CLASS NOTES | SPRING 2025 | 53 that time, he earned a professional engineering license. In 1965, his father and two partners started a construction company, and Jake worked for them evenings and weekends. He joined the firm in 1970 as a draftsman/engineer and rose to VP, president and chairman until his first retirement at age 58. Following that, Jake began a private engineering practice, Toews & Associates, working until age 70. Jake married Mary Louise Brubaker (MLB) in spring of 1965. Burt Corwin was his best man. Jake and MLB have two children, Lisa Toews Daugherty (55), living in Arlington, Va., and Karl J. Toews (53), living in Bedford, Mass., and four grandchildren. Jake has been active in the Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity since its inception, and has served on the founding board, on the construction committee and as president. Jake notes, “We’ve both been quite active in our church, serving on boards and committees, taking mission trips, leading small groups and even some teaching. Our faith is an important part not just of our relationship but also of our priorities in how we use our time and reach out to others.” Tom Roberts worked for over 40-odd years, mostly in engineering design and manufacture, at Curtiss Wright, General Testing Labs, Summerset Technologies (a paper machine maker), American Metaseal, Piscataway Engineering, Crescent Lighting (a fluorescent fixture manufacturer), Simkar Lighting and the Robern division of Kohler. Tom lost his wife of 42 years, Floann, in 2012. Tom has three children “scattered over the country.” Doug Quayle and Gene Kiehl took a semester off during junior year and graduated in January 1965. Doug spent the next 10 years bouncing around the country with Prudential Insurance. In 1975 he and Sue decided they wanted to stay in California, so he left PRU and joined a benefits consulting firm as VP of benefits administration. Four years later, Doug started his own company, American Benefits Corporation. The company grew and merged with a similar outfit. They sold it in the mid-eighties. “Too young to retire,” Doug became a partner in a Sacramento investment firm. This lasted until December 31, 1999, when he surrendered his licenses and joined the ranks of the unemployed. Doug and Sue (Rosenberger) will celebrate their 60th anniversary in September. They have three children and three grandchildren all living close by. Doug and Sue love to travel. Over the years they have visited about 90 countries and all seven continents. Doug’s final note provides good advice for all of us: “As I pass through my eighth decade, I am trying to simplify my life, spend more time with our kids and grandkids, reflecting on the wonderful, lucky, productive life it has been.” ’65 Ronald L. Workman, 1981 Berrel Court, Yardley, PA 19067-7225. (215) 808-0809 (H); ron_workman@prodigy.net Let this be a reminder that our 60th Reunion will be held June 12-15, 2025. We will be partnering with the classes of ’60 and ’70 for the Saturday evening reception and dinner. The site for the dinner, on campus, will be dependent on our collective number of attendees. We will invite a member of the university leadership to address the group, and we will be visited by President Helble. We will march in the parade on Saturday morning and participate in the afternoon picnic. Classmates will be able to attend other university-wide events at their discretion (Thursday Brown and White Awards Night, Friday evening ReunionFest, and various tours and presentations throughout). Details and registration information was mailed in March. We also encourage our classmates to help grow our class scholarship by earmarking their annual giving for “Class of 1965 Scholarship.” H. Carl Sturcke sent me an update just after my last column was submitted, last summer, so he’s had a long wait, but here is his recap of life since Lehigh: “At the onset of COVID in 2020, which I happened to contract in February of that year, before COVID was ‘popular,’ I started thinking about retirement. I started my public accounting career during the summer of 1963, in between my sophomore and junior years at Lehigh, as an intern at a predecessor firm of KPMG. Bill Hotchkiss ’63 was hired by that firm that year and suggested I apply for an internship position. Following graduation in 1965, I returned to that firm and remained for 26 years, as a partner for the last 16. I left KPMG in June 1991 and started my own firm, Sturcke & Associates, in Montclair, N.J., and built up a significant tax practice with the help of accounting major interns at local colleges. Sturcke & Associates was inducted into the Montclair, N.J., Business Hall of Fame in 2022 following three consecutive years of winning the Accounting Firm of the Year Award. COVID made it challenging to meet client demands, so the thought of retirement was front and center and led to discussions with several other accounting/tax firms. I narrowed down my search to a local firm in Caldwell at the end of 2022 and joined them for two years at the start of 2023. I am now near the end of my commitment to the new firm and ready to start downsizing my personal life and start thinking of new adventures. I have a fondness for Colorado and Montana and visited the latter recently to visit with family and do some hiking. “My home has been in Essex Fells, N.J., for nearly 40 years, a small town between Montclair and Short Hills. Jim Hudson, a fraternity brother and classmate, grew up in Essex Fells and learned how to play hockey in the local pond in the center of town. There are no stores in town, but lots of wildlife. My family includes two sons, who live in Denver and Costa Rica, and a stepson who lives in Cincinnati. Collectively [I] have eight grandchildren, who range in age from 26 to 4. I continue to enjoy skiing, golfing and paddle tennis, while my running activities have come to a halt due to injury. Singing in the Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church choir is another favorite activity.” We enjoyed what is now becoming our annual tailgate party at the Bucknell game in September. Classmates attending included Jim Birdsall, Paul Doxey, Linda and Charlie Eyer, Janet and Ron Klayton, Jim Miller, John Varady, Karen and Joe Walton, and Ron Workman. We were joined by a number of friends and alumni from other classes and ’65 family members Gwen and Eric Varady ’96 with sons Spencer and Windsor ’28, and Tori Penske Aitchison ’92. President Helble and Mark Erickson, interim vice president for strategic planning and initiatives, updated us on Lehigh’s current and future plans. And we lost the game in double overtime after a valiant effort. ’66 James A. Tiefenbrunn, 1210 Kirkland Village Circle, Bethlehem, Pa. 18017. (484) 695-4692 (C), jat1@lehigh.edu Ed Feinberg reported, “I retired two years ago as professor and chair emeritus at Boston University School of Medicine. My time is now filled with board memberships in several organizations and home with a 1-year-old granddaughter. We have a second home in Southwest Harbor, Maine, where we spend summers hiking in Acadia National Park and sailing local waters. In winter, I am an avid cross-country skier. I often wonder how I had time to work. My children are thriving. One teaches database design
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