42 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES my plea for responses for this column. I have about five more, which will have to wait for the next issue as I reached my space limit for this issue. MMXXVI ’69 Peter Dane, pkdane@ sbcglobal.net and George Ikeda, gaikeda425@gmail.com For the previous issue, we asked classmates to respond to a short survey about their perspectives on the Lehigh experience and how it had affected their careers, lives and attitudes since, including how they felt Lehigh could be improved. The responses were thoughtful and extensive enough that we had to hold three people’s comments because of space limitations. They are now included here, plus the comments of two more classmates subsequently submitted. Fond memories and inspiration from Lehigh: Steven Levy: “I loved Theta Chi. If I was not a member, I would have left Lehigh in my sophomore year. I became a lot more liberal after my freshman year.” Bill Flammer: “Beyond a doubt it is the friends I made in that four-year period.” Michael Hirschfeld’s recollection of Lehigh is reverential. “I remember above all the intrinsic beauty of Lehigh perched on South Mountain, a guardian of our highest values, a lord over the Lehigh Valley.” Levy also cited other highlights, including writing pieces for The Brown and White about coeducation. Lehigh gets credit for job successes and personal ones: Flammer has a memory of his perseverance at Lehigh. He struggled to get through in civil engineering. In his senior year, he accompanied his roommate on a visit to a guidance counselor, who checked his file and paused. “He looked at me and said, ‘You aren’t supposed to be here!’ I had not been expected to make it through freshman year! Today I have grandkids who get 4.0 GPAs in high school, and the oldest (recently) finished her freshman year at the University of Georgia with a 4.0 GPA both semesters!” He told her how proud he was of her, and of himself for graduating from Lehigh with a 2.0. Lloyd Guerci’s career path represented a sharp turn from his major’s direction, but he credits his Lehigh academic preparation with playing a role in his career success. “Like many freshmen entering Lehigh in the fall of 1965, I had done exceptionally well in the sciences in high school and, consistent with my strengths at the time, my career goal was to be an engineer. Lehigh provided an enlightening experience … very demanding. “While I graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, I decided that engineering was no longer my career choice. I went to law school and was an attorney for four decades. The academic self-discipline and commitment to excellence essentially imposed by Lehigh’s rigorous engineering program had a beneficial effect on my career.” He does not, however, give Lehigh high marks socially. “The fraternity life of high alcohol consumption on weekends left a less than normal view of normal. That impairment was not permanent, fortunately.” Rich Bond said his fondest memory is succeeding academically. That gave him the confidence to earn his MBA at Wharton, which in turn paved the way for his decades of running his own employment placement firm. Levy’s engineering career range had him working on the stealth bomber, jet engines, telecommunications and IT for a large company. Flammer’s second job took him and his wife to the South, and they never left. A job change in 1987 sent the family to Savannah, Ga., “and it turned out to be the perfect place to retire.” Family and later life interests: Two of Bond’s three sons are Lehigh alumni, and his youngest, Peter Bond ’07, is married to a Lehigh contemporary and is living in Bethlehem with two daughters. Rich and wife Lyn moved to Bethlehem a few years ago to be near them. They also serve as volunteer ushers at Zoellner. He has eased into retirement, but he still does pro bono placement work for nonprofits. In 2025 he found Historic Bethlehem an employee for a high-level finance position. He said the historic preservation organization told him she “is killing it.” Late life interests vary. Levy is learning to play piano, and is becoming active with the Massachusetts Bail Fund, an organization dedicated to securing the release of persons accused of crimes so they can be free in their communities to fight their cases. Those who chose to imagine themselves having the power to make Lehigh better had a wide range of notions. ’70 Editor’s note: To share your news or if you would be interested in becoming your class’s correspondent, reaching out to classmates and writing a column three times a year, please contact the Alumni Office at 610-758-3686 or alumni@lehigh.edu. ’71 Tom Wible, tomwible+ lehigh71@cardin alglen.org, seventyone4fun4 ever.letartliveon.com/ Brown and White cartoonist Jeanne Mater sent a picture from October’s No Kings demonstration in Bethlehem, a march which involved 5,000+ demonstrators. On campus, Jeanne was active in the C.O.E.D. demonstrations of 1968, was a committee member in the SPRING LEHIGH! campus governance movement of 1970 and led the on-campus anti-Cambodian Incursion demonstration following the Kent State murders that spring. She was also involved with the anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1969. Having grown up among the still-present ruins of postWW2 Germany, she feels strongly that silence is complicity, and that action is mandatory. Jeanne’s career began with the political/social commentary cartoons that many remember from The Brown and White, which were later syndicated in college newspapers across the country. Later, she switched to commercial illustration and was a regular contributor to books and magazines published by Rodale Press (Backpacking, Bicycling, Men’s Health, Prevention, Organic Gardening). Her studio occupies the first floor of a West Bethlehem 1892 Queen Anne Victorian duplex Jeanne has restored over the past 30 years. She says the skills learned from rock climbing (a new sport, which she started for her 73rd birthday in Utah) assist her in staying strong for these home maintenance projects! Check out seventyone4 fun4ever.letartliveon.com/ still-protesting-after-allthese-years/ for pictures and cartoons by Jeanne. ’72 Charles S. “Chuck” Steele, 2080 Flint Hill Road, Coopersburg, PA 18036. (610) 737-2156 (M); signscss@aol.com This issue continues my effort to feature some more classmates who joined our Lehigh U. Class of 1972 Facebook group but have not previously been included in these notes. Glenn L. Colehamer arrived at Lehigh from Livingston, N.J., and majored in electrical engineering until his junior year, when he switched to fine arts-architecture. When asked to verify the information gathered about him, he responded: “I retired in 2016 after a great 40-year career in manufacturing management and haven’t looked back. … So much to do in the golden years now. I have two grown kids, and three amazing grandkids ages 2-9. I’m in great health and regularly compete in foot race distances between 5K and half-marathon. I almost always finish in the top two of my age division. Between 2012 and 2018, I qualified for and completed five Boston Marathons. I ran (and finished) the race in 2013, the year of the
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