N O T E S Lynne Craig, who is a director at Merck and has been there for 26 years. While on campus, Sandy was also able to visit with Professor Terry Hart ’68, the shuttle astronaut who gave the Commencement speech earlier this year. Sandy had a chance to speak to his class of senior mechanical engineers, which was also her degree. It sounds like it was a great experience. Sandy also regularly gets together with Steff Neff in Seattle. Steff is the COO of Farallon Consulting, an environmental firm. Jennifer Lakefield attended Parents’ Weekend at Lehigh this fall. Her son, TJ Briscoe, is a junior in civil engineering. Her daughter graduated fromUC Berkeley and is nowworking at Yale in the research department. Jennifer retired after 30 years onWall Street and now splits her time betweenNew Jersey and Naples, Fla., and is doing some consulting on the side. ’92 Steve Harap, (630) 430-1557 s_harap@yahoo. com ’93Leslie Keating Joiner, (404) 2763280; joiner1@comcast.net Great to hear from Adam Ciperski. He wrote fromMiami, where he and his wife, Carla, have been living for the past 19 years. He was recently hired by ThoughtSpot as the vice president of customer success for North America. His son, Theo, started his junior year of high school and is busy acting, singing and dancing in school shows. Daughter Sofia is a high school freshman and is on the swimand water polo teams. When Adam’s not attending his kids’ events, he is training for his next triathlon. Good luck, Adam! JimKennedy sends his regards and this update: “At the end of October, Sonny Rutkowski, MJ Forrest and I celebrated the 50th birthday of Greg Saunders in Far Hills, N.J.—it was great to see them and celebrate with Greg.” Jim is finishing 23 years in business at his engineering company in Red Bank, N.J. His oldest, Kate, is a freshman at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He has two other daughters, Claire and Lucy, in high school, and his youngest, James, is in fifth grade. His wife, Karen, keeps themall headed in the right direction. Lori (Schlauch) Trechter sent a fantastic update. She started bymentioning classmate and Alpha Gamma Delta sister Liz Edmiston Padgett, who was featured in Lehigh’s Tower Society, and how that got her thinking about the kind of legacy she would like to leave. She says, “Given that I’ve been involved in some aspect of teachingmost of my life, it will probably have something to do with education and also the outdoors.” Lori and her family live in Colorado and love to take advantage of outdoor recreation there. This past summer, they attempted to summit more “14ers” (mountains that are 14,000+ feet in elevation); however, the weather was not on their side. They made it to the saddle of two 13,000-foot peaks before heading back down to beat the impending weather. It’s her goal to summit Mt. Elbert, the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains. Lori is still a home educator, but after this year, she will have only one child left at home, with three others in high school and two adult children. Her oldest graduated as a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy inMay and is now an officer in theMarine Corps. He has an aviation contract and hopes to fly helicopters. Her daughter is a sophomore at Catholic University of America inWashington, D.C., studying civil engineering. Like Lori, she was amember of the softball team, but recently decided to pursue other interests and hopes to study abroad her junior year. Her youngest daughter also plays softball; Lori coached her team last spring. Lori still keeps in touch with Coach Fran at Lehigh, and she says she is ever grateful for her experience on the LU softball team. Her youngest daughter, age 10, competes in ninja warrior competitions locally and in the Colorado Ninja League. Lori’s older daughter is interviewing with a company that built a ninja gym in northern Colorado. How cool would it be if she could help build a new ninja gym for her sister to train and compete? AnAir Force veteranwho served a tour inEurope, Lori continues to keep ties with the military and her love for foreign language and cultures. She and her family sponsor Air Force cadets to provide thema home away fromhome, and this year they are hosting an exchange student from France. They have also hosted students fromChina and Japan. ’94Michael B. York, 575West End Avenue #9A, New York, NY 10024; michael.york@ nyplaw.com On a whim, I tookmy 10-yearold son to see a Lehigh football game in the fall. I had no idea it was Parents’ Weekend. I have never felt quite that old. I saw Melissa (Muendel) Hartley and her daughter, Hannah (a freshman), and Julie (Vozick) Fisher with her daughter, Maya (sophomore). How can we be old enough to have college-aged children?My parents were old when we were freshmen. Right? My dad was 44 andmom43my freshman year … sheesh. I didn’t get a chance to see Michelle (Leonard) Cuddeback and Brad Cuddeback ’93 (they have a sophomore and junior), who shockingly never made it into the game from the tailgate. I heard fromJimWatson ’57, who has been writing his class column for more than 50 years! He wrote tome about his son, and our classmate, Todd Watson, who just completed the Rocky Run—a half-marathon that ends on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum. Todd is vice chair of the anesthesia group at MorristownHospital, overseeing about 60 anesthesia doctors and nurse practitioners inNew Jersey, where he lives with his wifeMichelle, their twin 13-year-olds, Sarah and James, and 8-year-old Elizabeth. Greg Steinmetz is also a doctor, in Rhode Island. He recently joined ChartercareMedical Associates, where he serves on the physician advisory panel. He lives in Cranston with his wife and two daughters. Greg does volunteer work at Johnson and Wales University, whereWilliam Klika ’93 Ph.D. is a professor in sports management, and they keep in touch. Robyn (Alexander) Levy and husband Neil Levy ’93 recently celebrated their 24th anniversary. They have three children, Rachel (20), a junior at Florida State University, Lindsey, a freshman at LynnUniversity, and their son, Alex, is 17. Robyn recently changed careers fromoccupational therapist and obtained her real estate license. Chris (Kaczmarczyk) Rainone moved toMaui from Charlotte in 2019. She took the drive toMaui (I’mguessing they flew fromCalifornia, but she didn’t specify) with her son, Jason, and the family dog for the long road trip. Chris works for Trilogy Excursions (snorkel, sunset and whale watch tours). Jason, a high school junior, recently got his driver’s license, and her daughter, Kelly, is a senior and looking at colleges. As Chris said, “Despite the pandemic, we can’t complain when 6 4 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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