N O T E S chard Park with amuch smaller group thannormal, primarily because of COVID. Attendees included: FredBatson ’50; Steve Schaffer ’72Laf; several Laf graduates fromRochester (neither they nor Syracuse had telecasts); several friends fromthe Buffalo Force, including Rollin Shoemaker andMarty Schwab; mywife Anne, our sonBill fromIthaca, but no granddaughters this year. However, we found out that Steve Schaffer’s daughter teaches them at OrchardParkHigh. Matt Darragh ’05 and Emily Shutt Darragh ’05 have left Orchard Park andM&T Bank for the Donnit’s Grove area of Chicago and the Bank of Montreal. Good luck! We will miss you. Gil Stone wrote an update note in which he is sorry tomiss Walt Taylor and all the great times they had during Glee Club together. He recently had dinner with Dr. Diane Sternbergh Schoenfelder ’64G and her husband, John Schoenfelder ’64 Psi U. She was fromReading, and I dated her while she was at Goucher College. Wemade several trips to Lehigh and Sigma Chi. I remember her well! Now to the Theta Chi ’58ers. Frank Scheid lives in Gettysburg, but keeps in touch with his Washington friends and what’s going on inside the Beltway. He has season tickets for Lehigh wrestling and football. We send himcondolences on the loss of his wife, Jean. Anne and Dave Magoon live in Pines Senior Community in Davidson, N.C. He is a fan of DavidsonUniversity basketball and all Lehigh sports, as well as an expert on the qualities of Maker’sMark Bourbon. Marge and Dick Reller live in the Foulkeways Senior Community in Gwynedd, Pa. Dick helps with SCORE andmaintains his longtime friendship with Dick Briggs. Gil Stone is playing nine holes of golf twice a week and is bowling once a week. He is thrilled that his three singing groups have finally started rehearsing for the holiday concerts. He and Joan are enjoying the pleasures of Cape Cod living. Go Bills! WemissedPete Fenger ’49 at the telecast; he passed away inAugust. Hewas amechanical engineer and Sigma Phi Epsilon brother andworked atMoog Inc. forever (theywere all at the funeral). Hewas involved in the Hamburg, N.Y., Historical Society andwas aModel ARestoration Clubmember and proud owner of a 1929Model ARoadster. Our class also recently lost our National Champion wrestler, Joe Gratto. He was a Phi Gamma Delta brother, academic leader and perennial horticulturist. Charlie Burgdorf also left us this year. He was a Sigma Chi brother of mine and a teammate on the Lehigh baseball team. Could he ever throw a high and hard fastball?! I talked with Ed Delany recently—looks like he has reduced HawkMountain activities andmay not ski this winter (the boots won’t fit). He is just like the rest of us—out of breath, tired, 85 and alive! Bill Glose has come up with another close friend who left us fromBethlehem. My first love, Jill Edwards Rust, wife of Keith Rust ’57. Lori and Joe Jablonski ’78 missed the telecast because they were sponsoring a hockey team at the same time in the continuous four-day, 24-hour tournament for cancer awareness in Buffalo. They raised $2million! They have another meaningful message to share. Their son, JJ, was the captain of the Navy hockey team in Annapolis prior to his death from leukemia in his senior year. He never received his diploma. Well, apparently Army and Air Force have programs to honor cadets with an earned diploma posthumously. Joe teamed up with another father (a lawyer), and they managed to have Navy develop a similar program. They celebrated JJ’s graduation and receipt of his diploma on December 9. Wow, what an accomplishment! Congratulations. When the Navy hockey teamplayed Niagara University several years ago, they wanted to have Buffalo wings in honor of JJ. Joe had their bus detour to Duff’s for wings on the house—well done. Hadadiscussionwith Brooks Goldman, DickBriggs andBob Christie toget inaplanningmode for our 65thReunionandelection of a class president. Stay tuned! Talked toBill Burgin, Class of ’56 correspondent, about their three-class joint reunion coming up in June 2022. Lehigh is handling the planning! I had a surprise phone call fromWesWardell ’51, who is planning to go to his 70thReunion and hoping they havemore than the nine attendees fromthe 65th. He is an interesting graduatewhowatchesmore Lehigh sports than I knew they played! Sally and Dave Saunders’ November trip to Florida did not sound exciting. Maybe nomore Fla.? Looks like our bluebirds will be staying over winter, feeding in our windowsill again! Hurray. Gary’s Barbershop, where the coaches get cut, are excited and worried about winning that last game. Prayers work! Greekers to Joe Gratto, Charlie Burdorf, Walt Taylor, Jill Edwards Rust, Diane Sternbergh Schoenfelder and the Buffalo Bills. ’59Bob Teufel, 1 StokleaDrive, Emmaus, PA 18049. (610) 967-2049 (H); (610) 393-0565 (C); rteufel@aol.com and JohnCanova , The Carillon 209, 2525Taft Drive, Boulder, CO 80302; canova618@gmail.com “Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.” FromMax Ehrmann’s “Desiderata.” Somehow surrendering the things of youth gets easier each day and was brought tomind as fraternity brother Dan Bayer and I trudged up the high steps of Goodman Stadium for my 65th LU-LC football game. Dan is so far ahead of me on that record that it’s not worth counting, but we did agree to petition the ticket office to sell us season tickets next year far lower in the stands. If you attended 50 or more LU-LC games, you qualify for the 50 Game Club. Leon Harbold and I drove down to Kintnersville, Pa., to have lunch with George Karr, and although we invited him, the ever-generous George picked up the check. And while thinking of generous people, I got a nice note from Roger Bohl detailing his experience in making a gift to Lehigh. “I have supported Lehigh consistently over the years with modest contributions. This year, I decided to increase my current giving, with a request that my contribution be used for ‘direct support of a non-Caucasian, economically disadvantaged student.’” Roger went on to share the many options presented by the development staff to accomplish his goals of facilitating the acceptance and economic empowerment of those of non-European descent. And he did remind us of the tax benefits of using QCDs (qualified charitable donations) to support Lehigh and other worthy recipients. Roger’s experience is similar to many of us who wanted to target contributions to a targeted cause. My fellow class scribbler John Canova claims he was tired of people asking, “What was Lehigh like when you were there?” so he assembled some pithy then and now statistics: Undergraduate enrollment: Then, 2,683 (all male). Now, 5,451 (54 percent male, 46 per4 6 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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