CLASS NOTES | SPRING 2026 | 39 wishes all our congressional representatives would emulate his work across the aisle. As class president, Paul spends some time at Lehigh working on the ethics endowment and especially the Hagerman lecture. Paul keeps an advisory committee informed and staffed with younger alumni as we replace members from our class. This reunion year he says it will be interesting to see how many of us are ambulatory when we parade! Biking and working out at clubs near home, Paul skips town (suburban Philadelphia) in the winter to take his marvelous golf career to new levels in Bonita Springs, Fla., where he catches up with Robin and George Hulsizer. Paul and Carol Anne spend time in the summer on Long Beach Island, N.J.—this year they took on a parental role by taking just the grandkids. Teenagers and their iPhones, ugh. Having nine grandchildren spread around the globe keeps Ed Watters busy. His travels to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Australia with family and friends have been enjoyable. Basque in Spain and France including Carcassonne and Guggenheim round out some other places he’s visited. Ed spent time with Jim Wright and his wife in Bar Harbor, Maine. He plays bridge weekly with Paul Smith and sometimes Wight Martindale ’60. He enjoys Lehigh’s annual scholarship dinner and working with our ’61 scholar and his personal scholar. He enjoys spending time with the students, especially when the scholar is a football player. Roy Cravzow gets invited by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations to play golf in the Bethlehem area each fall, since he made “The Bench.” Lehigh honors donors with high lifetime giving by engraving their names on stone benches at the Leadership Plaza outside the Alumni Memorial Building, serving as a permanent testament to the significant contributions of these donors. Roy brings his pro along as a player, and this year invited Paul Smith to be in the foursome (someone from the development office is the host player). Roy hasn’t played much golf as he is working on a book in Portuguese about his career with his Brazilian partner. To date, the book is more than 50% complete. Despite his fluency in Portuguese, Roy says it is quite difficult to write in a language other than his native English. Al Richmond and Kitty are enjoying life at Ashby Ponds Retirement Community in Ashburn, Va. He is no longer running marathons but is happy traversing the grounds of the 132-acre campus. He keeps in touch with his Theta Delt brothers, particularly Wil Hamp, who lives nearby. He enjoyed the successful Lehigh football season and especially the win over Yale, attending with several Theta Delt brothers. Al and Kitty will be welcoming two newborn great-grandchildren, bringing the count to nine greats in addition to 14 grands! Drop me an email message and keep the class up to date on your present happenings. See you in June! ’62 Philip J. Kinzel, 808 South Drive, Brick, NJ 08724. (732) 295-2106 (H); (973) 226-1430 (W); (973) 464-8282 (cell); pkinzel@kinzelco.com Winning its 14th Patriot League football championship and completing an undefeated regular season with a 42-32 win over Lafayette in Rivalry 161 at Easton, Lehigh earned a postseason bid and lost to Villanova on Dec. 6 at Goodman Stadium in the second round of the FCS playoff. Several classmates attended the Rivalry game, and others watched at Lehigh telecasts. Bradley “Lee” Gillespie, who has organized the Southern California party since 1989, co-hosted a watch party at Two Brothers Pizza in Huntington Beach, Calif., with an 18-foot video screen. Lee reports that approximately 40 alumni from Lehigh and Lafayette attended. Lee and Anne live in Huntington Beach. Lee sold his CPA practice several years ago, taught accounting at a community college and is enjoying retirement. George Saylor joined a group in Charlotte, N.C. Bob Henricks, a fellow bandie, has been following the games on ESPN+. Bob and Becky live in Farmington, Conn. Jim Morgan has been following the team on TV. The more adventurous classmate to attend the game in Easton was Penny and Mike Semcheski (Valley Forge, Pa.), while Wil Hamp (Ashburn, Va.) decided to attend a telecast in Bethlehem. Mike and Wil were members of the 1961 Lambert Cup Championship team and joined a postgame venison chili dinner at the home of Harold Milton ’63 in Quakertown. Your columnist hosted a watch party at his home at the Jersey Shore. Joining the party were Harry McNally ’60, Bob Voccola ’60, Anthony Mazzucca ’63, David Hartman ’63, Nick Rocha ’10 M’11 (Dave’s grandson), Phil Kinzel Jr. ’92 and Maria Kinzel Fischer, Lafayette ’04. Joining the group were spouses and friends. If you are thinking about hosting a watch party, the Lehigh Alumni Relations department is most helpful in providing a goodie box of swag with decorations and handouts to participants. While some are preoccupied with Lehigh football in November, Mike Gennet and Chris Metz were enjoying summer weather as they continued their world travels with a visit to Fremantle and Perth in Australia. ’63 Dr. Robert C. Elser, navman9@ comcast.net; and James Newton Wilson, 959 Tree Tops, Wharton, NJ 07885, (973) LEhigh7-6516 (H), (862) 2430864 (C), b14jnw@gmail.com Thanks to all of you who submitted information. We had more than we could fit into this issue. So, if you don’t see your contribution, just wait. Larry Walker writes, “My wife Judy and I are still healthy and doing well. We have four children, two while at Lehigh, and then two more. They are also doing well. I spent 40+ years in the computer industry, Control Data, Sperry Univac and two companies that I founded. With Sperry Univac, I got into high-performance computing solutions, airline reservations and large-scale banks. The highlight was leading a Univac initiative to bring AI Expert Solutions to the commercial marketplace in 1984-1987. I started PEAKSolutions in 1987, and we delivered 39 of 40 client solutions until we were frozen out by the AI Winter of 1992, which came about because many startups failed to deliver meaningful results (perhaps a lesson for today?). My second company, Knowledge Management, Inc., created a powerful knowledge management engine, only to be squeezed out of the market by the arrival of the internet, which occupied everyone’s mind space. Currently, I consult with an array of visionaries who are struggling to bring their visions to fruition. Changing the status quo is challenging.” Tom Wilson writes, “We were in our home in Asheville, N.C., on September 27, 2024, when Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina. Billions in damages and over 250 deaths. We’re on a mountain but still had a tree fall and damage the roof. Power, water, internet and cable were out for the five days that we stayed at the house, and, in the case of water, the city system was out for 53 days. We decided to head out to our place in Tucson. The best sight on the interstate south of Asheville was a convoy of about 50 Walmart tractor-trailers under police escort headed for Asheville. There were also many blue lights headed that way. The area is still recovering, and most days have news of a road, bridge, restaurant or business reopening after over a year. We’re still in Tucson!” And, from Jack de Barbadillo, “I am enjoying my recent retirement … after a 57-year run with Inco and then Special Metals. I am still staying active professionally with some consulting and invited technical papers plus endless work in yard and garden. Marianne still
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