CLASS NOTES | SPRING 2025 | 65 the FCS playoffs, where they unfortunately lost. We attend all the games because our daughter Alex is a sophomore and cheers, so we feel invested in the team and the players. They truly play with their heart and soul. Coach Cahill has done a fabulous job of turning the football program around. Every weekend, the Lehigh Football Partnership hosts a tailgate in the Rust Pavilion. You are welcome to stop by, and get involved in the program, if you attend any home games. Classmates Mike Kosko and Perry Smith are usually there, being hosts, and turning burgers on the grill; both are active with the Lehigh Football Partnership. Mike, Perry and Joe Uliana were fortunate enough to head on a charter plane to Idaho to cheer on and support the team. Even though there was a loss, Lehigh football had a great season and the future looks bright. Lehigh-Lafayette tailgates and weekend was a great time to rekindle old friendships and catch up. Jamie (Sorcher) Pitzer ’88, Sharon Siegel Voelzke ’88 and Janet (Pickens) Cole ’88 had their phenomenal tailgate again with over 160 attendees. Fellow ’87s at the tailgate included Lisa Hakim, Jill Tirnauer, D.J. Jefferis, Will Adams, John Herr, John Herd, Mark Feldman, Bill Tillinghast, and Catherine “C.J.” (Jaccodine) Hovey. Other tailgates that I stopped by included Crows’, with the two Johns, Brent Byers, Mark Wilhelm ’86, and Tim Kessler ’86, among others. Pete Antico also was partying nearby and hosted Todd Silva and other former Theta Xis. I believe the Sammys were up for the weekend, but didn’t see them, although Andrew Levy said they attended the Trombone Shorty concert at Wind Creek the night before. The AOPi group also had a great turnout. Despite my pleas for news, no one ever writes, but luckily Michael Stein reached out just as this column was due. Mike and I were part of a group of people who considered themselves “pre-law” at Lehigh. I guess we are two of the group who are still practicing. Mike just crossed 27 years at Morgan Stanley—19 years as global head of government relations. Mike says that “the intersection of Wall Street and Washington has been indeed a most fascinating crossroad to spend over three decades. I think I’ve seen it all … until you realize day after day you haven’t in this business!” Mike is still having lots of fun working in D.C. and living in Virginia since leaving Bethlehem—with an eye toward spending more and more time in Chatham on the Cape as he rolls into, as he says, “this experienced age that carries a six-handle! Thankfully and most importantly my wife and kids are healthy and doing well (in NYC and Florence, Italy).” So happy that Mike reached out— I remember us all studying for constitutional law and wondering where life would take us. Can’t believe we now are where we are! Wishing you all the best in 2025. Please reach out if you have any news or just to say hi. Would love to hear about those upcoming birthday parties and girls and guys weekends away! ’88 Dave Best, dave@ bestcollegeconsulting.com ’89 Jocelyn (Gitlin) Deutsch, 9 Vincent Lane, Armonk, NY 10504; jocelyndeutsch@hotmail.com Anthony Wolk, Jeff Kollin, Dave Hirschberg and Gordy Levey recently played golf to support the SCOPE charity in honor of Jay Canell and Neil Canell. Summer camp is an essential component of the yearround educational continuum and plays a critical role in helping children from underserved communities to thrive. SCOPE bridges the opportunity gap by making summer camp accessible to children from financially disadvantaged families. Also please join me in congratulating Jay and Neil on the recent move of The Canell Group to Wells Fargo Advisors. John “JT” Thomas has spent the last two years engaging his creative side and self-published two books. One is based on the war in Ukraine, which was inspired by his friendship with fellow Chi Psi brother Pete Pawlenko ’90. The other book he wrote with his mother about a special Christmas in 1974 in his hometown of Charleston, W.V., about “something my father did that shaped my thinking about humanity and compassion for our fellow man.” All of the proceeds go to the charity Save the Children. If you would like to read “Three Yellow Balloons from Ukraine” and “A West Virginia Christmas Story: A True Story” and support JT’s great work, check them out on bn.com. We have another author among our classmates. Rich Sherman recently published “Never Home: Remembering the Military Heroes Who Never Returned,” which honors the more than 207,000 men and women who are memorialized in America’s 23 overseas WWI and WWII cemeteries. As a full-time professional photographer and a former Navy Office and Gulf War veteran, Rich traveled and photographed every one of them—from Normandy to Tunisia, from England to Italy, and from Luxembourg to Manila—over the course of six years and wrote more than 50 biographies of those interred in these cemeteries. These range from names you know, like Roosevelt and Patton, to ones you never heard of, like Vinsant and Summers. The foreword of the book was written by Vice Admiral Doug Crowder (Ret.), the former Commander of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet. You can learn more about the project, see sample images and read media coverage at neverhomeheroes.com/index. In addition, this fall, Rich gave back to Lehigh as guest lecturer for Professor Anna Chupa’s Digital Photography class and Professor Christa Neu’s Journalism 024 class on Visual Communications. Dani (Rasmus) Crichton and Gary Crichton, Wendy (Klein) Gracias, Laurie (Fernandes) Bourgeois and Nina Chomak ’90 attended the wedding of Kathy (VanDeusen) Hatfield this summer. It was at The Honorable William Wall, which is Manhattan Yacht Club’s floating clubhouse in the harbor. ’90 Michael Lewis, mpl1968@yahoo. com and Dave Tratner, dctsports@gmail.com A special thank-you to our journalism classmate and head of the “LuLus,” Andrea Lauer Rice, for the following update. The LuLus recently celebrated 35-plus years of friendship on Hilton Head Island, hosted by Jill (Seibert) Schelling ’89! There, they competed in a “LuLu Olympics,” which featured some—ahem— “sports” you may have played at a fraternity a few years back with your spare change, along with other slightly more constructive contests. Sandy Hume-Whelan has been living in Bernardsville, N.J., for 27 years and is a high school special education teacher at nearby Ridge HS. Her oldest daughter, Sara, is a social worker for Cancer Care of NYC. Jenna, her middle child, is in community relations for the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, and her son, Patch, is studying mechanical engineering at the University of Denver. Sandy also had a great time visiting Timmy McWilliams and Susie (Talucci) McWilliams ’91 recently in Boulder, Colo. Sandy still enjoys supporting women’s basketball and loves playing golf, often with many of our classmates. Debbie Studer-Rauscher lives in Allentown, N.J., with
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