Keith Schray Emeritus Professor Keith J. Schray has emerged from retirement to take a part time job with his son Tom's garage door company, Precision Garage Door of the Lehigh Valley. Keith told this newsletter that he was answering the phone and performing office functions for his son's firm. Dr Schray, who served as department chair from 1996 to 2001, was recognized as an outstanding instructor who shared his research interests in organic chemistry, enzyme mechanisms, and clinical chemistry via introductory chemistry courses through advanced chemistry research labs--and was prescient in his efforts to introduce and assess the effects of workshop chemistry learning lead by in-class peer leaders in introductory organic courses. The Department hosted the November meeting of the Lehigh Valley ACS Local Section as a virtual tour of the collegiate chemistry departments of The Valley, their histories, and their current faculties. The program featured nine colleges with five-minute vignettes from each (with a prize-giving quiz based on the content). Moderated by Lehigh's emeritus professor Ned Heindel, the program can be viewed at YouTube: https://youtu.be/PvMG2F9aknk In addition, Dr. Heindel (emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry) and his wife Linda, with the help of several attorneys, are resisting the eminent domain seizure of a part of their Williams Township farm by the PennEast (Natural Gas) Company. PennEast proposes to cross a swamp and a steep rocky ridge owned by the Heindels with a high pressure 36" gas pipeline. The legal battle is still on-going but at present the pipeline company is seeking approval for an alternative pathway to bring fracking gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to markets in New Jersey. (Read more at https://bit.ly/3guAnV2). Ned Heindel The research group of Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Scientist, Ned Heindel was recently awarded two patents, U.S.P. 10,570,161 and U.S.P. 10,752,582, for their burn and blister healing accelerant, AidnX, (also known as NDH4338) and its closely related congeners. A 1% ointment of the topical pharmaceutical AidnX, which is in the last stage of preclinical trials, cuts healing time to one-third for open vesicant-induced dermal wounds caused by the terrorist toxin, mustard gas. Lehigh members of the Heindel team who have worked on the project have been Sherri Young, Karine Fabio, Jaya Saxena, Cynthia Fianu-Velgus, Jeff Lacey, Pramod Mohanta, and Christophe Guillon. In addition, Dr. Heindel (emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry) and his wife Linda, with the help of several attorneys, are resisting the eminent domain seizure of a part of their Williams Township farm by the PennEast (Natural Gas) Company. PennEast proposes to cross a swamp and a steep rocky ridge owned by the Heindels with a high pressure 36" gas pipeline. The legal battle is still on-going but at present the pipeline company is seeking approval for an alternative pathway to bring fracking gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to markets in New Jersey. (Read more at https://bit.ly/3guAnV2). , 79, a retired administrative assistant in the Department of Chemistry from 1986 Mary Alice Murphy to 1999, passed away at her home in Nazareth on Thursday, December 31, 2020. Mary was survived by her husband, Patrick J. Murphy, and her two children, son Patrick of Easton and daughter Kathleen of Bethlehem, and four beloved grandchildren. Mary served in the department as an editorial assistant to Professor John Larsen in his function as editor-in-chief of the ACS journal, Energy and Fuels. Emeritus Professor Larsen commented on her passing, "Mary was really a treat to work with. She was very much a professional and very efficient, especially at shielding the Editor from many aggravated authors." Mary's happy place was at the beach--she loved boating in the bay and being near the ocean. She also loved doing volunteer work for Bethlehem's annual Celtic Fest Emeriti and Retired Faculty & Staff News Two retired faculty have taken on big business on behalf of environmental preservations. Jack A. Alhadeff, emeritus professor of biochemistry, and his wife Jan engaged an attorney to fight a requested zoning variation by Tree Course Adventures to build an overhead rope course through a nearby forested property. Jack and Jan argued -- apparently successfully as it now stands -- that the ziplines would draw noisy traffic Jack and Jan Alhadeff and bring environmental destruction to their Upper Saucon Township neighborhood. An alternative use -- much favored by the Alhadeffs -- as a vineyard, winery, and tasting room seems to be on track. (Read more at https://bit.ly/3gnF6YD). Page 16 · Lehigh University
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