb. 3, 2015. Mr. Clay ’51, Warren, N.J., Feb. 16, 2015. Mr. Shaw played for the Lehigh Emmaus, Pa., Feb. 1, 2015. Mr. played for the Lehigh University Mr. Fryberger was a brother of tennis team and was a brother Hayden was a brother of Theta Xi wrestling team and was a brother Psi Upsilon fraternity. He served of Phi Sigma Kappa and Delta and Phi Sigma Kappa fraterni- of Delta Upsilon fraternity. He in the U.S. Army. He worked for Upsilon fraternities. He worked ties. He served in the U.S. Army

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Air Corps during World War II. An expert in defect chemistry He worked as the president of Keystone Cement Co. and much more Dr. Charles E. Jenkins ’53, Los Alamitos, Calif., Dec. 27, 2014. Dr. Jenkins was a brother of Chi Psi and Sigma Phi fra- Donald M. Smyth, a professor emeritus of which two U.S. secretaries of state were never ternities. He served in the U.S. materials science and engineering, achieved in- married? Answer: James Buchanan and Con- Navy. He worked as a private ternational renown in the field of defect chem- doleezza Rice.) practice physician. istry: His textbook, Defect Chemistry of Metal “Sometimes I would encourage Don to try Mr. Charles E. Klabunde Oxides, was translated into Chinese and other out to be a contestant,” said Chan. “But he ’53, Oak Ridge, Tenn., Feb. languages, and he was elected to the National would shake his head and say that he would be 7, 2015. Mr. Klabunde was a Academy of Engineering, lost in any catego- brother of Sigma Phi fraternity. the highest honor accord- ries related to pop- He worked as researcher for Oak ed to engineers in the U.S. ular culture. He was Ridge National Laboratory. He Among his friends a reader of political held membership in the Tower and associates at Lehigh, biographies and his- and Asa Packer societies. Smyth was known for his torical perspectives, Mr. Thomas B. MacCabe Jr. sharp sense of humor not a follower of the ’53, Sarasota, Fla., Feb. 10, 2015. and for an intellectual Kardashians.” Mr. MacCabe held membership curiosity that spanned Smyth won many in the Mustard and Cheese history, the arts, classical honors during his Society and was a brother of Pi music, geography, poli- lifetime. When he Kappa Alpha and Kappa Alpha tics and more. was just 29, the Elec- fraternities. He founded Mac- Smyth, who died April trochemical Society Cabe Electric Conductors, Inc. 25 at the age of 85, joined gave him its top in- Mr. Edward D. MacMurt- the faculty in 1971 as di- ternational award rie ’53, Port Neches, Texas, rector of the Materials for research related Nov. 30, 2014. Mr. MacMurtrie Research Center and to batteries. He was served in the U.S. Army. He continued working four elected a fellow of the worked for Texaco. days a week long after American Ceramics Mr. John W. Seebald ’53, he retired, collaborating Society and received York, Pa., Nov. 27, 2014. Mr. with colleagues on re- its highest honor, the Seebald served in the U.S. Navy. search projects, review- Robert B. Sosman He worked for General Refrac- ing papers for profes- Award. He served tories and Allentown Portland sional journals, advising on the Council for Cement. He was a member of students and writing. Materials at the U.S. the LU Wrestling Club. His Helen Chan, professor Department of Ener- brothers, F.W. Seebald ’50 and and department chair of gy and spent a term Henry A. Seebald ’42, graduated materials science and en- as chairman of the from Lehigh. gineering, remembered Materials Research Mr. Albert W. Bailey ’54, Smyth as a valued mem- Advisory Committee Mayville, N.Y., Jan. 1, 2015. Mr. ber of the department’s lunch crowd. for the National Science Foundation. Bailey was a brother of Kappa “Don was old-fashioned in the best sense of Five years ago, on his 80th birthday, Smyth Alpha fraternity and a member the word,” said Chan. “He was courteous and was honored with a special session at the Ma- of the Lehigh Wrestling Club. a person of integrity. He believed in hard work terials Science and Technology Conference and Mr. Kenneth C. Haggerty and social justice. Exhibition in Houston. There, he was cited for ’54, Waterbury, Conn., Feb. “Don was an avid reader of The New York “decades of leadership at the frontiers of re- 5, 2015. Mr. Haggerty worked Times, and current affairs and politics be- search” and for his influence on scientific un- as a salesman for Handy and came a staple of our lunchtime discussions. derstanding and on the development of future Harmon. With the upcoming presidential elections, I generations of scientists and engineers. Mr. Robert E. Zoellner ’54, will definitely miss his oftentimes withering Smyth is survived by Elisabeth, his wife of 64 Alpine, N.J., Dec. 23, 2014. Mr. and funny assessment of our political candi- years, and two daughters, art historian Carolyn Zoellner served on the board dates.” Smyth and novelist Joanne Kennedy. Dona- of the Brown and White, held Smyth watched the TV quiz show Jeopar- tions may be made to Doctors without Borders membership in the Air Force dy! regularly, said Chan, and took delight in or to the Donald M. and Elisabeth L. Smyth En- ROTC, played for the Lehigh ice knowing the answers to questions that had dowed Scholarship Fund in the Lehigh Univer- hockey team and was a brother stumped all the contestants. (One example: sity Office of Advancement.—Kurt Pfitzer of Pi Kappa Alpha. He was a class

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committee member, a Lehigh a supervisor for E.I. Dupont de daughter, Pamela M. Favret ’85, is Summit, N.J., Nov. 30, 2014. Mr. appointed trustee and a Lehigh Nemours Co. a Lehigh alumna. Currey played for the Lehigh honorary trustee; served on the Mr. John H. Schelleng ’55, Mr. David F. Hait ’58, Silver lacrosse team, served on the national leadership committee, Interlaken, N.J., Feb. 3, 2015. Mr. Spring, Md., Feb. 7, 2015. Mr. Hait staff of theBrown and White, the Reunion fund committee, and Schelleng was a brother of Alpha was a member of the Mustard and was a brother of Sigma the cultural affairs committee; Phi Omega fraternity. He worked and Cheese Society. He served in Chi fraternity. He worked as a and held membership in the Asa for the U.S. Naval Research the U.S. Army during the Korean stockbroker for Scotia Bank. Packer and Tower societies. His Laboratory. War. He worked as manager of He served as a class committee grandson, Andrew C. Garrison Mr. Nicholas L. Cali ’56, the supply department at Mobil member and on the 35th and ’15, is a Lehigh alumnus. Hillsboro, Ore., Oct. 19, 2014. Oil Corp. 40th Reunion fund committees. Mr. Edgar Bundt ’55, Mr. Cali was a brother of Theta Mr. Laurence A. McNellis His brother, David P. Currey Jr. Midland, Ga., Feb. 2, 2015. Mr. Xi and Sigma Nu fraternities. ’58, River Bend, N.C., Jan. 26, ’57, graduated from Lehigh. Bundt was a brother of Phi Del- He served in the U.S. Army. He 2015. Mr. McNellis held member- Mr. Joseph J. Sabad ’59, ta Theta fraternity. He worked worked in the insurance industry ship in the Mustard and Cheese Bethlehem, Pa., July 24, 2013. Mr. for North American Aviation and owned a consulting business. Society. He served as a sergeant Sabad was a brother of Phi Gam- and General Dynamics. Mr. James W. Snyder Jr. in the U.S. Army during the ma Delta fraternity. He worked as Mr. Gordon J. Fiegel ’55, ’56, Breinigsville, Pa., Dec. 23, Korean War. He worked for Dow a chemical engineer for IBM. Allentown, Pa., Nov. 25, 2014. Mr. 2014. Mr. Snyder was a brother Chemical Co. Mr. Ronald N. Ziegler ’59, Fiegel worked in the production of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He Mr. Robert E. Myers ’58, Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 12, 2014. control department of Bethlehem served as a sergeant in the U.S. Franklin, Ind., Feb. 7, 2015. Mr. Mr. Ziegler held membership Steel Co., as the general foreman Marine Corps. He worked as a Myers held membership in the in the Lehigh debate club. He of the Navy Armor Building for business instructor for Penn Omicron Delta Kappa honor so- designed automated systems for Lukens Steel Co., and as a process State and as a certified public ciety and the Army ROTC, played the medical and food industries engineer for Quaker Chemical accountant. He served as a class for the Lehigh wrestling team, and worked in the engineering Corp. He served on the LUAA committee member and served and was a brother of Phi Gamma and computer industries. class Reunion committee and the on the 40th and 50th Reunion Delta fraternity. He served as Reunion planning committee, fund committees. LUAA club president and held 1960s and served as the LUAA class sec- Mr. Jess H. Wadhams ’56, membership in the Lehigh Wres- Mr. George L. Engelke Jr. ’60, retary, the LUAA class treasurer, Princeton, W. Va., Jan. 9, 2015. tling Club and the Tower and Asa Garden City, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2014. a LUAA former class officer, and a Mr. Wadhams served in the U.S. Packer societies. Mr. Engelke served on the staff LUAA class committee member. Air Force. He worked for Ameri- Mr. Robert H. Rockel ’58, of the Epitome, held member- Mr. H. Ross Ford Jr. ’55, can LaFrance Fire Truck Indus- Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 15, ship in Beta Alpha Psi honor so- Williamsburg, Va., Jan. 25, 2015. try and Volvo Truck Manufactur- 2014. Mr. Rockel served in the ciety, and was a brother of Delta Mr. Ford played for the Lehigh ing, as an engineering manager U.S. Air Force. He worked as a Upsilon and Phi Sigma Kappa ice hockey team, held mem- for several mining machinery flight simulator for Flight Safety fraternities. He served on the bership in the Army ROTC and companies, and as a professional International. LUAA class Reunion committee, the Scabbard and Blade honor engineer, and he founded Wad- Mr. Llewellyn R. Williams the 50th Reunion fund commit- society, and was a brother of Chi hams Mobile Systems, LLC. ’58, Cold Spring, N.Y., Feb. 20, tee, and the Wall Street Council, Psi fraternity. He served in the Mr. Joseph Whitefall ’56, 2015. Mr. Williams played for served as a class committee U.S. Army during the Korean Englewood, Fla., Feb. 10, 2013. the Lehigh football and outdoor member, and held membership War. He worked as a manager and Mr. Whitefall was a brother of track teams and was a brother in the Tower Society. His daugh- broker in real estate. His son, H. Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He ter, Courtenay D. Engelke ’92, is Ross Ford III ’83, is a member of Mr. Frederick W. Glow ’57, held membership in the Asa a Lehigh alumna. the Lehigh community. Ringtown, Pa., Feb. 7, 2015. Mr. Packer Society. Mr. Robert H. Sterne Jr. Dr. Michael J. Lange ’55, Glow served in the U.S. Army. Mr. Albert W. Angulo ’59, ’60, Waimea, Hawaii, Aug. 24, Bethlehem, Pa., May 31, 2013. Dr. He worked for U. S. Steel Corp., Houston, Texas, Dec. 30, 2014. 2014. Mr. Sterne was a brother of Lange was a brother of Pi Lamb- Westinghouse and Honeywell, Mr. Angulo participated in the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He da Phi fraternity. as an industry sales manager for Air Force ROTC. He served in the worked as a manager of market Mr. Richard P. Long ’55, Foxboro Co., and as vice presi- U.S. Army. He worked in various development for Lukens Steel East Lansing, Mich., Dec. 12, dent for Automation Research positions in the financial industry Co., as general manager of sales 2014. Mr. Long was a brother Co. and as the regional director for for National Forge Co., and as di- of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. He Mr. Robert M. Hall ’57, Erie, the U.S. Trade and Development rector of international marketing worked for Bethlehem Steel and Pa., Erie, Pa., Nov. 14, 2014. Mr. Agency. He participated in LUAA for Jorgensen Forge Corp., and MetLife. Hall played for the Lehigh ice Alumni Admissions Outreach, he founded Sterne Associates. Mr. William C. Lyle ’55, Cir- hockey team and was a brother on the Reunion fund committee, He held membership in the Asa cleville, Ohio, Sept. 25, 2014. Mr. of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He and as a class committee mem- Packer Society. Lyle played for the Lehigh bas- worked for Mobile Oil, Welch’s ber, and held membership in the Mr. John Rigg ’61, Venice, ketball team and was a brother of and Falconer Plate Glass, and Tower Society. Fla., Dec. 31, 2014. Mr. Rigg was Theta Xi fraternity. He worked as owned Dick’s Harbor House. His Mr. Richard C. Currey ’59, a brother of Delta Tau Delta fra-

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ternity. He worked for Milton Mr. Edmund G. Riccio ’65, served as a sergeant in the Air University. He served as a LUAA Roy Co. Upper Saucon, Pa., Jan. 3, 2015. National Guard. He worked for club board member and held Mr. M. Allyn Gallup Jr. ’62, Mr. Riccio played for the Lehigh Concord Products. membership in the Asa Packer Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 7, 2014. Mr. marching and concert bands and Mr. Bradley W. Oberg ’71, and Tower societies. His son, Gallup was a brother of Phi Delta was a brother of Alpha Sigma Phi Cranberry, Pa., March 10, 2014. John W. Powell Jr. ’10, is a Lehigh Theta fraternity. He worked for fraternity. He worked for Centec, Mr. Oberg played for the Lehigh alumnus. Citibank, Goldome, and Bank of Carpenter Steel, Ingersol Steel lacrosse team, held member- Mr. David D. Reynolds ’74, America, and he founded Allyn and Stainless Steel, and as the ship in the Mustard and Cheese Alexandria, Va., Jan. 11, 2015. Mr. Gallup Contemporary Art. president of BethForge for Beth- society, and was a brother of Reynolds was a member of the Dr. Charles A. Falcone ’63, lehem Steel. He played for the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. He Lehigh swim team and a brother Hobe Sound, Fla., Jan. 5, 2015. LUAA alumni band and served co-founded IBACOS. His father, of Chi Psi fraternity. He worked Dr. Falcone ran for the Lehigh as a Lehigh fund class volunteer. James L. Oberg ’40, was a Le- for the U.S. Patent Office and outdoor track team and was a His children, Gregg A. Riccio ’92 high alumnus. Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis. brother of Delta Chi and Theta and Laura A. Riccio ’89, and his Mr. Michael S. Impink ’72, Lt. Col. Scott L. Wymore Xi fraternities. He worked as the brother, Lucius J. Riccio ’69, are ’77G, Camby, Ind., Oct. 24, 2014. ’77, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 17, 2014. vice president of information sys- Lehigh alumni. Mr. Impink played for the Lehigh Mr. Wymore ran for the Lehigh tems, vice president of systems Mr. James P. Stevenson football team and was a brother outdoor track team and was transactions, and senior vice ’65, West Pittston, Pa., Jan. 25, of Chi Psi fraternity. He worked a brother of Phi Delta Theta president of system power mar- 2015. Mr. Stevenson played for in sales and management for Al- fraternity. He served in the U.S. kets for American Electric Power, the Lehigh football team, held coa. He served on the Wall Street Air Force. He worked as the chief and he worked as the director of membership in the Mustard and Council. His daughter, Danielle of the requirements branch for the Department of Energy. His Cheese Society, and participated L. Deery ’02, is a Lehigh alumna. the U.S. Air Force. He served as son, Charles M. Falcone ’94, is a in the Army ROTC. He worked in Mr. Alexander H. Whitman the LUAA club president. His Lehigh alumnus. human resources for Diversified Jr. ’72, Bremerton, Wash., June daughter, Kristen M. Wymore ’12, 2nd Lt. Frederick A. Heide Information Technologies, as 20, 2014. Mr. Whitman held is a Lehigh alumna. ’63, Springfield, N.J., Jan. 26, a mathematics teacher for the membership in the Gryphon So- Mr. Philip D. Royer ’78, 2015. 2nd Lt. Heide worked as a Wyoming Area School District, ciety. He served in the U.S. Navy. Pennington, N.J., Jan. 8, 2015. Mr. draftsman and engineer at Star and as a rector and priest for the He worked as an engineer. Royer worked as a section chief Track Inc. He served in the U.S. Episcopal Church. He served Mr. Robert S. Fleming Jr. for the New Jersey Department Air Force. in LUAA Alumni Admissions ’73, ’75G, Dallas, Texas, Jan. 12, of Environmental Protection. Mr. Frederick W. Lark ’63, Outreach and as a Lehigh fund 2015. Mr. Fleming held member- Bernardsville, N.J., Oct. 28, 2014. class volunteer and LUAA club ship in the Mustard and Cheese 1980s Mr. Lark held membership in the volunteer. His father, Dean T. society and was a brother of Mr. Frank J. Glinsky ’81, Mustard and Cheese Society and Stevenson ’37, and his brother, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Nov. 16, the Asa Packer Society. Frederic G. Stevenson ’69, gradu- worked as a consultant and for 2014. Mr. Glinsky was a member Mr. John R. Webb ’63, ated from Lehigh. Sun Oil and Anadarko Petroleum. of Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Austin, Texas, Oct. 31, 2013. Mr. Mr. Andrew P. Goodman ’66, He served as the LUAA club He worked as a trusts and estates Webb held membership in Tau Bettendorf, Iowa, Feb. 13, 2015. president. lawyer and established the Per- Beta Pi and Phi Eta Sigma honor Mr. Goodman worked as a civil Mr. Robert H. Grindrod ’73, sonal Planning law firm. societies and was a brother of engineer in the steel industry. Belvidere, Ill., Dec. 26, 2014. Mr. Mrs. Jane A. Sullivan ’81, Sigma Nu fraternity. He worked Mr. Alan Van Nimwegen ’68, Grindrod worked as an Episcopal Macungie, Pa., Nov. 4, 2014. Mrs. as president for Exxon Chemical Sanford, Fla., July 16, 2012. Mr. priest for Holy Trinity Church, Sullivan worked as a production Americas. He served on the 30th Nimwegen was a brother of Kap- St. Thomas Episcopal Church engineer for Honeywell Inc., as Reunion Fund Committee. His pa Sigma fraternity. He co-owned for the Deaf, and St. Anna’s a manufacturing engineer for children, David R. Webb ’87 and and co-operated the Seminole Church for the Deaf, and as a sign Lutron Electronics, and as a Keith L. Webb ’94, are Lehigh Paint and Body Shop. His brother, language interpreter for John teacher’s assistant for East Penn alumni. Bruce Van Nimwegen ’72, gradu- Hershey High School, for Eden School District. Mr. Robert F. Kreusser ’64, ated from Lehigh. Theological, Arlington Heights, Mr. Philip A. Ricci ’82, Bryn Mawr, Pa., Feb. 14, 2015. Mr. John G. Flynn ’69, and Concordia Lutheran semi- Brookhaven, Pa., Jan. 25, 2015. Mr. Kreusser was a brother of Mountainside, N.J., Nov. 13, 2014. naries, for St. Louis and Washing- Mr. Ricci worked as a forensic Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He Mr. Flynn worked as a professor ton universities, and for several scientist for the Pennsylvania worked as an executive vice pres- of electromechanical technology sign language agencies. State Police Crime Lab. ident for Machined Metals. for Union County College. Mr. John W. Powell ’74, Mr. Christopher P. Rose- Mr. William A. Prosser Sr. Ross, Pa., Jan. 13, 2015. Mr. brugh ’83, Scottsdale, Ariz., ’65, Fairfax, Va., Dec. 21, 2014. 1970s Powell was a brother of Sigma Phi Oct. 23, 2014. Mr. Rosebrugh Mr. Prosser worked as a civil Mr. Larry L. Anthonsen ’70, Epsilon fraternity. He worked played for the Lehigh marching engineer for the Federal Highway West Chester, Pa., Feb. 16, 2015. as a partner of Meyer, Unkovic band and was a brother of Delta Administration. He served in the Mr. Anthonsen was a brother of & Scott LLP and as an adjunct Chi fraternity. He worked as U.S. Army. Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He professor for Robert Morris a software engineer for Intel,

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a lecturer for Massachusetts in the U.S. Army Air Corps Mrs. Madelyn Z. Delker Mr. Thomas P. Papson ’75G, Institute of Technology, an during World War II. ’65G, Bethlehem, Pa., Dec. 11, Maynard, Mass., Jan. 6, 2015. Mr. independent contractor, and as a Mr. Darien R. Smith ’55G, 2014. Mrs. Delker worked as a Papson worked as a sales manag- CEO and director in the technol- Phillipsburg, N.J., Feb. 17, 2015. teacher for the Bethlehem Area er for Hewlett Packard Corp. ogy industry. He played for the Mr. Smith served in the U.S. Army School District. Mr. George S. Scoufalos LUAA alumni band. during World War II. He worked Mr. Donald P. Wahlgren ’76G, Red Lion, Pa., June 28, Mr. Andrew K. Touchstone as a guidance counselor, principal ’65G, ’69G, Easton, Pa., Dec. 26, 2012. ’85, Gladwyne, Pa., Oct. 21, and history teacher for the 2014. Mr. Wahlgren worked for Mrs. Evelyn H. Walters 2014. Mr. Touchstone founded Easton Area School District. Ingersoll Rand and as a consul- ’76G, Easton, Pa., Jan. 11, 2015. Philadelphia-based Touchstone Mr. Gilbert E. Gearhart tant for Bethlehem Corp. Mrs. Walters worked as a sub- & Associates after a successful ’58G, Oct. 24, 2014. Mr. Gear- Mr. Eugene F. Knopf ’66G, stitute teacher for the Easton, 15-year career at a large law firm. hart worked for the environ- Allentown, Pa., Nov. 2, 2014. Wilson and Nazareth school He was an enthusiastic supporter mental protection office of the Dr. Edward J. Cody ’67G, districts. of Lehigh football, never having State of New Mexico, as a plant ’70G, Normandy Beach, N.J., Mrs. Patricia A. Pressman missed a Lehigh-Lafayette game, manager for Atochem plant, as Jan. 5, 2015. Dr. Cody worked ’77G, Allentown, Pa., Feb. 14, whether home or away. a chemical engineer and as a as a faculty member, associate 2015. Mrs. Pressman worked as a Mr. Kevin P. Sheehan ’88, Presbyterian minister. dean, academic administrator, clinical supervisor and assistant Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2015. Mr. Mr. Bradford K. Pease P.E. fiscal vice president, and provost administrator for Temple Uni- Sheehan was a brother of Delta ’59G, Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 2, and vice president of academic versity Hospital, as an instructor Sigma Phi fraternity. 2015. Mr. Pease worked for the affairs for Ramapo College. of nursing and patient education Bethlehem Steel management Mr. William Collier ’69G, for the Sacred Heart School 2000s training program and the re- Buckingham, Pa., Dec. 6, 2014. of Nursing, and as a nurse for Mr. Eric C. Crawford ’00, search department. Mr. Collier served as a colonel Sacred Heart Hospital. Charleston, S.C., Jan. 17, 2015. Mr. Mr. Marlyn L. Roth ’59G, in the U.S. Army. He worked Mr. George M. Shendock Crawford was a brother of Delta Nazareth, Pa., Feb. 23, 2015. Mr. as a social studies teacher for ’78G, Swoyersville, Pa., June 5, Phi fraternity. He worked as a Roth served in the U.S. Army the Hatboro-Horsham School 2014. Mr. Shendock worked as business development manager during the Korean War. He District and as a teacher for the head teacher for Dana Elementa- for Pepco Energy Services. worked as a teacher, guidance Maple Shade School District. ry School and for Franklin Street Mr. Maciej W. Ludwinski counselor, and athletic director. Mr. David W. Skeath ’69G, School, and as an elementary ’00, Glenolden, Pa., Feb. 28, 2011. Mr. Joseph F. Schrader Orefield, Pa., Jan. 15, 2015. Mr. school teacher for the Wyoming Mr. Ludwinski was a brother of Jr. ’59G, Bethlehem, Pa., Dec. Skeath worked as an executive for Valley West School District. Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. 22, 2014. Mr. Schrader served PP&L. His son, David W. Skeath Mr. David C. Shapiro ’82G, Ms. Jennifer L. Branda ’01, in the U.S. Navy during World II ’86, is a Lehigh alumnus. Chicago, Ill., Feb. 7, 2015. Mr. Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 2, 2015. Ms. War II. He worked as the school Mr. Charles H. Blackburn Shapiro worked as the executive Branda’s grandfather, Richard psychologist and director of stu- III ’70G, Lawrenceville, Ga., director and head of Midwest Branda ’33, graduated from dent services for the Pennsbury June 19, 2014. Mr. Blackburn restructuring for Capstone Lehigh. School District. served in the U.S. Army. He Advisory LLC. Mr. Stephen N. Richardson Mr. Lawrence A. Walter worked for Schlumberger Well Mrs. Judith M. Body ’86G, ’01, Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 10, ’61G, Allentown, Pa., Dec. 28, Surveying Corp. and as a manu- Allentown, Pa., Jan. 23, 2015. 2015. Mr. Richardson played 2014. Mr. Walter served in the facturing and research engineer Mrs. Body worked for the Carbon for the Lehigh University cross U.S. Army. He worked as a tech- and technology manager for Intermediate Unit. She held country and outdoor track teams. nical supervisor for Bell Labs. Western Electric Co. membership in the Tower Soci- He worked in the investment Ms. Nancy J. Kernan ’62G, Dr. Mary A. Conahan ’70G, ety. Her daughter, Wendy Body industry. He served on the Wall Bethlehem, Pa., Dec. 16, 2014. Hellertown, Pa., Nov. 11, 2014. ’85, is a Lehigh alumna. Street Council. Ms. Kernan worked as a teacher Dr. Conahan worked for the Mr. Drew P. Halevy ’91G, at Ritter Elementary School for Bethlehem Area School District. Celina, Texas, Nov. 2, 2014. Mr. the Allentown School District. Mr. Lawrence F. Hilliard Haley served in the U.S. Navy. He GRADUATE Ms. Alice L. Burrows ’64G, ’74G, Butler, Pa., Dec. 2, 2014. worked as a teacher. Mr. James G. Kerr ’47G, Suffern, N.Y., July 17, 2003. Ms. Mr. Hilliard served in the U.S. Mr. Peter P. DeVere ’95G, Winchester, Calif., Sept. 3, 2014. Burrows worked as a guidance Navy. He worked for Air Prod- Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 30, 2015. Mr. Mr. Kerr worked for Los Alamos counselor and teacher for ucts and Chemicals Inc. and as DeVere worked for Big Rock National Laboratory, for CF Phillipsburg High School, as a a finance director for the City of Point nuclear power plant, for Braun & Co. and for Aramco, business teacher for Easton Area Allentown. ARAMCO, and as an engineer and as a chief materials engineer High School, and as a guidance Mr. Bernard L. Hahn ’75G, and fabrication yard manager for for Chevron and a metallurgy counselor for Nanuet High Tucson, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2014. Mr. McDermott International. instructor for Lehigh. School. Hahn served in the U.S. military Mr. Todd W. Painton ’99G, Mr. Robert J. Snyder ’51G, Rev. Frederick V. Kettle during the Vietnam War. He Wyomissing, Pa., Dec. 11, 2014. Walnutport, Pa., Jan. 7, 2015. ’64G, Blue Bell, Pa., Jan. 31, worked for Eastern Airlines, Unit- Mr. Painton worked for Wolf Mr. Snyder served as a sergeant 2009. ed Express and United Airlines. Distributing.

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NOSTALGIA: Reunions

For as long as Lehigh has had graduates, it’s had loyal alumni union traditions, though, remain timeless: The Brown and White eager to return to South Mountain to reunite with classmates and reported that following the Class of 1887’s 10-year reunion, par- reminisce. Alumni reunion events have varied over the years, but ticipants attended a banquet, took several photos and “many the spirit remains the same. Today, Lehigh’s lively Alumni Week- enthusiastic speeches were made.” The more things change, end events include yoga, Mountain Talks, campus bus tours, a the more they stay the same. Historic photo courtesy of Lehigh block party on The Hill and the Brown and White Bash. Some re- University Special Collections. 2015 photos: Academic Image

80 | LEHIGH BULLETIN TRADITION Members of the Class of 1950 reunited on Alumni weekend in May. Photo by Academic Image

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Dancers from Lehigh and the surrounding region gathered on campus in April for the annual DanceFest celebration. Photo by Christa Neu