50 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES St. Augustine were Joelle (Gussow) Sullivan (living in Conn.), Barbara (Yingling) Lewis (living in N.J.) and Liz (Curtis) Hammer (living just outside of Boston). It’s possible that the AOPi fight song was belted out during a bay cruise on Saturday evening! Back at school where it all began for us, Michael Lewis and Jim Stone ’88 returned to campus to see the Lehigh football team defeat Holy Cross at Goodman Stadium on a gorgeous, 55-degree Saturday in early November. Michael sampled all the burgers, dogs, fried Oreos and beverages at a tailgate hosted by Andy Kosko and his brother Michael Kosko ’87 (both Lehigh football alums) before and after the 38-3 Lehigh victory. Shout-out to the Koskos, who ran a banger of a tailgate, serving “victory dogs” to most of the Lehigh football players as they deservedly swaggered out of the stadium after the win. You’ve never seen college athletes so happy at the sight of free food! At halftime of the same game, Michael secured a “stadium-selfie” with the equally fierce tailgaters Valerie (Hoesch) Gladd, Jen Manieri Fetterolf, Paula (Gross) Piercy and Wendy (Byers) Wernoch. He then also sampled their food and beverages after the game! Thank you, crew! Fantastic showing by our alumni during the fall months of 2025! Keep it going, and keep the updates coming, classmates! As you read this, it will be spring and the trees will be blooming in Bethlehem. Perfect time to hang out on the quad at Lower Cents, the steep grass in front of Dravo or M&M, the UC lawn or at the endless fields stretching across Saucon Valley. Go Lehigh! ’91 Diana (Zoller) Perkins, dianazoller@ gmail.com ’92 Melissa (Gitlin) Jacoby, mgjacoby@ gmail.com; and Rachel (Beck) Diamond, rachelmbeck@ hotmail.com In a funny turn of events, Melissa Gitlin Jacoby’s son, Max, is living with Scott Kornfled and Pam (Goebel) Kornfeld’s ’93 son, Drew, during his semester abroad. Both boys are juniors at the University of Denver and very much enjoying their time in Prague. Small world for sure! Scott lives in Westfield, N.J., and keeps in touch with his Pi Lam brothers Paul Witte and Jon Stimmel. Scott and Pam just saw Paul’s band, Millie’s Closet, play. Oh, the great memories of Paul’s big hair shows at Lehigh! Joining Paul in Millie’s Closet are fellow Lehigh alums Bryan Schait ’93 and Chris Pastore ’95. Shawn Donahue and his wife, Christina, live in Bethlehem, just a short distance from the Goodman campus. Lucky for them, there’s great dog-walking around the athletics complex. Their oldest daughter, Maria, graduated from Pitt in May 2025 and is now attending graduate school at Lehigh, where she’s also a graduate assistant in student-athlete development. A former women’s lax player at Pitt, she primarily advises firstyear student-athletes at Lehigh. Their son, Constantine, is a sophomore at the University of Tennessee, and their youngest daughter, Grace, is a freshman in high school. Professionally, Shawn works in commercial and industrial real estate. He and his business partner started their company, Veraxia Commercial Real Estate Solutions, in 2015. From time to time, he crosses paths with fellow Lehigh civil engineers including Rob Freud ’94, whom he’s also seen on the summer lacrosse circuit with their daughters. Shawn is in touch with Maurice Malfatti. Mo and his wife, Meghan, live in Wilmington, N.C., with their daughter, Auguste (“Auggie”), and son, Loch. For nearly a decade, Shawn and Maurice’s families have connected in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., over the summer. We also heard from Matt Girardy, who is a dentist in Spring Lake, N.J. Matt’s son, Matthew, started Lehigh with the Class of 2028. He’s in the College of Arts and Sciences with an undecided major, and he will be in great company as part of a large class at Lehigh with 1,500+ students! TJ Bennett is living in Anthem, Ariz., just outside of Phoenix, with his wife Erica and three cats, Carl, Gus and Hermie. TJ works as an executive coach (after 25 years in the advertising industry) and hosts a podcast called DesuckifyWork®. Fellow D-Phi brother Mike Moss ’91 was an early guest on the show. TJ is still in touch regularly with some of the D-Phi crew, including a running text thread with ’93ers John Hinkle, Andy Kaufman, Mike Constantinou, Chris Nebel, Steve Napolitano, Rob Sackett, Lance Baraker and Parag Patel ’94. Sean Foy (aka “Banner”) just published his debut novel, “The Grotesque,” a psychological thriller. It’s available worldwide on Amazon (amzn. to/3WGXscW). He and his wife, Joanne Oscar ’93, have a daughter, Devon, who is a rising cross-country and track star, running for Plymouth North High School in Massachusetts. Their younger daughter, River, is in middle school and has dad as a soccer coach. Thanks for all the updates! Keep them coming! ’93 Darren Saks, Dksaksinc@ yahoo.com, 201-310-8460 I hope everyone is doing well. Please send me any updates as I’m sure our great Class of 1993 is up to some good stuff. I heard from Peter Dreyer. He is living large with wife Kerryann and four children (13, 12, 10 and 9) in Connecticut. He is serving as the managing partner of Silver, Golub & Teitell, which is a law firm with offices in Stamford, New Haven and Hartford. He recently became president of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, a statewide organization of over 1,100 trial attorneys committed to protecting individual rights and access to justice. On a personal note, since I haven’t received any other updates, I will fill in the space and say that our Lehigh family is not far from the end of its journey as our daughter Maddy is a junior and we have no other kids to send. If Lehigh needs a new mascot, we can enroll one of our dogs who is aptly named Goose (for the Goosey Gander— not kidding). Maddy is spending her spring semester in Rome. Our older children, Jake ’22 and Ryan ’22, are living the dream in NYC, with Ryan finishing up her master’s of architecture at Columbia and Jake working hard as an engineer at Skanska. I will add that the UC looked amazing when we visited the spectacular-looking campus for Family Weekend. Go Lehigh! ’94 Michael B. York, 575 West End Avenue #9A, New York, NY 10024; michael. york@nyplaw.com; (917) 5759391 Beyond proud and excited to report that Maddie York joins the Class of 2030! When we took the official tour, she told me that it was her first choice. I very calmly told her that she should look at other schools as she may like others even more. In my head, I had already planned the tailgate for Family Weekend 2026. I am definitely more excited than she is, but Lori and I could not possibly be prouder! The football team had one amazing season. Our team was pretty good in the ’90s when my brother David ’98 and I were there, but my father (Harvey York ’67) informed me that the team won three games in all four of his years. 12-0 is one heck of a season! Emily Ferrara ’21 (daughter of Julie (Sandler) Ferrara) founded “The Forward Bar,” a plant-based protein bar that she is now marketing nationwide. My daughter happened to randomly meet Emily in the Hamptons where she was selling The Forward Bar and was one of the first to review and love it! Ken McAlpine was part of the first Formula SAE team at Lehigh, where they raced and finished with their first entry in 1994. His family is doing well;
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