64 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES New York University business school and is currently in his 21st year of teaching this same class. At NYU, he teaches to undergrads and it is a full 15-week course with three hours a week of class. I had a chance to catch up with Perry Smith, former outside linebacker for the Lehigh Engineers. After Lehigh, Perry received an M.A. in communications at NYU. Perry has been a lifelong business leader and hospitality professional and has created, operated and scaled a variety of brands and successful concepts including the Matchbox, Ted’s Bulletin and Polly Esther’s entertainment venues in New York, Chicago and D.C. Perry recently relocated to the Bethesda/ Chevy Chase, Md., area. Perry’s most recent venture is Potomac Performance and its sister practice RNR Aesthetics, a health and wellness med spa located in Bethesda. They are steadily growing their business focusing on weight loss management, BHRT (bioidentical hormone replacement therapy), health coaching, sexual wellness and various aesthetics treatments for healthy skin. Perry’s role is chief strategy officer, and his wife Liz is practice manager. Perry is a small business advocate and consultant and serves on various hospitality, educational and athletic boards in the D.C. area. Although he does continue to consult in the hospitality industry, he is officially retired from the active operations in the restaurant business. If any of you are interested in learning about his business (and preserving your youth!), you can contact him at Potomac Performance, (301) 828-9077. The website is potomacperformance.com. Andrew Cagnetta runs Transworld Business Brokers, L.L.C., located in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and in his spare time (in addition to running his business, writing a book and tons of volunteer work), he and Steve Sloan have written a musical that is in its initial stages. The play is called “In Between 48th Street,” and the website is inbetween48.com. In May, they were to begin the staged readings at the Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg, N.Y. Keep your eyes posted to the website, and I will also keep you updated here and on our Facebook page. Andy is truly an amazing and inspirational person, and he must not sleep at night for how busy he is. Hope to hear from you soon about what is happening in your lives. Just email me or reach out any way you can for updates! ’88 Dave Best, dave@ bestcollegeconsulting.com ’89 Jocelyn (Gitlin) Deutsch, 9 Vincent Lane, Armonk, NY 10504; jocelyndeutsch@hotmail.com By the time you read this column, we will have celebrated our 35th reunion. I am confident that the weekend was fabulous and, more importantly, you reconnected with our incredible classmates. Personally, as the Class of ’89 reunion chairperson, I want to thank my reunion team for making it all possible: Judy (Bernstein) Schwartz, Jenn (Gans) Blankfein, Jay Canell, Neil Canell, Tony Caciolo and Gene Souther, you are amazing. I also want to congratulate Mark McGowan, who was awarded the class Alumni Award. This award is given to an individual who has given ongoing volunteer support to the university, offering time, wisdom and energy to Lehigh by participating in many volunteer roles, supporting our students, raising our reputation and keeping our Lehigh family strong. Professionally for the last 18 years, Mark has worked at Goldman Sachs and is a vice president of securities lending trading. George Schott is back in Philly after a few years working in Boston. Two of his kids, Zach (26) and Ted (24), are living locally, and his daughter, Emma (20), is studying at Colorado State and enjoying every minute. After 25 years in the sporting goods sales and marketing world, George launched his own eyewear company NOLO262—“No Light Low Light”—your go-to eyeglasses for the 262 days on average where you find yourself with less-than-picture-perfect bluebird skies.” Check out his website; I am obsessed with these glasses! Word on the street among his many talents and professional success is, Adam Gottbetter is a “rock star.” Adam and his band, Rock Bottom Hard, have been playing the circuit in Delray Beach, Fla. Neil Canell and Jay Canell continue to support causes near and dear to their hearts, including Lehigh men’s lacrosse. Neil and Jay have been supporting the program financially for years but, equally importantly, also professionally by mentoring dozens of student-athletes. Every year, they host the team for a “Day in Banking” at their NYC offices. In April, the program honored them by naming their lacrosse suite “The Canell Brothers Lacrosse Suite.” In March, Neil and Jay were also honored as one of the Top 250 Brokers by Forbes Magazine and the Canell Group team at JP Morgan Partners was honored as one of the Top 50 Teams. Congrats, guys! Marisa Calabrese Moore, one of my beautiful Lehigh roommates, has received numerous awards as a top designer on the popular design site Houzz. Her business, Interior Style by Marisa Moore, serves the D.C. metro area, but she does travel for larger projects. Marisa and I recently traveled to the furniture market in Highpoint, N.C., to design a new home my husband and I are building in Florida. I may be biased, but Marisa is so talented, it’s mindboggling. ’90 Michael Lewis, mpl1968@yahoo. com and Dave Tratner, dctsports@gmail.com In the summer of 1988, a couple of unnamed Class of ’90 candidates would walk to summer school class every morning from their perch on Montclair Avenue and sing “How can we study when the classroom’s burning?” to the tune of Midnight Oil’s “Beds Are Burning.” If you lived through the summer of ’88, you know it was one of the hottest summers on record … back then. Fortunately, these anonymous students didn’t major in music or poetry. That was 36 years ago! Tom Flynn, organizer and motivator extraordinaire, checked in to let us know he had a mini-reunion of sorts with Andrew “Bear” Preusse ’92, a Phi Delt pledge brother of mine (David Trattner’s). Andrew recently moved back east to Pennsylvania after a stint in Washington State. Tom reported that he and Bear met up with Siobhan O’Connell at Chickie’s & Pete’s in Malvern to take in some NCAA tournament action in March. Maribel (Cabrera) Ibrahim (B.S., industrial engineering) provided an update that her first new building project postCOVID has been completed! She remains the facilities director at Anne Arundel County Public Library (Maryland), and she’s officially opened the new Riviera Beach Library. It replaces the original 1971 branch with a 20,000-squarefoot building that includes collaborative study spaces, areas for children and teens, and meeting spaces for the public. It’s all lit up naturally, thanks to the countless large windows and “surfboard tables” (following the beach theme)! Outside of her library work, Maribel
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