46 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES Fordham football game last fall. After the game took the bus ride back to the parking lot. Noticed a fellow sitting across from me wearing our original brown 1952 dink. It turned out to be Steve Antalics. He said he goes to most Lehigh home games and that he still works part-time in one of the chemistry labs. “I noticed Costco last week had a stack of new electric bikes for only $500. Why don't you try one, Bill? I would if I could.” Wow, only 236 words of news received so far since Dec. 1. We are allocated 600 per issue. What can I do with the 364 words left? 1) Plead with you guys to send more news? 2) Leave it all blank? 3) Fill it with poetry? 4) Answer Bob Arndt’s question? 5) Bore you some more with what I’ve been up to? 6) Remind you of how these Bulletin articles are handled by the Alumni Office? 7) Close? Well, 1) Pleading doesn’t seem to work. 2) 3) No way! 4) Bob, I’m afraid of those newfangled machines—too fast, too easy and too boring. 5) Still riding. Did 2,502 miles last year and set a personal best last week of 42 miles one morning. I won’t do that again. It about killed me! Otherwise, Kay and I are still talking together and caring for each other after 65 years. We have opted for inhome care and find it satisfactory for us. (Sidebar: Did you ever think you would live to be over 90? I guess I never thought about it, and now that I am, I can’t comprehend it. Ninetyyear-old guys are ancient! Don’t look up the word “ancient.” You won’t like it.) 6) Columns must be submitted to the Alumni Office three times a year: April 1, Aug. 1 and Dec. 1. So, it takes about four months for your news to be printed after I submit it! Don’t tell the Alumni Office that I cheat and publish the news on our website when I get it (seeoursite.org/lehigh)! 7) I have 87 words left. Stay healthy, and write to me! ’53 Herb Roemmele, (732) 796-3013; herbertroemmele@gmail.com There is an old saying that at our age, “we are in God’s waiting room.” Well, the latest information (May 2023) listing of our class shows 152 of us still alive and kicking. OK, maybe not all kicking too well. Of interest, 28 live in Pennsylvania, 10 in New York State, 10 in California and 14 in Florida. The rest are scattered throughout the U.S., and two, Paul Ely and Carl Zimmerman, live in Hawaii. Yes, we did scatter from Bethlehem, Pa. Back in February, I attended a Lehigh alumni luncheon in Palm Beach, Fla. Lehigh President Joe Helble ’82, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Joe Buck and my longtime friend Assistant Vice President Lorraine Wiedorn ’84G ’13P ’17P were the featured Lehigh officials. While no ’53ers were in attendance, Elihu Schepps, of the Class of 1952, was there. He told me that he reads our 1953 column on a regular basis and enjoys reading about his Pi Lambda Phi fraternity brothers — yes, Mark Kaufmann, Myles Adelman and Joe Morgenstern, among others. We were sorry to hear of the death of Joe’s longtime close friend Barbara Abercrombie. They were both with us from California for our 68th mini reunion in September 2021. For some of you, the passing of Ed Atkinson is old news. He was a good friend of mine. He was a successful engineer running a family manufacturing company. Warren Stevens sent a nice note, and I hope he made the trip from southern New Jersey to our 70th. He reports that he is in pretty good shape, with a few problems. Don’t we all? Two of our classmates, Charlie Hull and Roger Inglese, have serious challenges with strokes. Joe Workman tells me that Roger has been placed under hospice care as of early March. (Editor’s note: Roger Inglese died on March 13, 2023. See In Remembrance for more information.) Roger had been an active volunteer for all our reunions. Charlie was always an enthusiastic Lehigh supporter. It is with deep regret that I report the death of Mark Kaufmann. He died Nov. 17, 2022. He was a first lieutenant in the Air Force in Korea, had a successful 25year career with Chase Bank in New York, as well as treasurer of the well-known Harmonie Club of New York City. As I write this column in March, our attention is firmly on the 70th reunion of our great Class of 1953, to be held on June 9-12, 2023. When you read this, the reunion will be history. Just know that our president, Joe Workman, and his able right-hand man, Tony Latour, planned a great weekend. In addition to Roger, they miss three other Bethlehem area classmates who were always active volunteers for our reunions and who have died in the last few years. They are Bob Littner, Tip Mowrer and Bill Latshaw. Pete Strategos is coming from Florida and will be our reunion “parade marshall.” I’ll report more in the next Bulletin, including the news (I expect) that we broke all previous records for attendance at a 70th Lehigh reunion. Keep me posted on any “happenings” in your life, so I can write an interesting class column. ’54 Editor’s note: Mark L. Davis has stepped in to fill the role of correspondent. We are very excited to work with him. He can be contacted at markLdavis@verizon.net, 302-4221861 or by mail at 18655 Piper Lane, Ellendale, PA 19941. ’55 Burt Sutker, (732) 718-0617; 21204 Shannondell Drive, Audubon, PA 19403 This column will appear in print after the time of the reunion, so if you attended, great. We are very fortunate in this Bulletin issue to have as our “star” Bill Schiesser. Bill has had a long and distinguished academic and professorial career. Bill Schiesser was an usher at my wedding, and we have stayed in touch over the intervening years (now 68 and counting). As an undergraduate at Lehigh, Bill served as president of the resident hall council, as well as the Tau Beta Pi chapter. Bill went from Lehigh to Princeton and obtained an M.S. in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1960. In 1960, Bill returned to Lehigh, where he joined the then-chemical engineering department. (Over his tenure, it became the chemical and biomolecular engineering department.) Bill became a world-class expert in numerical methods and associated software for ordinary, differential algebraic and partial differential equations (ODE/DAE/ PDEs), and the development of mathematical models based on ODE/DAE/PDEs. Bill has authored or co-authored 36 books and 124 refereed papers and his ODE/DAE/ PDE computer routines have been accessed by some 5,000 colleges and universities, corporations and government agencies. Bill is the emeritus McCann professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a former professor of mathematics. His latest work is on mathematical modeling of myocardial infarctions. Previous work on cancer immunotherapy, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, and global carbon dioxide impact on oceans can be found almost everywhere, including Amazon. I live at Shannondell, a 1,300-unit complex in Valley Forge, Pa. The Alumni Office kindly sent me a list of Lehigh alumni living at Shannondell. On Feb. 1, seven of us got together for drinks and dinner. Attendees were Bob Arndt ’52, Ed Gillespie ’71, George
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