50 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES qualifiers and one at large for the Nationals. Norm Goldberg and Art Cader did not make their annual pilgrimage to the Nationals in Tulsa. The Theta Xi alums enjoy an annual winter reunion. This February, the “Old House” (470 Adams St.) group gathered in Marathon, Fla. Participating were Cathy and Mike Hay ’60, hosts Susan and Bill Buehler (Naples, Fla.), Yvonne and Bill Pitts (Folsom, Calif.) and Mary Anne and Dick Teeter (Hawley, Pa.). The youngsters from the Class of ’63 were Janice and Tom Pattison. “We have lost track of how many years we have met in Florida, and our numbers are fewer than years ago. The significant items are that our friendship and fun together continue to be strong after 60-plus years. And the hot weather helps loosen our aging limbs,” reports Teeter. Ron Johnson is still working on his bucket list. At my column deadline, he had plans for a two-week trip in April to Jordan and Egypt. His itinerary includes visits to Amman, the modern capital of Jordan with dozens of ancient historical sites, the Dead Sea, Cairo and the Great Pyramids, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Candice and Russ Borner live in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., are both certified massage therapists and perform luxury spa services. Russ reports, “At 83, my fourth quarter has just begun, and, yes, I know most of us are almost in the middle of our fourth quarter, but I believe the young Turks in the medical field today will figure out how to give us another seven or eight good ones. And, what is the best part of any game (except hockey) — the fourth quarter. So, after 39 years of sobriety and 37 years of doing professional therapeutic massage, I’m designing a career that will merge the two, utilizing the training recently completed as a recovery coach with the skills mastered performing structured touch to serve an ever-increasing number of our sistren and brethren suffering from alcohol abuse. In my spare time, I hope to sit on the porch listening to the grass grow. Given the statistic I’ve heard, that one out of four members of our culture will experience a serious issue with alcohol abuse during their lifetime, it is my humble opinion that the cause is—it’s anonymous ... we don’t talk about it. There are many reasons, too many to elaborate on here. It is ironic that one of the most recognized remedial modalities is known as Alcoholics Anonymous. In an attempt to do my part in improving the tragedy alcoholism wreaks on lives, an additional aspect of my fourth-quarter plan is to deliver public presentations to interested groups on the subject.” By the time you get this Bulletin, football season will be underway. Art Cader and Norman Goldberg are season ticket holders for Lehigh football. Both are members of the 50-Game Club for alumni who have attended 50 Lehigh-Lafayette football games. They are looking forward to a winning season under the new coach and coaching staff. Kevin Cahill was named the 30th head coach in Lehigh football history on Dec. 19, 2022. Go, Lehigh! ’63 Dr. Robert C. Elser, navman9@comcast. net; and James Newton Wilson, 959 Tree Tops, Wharton, NJ 07885, (973) LEhigh7-6516 (H), (862) 2430864 (C), newt14@optimum.net Bill Hotchkiss writes: “Thomas Bachman, Paul Berg, James Hanlon’s wife, Maddy, and Bachman’s twin brother, Bill, are all here with me at Shell Point in Fort Myers, along with Dick Allen, the class correspondent from the Class of ’51. Tom, Paul and Bill B. (Lafayette) are all leaking oil, which makes me the only one still kicking, playing golf and making stained glass, enjoying life to its fullest! Obviously, the wives are all still in better shape than we are—par for the course, according to most demographics. One of our class correspondents knows about our group, but we can’t (until now) seem to get any ink in the Bulletin about it. We all have brunch together on Sundays. We did have some bad damage from Ian. Sanibel got totally destroyed and will take years to recover. Glad the three of us who owned there have sold in the last few years.” Tony Mazzucca, one of the intrepid members of the 60th Reunion Committee, wrote that of the original Phi Kappas, he believes that he and Jim Tirjan are the only brothers from his pledge class who are still alive, since Joe Perella and Ray Wilkens consider themselves a part of the Class of ’64. Tony has made a successful transition back to New Jersey and, since the death of his wife in November, is back on his feet, working and singing in the Shrewsbury Chorale and Unitarian Church Choir and writing poetry, which he hopes to publish soon. He is enjoying time with his five kids and 12 grandchildren, one of whom, Sam Weber, is a Lehigh junior. ’64 David A. Riemondy, 774 Malibu Lane, Indialantic, FL 32903. (321) 7779659 (home); (321) 506-7302 (cell); malibu4u@cfl.rr.com When it rains, it pours. I’m overwhelmed with news this spring. Dave Decker sent me this update from a KA mini reunion. “Dan Shevchik and his wife of 50+ years, Julie, retired full time from Wilton, Conn., to St. Petersburg, Fla., several years ago but maintain a holiday/ summer place in Darien, Conn. He is retired from various senior executive positions at Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., a large environmental consulting firm. He golfs regularly and gripes about politics with the old guys. His son lives and works in New Canaan, Conn., and they have two grandchildren. “Torger Dahl and his longtime significant other, Sara Seeman, finally moved south from Rochester, N.Y., after too many years of surviving the lake effect winters. They live in Bluffton, S.C., not far from Hilton Head and a ‘stone’s throw’ from Savannah, Ga. He is semi-retired in as much as, on a fairly regular basis, he continues to provide contract legal services for a dental products manufacturer in Atlanta. He still finds plenty of time for his fishing passion, as well as enjoying the restaurant scene in Savannah and traveling. He has three adult kids, scattered from Colorado to Ohio to South Carolina, and four grandchildren. “Tom Reed is retired from executive and board positions in a family manufacturing business in Dunkirk, N.Y. After exploring retirement in Truckee, Calif., a village just north of Lake Tahoe, for a few years, he and his wife, Margaret, settled in Annapolis, Md., to be closer to their daughters. Margaret passed away a few years ago. Tom enjoys the luxury of retirement or, as he says, ‘sitting on my ass and doing nothing special.’ He has three daughters and six grandchildren scattered from the Pittsburgh, Pa., area to Utica, N.Y., to Annapolis. “After Lehigh, Rene Lopez-Duprey returned to Puerto Rico for about 15 years before moving to Florida. He is retired from working in finance for the pharmaceutical industry and, later, as a developer in the Miami area. He and his wife (Maria Luisa, aka Lucie) recently moved from Sebring, Fla., to Ocala, Fla. Rene has a passion for Corvettes and enjoys traveling around the country in his 2016 C7 Z06 red Corvette to gatherings of Corvette nuts like himself. He has three adult kids, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild, scattered from Puerto Rico to Michigan to Virginia.
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