54 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES at Northeastern University, another is a professor of health care law and bioethics at Touro University in New York, and the third is lead attorney for Nature Conservancy’s Asia operations based in Beijing. “I did not do a senior year at Lehigh, going on to graduate work after my junior year. After medical school at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, I went to the University of Michigan for internship through fellowship, spending a nine-year span at Ann Arbor interrupted by two years in the U.S. Navy. In 1997 I earned a master’s in public health from Harvard.” Steve Goldmann wrote, “Hard to believe that most of us are celebrating eight decades of progress this year. The passage of time can be harsh, and I mourn the loss of my dear friend and fraternity brother, Howie Bayne. He brought light and a smile to all he touched. “I do not recall when I last sent an update. Many of our classmates know that I lost my bride of 45 years to kidney cancer in 2012. I remarried in 2016 to Bette Green, a mutual friend of Joyce’s and mine from our church choir. I am still singing, but not as well as under the Boss. Bette is a lovely woman who has blended well into my family. I am greatly blessed with a son in San Francisco with three boys and a daughter in Dallas with five daughters. Plus, a great-grandson who is 18 months. I retired from ExxonMobil in 2003 with the last seven years of that career spent in China. It was a great experience. I focus on my nonprofit interests in retirement. I remain on the board of the YMCA of the Rockies and still build with Habitat two days a week in Dallas. Bette and I spend our summers at home in Estes Park, Colo., and would welcome visits from any classmates visiting that beautiful part of the world.” Bob Young and Jane Magenheim continued to spend more time at their “vacation” home (an 1899 farmhouse with four bedrooms on 10 acres) in the village of Roxbury, N.Y., about 150 miles northwest of NYC in the Catskill Mountains. They made the decision to put their Upper West Side Manhattan apartment up for sale and start additions that would double the footprint of the original house. They moved in 2022. Joining in the community, Bob has been elected to the presidency of the Roxbury Senior Citizens Club for his third term. Bob and Jane were also founding members of the Middletown Republican Club as treasurer and secretary respectively. They also took training and became Republican election officers and work election days from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. In 2024 they were nominated and elected to the Roxbury Republican Committee. On the medical front Bob was diagnosed with hydrocephalus in early 2017 and had brain surgery to drain the excess fluid. That doesn’t deter his current exercise program of splitting logs for four families. Jane had various bouts with pneumonia that required three hospitalizations in 2021-22. They have two young grandsons living in Queens, who give Bob the only reason that he would want to go to NYC. They belong to Congregation B’Nai Israel in Fleischmanns, N.Y. ’67 Eric Hamilton, journeyman618@ gmail.com Last summer, Donald Martin wrote too late for the fall column. He wrote, “After graduation, I returned to the Connecticut Shore and joined the Southern New England Telephone Company Marketing Department in New Haven, moving to Hartford before being called to active duty in the U.S. Navy Reserve. “I served two years at Naval Facility, Pacific Beach, Washington (1969 to 1971). Shortly after returning to Connecticut, I said goodbye to the telephone business and moved to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire to start a construction business with my brother, Darrell, who’d just finished his U.S. Army enlistment as a Green Beret. “I finished my Navy obligation with a Reserve Construction Battalion (Seabee unit) in Manchester, N.H., and achieved the rank of first-class petty officer (PN1) before completing my six-year enlistment. “[The year] 1974 saw the birth of my son, Jon, and 1975, I left the construction business to start a career in real estate. 1977 saw the birth of my daughter, Sara. Jon is now a licensed consulting forester in Bridgewater, N.H. He and his wife, daughter and son live on a 135-acre award-winning tree farm. Sara is a licensed professional clinical counselor and lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Fe, N.M. “In 1979 I opened Old Mill Properties Realtors in Bristol, N.H., which I ran until 2012, when I sold it to the present owner. Over the years, I served as chairman of the Town of Bristol Planning Board and Conservation Commission and most recently served on Bristol’s Energy Committee. I chaired the Grievance and Professional Standards Committees of the Lakes Region Board of Realtors for many years and served as its president in 1994. “We’ve been members of the Society for Protection of N.H. Forests since 1979, the Sierra Club since the early 2000s and other conservation organizations. Although I retired from real estate in 2013, I continue to hold an active license. Currently I’m the organist at my Masonic Lodge in Bristol. “I married Sue Martin in 1985, and between us, we have four children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. “Sue and I have enjoyed traveling. We visited Germany on our honeymoon. We made several visits to Quebec, Ontario, and Canada’s Maritime Provinces. We enjoyed trips to the Caribbean and most of the states and camping on the Finger Lakes, the Thousand Islands, Lake Champlain, and the Mississippi in Wisconsin. We have made many family trips to our time-share in the Riviera Maya in Mexico taking in the culture, archeology, turquoise-accented beaches and other gorgeous scenery. “After several winter visits to both coasts of Florida, we bought a condo in Port St. Lucie in 2022. We hung up our skis, snowshoes and snow shovels to become Snowbirds. “Theta Chi brother Gary Tilles has stopped by here in N.H. a couple of times while skiing northern New England. We keep in touch regularly by email and phone.” Don can be reached by writing to P.O. Box 135, Bristol, NH 03222 or calling 603-254-3440. As for me, I keep in touch with D’Arcy Roper. He and wife, Mary, enjoyed the holiday season. I, on the other hand, spent the week before Thanksgiving in the hospital with four broken ribs and a slight lung puncture. I am mending well. ’68 George Klacik, 27 Oak Forest Lane, Summit, NJ 07901, gklacikjr@ aol.com, (908) 273-7850. Bill Josey provided this update: “As our graduation approached, I had a lot of angst over what to do afterwards: take a job, go on to graduate work or enlist in the military (the Vietnam War was raging). I chose a civilian job as a mathematician with the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C. I married, and we spent five years in London with the Navy. Meanwhile, my work in anti-submarine warfare evolved into software development management, and later program management, for various command and control systems. When my Navy command moved to San Diego in BRAC 95, I chose to stay in Washington and found an IT management job with the Army. I retired after 43 years. My wife and I still live in the
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