50 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES duty, retired as a colonel and then worked for USAA Insurance for 10 years and then he retired again. Sidebar: I have always struggled with writing (since English Zero), but Paul has written to his 15 grandchildren each month for almost 30 years either in or out of college. He estimates 2,000 letters at this point. More importantly, they all have grown up as good people and get along with their cousins, parents and grandparents. I also received a nice note from Jim Waples, Lac La Belle, Oconomowoc, Wis. He moved to Wisconsin to work at Marine Travelift, Inc., (huge boat hoists) as their international sales director in the 2000s. Fun job, prior to that he worked for Ingersoll Rand and Briggs & Stratton in international sale and marketing management. His quote: “My father would be upset that I had three jobs.” Very few LU people in Wisconsin, but he remembers visiting fellow IE Charlie Strauch in Hilton Head a few years back. Also, Jim has had frequent contact with Paul Groves ’56 and Charlie Sacshe ’58, both Delta Phi brothers, and Al Huddy (now deceased) via Facebook. I also got a note from Leo J. Kwiatkowski, who claims the finest wealth he has accumulated is a wonderful family living in harmony. Leo has five children, 11 grandchildren along with 11 spouses, and seven great-grandchildren. He lives in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., but winters in Vero Beach, Fla. Dan Pursell is living in a retirement community about 45 miles north of San Diego with his wife, Kathleen Kelly Brown, whom he married in 2007. It’s a great area near Camp Pendleton and has an active Elks Lodge that they enjoy. Martin Lang, retired since ’96, lived in Nutley, N.J., for years and moved to Long Beach Island. His daughter Susan (Lang) Clemson ’88 lives in Randolph, N.J., and summers in the Adirondacks between Lake George and Gore Lake. In 1960, after University of Miami Law School, Allen Allweiss married and moved to his wife’s hometown of St. Petersburg, Fla. He practiced law for years as city prosecutor, asst. public defender and approximately 16 years as an assistant state attorney. I still have a few more notes to include in my next column and will report on my June 2024 trip to the Lehigh Reunion Parade with my son Todd ’94, his 30th reunion and the excellent update before the parade by our President Joseph J. Helble ’82. P.S., he meets every day at the flagpole and runs four miles to the top of the campus with all who show up to run. All the best. Send me some updates. Thanks. ’58 Bill Helfrich, 80 Southwick Drive, Orchard Park, NY 14127. (716) 662-7927 (H); bh7831@aol.com Eighty-eight is still great! We check on the construction progress of the Bill’s new stadium on our weekly Wegmans trip. The super structure growth has been dynamic. What you can’t get for $2 billion—maybe a Super Bowl too! Plenty of sad news, but the biggest surprise was Lee Owens, who died midwinter, from the medical difficulties Lee described in the Spring 2024 Alumni Bulletin column, said Torry Watkins ’60. Dave Setzer, also Theta Xi with Torry, Lee, Bob Libutti and Buddy Franco, will miss his fellow coal cracker from West Pittston, Pa. We all agree Lee enjoyed the life he created for himself in Australia with a long career in public education and singing to his heart’s content. My biggest loss was Dave Hecht ’60, my closest friend in Orchard Park. I remember when I first ran into him at a cocktail party about 50 years ago and yelled “Lehigh,” we became pals forever. Never missed a sporting event or tennis match. His Kappa Sig brothers will miss those Friday phone calls! We have been trying to track down Jack Hobby. Dick Briggs finally did it with a response from one of his sons. He is now residing at Newfield House, 19 New Field St., Plymouth, MA 82380. He is hanging in there, but we have to wait for the Bills and Patriots to face off in the last three games of the season! Dick and Louise are fine. He learned that Bob Mider died this spring with a conversation with his wife. Bruce Gilbert called to say that Don Garaventi lost his battle with Parkinson’s disease, but he played one more hand of bridge. Dick’s grandson is now a sophomore at Lafayette, and he is going to spend his second semester in Italy. Dick asked if we knew anyone while at Lehigh who spent a semester off of campus or out of the country. Did you? Jean-Claude Rousseaux read in the last column that Izzie Trerotola had died 65 years after her wedding to Larry. Izzie had been Lukie Rousseaux’s maid of honor. I got a surprise note from Wight Martindale ’60 that he is continuing to hold luncheons near Lansdale with Bruce Gilbert, Ron Vaughn, John Cunningham ’60 and Ira Friedman ’60. Wighty no longer runs; he now walks with his granddaughter, Anne. He taught the honors program at Drexel last fall, and he has published an American history textbook. I received a letter from Doug Kim on his 89th birthday. He is living in Thompson, Conn., with his second son and daughter-in-law in a house designed by him (an architect and artist) on 45 acres of underdeveloped land. At Lehigh he roomed with Brooks Goldman in Taylor Hall and graduated with a degree in engineering physics. He got married in the summer of 1958 and has two boys and a girl. He started at Rutgers in their master’s program as a teaching assistant. He became a naturalized citizen in August 1965. His career was in the semiconductor field with a master’s in physics, and he joined Sylvania in Woodburn, Mass. He moved to GE Rectifier Products Division in Auburn, N.Y., and then joined Fairchild Semiconductor Division and started an assembled factory in Korea. He returned in 1969 and worked with Transition Semiconductors in Massachusetts and rejoined GE as a consultant. Then he followed a coworker to join Technitrol in Taiwan to manage three different assembly operations in Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. He retired in 2000 in San Diego, Calif. By the way, his first wife divorced him when their daughter was in college, and he remarried his brother’s wife’s best friend, who was working for a Korean firm in NYC. He traveled as much as Lee Owens! Now he relaxes at the YMCA! He was very active in the Epitome, Mustard & Cheese, Tau Beta Pi and soccer. Gary’s Barber Shop, where the coaches get cut, can’t wait to see if Josh Allen can lead the new Bills to the Super Bowl. Greekers to Lee Owens, Dave Hecht, Bob Mider, Don Garaventi and Jack Hobby. ’59 Bob Teufel, 1 Stoklea Drive, Emmaus, PA 18049. (610) 967-2049 (H); (610) 393-0565 (C); rteufel@aol.com Well, we may have been the few, but we did have a mighty good time at our 65th reunion. Dan Bayer, Bill Beattie, Jim Blair, Harry Brooks, Gene Chew, Don Foster, Beall Fowler, Ed Hamer, Leon Harbold, Jerry Kuebler, Sam Martin, Paul Prestia, Dick Spillman, Bob Teufel and Bob Zenorini all attended. With spouses, significant others and a few members of the
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