CLASS NOTES | FALL 2024 | 47 ’47 Editor’s note: Don Franklin and Skip Ross are interested in getting in contact with any grads from ’47-’49 or Pi Lamb grads from their era. Please call Skip at 301-907-6565. ’51 Wes Wardell, 302-998-7020; and associate, Lee Martucci ’82, leemartucci12@gmail.com, 602-370-5496 Finally, this spring, associate Lee Martucci ’82 and I met. Lee was on a business trip to Philadelphia and came to the house in Wilmington before heading south. It was good to see him and discuss our partnership. In talking with Hellmut “Hank” Bauer, I learned how he came to Lehigh as an exchange student in 1948 from Bremen, Germany. Hank’s mother worked for the import company Anderson Clayton. She booked him on a Victory cargo ship (successor to Liberty ship) as the only passenger heading to the U.S. Hank ate his meals with the ship’s crew and captain (reminds me of my service trip to Okinawa in 1951). There were several issues on Hank’s voyage: (1) the ship weathered a hurricane for about two days; (2) instead of docking in the north U.S., the ship arrived in Mobile, Alabama. Hank was fortunate as he was given some cash and an airline ticket to Philadelphia on his way to Bethlehem. He enrolled in civil engineering and lived on the campus with his uncle, Dean Palmer, and Dean’s wife, who was his father’s sister. Later when Dean Palmer retired, Hank joined the Theta Xi fraternity. While at Lehigh, Hank was treasurer and president of the Cosmopolitan Club, a member of A.S.C.E., Glee Club and Memorial Gift Committee. Upon graduation Hank was employed by Bethlehem Steel for 33 years, mainly in the steel erection division. He was a manager on the West Coast and then spent 10 years at Sparrow Point plant near Baltimore, where he lives today. Hank writes: “Most of us have probably driven over one of my bridges or entered one of the many buildings that I helped to build. After BethleClass Notes Welcome to Class Notes, where you can find out what your fellow alums are up to. Thanks to our dedicated correspondents for the work they do to keep our extended Lehigh community together. Please send class notes to your class correspondent, or, if unsure of the class to which the news applies, send to alumni@lehigh.edu. While at Lehigh,Will Yaeger ’24 discovered a new mushroom species. Read more about him in the 2024 column. HOLLY FASCHING ’26
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