N O T E S that job andwent towork for a local automotive repair business. Jim’s wife, Janet, was a St. Luke’s School of Nursing graduate, and they have three children. William Conklin decided to start a technical sales career withGeneral Electric. After fivemonths Uncle Samcame a-calling andwelcomed himto Fort Dix. Hewent throughOfficer Candidate School (Infantry) at Fort Benning, but was able to eventually get to the Adjutant General’s Corps. He served at Fort Benning and Indiantown GapMilitary Reservation. After the service he joined IBMto start a 30-year career in sales and product development. Bill worked at eight different locations in the States and Asia, and never held the same position for more than two or three years. He retired in January 2000 andmet his wife, Sandra, twoweeks later. They spent four years traveling theworld to seewhere theywanted to settle and found their little bit of heaven inMexico. After 14 wonderful years in the historic UNESCO500-year-oldWorld Heritage Site of SanMiguel de Allende, they were forced by health reasons to leave Mexico and return to the U.S. in 2020. As difficult as it was to leave, they were able to move closer to their kids in Southern Pines, N.C., and spend more time with their grandchildren. Bill says that “slowly but surely we are integrating into a very different culture. Nothing is for sure, but we expect that this is probably our last of many moves.” Henry Schlenker provided a Beta update. “The Beta golf group has had to defer its annual golf outing in response to COVID, but members of the group have (reportedly) been keeping their game razor sharp. We may not be hitting the ball quite as far, but we make up for it by hitting the ball more often. Jackie and Bob Schmidt are doing well in Annapolis. Bob is in the process of selling his health care claims processing company, and they escape to a vacation home near Rehoboth, Del. Liz and Jim Marchant are splitting their time between Boston and Naples, Fla., where they relax with golf and tennis. Jim continues with some consulting appraisal projects. Beverly and Blair Smith live near Houston at Lake Conroe, where Blair is still hitting the ball a mile. Jan and Dave Etzel have a home on the water in Guilford, Conn. They enjoy visiting their children, who live inMaine and Seattle. Duane Beacher lives in the Villages near Orlando and continues to fine-tune his golf game.” Hope to see you at Reunion. ’67 Eric Hamilton, journeyman618@ gmail.com ’68GeorgeKlacik, 27 Oak Forest Lane, Summit, NJ 07901, gklacikjr@aol.com, (908) 273-7850. You may recall that the Summer 2021 edition of the Lehigh Bulletin included an article about FrankMiller receiving a lot of notoriety by getting folks out to play catch in Dallas. Frank called to pass on an achievement of his grandniece, Bella Papov ’22, who is a Lehigh biochemistrymajor. She was amember of the four-women crew team that competed against 40 other teams andwon theHead of the Schuylkill race for four-women boats.Wonder if Frankwill get her to throw the baseball around at the next family gathering. I called Doug Stives to congratulate him on receiving the NJCPA 2021 Ovation Award as an exceptional educator. The article on the award said, “Truly a legend, Doug is known for his ability to break down complicated tax material into understandable terms.” He has been quoted on tax issues in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and has been on CNBC, CNN and other networks. Doug was president of the NJCPA society when he was only 42. He left the CPA firm he helped build to go to Monmouth University 16 years ago and is a specialist professor. In addition to teaching at the university, he also is very busy teaching CPE courses to his fellow CPAs. He missed our 50th Reunion because he was in the Mediterranean on a cruise ship instructing CPE courses. But Doug is not all work. He went skiing out West a number of times last winter since the airfares were so cheap. He also goes sailing in his boat. He claims he just gave up golf, but still enjoys riding around the course in a cart. He has gone back to Lehigh’s band camp and also gets together with his KA fraternity brothers at alumni events. Doug remindedme that he wrote this column for many years. After he reads this one, he might decide he needs to come back and get the columns back up to par. Alan Kober sent me an informative email, which follows: “On a cool, rainy Sunday afternoon this spring, my wife (Joan) and I were bored with not much to do because of the pandemic. I was rummaging through one of our closets and found a box of old 35-mm slides. Tomy surprise, the slide projector worked, so we looked at many of the slides. Among themwere a number of slides fromvarious activities and parties at Lehigh. In addition to my then fiancée (nowwife) and me being in some of the pictures, my roommate Richard Unis and his then fiancée (nowwife), Harriet, were also inmany of them. “I last talked to Rich about 12-15 years ago and decided to call him after seeing the slides. We met for lunch at our house in Sept. and renewed our friendship. Rich and I went to elementary and junior high school in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia, but Rich moved after junior high school, and we lost touch. We became reacquainted during freshman orientation in 1964 and roomed together in Congdon House during our sophomore, junior and senior years. “Immediately after graduation, I went to work for Rohm and Haas Co. (acquired about 10 years ago by Dow Chemical) in suburban Philadelphia, while Rich worked for IBMfirst in Burlington, Vt., and then in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. We kept in touch periodically over the years but hadn’t seen them for quite a while. “Joan and I have two children and three grandchildren, all living near us in Dresher, Pa. I worked as a chemical engineer in various manufacturing and ITmanagement positions for Rohm and Haas for 35 years and retired over 17 years ago when they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Joan and I keep busy with our many sporting activities, volunteer work, travel and being with our grandchildren. “Rich and Harriet live in NYC and have two daughters … one of their daughters and all of their grandchildren live in Israel, so they haven’t been able to see them in person for a while. “During our four years on SouthMountain, I not so fondly remember the football team winning only three games in our four years. This past Saturday (Oct. 9), I took my son, son-inlaw and three grandchildren to Franklin Field to see the Penn-Lehigh game. Although a good time was had by all, the 2021 team is mirroring the 1964-67 teams as they haven’t won a game yet this year. There’s always next year!” Fortunately, after Alan sent the above, our football team 5 2 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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