N O T E S The Jerseyites celebrated the success of the bracket buster team, St. Peters’ Peacocks, who advanced to the Elite Eight bracket. Somewhat reminiscent of Lehigh’s 2012 win over Duke when the 15th-seeded Mountain Hawks upset second-seeded and No. 8-ranked Duke 75-70 in the second round of the South Regional in Greensboro, N.C., touching of a wild celebration in Southside Bethlehem. Lehigh’s wrestling team had a bittersweet ending. Lehigh fnished fourth in the Easterns behind three Ivies. Senior heavyweight JordanWood gave Lehigh fans a lot to cheer about as he fnished frst in the EIWA. Wood is the only heavyweight to win fve EIWA titles and the frst wrestler in conference history to accomplish the feat. Wood wrapped up his Lehigh wrestling career with a third-place fnish at the NCAA Championships at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Norman Goldberg reported that the perennial followers including Art Cader (New York), Mike Gennet (Rancho Mirage, Calif.), Chuck Frankel (Avon, Ohio) and Al Rieper (Marblehead, Mass.) decided to opt out of a reunion in Detroit. All are retired except for Norman, who continues to work full time as a commercial real estate appraiser and broker in New Jersey. He spends his summer in Cape May, N.J., and frequently plays tennis with George Theiss ’61. You will have to wait for my next column to read about our 60th Class Reunion. But I can share a few highlights. Glenn Breidenbach received the Class of 1962 Alumni Award. Award recipients are Lehigh alumni who have given continued support to the university; have been instrumental in directing students to Lehigh; have been willing to give their time and energies; and have contributed signifcantly to the life of their respective communities. Glenn is a dedicated alumnus with a longtime involvement with Lehigh. He has a B.S. in business administration. He has served as a member of the annual General Reunion Committee for over 40 years. For 25 of those years, he headed transportation planning. At the 30th Reunion, he received the Robert Harrier Award for the member of the General Reunion Committee who made the most signifcant contribution to the success of the Reunion. In 2011, he received the George F.A. Stutz ’22 award for service in diverse volunteer roles for the Lehigh community. He has been the Class of 1962 fag bearer for the annual frst-year student rally for many years. An avid Lehigh wrestling fan and season ticket holder for 49 years, he serves on the board of directors of the LehighWrestling Club. For many years, he has been a season ticket holder for football. In his community, he is very active with his church and youth sports, baseball and soccer. He is married to Maryanne Yankovich ’56W. Her sons Joseph Yankovich ’88, Robert Yankovich ’90 and grandson Reilly Yankovich ’22, along with Glenn’s sonMarc Breidenbach ’97 round out a special Lehigh family. Both Glenn and Maryanne are Tower Society members and contributors to other Lehigh fundraising eforts. Congratulations again to Glenn. Ron Johnson escaped the March winter in New Jersey with a three-week vacation in Hawaii. He visited the islands of Maui, Kauai and Oahu. He returned to Sarasota, Fla., to visit a friend and the two drove back to New Jersey together, stopping in Greensboro, N.C., to visit Ron’s son and family. On a beautiful day last September our class president Bob Downing invited Ron and Phil Kinzel to lunch at an oceanfront restaurant in Long Branch, N.J. Of course, Bob was buying. By the end of the lunch, Bob had convinced Ron and Phil to serve as co-reunion chairs for our 60th Reunion. TANSTAAFL is mnemonic for “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” ’63Dr. Robert C. Elser, navman9@ comcast.net; and James NewtonWilson, 959 Tree Tops, Wharton, NJ 07885, (973) LEhigh7-6516 (H), (862) 243-0864 (C), newt14@optimum.net A letter from Harry Rinker passed on by Dale Darkes notes that Harry and his wife, Linda, now split their time between Kentwood, Mich., and Altamonte Springs, Fla. Harry has retired fromwriting his weekly syndicated antiques and collectables column after not missing a deadline for 35 years. He is in his fnal term on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, which consults with the postmaster general on the design of new U.S. postage stamps. Having survived major heart surgery last year, he reckons that he is good for another 10-15 years. Dale and his wife, Linda, reside in a retirement facility in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Dr. Jay Billings was director of the Redstone Arsenal/ Defense Systems Management College in Alabama. He wrote, “Just fnished reading most recent issue of Lehigh Bulletin and thought after all these years about providing some information. Still active, living on the Tennessee River in North Alabama. On second career, now working with own business mostly in developing quality management systems. Enjoying life, judging BBQ contests, boating, traveling, playing with kids, grandkids and great-grandkids.” John Argersinger reports, “1964 was a very good year for me. I graduated from Lehigh with two degrees and got a job with Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J. In October, my apartment-mate introduced me to a woman who had recently moved from Laredo, Texas, whom he didn’t want to take out on a second date— my future wife. Diana and I were married in 1966. My career with Bell Labs/AT&T lasted 33 years. Our marriage has lasted almost 56 years, so far. Our daughters, Michelle and Erika, were born in 1970 and 1972. “Initially, at Bell Labs I did the physical design of the frst modems that were connected between computers and the Bell system. It was an assembly of circuit packs in a housing that was about 6 inches by 14 inches by 12 inches and there were no integrated circuits, yet. Nowadays, the modem is a small part of the processor chip in your computer. I continued to design data communications equipment until 1990, when, through corporate serendipity, I was transferred to the organization providing engineering support to AT&T’s satellite feet. I led the group of engineers that provided technical oversight of Telstar 4 satellite launches. Over the next seven years, I worked with General Dynamics, Arianespace, Lockheed Martin and Khrunichev and Yuzhnoye to launch AT&T and EchoStar satellites fromCape Canaveral, French Guiana and the former soviet cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. When the AT&T satellite business was sold to Loral Space & Communications, I continued launching satellites for another 11 years, with the additional adventure of working with Sea Launch to launch satellites from a foating platform on the equator in the Pacifc. In total, I worked on 16 satellite launches, and it was a great way to fnish my career. “We loved living in Fair Haven, N.J., but when Diana retired from teaching Spanish in middle school, she headed back home to Texas, and I went with her. Georgetown is a beautiful, historic town in fast-growing central Texas, where we are strong supporters of the local arts, and I have volunteered with Habitat for Humanity for 4 4 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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