CLASS NOTES | SUMMER 2025 | 45 the Class of ’75 will be posted somewhere near the renovated meeting room we funded in the Clayton University Center. Prior to Reunion, I heard from Amy (Satuloff) Lemle and Craig Lemle ’74. Valerie (Smith) Hirsch ’83, my wife, and I are a Lehigh couple and have been married for 39 years and thought that was an accomplishment. Yet we are nowhere near Amy and Craig Lemle, who have been married almost 50 years! If you are a Lehigh couple or know of one who has been married longer than or almost as long as the Lemles, let us know. I also heard from Ken Ludlum. Ken has lived, worked and studied some more, in NYC. He started as a computer salesman, graduated from the Columbia Business School and then went into investment banking. In 1983, he requested and was granted by Dean Witter Reynolds a transfer to their San Francisco office. He lived in San Francisco for eight years before he and his wife moved to the suburbs when their kids started coming—Alex is now 37 and Emma is 32. Ken switched careers in 1990 to become a CFO, then CEO of medical technology and biotechnology companies in Silicon Valley. He retired in 2016 and is now enjoying “every day is a Saturday” life! But not one to sit still, Ken sits on the boards of directors of medical and biotechnology companies and nonprofit and charitable organizations. I am sure he created some stories at Reunion for me to report on for our next edition. Like the Class of ’75 Facebook Page (managed by Jeff Sherman): facebook.com/ lehighseventyfive?fref=ts ’76 Paul Laschiavo and Jamie Holbrook, Lehigh76correspondents@ gmail.com. Fellow Kappa Sigma Stu George connected with me recently. He and his wife, Sue (Bschorr) George ’77, are in Bethany Beach, Del. Their daughter is living with them as the daughter’s husband is a U.S. Navy E-2 Hawkeye pilot. Stu must be really proud of his SIL. Fully half of his email was about the guy! (Having spent a year-anda-half at sea aboard Navy helicopter carriers, I understand fully. …) Stu mentioned that he stayed at Lehigh for his MBA as Sue finished her senior year. He and Sue are now spending time with their kids and grandkids as, he says, most of us are now doing! Randy Corelli also popped up. After graduation, he joined the family business, Corham Artificial Flowers, a company started by his grandfather in the Depression. He spent 20 years there, even starting the Petals mail order catalog, which grew to over a million customers. Simultaneously, he earned his MBA at Pace University. An avid golfer, he was a member of the legendary Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where he routinely played in member-guest tournaments with Howard Foltz ’77. Also an avid baseball fan, Randy played league baseball in Westchester County, N.Y., and coached Little League baseball and football. After leaving the family business, he pursued other “investment opportunities” in real estate, stocks and commodities. He and wife Teresa moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where they enjoyed going to MLB Spring Training. They then moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., where Randy became a deacon and Teresa showed off her singing talents in several choirs in the Phoenix area. When the economy hiccupped in 2008, he switched gears and became an author and screenwriter. According to Randy, his first book enjoyed “modest sales but great reviews.” Then he survived a “widow-maker” heart attack and attributes his continued survival to natural medicines where traditional approaches let him down. Proclaiming that “God is still not done with me yet,” he survived a second heart attack two years ago. He and Teresa now live in Teresa’s home state of Oklahoma near their combined 29 nieces and nephews. He’s got two more books and a screenplay in the works. Randy writes a great freebie baseball bimonthly email newsletter called “Out of the Batter’s Box.” If you like baseball, it is really good. It sounds as if he knows the players personally! If you’d like to be added to the distribution list, send me an email and I’ll get you on it. Speaking of emails, co-correspondent Jamie Holbrook and I have been trying to nudge classmates to connect so we can include you in our column. Please respond! We’re coming up on 50 years since graduation—your classmates would love to hear about you. If you’ve never seen your name in here, we’re looking for you! ’77 Ann Louise (Werley) Price, 2 Colton St., Farmington, CT 06032. (860) 677-1295 (H); prokemo@comcast.net Classmates … news is bleak! I have nothing to report! Hope everyone has had a good winter and spring, and now that summer has arrived, you may feel invigorated to write! ’78 Gail D. Reinhart, 215 N. Center St., #1407, San Antonio, TX 78202-2723. ladygailus@ yahoo.com When I started writing this column, most of the news was about people’s professional accomplishments. Now, 22 years later, we’re in various stages of life transition. Some are still working in their first profession, others have taken up a second career (often less corporate than the first), and a third group is fully retired. Among all three groups, much of the news is about grandchildren and travel and reunions with old friends. Bob Kennedy is enjoying his second career as an author. He recently published his eighteenth children’s book, which he notes “at least has a connection to my Lehigh EE degree.” The book, “Sam Learns About Electricity,” is an activity book to teach kids ages 6 to 10 about electrical concepts, safety and energy savings. You can buy a copy for your grandkids on Amazon (amazon.com/ dp/B0DYJPF4QZ). Bob also reports attending his 50th reunion at Whippany Park (N.J.) High School in 2024. The reunion reunited him with Dave Dziemian and Lew Chasalow. Like Bob, both are enjoying retirement and grandchildren. Dave welcomed a new grandson in early 2025. Rich Rodack is living in southern New Jersey near Philly. He has two granddaughters, after putting two of his three children through Lehigh, classes of 2010 and 2013. He retired from ExxonMobil about eight years ago and is enjoying retirement, fishing on the Susquehanna River near Wilkes-Barre, and taking classes for free as a senior citizen at Rowan University. In December 2024 he caught his first muskellunge, “a 42-inch beauty that was safely released to fight another day.” He’d like to hear from classmates Ray Kramer, Greg Scott, Alex Moeller, Dave Herbener and Uly Weist. Debra (Morenci) Gault ’83G reports that the annual Phi Sigma Kappa spring get-together tradition continues. This St. Patrick’s Day, Bryan Gault, Bill Phillips, Dave Mendenhall, Bill Long and Chris Bailey ’77 met up in St. Petersburg, Fla., for five days of “spring training games and shenanigans.” Steve Dill says that he and his wife are still enjoying “life in paradise” (California), they’re now grandparents, and they both still love their work.
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