46 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES three years ago. Jim married a university professor in 1996, and their daughter is now working on her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. He hasn’t run into many Lehigh grads lately—except for Curt Cochrane ’74, his longtime friend and tax preparer. We always welcome updates, stories—even tall tales—about mini-reunions, cross-country adventures and all the rest. Keep them coming! ’77 Ann Louise (Werley) Price, 2 Colton St., Farmington, CT 06032. (860) 677-1295 (H); prokemo@comcast.net For those of you who went to some of the fall football games, please send a note about classmates you may have seen! Jim Williams recently retired after 45 years in the life insurance industry. His wife, Lynn, retired last year, so she has had a head start, and now they are both looking forward to this next phase! Happiest of holidays to everyone … and all the best wishes for 2026. Make it an early New Year’s resolution to drop me an email! ’78 Gail D. Reinhart, 215 N. Center St., #1407, San Antonio, TX 78202-2723. ladygailus@yahoo.com Greetings, classmates! Several of you got in touch with me right after I submitted my last column, so I was able to start off with enough info to nearly hit my word limit. Go team! Michael Hahn retired in April from Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems, where he worked for more than 36 years in the Los Angeles area. Before that, he worked for four years at General Research Corporation in Santa Barbara, Calif., after returning from a postdoctoral position in Duesseldorf, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research. He received his master’s degree in metallurgical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then returned to Lehigh for his Ph.D. in metallurgy and materials engineering. Mike lives in Torrance and is married to the former Irmhild Oelgeschlaeger, whom he met in Germany. They have one son, Lucas, 34. Mike continues to teach part time at the University of Southern California and is active in the Los Angeles Chapter of ASM International (formerly the American Society for Metals). Mitchell Liswith visited Chris Kwoka and Meg Pietrasz in San Mateo, Calif., after he attended the annual HeartMath Institute conference in Santa Cruz. Mitchell helped Chris and Meg get their motorhome ready for a road trip to Alaska. He reports, “The three of us continue to enjoy retirement!” Mitchell’s newest granddaughter, Charly, was born in April. Gloria Holt Hartman is living in Longboat Key, Fla., and feeling “lucky to live where we can golf, play tennis and enjoy the beach.” In April, she met up for lunch with Alpha Phi sisters Marilyn (Lasser) Nuber and Pam (Timmerman) Mousseau ’79, who live nearby. Gloria, Marilyn and Paul Dietrich also represented Lehigh at the Sarasota Lehigh-Lafayette telecast party in November 2024. She says, “We were outnumbered, but it was a really fun event—especially since we won the game.” To see your name in this space, send me your news by snail mail, email or Facebook. Also, you can find our class Facebook group at facebook. com/groups/Lehigh1978. ’79 Lance M. Bell, 952 River Run Dr., Macedonia, OH 44056-2369. (216) 2193729 (mobile); lanceb344@ gmail.com Ann (Pinto) Newberry veered off the technical path 13 years ago to start a senior and specialty move management business called Smooth Transitions of Massachusetts. She helps families and individuals who are downsizing their living space with sorting their lifetime of treasures, packing, unpacking and settling into their new living space, as well as offering and executing options for what to do with the items they leave behind. She also handles estate cleanouts. Ann sells pottery that she makes as a hobby. Her three kids have flown the coop and are living in different states. They plan an annual adventurous family vacation. They have whitewater rafted down the Grand Canyon and taken a llama trek through Yellowstone. Peg (Pfenninger) Dahme has been working as a financial adviser for the past 46 years. Her son, Zach, is taking over the business while she learns to stop working. Her daughter, Jordan (Dahme) Susko ’13, works in M&A and has Peg’s two ultra-fun grandchildren, ages 3 and 1. Peg continues to race triathlons and running events, most recently the NYC half-marathon. She plans to race in the Ironman Lake Placid during July 2026. Peg loves attending Lehigh football games with Barry Glickman, Jan Lewis, David Caplan ’78 and Mike Silverman. They hilariously relive their youth at every game! Peg says to stay clear of them if you embarrass easily. Barry Hamlette shared an article from Worcester Magazine (which used his performing pseudonym) about his music career. Barry is a Pittsburgh native but has been living in the Worcester, Mass., area. He often performs at elder care and memory care centers. He performs both cover songs and original compositions. His recordings have been played on radio stations in both Pittsburgh and Worcester. I traveled to Lehigh for the Reunion and connected with several of our classmates who come back between our fiveyear reunions. I talked with Felix Endico about the AI-Powered Problem-Solving education session. Scott Nicholas and I attended the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni Reception. A group of students were invited, so we had the opportunity to answer some of their questions and learn more about them. Julie (Cassidy) Schiefer and Jeff Schiefer ’80 joined me on the tour of the Clayton University Center as we learned about the impressive renovation. Barry Glickman and I traded notes at ReunionFest about bands and venues we enjoy. As always, Cory Ackerman was with the Alumni Band and entertaining the crowd. Jim Esch visited with Dorothy and me over the summer. Family members were traveling from several states to meet in Ohio over the weekend of July 4. I took Jim on a tour of the historic church that we belong to. We also enjoyed conversation over lunch. He has been very busy serving as a lay speaker for many churches in his area (he’s still living in Florida). Jim asked me to challenge all of you to visit at least one classmate between reunion years. ’80 Mark Hembarsky, Mhem barsky1980@gmail.com Last June, we celebrated our milestone 45th reunion. It was a fantastic weekend. It was great getting together, sharing our long-ago and current stories and “Cookin’ Up Lehigh Memories” (our parade theme). Attendees included the following illustrious classmates, as well as their spouses, partners, friends and family: Michael Antunes, Mary (Weis) Archer, David Beard, Katrina Branting, Melissa Buckmaster, Jeff Cass, Mike Connor, James Donahue, Diane (Symnoski) Duda,Perry Fooskas, Mary Beth (Keating) Gakos, Connie (Paul) Greendoner, Bob Gutstein, Susan (Bregstein) Hembarsky, Mark Hembarsky, Andy Hollingsworth, Carol (Delia) Hollingsworth, Joel Isaacson, Roger Lovelett, Craig Madsen, Jennifer (Somes) Martin, Beth (Murphy) Moeur, Mary Jay (Farmer) Mullowney, Michael Newbern, Doug Pitney, Rick Rogers, Frank Scattene, Jeff Schiefer, Caroline (Herald) Smith, Wendy Weiss, Lynne “Tex” Whitworth, Budd Wiesenberg, Brian Woolford and Hampo Zadoyan. Of impressive note, David Beard was honored with the
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