N O T E S unable to continuemy studies at Lehigh. This scholarship takes a lot of theweight of not knowing how I will be able to pay for school offmy shoulders, whichwill allow me to focus onmy studies even more. Thismeans theworld to me knowing that I amable to continuemy education because of your generous gift. Thank you for being so generous.” Ethan is secretary of the Interfraternity GreekCouncil, aUAG Intern and amember of the Finance Club. Funding for the Class of ’75 Scholarship comes fromthe endowment we all createdwith our contributions beginning in our senior year to the Class of ’75 gift account. Speaking of our class leadership, class co-presidents Jeff Sherman and Mardi Blacher-Reich mentioned in their latest email to the class that Lehighwill be hosting a dinner for themembers of the classes including our ownwhomissed their reunion because of theCOVID pandemic. The dinner will be on June 11, 2022, as part of Reunion Weekend. Stay tuned. Please send information about what you have done since you graduated from Lehigh, including those of the class with whom you have stayed in touch. Your classmates want to hear from you. And don’t forget to “like” our class Facebook page run by Jeff Sherman. It can be found at: facebook.com/ lehighseventyfive?fref=ts. Stay well. ’76MarkE.Goehring, 10 Princeton Drive, Shamong, NJ 08088. (609) 841-0389 (C); MarkGoehring LU76@gmail. com; Look for me on Facebook! Save the date: cluster Reunion ’77, ’76, ’75 on June 9-12, 2022. We are not old. We are a rare vintage, and highly collectible piece of retro 1970s memorabilia! And the weekend of June 9, we get a rare chance to share our vintage and memorabilia with our retro friends from three classes. A trifecta of reunions with the classes of ’77, ’76 and ’75. All of us have friends from these great classes, and considering this will be our 46th year, there will be no better time to gather. Friends are the best part of life, and a reunion becomes the best part of friends! Go to alum.lu/reunion for more info. There was a Leadership Recognition Dinner in October 2021 where the Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented by our new university president and fellow graduate Joseph J. Helble ’82. It bears repeating in our column how proud we are of Marty Baron, the Excellence in Industry Award winner, and Joe Sterrett, the Lifetime Commitment to Lehigh Award winner. Attending the dinner from our class were Bruce “YoGi” Perry; Tom Vogelsong from San Francisco Bay and recently put on an advisory board for the Lehigh College of Health (more on Tom below); Ralph Thomas, chief executive officer and director of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accounts; and of course, Cindy Sterrett, who, like all that were there, looks forward to our multi-class reunion in June. FromTomWocklish ’81: He recently participated in the JimMahlbacher Memorial Scholarship Fund Tailgate. Jim was killed in an auto accident in 1983, and a scholarship fund was started by Delta Upsilon brothers and others in his honor in 1984. Scholarships are given annually. Class of ’76 participants were Gary Iacocca and Chad Paul. I got some updates and corrections from Ray Finnila of Sigma Chi, who mentioned that Tony Rocco retired as a U.S. Air Force navigator and is working as either a civilian DoD employee or for a contractor. As for Ray, he was a special agent in the federal Office of Inspector General (OIG) community that investigates fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government agencies for over 28 years. He retired fromOIG in 2010. In between federal employment, he was a detective for theMonmouthCounty Prosecutor’s Office for four years. Ray and Jean, his wife of 44 years and his Sigma Chi sweetheart, now reside on the eastern shore of Virginia, enjoying visits fromchildren, grandchildren and friends. Tom Vogelsong and wife Cindy moved to the Bay Area in 2017. At the same time, he connected with former president John Simon, who set up a West Coast Lehigh office and formed a partnership with the NASDAQ Entrepreneurship Center in San Fran. Tom had recently retired fromGE to the exciting and intense world of startups! He now is helping with healthtech startups and became an angel investor with an organization called Kyto Technology and Life Science. Tom has stayed close withMcConn House Lehigh friends over the years, and recently did a pub crawl with Mike Melino, Al English, Morris London and Tim Boland. As a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) of the newHealth College, we will look forward to further updates fromhim. Where’s William Schroer! I got an email froma person trying to findWilliamfor his OleyHigh School 2022 50thReunion. The LehighAlumni Office and our class officers are careful howwe hand out information. The Alumni Office handled it perfectly, and Williamwas happily contacted. A nice letter from Preston Crabill where he is still loving life in Davidson, N.C. He was recently appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, where he wears several hats, including advising on investment policy and other matters related to the PBGC’s mission. Most of us are having our 50th high school reunion in 2022, and also will be attending our 46th Lehigh Reunion. Please call-text-email-mail a “vintage and retro” friend and say hello. I want to see you this year! ’77Ann Louise (Werley) Price, 2 Colton St., Farmington, CT 06032. (860) 677-1295 (H); prokemo@ comcast.net Clint Coldren, Larry Henshaw and John Vargo participated in the recent JimMahlbacher Memorial Scholarship Fund Tailgate. JimMahlbacher ’80, of Wilmington, Del., was killed in an auto accident inDecember 1983. TomWocklish ’81 writes, “Jimwas a great friend, fraternity brother and teammate who was admired by everyone who knew him. He served as president of Delta Upsilon and was a member of the National Championship football team. We created the scholarship fund in February 1984. The university required us to raise $10,000 in three years to name it and direct it. We raised about $20,000 in a weekend phone-a-thon. “We provide scholarships with 75% of the annual proceeds and bank the other 25%. We seek (1) a football player, (2) fromDU, who (3) came from Delaware. We raise funds by annual giving, the tailgate party and the occasional golf gathering. Some companies match the giving of their employees. The tailgate also serves as anopportunity to reunite for aweekend.” Hats off to all of you! For the past 16 years, Janet Raibaldi has been the director of a small all-volunteer nonprofit, Turn On To America, that distributes food in the San Francisco Bay area. Until the pandemic, they were distributing one million pounds of food annually. But then when the 5 6 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTA0OTQ5OA==