52 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES ’61 Ken Weaver, 13 Coachman Drive, Egg Harbor Township, N.J 08234, kenweaver78@gmail. com, (609) 788-4897 (H) Myron Olstein sent a message with the following information: “Sherry and I celebrated our 60th anniversary by renewing our vows during the reunion at Packer Chapel. We recently downsized by moving to a condo about one-third the square footage of our house, which has now sold. Should have done this 20-plus years ago. Our condo is in a gated community in McLean, Va. It’s like living in a resort—34 wooded acres in the heart of Tysons. The 1982 movie “Best Friends,” starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn, included a number of scenes filmed here. “I am still working but slowly shedding volunteer and professional work. After 10 years, I will no longer be the host for the DC-area Lehigh-Lafayette telecast. I will also no longer be an alumni volunteer for admissions. Sherry and I continue to volunteer at the Kennedy Center. I will be an election officer again this year, my 12th. I figure if I can handle the 17-hour workday, I’m good for another year. “We continue to travel, just not as far as we used to. Daughter Nanci is the general manager of a mall/mixed development in Madison, Wis., and son David is an attorney with Hogan in New York City. Sherry had major back surgery and is now doing well.” And Toms Royal sent this: “Thanks for picking up as class correspondent where Bob left off. Bob and I graduated from Trenton Central High School, and I then joined him at Lehigh for our college years. He will be sorely missed. “Kathy and I are being different as we have moved back to Bay Head, N.J., after 25 years in Vero Beach, Fla. We are still keeping up with the 18 grandchildren between us. Although fully retired, I am looking forward to the 100th anniversary next year of our family business, still in Trenton, N.J.” Toms says he is still following events at Lehigh as three of his four children graduated from there, and all are doing well. Hardy ’93, his youngest, was a Theta Delt (as was I). Toms expressed disappointment in last season’s Lehigh-Lafayette game, as our halftime lead dissolved quickly. That game was his 66th consecutive contest (!), which will continue even though the trip to Bethlehem/Easton seems to get farther every year. They spent a month visiting Vero Beach in February, where they went golfing and dining with Joan and Mike Hoben, who are also in Johns Island Club, in Vero. Judy and Jay Anglada split their time between Vero Beach (seven months) and Easton, on the eastern shore of Maryland. They had a home in Johns Island for 27 years, then almost two years ago moved into a house in a planned community (still in Vero) that has many activities. Jay had both knees replaced in 2006, but they don’t bother him, and he still plays tennis. Judy is very active in the community and plays golf, does yoga, pickleball and even croquet! Jay got his MBA at Wharton and then was with IBM in sales before going into banking. He progressed to several top executive jobs before retiring in 1996. Jay said they don’t travel that much but then said he spent 10 days in the Catalonia region of Spain for his 80th birthday with two (of his four) children, and last year, he and Judy rented a house east of Bordeaux, France, that was large enough that all four children and their spouses could join them. In recent years, Jay has had the opportunity to visit Andy Jones, Charlie Lull and Charlie Wentz. Please take a few minutes to contact me with your updates. Make my job easier! ’62 Philip J. Kinzel, 808 South Drive, Brick, NJ 08724. (732) 295.2106(H); (973) 226.1430(W); (973) 464.8282 (cell); pkinzel@kinzelco.com My column deadline again comes at the end of March Madness. Less exciting for some, as brackets were broken. Bob Downing reports that he found the women’s NCAA tournament far more exciting. The media provided lots of opportunity for us couch potatoes to watch the EIWA and NCAA wrestling tournaments. The Easterns were exciting, with Lehigh finishing again second to Cornell. Our four Eastern champs, including two freshmen, joined four other qualifiers for the nationals. Unfortunately, Lehigh had no national champs but had three All-Americans. Norm Goldberg and Art Cader did not make their annual pilgrimage to the nationals in Kansas City. Delta Tau Delta brothers Jay Flynn, Carl Straub and Ron Johnson enjoyed a mini-reunion at Charlie’s, an upscale restaurant in Lincroft, N.J. Jay is a retired physician living in Colts Neck, N.J., Carl is retired from IBM and living in Riverside, Conn., and Ron is a retired metallurgical engineer living in Randolph, N.J. Ron Johnson enjoyed some R&R in Florida last March. He met with Brenda Gitlin for lunch at Prime Catch in Boynton Beach. Brenda is infamous with our class for selecting our theme and dressing us up accordingly to march in the parade of classes at our reunions. Thanks to Brenda, we were perennial winners of the coveted petty flag for best parade performance. Buddy and Brenda showed their Lehigh commitment by sending two daughters, Jocelyn ’89 and Melissa ’92, and granddaughter Marlee ’21 (stalwarts also) to South Mountain. While in Florida, Ron managed to catch up with Jeanne and John Hayes, another Delt brother. Jeanne and John winter on Hypoluxo Island, a town in Palm Beach County, Fla., and summer in Nantucket, Mass. Chris and Mike Gennet’s bucket list included a trip to Iceland last September, with sightseeing in Reykjavik, a visit to an interior ice cave and a dip in the Blue Lagoon. On Ron Johnson’s bucket list was a trip to Madrid with visits to Barcelona and Valencia. What’s on your bucket list? Remember your class correspondent is only a phone call, email or text away. ’63 Dr. Robert C. Elser, navman9@comcast.net; and James Newton Wilson, 959 Tree Tops, Wharton, NJ 07885, (973) LEhigh7-6516 (H), (862) 2430864 (C), b14jnw@gmail.com Bill Hotchkiss writes from Fort Myers about the Phi Delts who live in the area. Jim Hanlon’s wife, Maddy, lives in the same retirement community, Shell Point, as Bill. Jim passed away in 2016 after having retired to Sanibel Island, Fla. Paul Berg and his wife, Ellie, and Tom Bachman and his wife, Carolyn, all live at Shell Point as well. They still try to get together for Sunday brunch every week, as weather and ailments of old age permit. Hotch still plays golf several times a week and has rediscovered his hobby of making stained-glass objects as gifts for friends and family. Our reunion chair, Fred Braun, wrote that he is still “working,” as he is on five or six local and state (New York) boards involving economic development and health care. He said that the remuneration pays for the gas. Although golf is but a memory, as it is for many of us, he still plays pickleball and paddles his
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