CLASS NOTES | SPRING 2023 | 59 team and eventual champs, but not that night! As I write this column a week before Christmas, we are talking to friends in Arizona on our potential Eagles Super Bowl visit and a need for sleeping quarters! One more time with energy … please feel free to send me an update on your retirement adventures, your travels, your grandkids and your longing to be at our 50th reunion in 2026! Have a great 2023! Cheers to all. ’77 Ann Louise (Werley) Price, 2 Colton St., Farmington, CT 06032. (860) 677-1295 (H); prokemo@comcast.net It feels like it is feast or famine on class news! While there was a ton to report after the reunion, the pipeline has dried up. In August, Mark Shiner and Howard Foltz attended the Rally welcoming the Class of 2026. Howard writes, “Our classmates are sure to remember that we were packed into Grace Hall on an impossibly hot Labor Day weekend and Steck wound us up and had us chanting ’77 straight from heaven!’ Fortunately, now the Rally is held by the flagpole on the University Lawn. This year’s incoming class was adopted by the Class of 1976 at a really fun event. Mark carried our class flag, as always, and I carried my dad’s original Lehigh class flag (1946) as I have done for many years. It is hard to imagine that it is almost our turn. Next Aug. 19, we will adopt the Class of 2027. I know I mentioned it at Reunion, but I want to encourage as many of our classmates as possible to get back for this wonderful and fun Lehigh tradition.” I do remember that hot time in Grace Hall … and do you remember the streaking rage that happened that fall?! Another classmate at Reunion was Barry Lang. Barry lives near Charlotte, N.C., and spent his career flying for USAir and then American after the merger of the two. He’s now retired. And of course, if you watch any football, you probably have made the connection that star place kicker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Ryan Succop, is our Chi Psi classmate Dave Succop’s son! Where are you…Kathy (McDonough), Amy (Levy) Wolfe, Pete Gebhart, Mick Barr, Rick Price and Kathy (Schmidt) Price, Dave Succop …? ’78 Gail D. Reinhart, 215 N. Center St., #1407, San Antonio, TX 78202-2723. ladygailus@ yahoo.com When I started writing this column, I’d only heard from one classmate. However, several more of you responded to my last-minute SOS in our Facebook group, so I was able to fill most of my allotted word count. Thanks, team! Rob Nahigian of Auburndale Realty in Newton, Mass., continues to be in demand to speak about commercial real estate. In September at the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) national conference in Boston, he was part of a panel on supply chain logistics. Although Rob has been giving presentations on this topic for close to a decade, to supplement and prepare for the CRE panel, he interviewed executives from seven companies, including Amazon, on current global supply chain issues. Rob says, “Supply chain logistics are at the epicenter of what makes the economy function, and commercial real estate is the field on which it all plays out.” Alan Thomson lives in South Carolina and is enjoying semi-retirement with a local civil engineering firm, where his sweet deal is that he “works only on projects, only when he wants to.” He’s been traveling frequently and simply tells his employer when he’s not going to be in. Recent trips have included a road trip to the Dakotas in September, a mission trip to Arkansas in October and a river cruise (Chattanooga to Nashville on the Tennessee, Ohio and Cumberland) in November. Alan is planning on being at our 45th reunion in June and looks forward to catching up with classmates. Also in semi-retired/second career mode is fellow Air Force vet J.N. (Jeff) Leknes. In 2021, using his experience in Department of Defense logistics planning and in the transportation industry, Jeff founded LS Rail Expeditors (lsrailexpeditors.com). Classmate Charley Sikorsky works with him in the company, which escorts oddsized and “special” (high-value) railroad loads all over the country. This is definitely one of the more unusual businesses I’ve come across. I can understand why Jeff says, “Retirement is fun!” Stephen Collins recently returned from a trip to Rome, the Vesuvius ruins, Positano on the Amalfi Coast, Florence, Tbilisi and Munich. When not traveling, he splits his time between Ocala, Fla., and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Stephen Dill says he is “still loving life in the land of the endless summer”—that is, southern California. On the travel front, he took the train to Memphis for a conference in November and thoroughly enjoyed a “short, but deep” dive into the history, music, food and people of that city. Mitch Liswith is retired and enjoying being a full-time volunteer. In addition, his daughter gave birth to his first grandchild, a daughter named Cory, in September. Mitch says, “It is fabulous being a grandparent!” What about the rest of you? Bring me up to date! You can reach me by snail mail, email or our class Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/ groups/Lehigh1978). Save the dates June 8-11, 2023, for our 45th reunion! ’79 Lance M. Bell, 952 River Run Dr., Macedonia, OH 44056-2369. (216) 219-3729 (mobile); lanceb344@gmail.com The back half of 2022 has been busy driving back and forth to the Hershey, Pa., area. My mom experienced a fall at home followed by subsequent surgery. I gave my siblings some relief by helping her at her house after she was discharged from in-patient rehab. She was determined to make a full recovery and is now doing quite well. Dorothy and I were able to take a vacation to see friends and family in Virginia and North Carolina. I took some great photos of bald eagles and osprey at a park in Virginia Beach. Susan Chodakewitz, president and CEO of Nathan Associates, Inc., was named the incoming executive advisory board chair of the Council of International Development Companies. She also made a trip to Ghana to visit Nathan’s Feed the Future Ghana Trade and Investment (GTI) Activity funded by USAID. She visited with her team but also visited a women’s pineapple growing association and a large and semi-automated pineapple farm. Warren Hall ran in the Big Bear Marathon, which is the fastest marathon in California. The downhill slope through the San Bernadino Forest has a positive effect on times. Runners use this race to help hit the Boston Marathon qualifying times. Warren notes that the runners shared the “you must be crazy gene” as 1,800 of them were standing ready at a 6,700-feet elevation and 20-degree temperatures at the start. Jim Esch visited us on his annual trek to northeast Ohio. Dorothy and I enjoyed dinner out with him. Jim has been doing lay speaker engagements at various churches. He had an upcoming message prepared, and we had the opportunity to listen and share any feedback. We may see Jim again in the
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