62 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES when she married Robert Bernstein on April 30. Katie Duffy Healey, Diana Kittredge Sajer, Elizabeth (Lawrence) Andersen, Allison (Mack) Bennett, Irene (Napierski) Murdock and Jenn (Czin) Schwartz made a long weekend of it to celebrate the newlyweds! Donna (Rooney) O’Hara and her husband, Patrick, closed their greenhouse doors in Connecticut, moved to Lavonia, Ga., and have just reopened their nursery (O’Hara’s Nursery) in Lavonia. The retirement version of the nursery has a little smaller growing area and is geared toward retailing their home-grown annuals, vegetable plants and perennials during the spring and fall growing seasons. Jason Enoch retired from Deloitte a couple years ago, moved to beach at Pawleys Island, S.C., and is working as the lead independent director and audit committee chair for United Homes Group. The firm is a new public company home builder in the southeast. Jason was honored to attend the NASDAQ closing bell ceremony in May. Sarah (Hayward) Lynch moved to southern California in December. She is working for Nucor but transitioned from the steel making division to Nucor Business Technology in the MES (manufacturing execution system) group. Sarah happily attended the Los Angeles area LU freshman student sendoff event in July. On a personal note, I am devastated to share that my dad, Buddy Gitlin ’62, whom many of you have partied with over the years at Lehigh, passed away after a very short battle with leukemia. My Lehigh roommates Julie (Kime) Traina, Jill (Seibert) Schelling and Jenn (McElwreath) Hardie all made the trip to visit me during this very difficult period. My daughter Marlee ’21 is a Quants recruiter in NYC (let me know if you are looking for a job). My son, Matthew, recently graduated from Tulane University, and my daughter Talia is starting her sophomore year at Tulane. ’90 Michael Lewis, mpl1968@yahoo. com and Dave Tratner, dctsports@gmail.com Hello, Class of 1990! It’s just a mere 37 years now since we first heard this new release by Bon Jovi titled “Livin’ on a Prayer.” Some of us were agonizing over sorority and fraternity bids, while others were realizing that second semester of freshman year was going to be even harder than the rude academic awakening we all faced in the fall of ’86. A number of us even “peaced out” of the College of Engineering after flunking Fortran in the fall. That January of ’87 was the final year that boxing was an intramural sport, due to some pummelings served up by members of our class to other unlucky upperclassmen. But, you knew all this already! Let’s get down to the business of the current state! In the state of New York, somewhere in The Bronx, the following lucky Lehigh ’90 grads found their way into the Legends Seats section of Yankee Stadium, one row from the away team’s on-deck batter warming up to take his turn at the plate: David Monson, Steve Saul, Howard Butterman and John Bosso. I am told there were “two floors of food,” there was “gluttony on top of gluttony” and even a Jumbotron appearance as Yankee Fans of the Game! David Monson waxed nostalgic—“imagine what we would have done there if we were still college students.” Following The Bronx tale, David Monson, the drummer of the classic rock cover band Vintage, welcomed several of his LU friends, including the “Couch Crew,” up to Danbury, Conn., for a gig. Partying up to par with Lehigh’s standards during the set were Sandy Hume-Whelan, Maggie (Quinn) Walker, Debbie Studer-Rauscher, Scott Evans, Howard Butterman, John Bosso, Steve Saul and Jim Giddon. Rumor has it they danced so long they actually burned calories. Moving the action back to Manhattan, Jim Giddon hosted what is now becoming an annual tradition at his flagship men’s clothing store, Rothmans—a Lehigh baseball team reunion. Coach Sean Leary ’93 brought 10 of his current players to mix with 20 alumni at Rothmans to talk baseball, careers and life. Jim even admitted four Class of ’90 non baseball players to the event: omnipresent Howard Butterman and Steve Saul, along with Michael Lewis and Tim Svanson. Tim and Diane (Miller) Svanson’s son, Matt, a 2021 LU grad, is currently pitching his way toward the big leagues in the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm system. Matt also attended the Rothmans event. Props to Bob Keane for reading our ’90 notes entry from the spring 2023 Alumni Bulletin—you know, the one with the Jonah Hill lookalike on the cover. Bob took note of our mention of the goal post pursuit at the final Lehigh-Lafayette game at Taylor Stadium in November 1987. Bob sent us a photo of his and Theta Xi’s piece of the “post.” He also had some pledging/rushee freshmen wrestle a toilet from Taylor and transport it all the way up to the fraternity on that chilly day. “I was not happy to get it, but now looking back, it was funny,” stated Bob. Bob just celebrated 30 years of marriage to Marnie (Kurzrok) Keane ’89. Congratulations, Bob and Marnie! Finally, great to hear from one of our hardest-working alumni class reps, Tom Flynn, who’s also a parent of a Class of 2026 candidate. His son is on the rowing team. Tom golfed during the summer of 2023 with Andrew Preusse ’92, who started as a freshman with all of us. Thank you, Tom, for all your work for our class! ’91 Diana Zoller Perkins, dianazoller@gmail.com It’s been a slow news cycle apparently because my inbox is empty! If you want to see your name in the Bulletin, advertise your business or just share news about you or your family, this is the place to do it! I’m currently at the most amazing beach (Playa Venao) in Panama after four weeks in El Salvador and Colombia. I’m pretending to be my 22-yearold daughter, Zelda, who just finished almost three years in the IDF in the Magav (border patrol) combat unit. Like most soldiers, she’ll embark on an extended trip before she begins her studies. I didn’t earn it quite the way she did, but it’s been amazing, nonetheless. It’s been hard to be away from Israel during this tumultuous political time. Before the summer, I was taking part in protests on a weekly basis and will get back to it when I return. It’s an incredible feeling to be fighting for democracy arm in arm with so many Israelis. I remain optimistic, but it’s a long war we’re waging. Sean Carberry sent this incredible update: “Hello, classmates. In the 32 years since graduation, I have been a mortgage banker, music producer and recording engineer, assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, journalist (WBUR), political consultant, journalist (WBUR, America Abroad, NPR), government official and again journalist (National Defense Magazine). I am now also an author. ‘Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War To Call Home,’ my memoir of my journey into and out of being NPR’s last Kabul-based correspondent [came] out Aug. 15. I [am] speaking at Lehigh Oct 3. More information about my book and events can be found
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