S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 | 5 3 N O T E S improved and won our last three games, including the Lafayette game, 17-10. Please get in touch and let me know what you have been up to. Email, call or write, but do get in touch. MMXXII ’69A. Raymond Schmalz, 325 Lowell Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941-3845. (415) 388-3263 (H), (415) 317-0923 (C); rayschmalz@aol.com. Paul Beck sent in a great note. “On October 16, 2021, I had the opportunity to enjoy the 51st anniversary celebration of the wedding of Allan Clauss and his lovely wife, Laura. COVID pushed it from the 50th last year. They both look just like they did when we graduated! Allan had joined the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to fly out of New Hampshire in large planes for the Strategic Air Command that was a big issue during the Cold War. Since Allan was only given off a Fourth of July holiday and the weekend, they weremarried on the Fourth of July and had to rush back to NewHampshire. Laura is a nurse and also went to work there. After awhile she got involved inhelpingpeoplewith eatingdisorders andover the years turned that intoher primary job. She later startedamedical facility that attended to that problem(I hope I got that correct). “In the interest of helping NewHampshire grow, Allan and Laura went to work raising a family including twins! Their families have followed in their footsteps, but thatmight not be enough tomake the population overflow the state. They have also provided a temporary home for young peoplewho came to the U.S., to either study or for other reasons (I can’t remember everything). Allan said he thinks they have helped over 50 visitors. “After Allan flew for over 12,000 hours (with just a little of fighter planes that could do loops), he left the Air Force and worked for a couple of companies, as well as becoming a ski instructor. They now live north of Concord, N.H., in a house that is almost self-sufficient. Water froma well, sewage into a septic system, they grow fruit in the backyard as well as plants and treat the birds well. Recently, solar panels are on the roof and electricity is kept in a large pack of batteries, in case there is an outage from the electric that is provided from the local utility. “Their celebration was at The NewHampshire Audubon Center, and we were also treated to great food, wonderful music and a visitor (a red hawk) who came with a handler from the Center. “It was a great weekend with friends and familymembers who traveled to join them in the celebration. I am sure that I speak for all of the residents of M&MB-2 who are happy to hear of their wonderful years and only wishmanymore years.” And a follow-up on the Becks. Paul and his wife, Lee Ann, live inWayne, N.J., and have two children: Jeffrey and Susan. Jeffrey is married to Marie, with children, Milo and Daryl. Jeff has a comic bookstore in Montclair, N.J., called “East Side Mags.” Susan is out at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, taking care of running the Black Diamond Condo. Lee Ann is a day camp nurse in the summer, and fills in as the nurse at a Conservative Jewish Day School from September until June. Paul still works seven days a week as president of PBA Engineering, P.C., in Fairfield, N.J. He claims he has not missed a day throughout the pandemic. His construction is a crazy business. It would help if everyone would stop watching HGTV! We also received a nice note from Bob Shive. Bob was a ChemE and after graduation found his way to eastern Missouri, where he has lived ever since. He worked for two companies in energy conservation before retiring in 2004. He still makes it back to the East Coast to visit friends and tourist attractions. He says he is happily retired! ’70 Denny Diehl, 28 Chancery Court, Millville, NJ 08332. (610) 698-7136; dennydiehl@aol.com ’71SamDugan, 143 Pinecrest Lane, Lansdale, PA 19446. (215) 368-1895 (H), (215) 680-9719 (M); srdugan49@ comcast.net I randomly chose classmates for this column whose last name started with the letter “R” whom I’ve never written about or it has been a long time since I have done so. Bill Raff is a survivor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center and a volunteer at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. I found a YouTube presentation he made to a group of students from around the world in November 2020, which I found very interesting. Bill worked for Fuji Bank on the 82nd floor on the south side of the South Tower. Bill and his banking colleagues evacuated after the North Tower was hit. In the interview, he related how he managed to take the stairs down six floors, a freight elevator for 32 more flights and then stairs for the remaining 44 floors. United Airlines flight 175 hit the tower while he was descending the stairs. The impact zone was on the south side of the building between floors 78 and 86 and essentially wiped out his desk. Twenty-three of his colleagues died that day. I’m sure many of us knew someone who perished that day a little more than 20 years ago. Dr. Bob Rege is one of several fellow chemical engineering graduates to pursue a career in medicine. Bob got his M.D. in 1975 fromMilton S. Hershey Medical School, Penn State University. He remained there for his first year of residency, and then served two years as a general medical officer in the U.S. Navy. He returned to Hershey in 1978 and completed his residency in surgery in 1982. Bob spent 16 years at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and is now the associate dean for undergraduate medical education and a surgeon specializing in advanced laparoscopic surgery at UT SouthwesternMedical Center in Dallas. In 2010, the Penn State Alumni Association awarded Bob its Alumni Fellow Award, themost prestigious award given by the Association. Bob and his wife, Gloria, are avid travelers, hitting the roads and airways regularly to visit their grown children or to embark on new opera odysseys to hear performances in the world’s great opera venues. The Reges were co-chairs of the Dallas Opera Guild and also enjoy attending the Dallas Symphony and cycling aroundWhite Rock Lake. Cindy and Paul Reitz live in Whitinsville, Mass. Paul retired after 11 years as an optical fiber I/O and test equipment specialist at Avaya in Billerica, Mass., approximately five years ago. Like many people, Paul got caught up in the dot-com demise of the early 2000s. His professional career included a three-year stint at Corning inMarlborough, Mass., and 13 years at Tyco Electronics in Harrisburg, Pa. Paul and Cindy have two children and two grandsons, all living inMassachusetts. Paul has a long-standing hobby of researching the Reitz family tree that goes back to 1751 in Pennsylvania. He’s also an avid automobile mechanic. Steve Rice is a regional
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