N O T E S rester, Lee Fuller, Bill Hamilton, Charles Jablow, Reginald Jennings, Charlie Lieb, Bob Magee, BobMcGowan, Robert Pantel, Joseph Schulter, Roger Schwarz, Michael Shapiro and Fred Sperling. How often have we partied with the world’s fastest human? That would be the D.C.-based Gene Dykes, who set world records for over 70 in the marathon and 50K. Nickname: #UltraGeezer. By remarkable coincidence, my only campus bus ride introducedme to TessMcGinley ’23 (Calif.), one of six competing on our women’s freestyle wrestling club teamwith Olympian KerryMcCoy. I also enjoyed the student support handling our newAquarius T-shirts: Bishop Pikinini ’23, a native of Botswana, who high-fvedme en route to the parade. I got a reunion organizer’s fantasy email fromBarry Shapiro (shapwork@aol. com): “Thanks for all the hard work you put into our reunion. This was the frst reunion I’ve attended, and it was a lot of fun. Well done!” Another verywarmnote (among several) fromBob Pantel, who transferred toNCState in ’68! For those unable to attend, this key text fromour parade speech confrmed our unique status as a class:While a lot of classes protestedVietnam, ’70 led the way to skip our last fnals, with a frst-ever option to graduatewith pass/fail grades that semester (looks weird onmy resume).We helped organize a sit-in inDeming Lewis’ ofce, as he ofered cofee to his “guests.” Seniors also helped create Lehigh’s frst-ever student/faculty forum—andwe were the frst Lehigh class to vote ‘yes’ for admittingwomen! (Big applause, even if the votewasn’t unanimous.) In 1995, the great Class of 1970 won the coveted Petty Flag for our theme and song: “the age of less hair on us” …with even less fuzz on top today, our esteemed alumni band director Steve Bartosik ’77 (a Rockettes band director) aired it out again in June. Thanks, all! ’71SamDugan, 143 Pinecrest Lane, Lansdale, PA 19446. (215) 368-1895 (H), (215) 680-9719 (M); srdugan49@ comcast.net Our 50th reunion (or should I say 51st) was a tremendous success, thanks to the herculean eforts of the reunion committee: Marty Matijasich (our new class president), Mike Pavlides, JimDale, Eric Flicker, Jim Lichtenwalner and Ron Simpson. We won the coveted Petty Flag for the best parade performance for the classes ending in 1s and 6s. Marching 97 drummajor Bill Buskirk and bass drummer Ron Simpson led us in this efort organized by Bob Kendig. Bill and Jan live inWyomissing, Pa. Heworked as an engineer for twomajor companies that no longer exist: BethlehemSteel and Reynolds Aluminum. He fnished his working career as engineering manager forHydroAluminum, a large aluminumextrusion plant. It’s still in existence. Ron and his wife, Janet, now call Land O’ Lakes, Fla., home. After a 29-year career with Exelon, building andmaintaining nuclear power plants, Ron’s holler should he ever be on a TV game showwould be “GO NUCLEAR.” BobKendig is now retired, like most of us, and enjoys visiting his four grown children inPhiladelphia andMaryland. Two of his children are Lehigh grads. He’s a regular swimmer and has taken up fshing and birdwatching. Barbara and Bruce Meyer call Melville, N.Y., home. They have two sons and three grandchildren. Bruce is down to working only two days a week as general counsel for Pico Electronics, an electronics component manufacturer. He’s been there over 50 years as their accountant and lawyer. Bruce and Barbara have two passions in life: travel and blood donation. Bruce has donated over 13 gallons and encourages everyone to donate blood. Curt Benefeld spent 31 years withValeroRefning and retired as director of asphalt supply and development. This prepared him to spend 12 years as a consultant to the asphalt industry, including being an expert witness. Now retired, Curt and his wife, Jan, live inBoerne, Texas. Wayne Laitala is another Texan. He and wife Pat live in Austin. Pat spent more than 30 years with Rockwell Collins as amilitary communications systems design engineer for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. Wayne hadn’t been back to Lehigh since graduation. BrianHarle retired from PennsylvaniaDepartment of Transportation after 35 years of service inhighway design and trafc safety. He and his wife, Harriette, now live near Charlotte, N.C. Brian is living the dreamplaying golf three to four times aweek and is now less than 50 courses shy of his goal of playing 500 diferent courses before his playing days are over. Fore! John “Hunt” Foster is still working in Connecticut as an engineering project manager for Berlin Steel Construction Company, a structural steel fabricating and erecting company. John Texter claims to be currently unemployed and looking for his fourth career. He’s a professor emeritus of polymers and coatings at EasternMichiganUniversity and resides in Rochester, N.Y. All he needs is a lab to continue his research in nanozyme synthetic catalysts. Bill Kuhn met his wife, Danielle, on a foreign study program to Nice, France. They married in Nice in 1972. Bill retired fromKlieverik Heli BV, a Dutch manufacturer of machinery for the digital printing of textiles. He’s gradually retiring from a residential real estate investment company he started in 1982. Bill and Danielle live in Spartanburg, S.C. “Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977-89” presents over 80 photographs by Arnie Jarmak at theMcMullenMuseumof Art inBoston Sept. 6-Dec. 4. The photographs are froman archive ofmore than 20,000 he produced as chief photographer for Chelsea’s newspaper, the ChelseaRecord. The brochure for the exhibit has a photo of Arnie in his Lehigh hockey uniform. ’72Charles S. “Chuck” Steele, 2080 Flint Hill Road, Coopersburg, PA 18036. (610) 737-2156 (M); chuck. steele@alum.lehigh.edu Over the weekend of June 9-12, we celebrated our 50th reunion at Lehigh. Our reunion committee actually began planning for the event back in September 2021. Tom Stoneback emailed me about fnding a very upscale straw fedora at a great price and wondered if I thought we could use it as part of a parade outft. He didn’t have to twist my arm because the committee had already discussed the importance of having some kind of prop that could help us to stand out from the other classes this time. Tom ran with that executive decision by our parade subcommittee of two and was able to almost steal us those hats for under $5 each; they retail for nearly ten times that amount! A series of Zoommeetings hosted by Alumni Relations ensued, allowing us to expand the committee to several participants who were not local to the Lehigh Valley, including John Heil, Mike Lysak, John Stupp and WesWinterbottom. The entire group was chaired by our class treasurer Bill Maher, rounded out by Greg Falkenbach, Ollie Foucek, Blake 5 2 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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