CLASS NOTES | SUMMER 2025 | 43 a lot of time touring the country with their trailer. It’s been ages since I’ve been back to Lehigh.” Ken, it’s time for a visit. Send me an email, write or call! MMXXV ’69 Peter Dane, pkdane@sbcglobal. net and George Ikeda, gaikeda425@gmail.com Ken Hull reports that after retiring in 2018 as VP of total rewards at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and doing independent HR consulting for a couple of years, he and spouse Rae now do an annual shuttle with five months in Ohio and seven months in New Hampshire, and are keeping busier than ever. Their two oldest grandsons, Tristan and Tiernan, own their own homes and are still single. Their oldest granddaughter, Gabby, graduated from Ohio Dominican University in June and is working for Battelle while pursuing her master’s at ODU on a full basketball scholarship, where she is now the all-time leading scorer in ODU history. Granddaughter Gwen is a junior at the University of Cincinnati on a track and field scholarship. Ethan, their youngest grandson, is a freshman at Wright State University, also on a track and field scholarship. Steve Levy wrote to reminisce about Professor Brian Brockway, his favorite teacher at Lehigh, noting that every business law class was exciting with everyone getting a chance to contribute. Steve remembered one particularly memorable case study involving skateboards, the Hill and contributory negligence. Who is at fault? Eyewitness accounts were related but inconsistent, and then when recounted in the homework assignment, 200 students wrote several versions with none completely accurate and many not even close. Steve is retired now but misses professors like Brockway who challenged students with mind-expanding concepts. The professor was special because he related what students learned to the real world. ’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@ cardinalglen.org, seventyone4fun4ever.letartliveon.com/ Jim Lichtenwalner and Jim Dale are chairing our 55th Reunion Committee; if anyone would like to help out, please email 55th@seventyone4fun 4ever.letartliveon.com. Mike Pavlides (mpavlides@ hotmail.com) writes: “Marie and I celebrated 52 years of marriage last year. I stopped my part-time consulting practice helping companies market to federal and local governments in January of 2024. Still live in the house we built in 1987 on 3.5 acres just outside of Columbia, Md., with lots of wild animals running all over and gorging themselves on the flowers we plant every year. “We have three daughters and two wonderful grandchildren. We visit with our granddaughter in South Carolina three times a year, and enjoy all our grandson’s activities who lives nearby, especially his band concerts … hopefully he is a future Marching 97 member. I urge all bandie alumni to support the Marching 97 Booster Club. “We travel primarily throughout the U.S., although we’re planning some as-yet undetermined international travel in 2025. I am a member of a county seniors group that teleconferences once a week and enjoys multiple outings every month. I enjoy kayaking with two buddies once a week in-season. “I try to remain active with LU through attendance at some events. I communicate with my Sigma Nu brothers fairly regularly, and we are planning a mini-reunion next year. We got back for the Colgate football game this year and had a great time in the Skybox courtesy of the Alumni Association. Marie and I are always eager to meet up with other LU alumni from our class, so give me a shout-out anytime.” Ricky Etra and Kenny Etra write: “After completion of our degrees in premed as well as our four-year basketball career playing for [Lehigh], we both attended Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Between 1975-1980 we completed our medical, surgical and ear, nose and throat residencies at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan, North Shore University hospitals on Long Island, and Albert Einstein/Montefiore hospitals in the Bronx, New York. Since 1980, we have been in private practice on Long Island and continue to practice on a full-time basis. “Regarding our basketball career, we continued to play competitively into our late 40s, having participated as members of the USA Maccabiah team in the 1989 World Games in Israel. It was a memorable lifetime event that we will forever cherish. In addition, we pursued a lifelong dream of owning a summer camp, and in 1995, purchased Camp Pontiac in upstate New York. It is a full summer coed residential camp with 500 campers and 375 staff members, and we direct it with our children and spend our summers there with them, our wives and grandchildren, and a vast array of many wonderful campers, counselors and adult staff members. “We each married our high school sweethearts, Susan (Ricky) and Karen (Kenny), who themselves spent a significant amount of time visiting Lehigh during our tenure. Ricky has a son and a daughter and four grandchildren, and Kenny has two sons and five grandchildren. We both remain extremely close with two of our lifelong friends from Lehigh who graduated in 1972, Michael Drew and Ricky Luciani. We have remained active in the Lehigh basketball program and enjoy occasional trips to Lehigh to watch our Mountain Hawks play.” ’72 Charles S. “Chuck” Steele, 2080 Flint Hill Road, Coopersburg, PA 18036. (610) 737-2156 (M); signscss@aol.com Soon after the Summer 2024 issue was published, I received the kind of update that I most prefer. They can simply be inserted, edited minimally and retain the first person tone-ofvoice of their authors. “Hi Chuck, I am Andy Zetlan, Lehigh ’72 and ’73 (Arts/Engineer). And I look forward to seeing your column each time the Bulletin comes around. After Lehigh, I began what turned into more than a 50-year career in the utility industry (electricity, gas, water, wastewater, etc.) and lived through the end of the 1990s in Delaware, where I raised three kids with my wife and earned my MBA at the University of Delaware. I later taught there for a decade prior to relocating to Silicon Valley to become part of the leadership team of a startup selling advanced metering systems for utilities. “I worked for several companies in both Delaware and in California, and even started a company that took me back to Lehigh for possible investment and a location for the business. While it didn’t pan out as hoped, it was fun getting back on campus more frequently. I also spent time assisting the Admissions office by representing Lehigh at high school college fairs and by interviewing those students who needed more information. “While in California, I was divorced and remarried, spent time in the wine business and due to family situations relocat-
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