Page 17 • Lehigh University Schnitz und Knepp, sauerkraut balls, fastnachts, and shoefly pie all washed down with steins of Old Reading, and even performed regularly as a Schuhplattler in a folk-dance group dressed in his own Lederhosen and alpine hat which he frequently wore to Chem Dept parties. Bob often recalled that a couple liters of Old Reading greatly improved his dancing performance. Ilse Stoll (LU Chemistry MS 1980), died at the age of 80 in her Bethlehem home, February 3, 2023. Isle immigrated from her native Germany in 1963 where she obtained her first degree in chemistry to work as a chemist analyst at multiple area companies. Ilse did her Lehigh MS — on organometallic syntheses project under Professor Kraihanzel — while raising three daughters as a single mom. After Lehigh Ilse worked for J.T.Baker, Bell Telephone, Agere, and Benchmark Analytics. She retired as President of Benchmark in 2012. department for the day was something Bob faithfully arranged each year of his teaching career. Several of Lehigh’s most distinguished graduate chemistry alumni came to us from Albright where they’d been encouraged and mentored by Bob. These alumni include Dennis Hess (faculty -- Georgia Tech), Nancy Dodrer Arabinick (research chemist -- Liposome Corp), Jessica Zuber Pfennig (regulatory affairs -- Merck), and Sherri Young (faculty -- Muhlenberg College). When he retired from Albright, Bob came back to Lehigh as a Visiting Scientist to work with Ned Heindel’s medicinal chemistry group. In 26 years as a volunteer on the Lehigh research staff he mentored dozens of students, served on dissertation committees, conducted personal research in heterocyclic medicinal agents, and coauthored publications and patents. Bob retired from Lehigh in October 2018 as a Visiting Research Scientist. Born in 1930 to a Pennsylvania Dutch family living near Reading, Bob grew up immersed in the local German dialect amidst Deutsch farmers, craftsmen, and tradesmen. He attended many a Groundhog Day dinner, chowed down on countless servings of hog maw, Bob Rapp (right) met his former Lehigh PhD adviser, Irving Borowitz (left), at the ACS National Meeting, September 2001.
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