N O T E S lived and worked in Houston, New York City, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Algeria, France, Spain and Switzerland. With his math abilities, Dick was fortunate to find calculus easy. He was a member of Lehigh’s cross country running teams.” Steve Antalics writes: “Still kicking. Been back at Lehigh as a visiting scientist since 2000. All the experts in my field have died, and I must be the last one standing, so the appointment. They must have hit the bottom of the barrel. Work primarily with grad students whose work might involve interfacial thermodynamics. Kids keep me on my toes. Life has been quite interesting!” Heard from Richard Washer: “I loved my Lehigh years and engineering education. Since 1958 my wife and I are grateful that we have been able to travel extensively on a worldwide basis. I have enjoyed photographing in over 55 countries and six continents. Before the pandemic took hold, we had a once-in-a-lifetime trip in 2018 to Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes—8,000-feet elevation! We downsized to a townhouse in Hickory, N.C., in 2007. We spend time most weeks, yearround, at our Blue Ridge Mountain home in Blowing Rock, N.C. I usually walk a mile each day to keep active. Best regards to all our 1952 classmates.” I assume that someone reads these classmates’ notes, but I wish you guys would let me know you are still alive and kicking. You all are surely living an exciting life also. But because news is scarce, I will reluctantly bore you with my activities! Other than a Thanksgiving trip to Raleigh, N.C., not too much going on with us. COVID-19 has bypassed most of our family. Our son, David, is a lead chemist with Pfizer, so we are kept up to date with the latest vaccine news. He was part of the team that helped increase the vaccine quantity available after the initial release. Some of my family joined me this year in my goal of riding my bike my age. I’m 91, so I challenged myself to ride 91 miles in September, ride 91 miles over at least one seven-day period and ride 91 miles in one day. I accomplished the first two in the first two weeks. The third challenge is in my dreams—my best day was 19 miles, a long way from 91. The four of us involved in the challenge rode 1,153 miles! It was fun with our daughter, son and his wife riding together, virtually. Incidentally, be sure to look at your page on our very own website. You might be surprised at what I have recorded about your fantastic life since graduation. You might even want to make much-needed additions and corrections. You will find it at seeoursite.org/lehigh. ’53Herb Roemmele, herbertroem mele@gmail.com, 732-796-3013 I ampleased tobewithyouagain as our class correspondent. Althoughyou receive this column well after the event, Iwant to tell youhowgreat ourmini-reunion was onSaturday, September 18, 2021. See thephotos in the Celebrations sectionof these classnotes to confirmthis historic event. Never inLehigh’s history has a class hada68th reunion. I have also talked tograduates of eight other easternuniversities, and their reunions all stopat 60 years. Let’s congratulateourselves. The picture of three good-looking gentlemen shows on the left Lehigh’s new president, JosephHelble ’82, and on the right our own distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning filmcritic for theWall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern, and in themiddle our president, JoeWorkman. The group picture is our class attendees showing from right to left: Nick Gentile, Bob Gill, Tony Latour, Mark Kaufmann, JoeWorkman, Roger Inglese, Herb Roemmele, Art Tauck, Jack Platt, JoeMorgenstern, Myles Adelman andBobHoyt ’52.We allowed the latter to join us by invitation fromhis good friend, Jack Platt.Whilewe have all changed a bit, that Lehigh spirit still shows through. It was awonderful day, startingwith a special invitation to the Tower Society breakfastmeeting, a football game against Princeton, followed by three events in the impressive Zoellner Arts Center. At 4 p.m. was a private presentation by the LehighArt Galleries staff (did you know that Lehigh has some 17,000 pieces of art in various buildings around campus?), followed by a reception at 5 and dinner at 6.We had a great time talking over the 1949-1953 years, the art presentation, Joe Workman’s inspirational message, and a surprise visit to the reception and remarks by Lehigh’s newpresident, JosephHelble. He is a 1982 graduate and brings great experience and enthusiasm to the office. The highlight of the dinner was remarks by our own Joe Morgenstern. JoeWorkman quoted the citation for Joe at the ceremony where he received his Pulitzer Prize. It said in part “for his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of filmwith rare insight, authority and wit.” He sure gave us some of those three attributes in his talk. Several interesting notes: We had three graduates from one fraternity—Pi Lambda Phi—Myles Adelman, Mark Kaufmann and JoeMorgenstern. There were also four graduates from the same high school inMaplewood, N.J.: Bob Gill, Art Tauck, Herb Roemmele andMyles Adelman. I had a nice chat withMark Kaufmann about his career with Chase Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). He headedmergers and acquisitions. Right after Lehigh I also worked there for a while and had David Rockefeller as my advisor. I had nice chats at the football game with Jack Platt and Roger Inglese. Roger’s wife died in 2018. He has two granddaughters, one of whom graduated fromLehigh and was with us for our dinner. We heard from several who could not come back. Bob Temps cited distance as a big problem, and Charley Hull’s wife reported that he really wanted to be with us, but his health was not good enough for travel. Emmett Clary reported somemedical issues. Chuck Atmore had a conflict, although he was able to attend an earlier football game. Grant Hansel also found time to get to a game with his great-grandson. Hal Meyer is retired fromBoeing and is enjoying life with his own plane in and aroundMt. Rainier inWashington. Don Clapp has retired in northern California. At this 68thmini-reunion event we all agreed how fortunate we were to have graduated fromLehigh and how grateful we are to Lehigh for having laid the foundation for fruitful lives. We also agreed to try tomake our 70th in 2023. I’ll keep writing if you send me good stuff to write about. Either email me at herbertroemmele@gmail.com or call 732-796-3013. ’54Editor’s note: Bert Schweigaard- Olsen has filled this space with his words and wit for over 50 years. He died on Feb. 25, 2022 in Sarasota, Fla. We will miss his unique way of spinning a tale and the way he kept tabs on so many classmates. Please see his obituary in the In Remembrance section of the Summer Bulletin. ’55Burt Sutker, 55 Lexington Drive, Pennington, NJ 08534. 609-730-0839; BJSutker@aol.com 4 4 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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