58 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES 20 years, new teacher mentor and department chair. Mike now spends his time playing golf, tutoring local high school students and returning to New Hope-Solebury to keep the books and run the clock at athletic events. Steve Kuncio has been living in temperate St. Paul, Minn., for 36 years and retired in June, after a rewarding career at 3M. According to Steve’s wife, Sue, no one has anticipated retirement more. They are booked to visit New Zealand in November to celebrate. Mark Hembarsky had the pleasure of visiting him in July, and they enjoyed a Twins game and a day at the 3M Golf Open. Mark and Susan (Bregstein) Hembarsky celebrated their 40th anniversary with a trip back to the historic town hall where they had married while expats in the Netherlands (and to check if they were really married). As they had also lived in England, Mark and Susan then joined the rain-soaked millions gathered in London to see King Charles’ coronation procession. How quickly 40 years go by! Speaking of years going by, this year is the 159th meeting of the Lehigh-Lafayette rivalry, hosted at Lehigh. Hopefully, you can come to the game, reconnect with your classmates and regale all with tales of your times at Lehigh. ’81Tom Wocklish, twocklish@alum. lehigh.edu University trustees demonstrate a passion for the future of the institution they serve. Our class has two (that I know of) who contribute their time, talents and resources to promote what their institution stands for and provide guidance and insight when asked. Mark R. Yeager has served as a Lehigh trustee since 2012. His current and final term ends June of ’24. Mark and his wife, Katie, live in Summit, N.J., and are the parents of two daughters. While attending football weekends at Michigan, his daughter’s school, Mark got hooked on Big 10 football. Although not as exciting as the Patriot League, following the Big 10 has provided opportunities to travel and attend different venues. Mark has enjoyed a career in commercial real estate. Buying low, selling high, that chestnut. He stays in touch with brothers from Chi Psi and regularly sees Bob Romeo, who lives one town over. Gregg Shemanski chairs the board of trustees at Alvernia University in Berks County. He has been a member of Alvernia’s board since June 2014. Gregg and Becky live in Berks County and are the parents of an adult daughter and son. Greg co-founded Custom Processing Services in 2000 and continues to serve as president of the award-winning company that now includes two locations and 130 employees. One such award, Innovative Application of Technology, was presented by Ben Franklin TechVentures®, a highly regarded incubator/ post-incubator facility on Lehigh’s Mountaintop Campus. Gregg stays in touch with brothers from Delta Tau Delta, and I’ll shout out to that man of mystery, Tony Marvray. Gregg and Becky enjoy traveling and kicking back at their Ocean City beach house. ’82 John P. Belardo, 152 Berkeley Circle, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920. (973) 425-8755 (B); jbelardo@ mdmc-law.com. On Facebook, like “Lehigh University Class of 1982.” Gary Jernee sends this rather bizarre story, but here it is unedited and unvarnished: “We talked several years ago about Ocean City, N.J., and some summer memories. I think you were a little skeptical of me, as lawyers are wont to be. I sent you a picture of my Lamborghini Gallardo in Giallo Midas, a fancy name for metallic yellow. I traded that car in for a new Lamborghini Aventador in Ithaca Verde, another fancy name for metallic green. My first Lamborghini was a V-10 and 500 HP. My new Aventador cost $750,000 and was a V-12 with 769 HP. I was T-boned by a floral delivery truck, and my four lower lumbar vertebrae shifted almost one inch to the right. I was hit on the driver side of the car when the driver ran a red light. I have had seven back surgeries at Jefferson Hospital. I am better now, got a measly $5 million and would recommend anyone to get a massive SUV to drive in. Have lots of metal around you!” Well, Gary, as we drive exclusively Volvos, I hope never to encounter such problems. Good luck with your recovery. Steven Gardner summers in Maine, but north of us, in Roque Bluffs—truly downeast. Steve, I had to look that town up. Claire (Pike) Reilly notes, “Carol Barker Demers, Laura (Wheeler) Cassavell and I got together in February for a girls’ weekend at Crystal Springs Resort in New Jersey. Lots of laughs and fun remembrances of our times at Lehigh! We will be getting together in October at the Jersey shore. We are all still working; Carol works in finance at PSEG in New Jersey, Laura is an attorney with [an elder care] practice in Pennington, N.J., and I am a high school business teacher on Long Island. (I started teaching at age 39 after a career in banking and accounting.) We each have three children. Laura has two married children, and her youngest, Frankie, just graduated from medical school. Carol’s oldest son will be getting married next September, and my oldest daughter will be getting married next year as well. I was in the Chemical Bank training program right out of college and then ended up as a manager. I then went to work for one of my customers who had a CPA practice—where I finally started to like accounting (which I hated at Lehigh!). I live in East Islip, about 20 minutes east of Massapequa, but I teach in the Babylon School District, where a lot of the Gilgo Beach kids attend school, so the story has always had a lot of pull for me. I got my master’s in teaching at Dowling College on Long Island (now defunct!) and went to CW Post for my postgraduate administration degree. If I had started teaching like Diane Munno, who graduated from West Islip High School with me and graduated from Lehigh with us and is now a retired teacher, I would be sitting pretty! Alas, I have a few more years left to go!” Matt Morgan notes: “In early June, my Sigma Chi roommate Chris Kratky called me from Frostburg, Md. He sounded really tired from biking through the mountains. He was biking from Philly to Chicago. We were not able to meet when he passed through Pittsburgh, but maybe you can get details of his trip directly from him. “Our family is multiplying rapidly, as we have eight grandchildren ages 4 and under, with one more arriving shortly. Does this put me in first place with the class? In May, several football alums in the Pittsburgh area enjoyed meeting the new Lehigh football coach, as he was on a recruiting trip. I’m working part time for Westinghouse, supporting some nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio.” Matt, who played football at Lehigh and was known as Beef, lived on Taylor Two West with me. Matt and I both had red hair, although mine is no longer red, and I’m not sure Matt’s is either. Matt roomed with freshman Joe Canavan who, as I recall, was a diver on the swim team and joined Kappa Sigma. Matt also roomed with my fraternity brother, Emil Michelotti, also known as Captain Maturity. Emil did graduate work at Stanford and is with Medimmune/Astrazene-
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