62 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES lation each semester if prices increased. The street price was in the $25-28 per barrel around this time. Today that $211 may get you out the door with one keg. That is about $13.60 per gallon. Talk about inflation. We never ran out of beer, and clearly this led to a misspent youth of many … likely a part of the probation period that followed after we graduated.” Lee Martucci has fond memories of Uncle Manny’s and Mother’s Bloomers. He said it’s “why I love dive bars today. Dan Nelson ’83, Pete Morales, Pete Sanson ’80 and I used to go to Manny’s on Tuesday nights to play pool and drink cheap beers since nothing was happening on The Hill. … Also, great memories going to Your Mother’s Bloomers with JC Cole ’83, Nelson, Tom Crawford and a pocket full of quarters. We would play Galaga, Asteroids, Donkey Kong and Pac Man all night. I wonder if my Galaga record still stands?” Ken Shriber “loved Mother’s Bloomers, but the go-to for our crew was 4th Street Saloon. Darts, pool, Pac Man and cheap draft beer, which we were served without ID!” Thomas Hammond claims his favorite dive bar was the party room at his frat, Sigma Chi. “… Free beer, great tunes, hot Hooters, funnels, fake kicks, the occasional sucker punch, hot DGs, Satchmo, the Beta bottle toss, the smell of Pine-Sol, all honor to the Sigs bar.” This author’s favorite dive bar was at my Pi Lambda Phi frat. Stan King was placed on academic probation after his freshman year. An intervention was held. Stan was warned to “get on the wagon” and bring up his grades. Instead, Stan turned his room into a fullscale bar called “Lushwagons” or the “Wagon.” The Wagon was on tap 24 hours/7 days a week with five bar stools, color TV, food, snacks and booze. Soon, guys from other frats and girls from Cedar Crest were patronizing the Wagon for pub nights such as Easy Off shorts, Australian beer, cigar and other featured events. Stan’s room even had a neon sign visible from our parking lot and its own doorbell to permit backdoor stairs access. Lushwagons bumper stickers “After Work Become a Piece of Work” and “Where Drinking is our Thinking” abounded. Lushwagons lives on in infamy. Keep the emails coming. ’83 Nancy Liu Freedman, nancyliulehigh83@gmail.com Happy fall! The inbox was empty, so I am going to report on classmates that I have seen at recent events. At the Westchester County Future Maker event, Bob Nabholz was there to hear President Helble discuss Lehigh’s strategic plan. Bob lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with his wife, Elizabeth (Montague) Nabholz, and works in NYC for a capital management company. Bob mentioned that both of his sons attended Lehigh. Another Lehigh family! Drew Freed was a special guest at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, which showcases engineering research projects. Winners get travel allowances to attend and present their projects at professional conferences. Sandy Denton volunteered as one of the judges in the competition. Bob Yingling was at the N.J. happy hour event in Summit. Bob lives in Basking Ridge, N.J., and is a consultant in NYC. We reminisced about the fun times living in Dravo A4 and B4 during our freshman year. At reunion, Viv (Hanes) Monroe and Margaret (Lee) Prior were sighted watching the Parade. Later, Viv and I discussed potential parade routine ideas for our next reunion while listening and dancing to Mike Connor’s ’80s band at the Block Party. I encourage you to attend a Lehigh event in your area. There are events such as Dinners for 12, happy hours, affinity/professional group events (LAAN, BALANCE, Wall Street Council, Lehigh Lawyers Association), sporting events … all events are open to all alumni. You may see someone you have not seen in years. The recent Olympics made me think. Do you remember our classmate Bobby Weaver winning the gold medal in wrestling 40 years ago at the 1984 Olympics? Bobby has coached Darian Cruz ’18, who wrestled for Puerto Rico in the 2024 Olympics. Enjoy your fall and winter and please send me your news. I will be attending football games and invite you all to tailgate with me and my husband, Scott. Look for us in the reserved lot. I hope to see you there or at any other event! ’84 Thomas Keating, 2343 15th Ave. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33713; thomaskeating@yahoo.com Greetings, Class of 1984 heroes, you bold, beautiful, successful people! Even now, I am basking in the afterglow of another great reunion, a 40 short years’ anniversary of that most consequential year. I was privy to the preparations of the reunion committee, thanks to my cohabiting with one of the members (a plan of 39 years finally paying off), and I can tell you that they spent many a monthly meeting discussing gifts, venues, food, T-shirts and centerpieces, to their credit. The festivities were fun and well-organized, and the conversations were stimulating, with old friends and new. The first event was the class gathering at Tally Ho, known to us as “the Ho” and to the current students as “Tally’s” for some reason. I first noticed my Psi U brothers and their fellow travelers: Steven Moore and Jan (Soderburg) Moore, Bill Bear and Pam Gural-Bear, Dave Avery, Phil Gauffreau, Jeff Weber ’85 and Laura (Kramer) Weber, and Willy and Diane (Burns) Martinez. The libations and “HO d’oeuvres” were passed and conversations came easier. I greeted Richard Hunt, from Arkansas, up for the first time since graduation. He told me about his experiences with the Lehigh Rugby Club, being an EE and his career in the Air Force. The tailgating friends had a good showing with Jim Hart and Robin (Cohen) Hart, Scott Freedman, Ann Marie Murphy and Bill Glaser. The parade was my next event. We marshaled in Rauch Business Center, grabbed the class T-shirts and practiced for our skit, the words entertainingly written by John Compton (committee member) to the music of ’80s tunes. I headed to the parade area and met Chris Askin, an ME classmate, working at Bosch Rexnord and living in the Lehigh Valley. Chris has had a long and interesting career, but like most of us, he is thinking (just thinking) about retirement. The class assembled with a lot of greetings and ribbing, and we posed for photos. Just to my right, I saw John Lynch talking to Kevin Clayton about his book. John traveled the furthest, from Krakow, Poland, where he lives and had his promotional apparel business, Lynka, in which he sold the majority stake. Check out his novel, “The Ark,” and articles on the charitable organization he founded, Corporate Aid for Ukraine. I think you may agree that John Lynch is a force of nature. The culmination of the weekend was dinner in the Wood Room on Mountaintop. This room was a dining facility for Bethlehem Steel executives, with a beautiful, expansive view of the Lehigh Valley. Following the meet and greet, Mary Beth (Cooleen) Tully (I know a trustee!) presented the Alumni Award to Bill Glaser. Besides Bill’s unwavering and generous commitment to Lehigh, he is a
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