SPECIAL ISSUE CELEBRATING COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S MOST PLAYED RIVALRY FALL 2014 LEHIGH BULLETIN STORMINGSTORMING THE CITYTHE CITY The LehighLehigh community looks gathersto knock in off New Lafayette York in to celebrate its historicNew York’s rivalry Yankee with StadiumLafayette FALL 2014 | 1 UP FRONT Volume 100, Number 3, Fall 2014 DEPARTMENTS 2 FROM THE EDITOR 3 LETTERS 4 FROM THE PRESIDENT ON CAMPUS 6 UMOJA House Rededicated 7 FOUR QUESTIONS Drew Endy ’92 ’94G 8 Examining the Threat of ISIS 10 Mountaintop In Motion RESEARCH 13 Donald Hall on ‘Harmony and Peace’ 14 Promoting Healthy Behaviors 15 SCHEMATIC Geothermal/CO2 Recycling 16 Foiling Bugs that Foil Drugs CULTURE 17 Malcom X, 50 Years Later The Rivalry of Rivalries 22 18 Taking Jazz to a ‘Purer Place’ Yes, it’s true that the Lehigh-Lafayette series has been played more times than any other col- 19 EXHIBIT lege football rivalry. But that’s not the only reason why The Rivalry stands out above the rest. ‘Broward County’ By Tim Hyland ATHLETICS 28 Ten to Remember: By Chuck Burton 20 Versatile Van Streepen 38 Experience The Rivalry in New York City 21 PROFILE 80 What We Stand For: By Joe Sterrett ’76, Murray H. Goodman Dean of Athletics Mason Beckman ’15 WELCOME BACK NOTES Lehigh opened its doors for 37 FROM THE the return of students in late 32 Michael in the Middle ALUMNI DIRECTOR August, ushering in another academic year and bringing Michael Smerconish ’84 is doing his part—on radio, on television, and in print—to change the 40 LEHIGH DISPATCH new life to campus. tenor of American political discourse. By Michael Bradley 74 IN REMEMBRANCE Photo by Christa Neu 80 END PAPER What We Stand For ON THE COVER: Chicago-based illustrator Dan Consgrove created this cover celebrating the 150th playing of the Lehigh-Lafayette game. The image of the player in the foreground references the Lehigh player in this photograph above, taken during a Lehigh-Lafayette game believed to have been played in the 1930s. Photo from Lehigh Athletics 2 | LEHIGH BULLETIN FALL 2014 | 1 UP FRONT UP FRONT MASTHEAD CORRESPONDENCE STAFF A HEROIC TRAILBLAZER AND OTHER LEHIGH HEROES ANOTHER LEHIGH PIONEER The story of Dr. Costel Denson’s experience as a Lehigh under- We should all be proud of the tremendous legacy that Presi- EDITOR Tim Hyland graduate in the early 1950s evoked many memories of the times dent Alice P. Gast brought to Lehigh University. She has clearly [email protected] and how I was part of the overwhelming mass of fellow students demonstrated that women can and will bring great leadership who could have reached out to Cos, but didn’t. to academe. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Being the first in my family to go to college, I think I was most It wasn’t always so. My wife, Astrid B. Kromayer, arrived in Kurt Pfitzer, Mary Ellen Alu worried about how I should act in this new and very different and Bethlehem in June of 1951, having completed two years as a CONTRIBUTING WRITERS somewhat scary environment. I didn’t know much about race or teaching assistant and a master’s degree in Spanish Language Mike Unger, Kelly Hochbein religious relations, grew up as and Literature at Brown University. However, Michael Bradley, Linda a Protestant kid in a predom- when she applied for a position as an instruc- Harbrecht, Robert Nichols, inantly Jewish neighborhood tor in Romance Languages at Lehigh (and Dawn Thren in Brooklyn, and knew when three other colleges in the Lehigh Valley) she LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES DESIGN to keep my mouth shut. In was informed by return mail that “We do not Pentagram the 60-plus years since I’ve hire women.” learned a great deal. But things changed. Lehigh found that it was DESIGN DIRECTOR In Cos’ article I learned LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES unable to find a qualified male instructor to cov- Kurt Hansen about some of the heroes at er two sections of Spanish for the 1951–1952 se- ART DIRECTOR that time to include the late mesters. So Astrid was hired to teach those two David Pryor Paul Franz ’44 who apparently sections. Later, due to a serious illness of one of was key in getting Cos on cam- the tenured professors, she ended up teaching PHOTOGRAPHERS pus with the help of the Dravo two additional sections, teaching an overload. Christa Neu, Stephanie Veto sisters. During my 12 years She concealed the fact that she was pregnant, BUSINESS SUPPORT as Lehigh’s alumni director and wore her first maternity dress to the final More Than a Game Sue Gaugler (1983-1995), I soon learned exams in June of 1952 when she was six months that Paul was a master at ad- Paul Franz ’44 pregnant. The response from the students was CONTACT US Lehigh University Alumni Association vancing the support to Lehigh immediate: “Hope it is a boy (Lehigh Class of 27 Memorial Drive West that our alumni gave, as well as those in the philanthropic and 1974)!” appeared on numerous exam papers. Little did those Bethlehem, PA 18015-3734 The first thing Mark McGowan ’89 wanted ery bit as much to Lafayette people, as any other (610) 758-3135 business communities. Paul’s talents and charm were known na- male students realize that my daughter, born in September 1952, to know was where I went to college. rivalry game matters to any other school in the Fax: (610) 758-3316 tionwide. He was and is a Lehigh hero. could have graduated from Lehigh in 1974. I was interviewing McGowan, who quarter- country. It may not draw the attention that Hotline: (610) 758-ALUM Dr. Denson tells us of the greatness of Dr. Alan Foust (the tall So Astrid B. Kromayer may well have been the first female backed his team to a 17-10 win over Lafayette games like Ohio State-Michigan or Auburn-Al- CLASS NOTES AND Texan) as well as the ignorance of another professor. There was instructor at Lehigh. She later earned a PhD at Rutgers Uni- in the last game ever played at Taylor Stadium abama or Army-Navy do, Yeager told me, but REMEMBRANCES a lot of ignorance then, as there is now, perhaps more subtle to- versity and retired from Moravian College in 1992 after a long Diana Skowronski back in 1987, for this issue’s cover feature—a Lehigh-Lafayette still matters. To him, to his (610) 758-3675 day—if ignorance is ever subtle. Dr. Foust was a Lehigh hero. teaching career. feature that attempts to get at the heart of what fellow football alums, to the entire Lehigh com- [email protected] I was at the dinner in 2006 when Harry Levine ’56 recognized —Peter H. Kromayer ’60 M.S. it means to compete in the most played rivalry munity—it really, really matters. Our cover sto- SUBSCRIBERS Cos and expressed the regrets of all of us there when he spoke in college football history. “Look, I’m a college ry —in which we talk to former Lehigh football For address changes, send of Cos’ social isolation and loneliness. (Prior to the speech I had football junkie,” I explained to McGowan. “But players about what it means, and how it feels, to the mailing label, along with just presented the Alumni Award to Harry, a longtime friend and AN INVITATION TO THE ARTS your new address, to: I have to admit—I didn’t go to Lehigh. So I’ve play in college football’s most played rivalry— Alumni Records / Lehigh University a deserving alumnus.) I consider Harry a hero for his recognizing I read with interest, in the Spring 2014 Lehigh Bulletin, the note got some homework to do here.” helps explain why. This issue also provides you 125 Goodman Drive that the balm of an apology was long overdue for Dr. Denson. about Theo Anderson’s recent exhibition, “Complexity.” To Bethlehem, PA 18015-3055 That’s when he jumped in. with all of the information you need to make the 610-758-3015 Dr. Denson tells of how there was an alignment of the trustees make the story a bit more complex, I would just like to let you “Well, where did you go?” he joked. “Because most of your Lehigh-Lafayette weekend in the [email protected] and the Lehigh administration and faculty. The Board of Trust- know how that exhibition came about. if you say Lafayette, I might have to hang up.” Big Apple. Just check out the two-page Rivalry ees chairman was Dr. Eugene G. Grace ’99 and our president After viewing Theo’s images, Lehigh University Art Galleries ADVERTISING Yes, if there’s one thing I learned while work- Weekend primer on pages 38-39. Sue Gaugler was Martin Dewey Whitaker. I think that maybe during my four (LUAG) invited him to allow us to curate a show in the Dubois ing on this story, it is this: Lehigh folks take this I hope that you will enjoy reading this special Lehigh University years at Lehigh I may have seen them twice—quite a contrast Gallery, Maginnes Hall for our Spring 2014 exhibition program. 125 Goodman Drive rivalry series awfully seriously. issue of the Bulletin as much as we enjoyed put- Bethlehem, PA 18015-3754 from Dr. Alice Gast and Peter Likins, Lehigh’s leader during my At the same time, we asked former President Alice Gast to speak I grew up near Cleveland, rooting for the ting it together, and welcome you, as always, to (610) 758-3015 working years there. at the Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for “Complexity.” We Ohio State Buckeyes each year against hated share your thoughts and comments by emailing [email protected] In Lehigh’s history there have been the great-minded, and were delighted with her enthusiasm and initiative about Theo’s Michigan, and I later attended college at Penn me at [email protected], or by sending mail to LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN some small-minded.