56 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES ’71 Sam Dugan, 143 Pinecrest Lane, Lansdale, PA 19446. (215) 368-1895 (H), (215) 680-9719 (M); srdugan49@comcast.net David Moshman sent me an update to the fall 2023 Bulletin. He is professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he taught developmental and cognitive psychology. The primary focus of his research is the nature and development of human rationality, including logical, scientific and moral reasoning, and the epistemic cognition that makes such reasoning possible. He has also written extensively about adolescent competence and rights, education as the promotion of rationality, the intellectual freedom of students and teachers, the conceptualization of genocide and the role of identity in group violence. His work has appeared in many publications, including top journals of developmental, cognitive and educational psychology. Shout out to M&M B-3! Sami Richie retired from the U.S. DOT Safety Administration, where he promoted highway safety. Upon retirement, he relocated back to Bethlehem after living in Connecticut for 26 years. For the last 11 years, he’s been an owner/manager of the screen-printing company Style You Need with stores in Bethlehem and Easton. A hobby of repairing small engines in his garage on Route 378, south of Bethlehem, has turned into a business from which he claims he can’t turn anyone away. I got a nice long letter from Rich Revta earlier in the year. Rich was the first Lehigh grad to be drafted into pro baseball. He was drafted by the Washington Senators in 1971. The Senators were sold in 1972 and became the Texas Rangers. Rich played in the minors for the Greenville Rangers and was the league’s all-star catcher in 1972. After four years in minor league baseball, Rich began what became a 37-year career in teaching science and coaching at Lackawanna Trail Junior-Senior High School in Factoryville, Pa. He coached high school football, baseball and golf, amassing over 400 wins as head coach. Rich taught thousands of players the fundamentals of baseball as an owner of Pro Staff Baseball in northeast Pennsylvania. Rich reminded me that the vast majority of us will be three-quarters of a century old this year. Thanks a lot. Rich joined Ted Bircks, Paul Gallo, Jerry Berger, Paul Harrington, Doug Gill and Denny Stock at the Lehigh Tailgate Association prior to last year’s Lehigh-Lafayette game. Even though Lehigh did not play well, the LTA group had a great time. I suspect there may have been alcohol involved. Greg Hicks is the owner and president of Hicks MFG, LLC in Minden, La., a manufacturer of aluminum dump body, frameless and frame type trailers. The company’s revolutionary and patented design replaces welding with Huck fasteners to address the age-old battle of aluminum cracking. The Hicks family has been in the dump trailer industry for 70-plus years. I will end this column as I did the spring issue. I would like to retire as class correspondent and want to give someone else the opportunity to reach out to classmates. We publish three columns a year. If you have any potential interest, please contact me for more details. I’d hate for the Class of 1971 to be unrepresented in the Alumni Bulletin. ’72 Charles S. “Chuck” Steele, 2080 Flint Hill Road, Coopersburg, PA 18036. (610) 737-2156 (M); signscss@aol.com With no new input from any of you for this issue, I decided to focus on a few classmates who joined our Facebook Lehigh U. Class of 1972 group over the past 12 years. Those I chose to present here are individuals who have not previously been featured in this column. The information being shared is only as good as what appears about them in our yearbook, official rosters provided to me by the Alumni Office and multiple internet sites I scoured. Of course, I welcome their additions or corrections to anything that appears below. Originally from Margate, N.J., Lawrence Gash majored in accounting. He seems to have returned home after graduation to become the third generation involved in the family business. In 1976, he became its president. Soltz Paint and Decorating Centers has retail stores in Atlantic City, Somers Point and Cape May Court House. In any case, you can’t beat a salt air environment that guarantees a recurring demand for its product line. It has also been Soltz Paint’s wisdom to establish distributorships for “topnotch” coatings; the company supplies PPG and Benjamin Moore paints to commercial painting contractors and DIYers. I’m not surprised that their customers award Soltz with five-star product and service ratings, and I have a hunch that Larry has been grooming that fourth generation. Charles S. Rissler is completely missing from the Epitome, but my aging copy of the 1972 roster includes that name. Steve joined our Facebook group in February 2022. He arrived at Lehigh from Larchmont, N.Y., and graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering/computer science. Facebook and LinkedIn offer some impressive career details, but those refer only to the current century. I can’t say much about where he was between 1972 and 2007. His oldest LinkedIn experience appears as CIO/ senior director IT with Tucson Electric Power, a position he held for six years, beginning in 2007. Then he was a director/IT project manager with NV Energy in Las Vegas for another two, followed by eight more years juggling major utilities clients in several western states as a valued senior consultant, improving IT and electric grid infrastructures. During that time, it seems as if he relocated to Las Vegas and/or Denver but returned to Tucson by 2023. On Facebook, Steve claims to be retired, but LinkedIn states that he has been on a “career break—traveling the globe” since June 2023. He also enjoys golf and guitars. Technically, Jeffrey D. Frey was listed in this column in 2022, as a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference Championship soccer team during our senior year. He was a marketing major from Chatham, N.J., and a varsity hockey player, too. I’m not clear about how he wound up in Duluth, Minn., but that seems to have happened before 1980. LinkedIn identifies multiple positions in which he is still active as either president or partner: Jeff Frey & Associates Photography (self-explanatory) and CPL Imaging (high-end scanning, digitizing and print production of quality original art). Waters of Superior was another entrepreneurial endeavor but appears to have been a casualty of COVID in 2020. It was “a lifestyle store with a carefully curated selection of housewares, women’s clothing, handmade jewelry and fine art,” which needed people presence to thrive. Perhaps it will experience a “comeback.” Facebook shares photos of Jeff with Minnesota celebrities Jesse Ventura and Al Franken; I don’t think that he photoshopped either of those.
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