40 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES summer in St. Louis! He is looking forward to a Canadian tour next summer with his girlfriend. Remember—you don’t wear out—you rust out! Keep moving! ’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 Bob Downing reports that he found the women’s NCAA tournament far more exciting than the men’s. The media provided lots of opportunities for us couch potatoes to watch the EIWA and NCAA wrestling tournaments. The Easterns were exciting with Lehigh finishing first with four Eastern champs and two runner-ups, sending six to the Nationals. Unfortunately, Lehigh had no national champs but had three All-Americans. Glenn Breidenbach (Bethlehem, Pa.) has been a season ticket holder for Lehigh wrestling since 1963. Glenn reported that he attended the 2025 NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships in Philadelphia in March and observed President Trump and Elon Musk at the Wells Fargo Center. Glenn reported heavy security at the arena, and he was challenged when the metal detectors identified some surgical metal in his leg. Beverly and Kent Westhelle moved from the Landings, Ga., to Sun City in Bluffton, S.C. In April they joined Malinda and Jim Murchie (Maryville, Tenn.) for a visit with Theta Delt brother Harold Milton ’63 at his winter home in Aiken, S.C. Aiken is famous for its thoroughbred races, polo and steeplechases. Beverly is an equestrian aficionado, and the group attended the Aiken Horse Show and the Aiken Spring Steeplechase. Jon Krupnick is a civil trial lawyer and founding member of Krupnick Campbell & Malone. Elaine and Jon live in Ft. Lauderdale. Jon reports, “We recently bought into a great retirement community in Boulder, Colo., where we intend to spend summers and, in a few years, make our yearround home. I’d welcome giving a tour for anyone considering a retirement community in Colorado. We are on 17 acres with only 90 units. Stand-alone house units and three-story condo-type units. So far it has been off-the-chart good—great pool—a very accomplished residence.” Jon was introduced to the hobby of philately by his father. The last day cover he did with his dad, who died in 1952 when Jon was 12, was the 80-cent Diamond Head Stamp. At the Southeastern Stamp Expo in Atlanta, a national stamp show sponsored by the Southeast Federation of Stamp Clubs (SEFSC), Jon won the multi-frame grand award for his exhibit, “Aloha ... The 80 Cent Diamond Head Stamp of 1952.” “The 80-cent stamp was issued because an orchid grower in Hilo asked the visiting postmaster general to issue an 80-cent stamp to help Hawaiian orchid growers pay with one stamp—the 80-centper-pound rate for shipping fresh orchids to mainland U.S. The grower was a Japanese-American man named Yaichi Hirose. I tried to find Hirose or his family to see what they might have that I could add to my collection. I found a nephew, Andy Hirose, who was a retired city engineer on Maui. I found an address and was finally successful in finding him. Guess what? Andy graduated from Lehigh with the Class of 1957. I’ll bet we have had very few grads from Hawaii in the 1950s,” reports Jon. ’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 Classmates: You will notice that information from and about our classmates is MIA in this issue. We haven’t received any notes, emails, smoke signals nor any other communications from anyone during the past four months. Please let us know any news that is fit to print and we’ll have another column in the next issue. ’64 David A. Riemondy, 774 Malibu Lane, Indialantic, FL 32903. (321) 7779659 (home); (321) 506-7302 (cell); malibu4u@gmail.com After the flood of news generated by our reunion and the great work done by Jay Lacke to collect news from his Delta Chi brothers, the well has run a bit dry. I did have a long conversation with Dick Rabinow. He and Kitty are spending more time in their Aspen home to escape Houston’s summer heat. Dick, like many of us I suspect, says he is slipping a bit. Not as mentally sharp as he has been but still hiking, biking and enjoying life. Their kids and grandkids are thriving, and Kitty’s photo creations business continues to do well. Looking now at the photos Kitty took of our wedding in 1963, it’s hard to believe. Our wedding reception was in the Olmstead Air Force Base Officers Club stag bar. Now the base is the Harrisburg Airport. Allen Wurzbach sent me his Christmas letter. His home in Sarasota survived the hurricanes in 2024, but low-lying areas took quite a beating from Milton. He and Marlane were looking forward to a Christmas visit from their two daughters and granddaughter. Mickey and I, in continuing denial of our deteriorating physical condition, went to the Antarctic in February. It took us three days just to get there. Two flight days and one to cross the Drake Channel. We spent a week below the Arctic Circle. The scenery is spectacular. And despite our dire anticipation, it was not too cold. A bit below freezing in what is early fall there. Viking provided all the foul weather gear we needed. And they make it as easy as they can for seniors like us to enjoy the adventure. Send me a note if you’re interested. ’65 Ronald L. Workman, 1981 Berrel Court, Yardley, PA 19067-7225. (215) 808-0809 (H); ron_work man@prodigy.net By the time you see this, our 60th Reunion is history. I hope that all of you who attended enjoyed seeing old friends and had a good time while you were on campus. Had a nice note from Irvin Lindemuth just after my last deadline. He reports: “In December 2023, I celebrated my 80th birthday. In August 2024, Hedy and I celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary, with the entire family (two daughters and their husbands, one married grandson and his wife, our six other grandchildren and our great-granddaughter) along with about 20 friends gathered in Pagosa Springs, Colo., for the celebration. “I had a truly unique and unexpected surprise during the December holidays. I met with one of my teenage idols, singer Pat Boone (“April Love,” “Love Letters in the Sand,” etc.) at his home in Beverly Hills (less than 10 miles from the Palisades Fire). Long story short: Pat is a strong advocate for fusion energy and has produced several videos on the need for fusion. Through an intermediary, I was introduced to Pat because of my fusion energy research. It was fun to discuss some of the parallels in our lives: descended from America’s forefathers (Pat—Daniel Boone, me—a colonel in Washington’s army), married at an early age (Pat—19, me—20), married to one woman (Pat—for 64 years before his wife passed away in 2019), only daughters for children (Pat—4, me—2), played senior basketball (Pat—maybe 70; me—around 65), organized basketball leagues (Pat—pro
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