46 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES Future plans include traveling back to the northeast to visit friends for a month in September and celebrating Steve’s 70th birthday in Santa Barbara. So, what are the rest of you up to? Let me know by snail mail, email, text or Facebook Messenger. To interact with classmates between Bulletin issues, visit our class Facebook group, facebook.com/groups/ Lehigh1978. ’79 Lance M. Bell, 952 River Run Dr., Macedonia, OH 44056-2369. (216) 219-3729 (mobile); lanceb344@gmail.com Peter Goldstein, CEO of Illumifin, was appointed to the board of directors of the national Alzheimer’s Association. Peter is recognized as a distinguished leader with over three decades of industry acumen spanning the long-term care, life, annuity and health insurance markets. Since 2022, he has served as a board member of the California Southland Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. As the current CEO of Illumifin, Peter leads the insurance services and technology provider in its delivery of business processing, third-party administration, actuarial consulting and software solutions to long-term care, life, health and annuity insurers. Previously he was founder and CEO of LTCG, the nation’s largest third-party administrator and technology provider exclusively focused on serving the long-term care insurance industry. Throughout his tenure leading both companies, Peter has championed corporate-wide engagement in Alzheimer’s Association initiatives, fostering a culture of volunteerism and advocacy that makes an impact beyond the workplace. Larry Engel writes that he retired in June 2024 after a wonderful 31-year career as a wealth management advisor and senior vice president at Merrill Lynch. He’s keeping busy with seven grandchildren and a volunteer board position with the BMW Car Club of America. He serves that organization as the North Atlantic VP. He’s been able to live out many of his childhood fantasies through the BMW Club as he gets to drive fast on racetracks as much as he wants. Larry is still trying to find more time for cars, golf and fishing. He and wife Karin live in Westfield, N.J., and occasionally see some of his classmates. Larry regularly plays golf with Theta Chi pledge brother Keith Douglas, and he still stays in touch with other Theta Chi brothers. Bill Klimack dropped a note to share that he and co-author Eric Torkia have written a book titled “Decision Superhero Book 1: Driving Informed Decision-Making With Probability, Explainable Models, and Decision Science.” It is a guide for applied decision analysis and operations research techniques. Bill currently serves as decision quality manager for BP in Houston. Cynthia (Izuno) Macri shared that several years ago her picture was printed in The New York Times for a Title IX segment. Reporters visited a soccer tournament she was competing in at Chattanooga, Tenn. She dual rostered at that tournament and won two silver medals. She also attended a ceremony at Lehigh honoring the 1978 ECAC championship team. She caught up with Ed McGlynn, Andy McIntyre ’80 and Bob Belshaw ’82 at that event. Doug Shavel is serving as the 2025 president of the Realtors Commercial Alliance of Broward, Palm Beaches and St. Lucie. He is managing director of Signature Commercial Real Estate, LLC, based in Boca Raton, Fla. ’80 Mark Hembarsky, Mhembarsky1980@ gmail.com Pete Cleff, Doug Mancosh, Craig Banet, Basil Fedynyshyn, Robert Thornton, Fred Wills ’82 (started with our class) and Louis Amendolagine ’81 got together in Florida to reminisce about Sigma Nu and Lehigh, and to lose plenty of golf balls. Doug, Craig and Bob own successful businesses and are still working hard, while the rest are enjoying semi- or full retirement. Ray Trevisan, Dave Beard, Finn Wentworth, Rick Rogers, Ken Alley, Mike Connor and their wives spent 10 days together on a Backroads tour of the North Island of New Zealand. They started the festivities with a party hosted by some friends of the Wentworths (including a former member of the All Blacks national rugby team) in the Mission Bay area of Auckland, overlooking the water. They turned into Hobbits for a day during their visit to the Hobbiton site from the “Lord of the Rings” films. They then enjoyed hiking, biking, kayaking and white water rafting around the island. Ken was the only one brave enough to bungee jump, and Dave was the group’s chieftain when they were entertained for dinner at a traditional Māori home. Wearing Lehigh garb much of the time, the group got quite a few inquiries! Mike and his wife, Lee Ann Lusardi Connor ’79, spent the next few days in Queenstown on the South Island. Craig Madsen checked in from Cary, N.C., where he and wife Corrine have lived since 1991. In the summer of ’21, Craig and his brother sold Madsen Motor Company after 30 years of selling used Mercedes and other luxury cars. He and his wife have three grandsons and a granddaughter on the way. Craig made it back to campus for two wrestling matches in February and for the EIWA tournament in March, getting together with Doug Pitney, me and a few other Pike brothers. His daughter Zoe ’22 came up from Philly for the Army match. Craig, John Fitzgerald ’78 and I caught up with two-time NCAA Champ Darryl Burley ’83 at a nice event at the Steel Club after EIWAs. Following the EIWA tournament, I was lucky to meet Dean Di Lillo at a gathering of alumni to watch comedian Don McMillan ’81 perform in Raleigh, N.C. The group all enjoyed Don’s engineering jokes! Dean shared that after working in the electrical power industry for Westinghouse and Siemens for 20 years, he was fortunate to use his industrial engineering degree to save a business from closure in 2002. PCX Corporation specialized in offsite manufacturing of electrical systems and supplied some of the largest companies in the world. Dean transitioned the business to serve the data center industry, reducing project timelines by eight weeks and attracting renowned customers in social and software systems sectors. Twenty years later, the company was sold to Hubbell Industries. Dean then retired, remarried and now spends time playing golf and tennis, and practicing hot yoga to stay in wrestling shape. He has developed a passion for native and ecological gardening, transforming his yard into a beautiful and rewarding place to observe nature. Recently, he has taken an interest in photography and plans to travel and sail during these “GO GO years.” Doug Pitney is currently collaborating with Kosta Voyiazis ’24 on the development of 3D-printed architectural models for use in North Pole dioramas in model train layouts. Kosta graduated with a degree in product design and a minor in architecture, and completed an internship at Todd Architectural Models in the spring of 2025. The process coordinates the methods of fit, finish and assembly of building models using laser-cut parts along with building elevations developed using the new, large-format 3D printers.
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