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Joseph Gallo

William Garbe

David Garden

From Fall 2006 Alumni Bulletin: From St. Helena, Calif., I received a newsletter from David Alexander Garden. David, who came to Lehigh from St. Helena, says he's still married "to the same girl, Nancy Huff," he found in Bethlehem in 1950. They live quietly on a thousand acre ranch. The Gardens have a granddaughter, Amy '09, at Lehigh on a soccer scholarship. Amy is excelling in her studies and loves Lehigh.

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Frederick "Freddy" Gartside

From Bob Hoyt, March 2004: Fred sold his CPA business in Jacksonville a few years ago and now spends six months of the year in a small town, Broxton, near their daughter and grandchildren. In the summer they go to their summer place in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina.

Winter, 2000 - Another newsy letter from Mary Jo Johnston, Allison Park, Pa., reports a second annual Beta Reunion - a nice warm up for our 50th reunion. In attendance were Henry "Doc" Adams, Ann and Bill Barney, Ruth and Bob Ellis, Judy and Fred Gartside, Bob Homing, Mary Jo and Jim Johnston, Tess and Fred Kieshauer and John Kimerer. See you all in Bethlehem in June 2002. Many thanks, Mary Jo.

Stanley Gedney

Summer 2001 - In a recent edition of At Lehigh, there were two "Letters to the Editor," both by '52ers. One was from Stan Gedney III - defended the ranking of the 1950 undefeated football team as No. I in the school's history. Speak up and be heard, classmates!

Spring, 2001: Pat Moran took his annual trek East in September and witnessed a Lehigh / Cornell game. At halftime, the 50th anniversary of the 1950 undefeated team was celebrated. On the field were 31 of the original 42 players; imagine, not only are 31 of these guys still with us, but 74 percent of them returned! Of those back, 11 were from our class - Bob Borofski, Stan Gedney, Pete Ginesi, Lon Haines, Bill Henderson, Dave Mesick, Joe Orr, Dick Pradetto, Walt Pullar, Dick Schmidt and Bill Smith.

Stafford Gellatly

William Gentzlinger

James George

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November 11, 2000 - Dick Pradetto & I started With the Frick Coal Division of US Steel shortly after Graduation but shortly thereafter Uncle Sam decided he needed our services more so we took a two year sabbatical. Dick decided not to return to the coal mine after the army service but I stayed and 34 years later retired as Chief Ind. Eng. with USS. I was one of the fortunate ones who was able to leave the working world early.

My first wife passed away shortly after retirement. I married Evelyn Hirtle nine years ago and we have been living life to the fullest ever since. Evie is one of the founders of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association and we have been very active in their activities. I have been a board member of RCHA and the local historical society so I have been busy enough to suit me.

Evie & I both love to travel and have managed to keep on the go. We have been to five of the seven continents and are thinking about a visit to Australia but probably won't make the Antarctic.

We have had a winter home in Tucson, AZ for the last five years and usually spend five or six months there each winter and are very thankful for our good fortune.

Together Evie and I have four children and nine grandchildren. The three oldest unfortunately have picked Penn State rather than Lehigh.

Hope to see you in 2002, Jim

William Gesner

John Gibb

Andrew Gibon Andrew Gibson

Fall, 2007 Alumni Bulletin - Andy Gibson sent an e‑mail covering the memorial services for Ed Leidheiser held March 31 in Flat Rock, N.C., at Grace Lutheran Church. Andy, Harry Smeal, and Bob Scarr attended. Reflections on Ed's full life were made by his family and his wife, Mary‑Lou. Ed will be sorely missed.

March 2007: Brought sad news about the death of Ed Leidheiser. As you see below, they were good friends.

November 2006: My wife, Shirlie and I visited Ed and Mary lou Leidheiser in Flat Rock, NC for an afternoon last week. Ed and I were classmates in the Chem Engr curriculum. They entertained us with vivid and beautiful digital pictures of their safari trip to Tanzania earlier this year. In late September, also visited Al Walker, ChE,'51' and his wife, Miriam in Hilton Head Island, SC. He and I worked at Union Carbide for many years together. Al played varsity basketball at Lehigh but now is heavily involved in organizing and coordinating golf tournaments held in their retirement community in Hilton Head Plantation

February 2004: I was honored to receive the Engineer of the Year award in December from the Atlanta and North Georgia Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Have had recent activity with Lehigh in the efforts to commercialize some of the intellectual properties originating in the Chemical Engineering Dept., specifically those of Prof. Israel Wachs. A trip with him is scheduled to Scandinavia in late March to present the technologies to potential clients.

August 2003: Andy & Shirlie Gibson are planning a visit to Ed & Mary Lou Leidheiser in Flat Rock NC. Also visiting will be Marilyn & Bob (Dutch) Walton (53-ChE) from Phoenix AR (Sun City West). Ed & Andy are Chem Engr classmates and Bob and Ed were both on Lehigh's baseball team. Bob & Andy and their families lived in the same towns and cities and were transferred about the same time to the same places as part of their careers with Union Carbide. So there will be lots of memories to review!!

From 50th Reunion Book, 2002 - Any narration of my life since attending Lehigh must include my wife, Shirlie, because she became a "Lehigh wife" September 11, 1951, which also marked the beginning of my senior year. (That date, of course, is now firmly implanted in our minds for other reasons.) She worked as a nurse at St. Luke's Hospital while I studied and tapped open-hearth furnaces 3 nights a week at Bethlehem Steel. So, in a small way, this 50 reunion will be hers, too.

We left Lehigh for West Virginia where I began a 22-year career with Union Carbide Corp. Experiences included duties in production of fine chemicals, process and project engineering of new petrochemical plants and a 6-year stint at engineering, commercializing and licensing their highly regarded polyolefin technology which now accounts for over 70% of the world's capacity.

Four children (3 boys, 1 girl) came and 6 house moves were made due to transfers back and forth between West Virginia and Houston. Much time was spent overseas supporting these pioneering licensing efforts in 7 countries. Shirlie's log for 3 years had me gone 75% of the weekdays and 25% of the weekends! We next experienced 6 years as Director of Engineering for Olin Chemical and later VP with John Brown Engineering, both in Stamford, CT, not too far from our hometown of Stratford, CT.

The south beckoned us, however, and I became head of corporate Chemical Engineering for Georgia-Pacific Corp. for the final 20 years of my career, based in Atlanta, GA. Currently consulting under nom de plume of Gibson Technologies Inc. Vivid memories include arriving in Prague for licensing negotiations 3 months after the Russian "putdown" of 1968 and seeing buildings freshly pockmarked with the shells of Russian tanks.

Most important in my life has been the unflinching support of my "bride" of 50+ years, Shirlie. Following closely has been the support of our 4 children and 1 nephew whom we raised. Without their robustness and tenacity in tolerating the 13 total house and school moves that were made, none of the above would have been possible.

October, 2001 - RECOLLECTIONS OF MY (OUR) LEHIGH EXPERIENCE
ANDREW GIBSON, ‘52’ ChE

My recollections of my years at Lehigh must include my wife, Shirlie because she became a "Lehigh wife" at the beginning of my senior year. Her support earned her a "PHT" certificate,---"Putting Hubby Through"--- duly handed to her by the officials at graduation! (Is this still done?).

Harking back to my beginning years, however, I remember vividly my first view of Lehigh. I had come by bus from Sratford, Connecticut, disembarking on the North side at Broad and New Streets with two suitcases. It was a chilly, damp, drizzly, gray day. Looking across the Lehigh River from New Street, I saw the spires of the campus partly enshrouded in the fog created by the belching stacks of Bethlehem Steel. Add in the smells of burnt coke and blast furnace emissions and the total picture made me wonder, ‘what have I come to?’ (I did not have the advantage of pre-visiting; a scholarship offer made up my mind that Lehigh was to be my destiny). Trudging across the old New Street Bridge with my suitcases, I made my way to the registration lines on campus. Some of those I met in line that day have remained friends for the past 50+ years !!

Life as a freshman had me housed in town the first semester because of the lack of dormitory space. A 2nd semester move into Richards House was most welcome. Work as a busboy and dishwasher at Lamberton Hall provided meals without denting my meager budget. The experience did challenge my palate to find a better source of cuisine, however. In my sophomore year, a move to Drinker House and a job waiting on tables at Alex Kozar’s New St. Diner provided new friends and a much improved cuisine. It was the original "I’ll work for food arrangement" !

The freshman curricula included courses in World Civilization by Prof Aiken, my first indoctrination to the breadth and depth of the history of man’s civilization. It was a course I was only able to appreciate fully many years later when I was thrust into dealing with other cultures in other countries. English courses came easily as a result of my high school teacher’s insistence on our writing one composition every week, which, at the time, was seen as a dreaded homework chore. I only appreciated her insistence after being exposed to the demands of Lehigh’s English Dept. ! Bless all our English teachers !! These and other non-engineering courses gave me, I believe, a better-rounded education than many engineering graduates of other Universities.

Other activities of campus life are fondly remembered:

Singing in the Glee Club directed by Prof. Schempf
The Chapel Choir participation and Chaplain Bean
Ushering at the magnificent Bach Choir festival in the Chapel
Dating Cedar Crest and Centenary girls
The annual houseparties
Quiet times in the library
Cramming for exams until the wee hours
The smell of chocolate in Prof. Eastman’s organic lab (he was a consultant for Hershey’s and used to let us eat the samples he was finished testing !)
The Chem Engr Dept had a Unit Operations lab and our senior class had the task of calibrating a distillation column that had been built by the preceding class. Nothing worked right and we struggled with it for weeks. Finally, someone had the bright idea to open it up (no small job) and look inside. Lo and behold, the distillation trays had been installed upside down !! We were never certain whether the class of ’51’ had done it on purpose or were too dumb to realize what they had done !!

During my junior year, I started a dry-cleaning service in Drinker and Richards Houses, together with my mechanical engineering room-mate, Ed Pawlak (Not found in records). Pants were 50 cents a pair and a suit was only $1.00! We would pick up articles on Tuesday, have them cleaned by a wholesale cleaning service, and deliver them by Friday! A higher paying part-time job became available the second semester in the open-hearth furnace department at Bethlehem Steel, thanks to the close relationship that existed between the University and the company. Little did I realize that in 6 weeks I would be tapping the steel from the back-end of these furnaces!! Three nights a week of this exhausting work proved all I could handle but it was sufficient to provide the necessities of campus life.

That same year, the Chemical Engineering Dept. faced the loss of Prof Mack as Dept Head and announced the arrival in my upcoming senior year of Prof. Allan Shivers Faust from the University of Michigan. He was to be an inspiration to many of us and those who followed in succeeding years.

My senior year was considerably enhanced by the arrival of my new bride, Shirlie (she’s now my 50-year bride). We set up housekeeping at 313 W. 4th St in Bethlehem in a 3rd floor apartment (it’s still there!). The rent was $50 per month. Laundry had to be hung out on a line by walking out on the roof of the second floor porch! Classmates Wally Field and Gil Epstein (deceased) will remember working on group projects in that 3rd floor flat.

Shirlie quickly found employment as a nurse at St. Luke’s hospital where the doctors allowed broad responsibilities due to the short staffing. (So what else is new—hospital staffing is still short). For her it was a great learning experience. She and the other student-wife nurses usually pulled weekend duty constantly. The supervisors knew they wouldn’t complain since the money was needed and they would be gone by the end of the school year !! We didn’t mind because I was also working the weekend days at the open-hearth.

Come graduation time, Shirlie and I are hastening to pack up and depart Bethlehem, when Prof Zettlemoyer refuses to sign my senior Chem Engr project paper done for the Printing Ink Institute, his favorite sponsor. Seems I neglected to acknowledge them at the end of my paper!. A last minute correction and insertion into the manuscript provides the final approval and allows our departure for a new job and new vistas with Union Carbide in West Virginia.

Deja vu---50 years later I find myself sitting in the late Prof. Zettlemoyer’s office in my role as a liaison officer for contract research that my last employer, Georgia-Pacific Corp,. is conducting with Lehigh. Small world !! But that is another story for another time,----.

March, 2001 - I haven't seen many of our classmates nor been in contact with them, except for Wally Field, a fellow Chem E. and active funds solicitor for Lehigh Alumni.

However, I have had the pleasure of doing some contract research work with the Chem Engr Dept's. Center for Surface Studies named after Prof. Zettlemoyer, one of our ChE professors for the class of '52'. The person heading this area is Prof. Israel Wachs and I have been working with him on projects for about the past five years. The work done has been very impressive and has resulted in about 8 patents at this writing with more to come. They deal mainly with new methods of making valuable chemicals from waste gases and also with some new chemical pathways to make commodity chemicals from natural gas. Lehigh is the owner of the patents but the sponsoring company, Georgia-Pacific, has exclusive rights to commercialize the technologies. In such a case, Lehigh gets a share of the royalties! So it has been a good effort and one I've enjoyed for it takes me back to Lehigh every so often.

I am looking forward to the reunion in 2002.

George Gigon

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Richard Gigon

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Winter, 2000 - Dick, the only two-time All American in Lehigh soccer history, has been enshrined in the Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame. During his illustrious three year career, Dick scored 35 of Lehigh's 73 goals. He also earned three varsity letters in baseball as a shortstop.

David Gildersleeve

Richard Giles

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Kenneth Gilson

Peter Ginesi

William (Bill) Glimm

December 3, 2000 - My info goes like this:

3 months wintertime:

30 Montclair Dr
Worcester MA 01609
508-755-2102

Rest of the year:

13434 Tiverton Rd
San Diego CA 93130

My wife (Diana) and I have been retired about 6 years now. Between the two of us we have a bunch of grandkids, and devote a lot of time and energy on that part of our lives. We travel quite a bit, and have time for some fairly major home projects.

Ernest "Erny" Gonczlik

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Richard Goodman

Hugh Gordon Hugh (Jim) Gordon

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Richard Gordon

Spring 2006 - Dick has lived in Jupiter, Fla., since 1989, does a lot of boating and fishing, and is very active with Florida Atlantic University.

November 2005 - Living in Jupiter Florida since 1989. Do a lot of boating and fishing. Very active with Florida Atlantic University Honors College. See Murry Goodman* every once in a while.

*Not sure who Murry is, Richard?

Donald Goss

John Grim

Robert Grim

Tyler Grossclose

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Davis Grossman

Bob Haft

Alonzo Haines

Spring, 2001: Pat Moran took his annual trek East in September and witnessed a Lehigh / Cornell game. At halftime, the 50th anniversary of the 1950 undefeated team was celebrated. On the field were 31 of the original 42 players; imagine, not only are 31 of these guys still with us, but 74 percent of them returned! Of those back, 11 were from our class - Bob Borofski, Stan Gedney, Pete Ginesi, Lon Haines, Bill Henderson, Dave Mesick, Joe Orr, Dick Pradetto, Walt Pullar, Dick Schmidt and Bill Smith.

Philip Hammond

John Hanson

William Hardwick

Vladimir Harris

Donald Hart

John Hatfield

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Neil Herrick

Edward Higgins

Bruce Hill
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Bob Hoyt writes, Spring 2003, that while on a Nantucket vacation, he visited with Pete Shaw, and also spent some time with Bruce Hill and John Seville hiking in the Laurel Mountains near Pittsburgh.

Samuel Himmelrich

Donald Holt

Robert "Bob" Horning

Summer 2003: Ralph Fortney mentioned attending a Lehigh Alumni meeting at the South Carolina Yacht Club (Hilton Head) and chatting with Bob Homing and Charlie Paules, who are residents in the area.

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Winter, 2000 - Another newsy letter from Mary Jo Johnston, Allison Park, Pa., reports a second annual Beta Reunion - a nice warm up for our 50th reunion. In attendance were Henry "Doc" Adams, Ann and Bill Barney, Ruth and Bob Ellis, Judy and Fred Gartside, Bob Homing, Mary Jo and Jim Johnston, Tess and Fred Kieshauer and John Kimerer. See you all in Bethlehem in June 2002. Many thanks, Mary Jo.

Winter, 1980 - Bob Horning Uniroyal Tire Co., a division of Uniroyal, Inc., has been reorganized to "strengthen its replacement and equipment tire business," it was announced by S. Salzman, newly appointed president of Uniroyal Tire Co. In this reorganization, Robert Horning has been appointed V.P., Marketing.

Bob Horning 1948

George Horvat

Eugene Howie

Summer 2003: Gail and Gene Howie, Darien, Conn., had a great time at our 50th Reunion and thanked the committee and officers for their efforts.

Earle Hoxie

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Robert "Bob" Hoyt

January 2008 - Did you get the word that Bill Henderson passed away in July. I had had lunch with him in March '07 in Florida. He was having trouble getting around with his weight problem.

I do talk fairly regularly with Bruce Hill, John Seville and Fred Gartside all of whom were ushers of mine.

Since I lost my wife, Terry, of 49 years in 2003 life has been a little lonely. However, I do have six children and sixteen grandchildren . Four of my children live very close to me in Berwyn, PA and a 5th is readily reachable in Virginia. My sixth is in LA and I see him once or twice a year.

Lehigh's football season was a disappointment as has been the wrestling season. Bob

November 2006 - For what it’s worth, I got a call from my Ford Modeling agency in New York in July do a shoot for J Crew on Block Island. I was in Nantucket at my summer home at the time. I was in the “grandfather” in a family shot of two grandparents, two parents and two children. The grandmother was a woman they brought in from Nice, France. I’m on hold for another shoot scheduled for December 14th-21st. My agency in Seattle said that it would be somewhere out of the country for a passport was required. I’ll let you know if I get booked for the job.

In August I did manage to stay up on one ski for about a mile being towed behind my motorboat. That feat seems to get more difficult each year. Bob

If you’re disparate for class news, I talk regularly with Bill Henderson, John Seville, Fred Gartside and Bruce Hill. I also recently talked with Bob & Joan Horning. I saw Bill & Barbara Smith at a Lehigh football game.

After being a widower for over a year, I’m now dating a former neighbor and friend of my wife’s who also lost her spouse to cancer. It’s fun to take her out to dinner, send her flowers and open the door for her. She’s a better cook than I, so I enjoy her home cooked meals. I have to brush up on all of my courting techniques of over fifty years ago. I’ll keep you posted.

From Spring 2004, Alumni Bulletin: Bob Hoyt, a frequent contributor, wrote a series of emails. Sadly, one reported the passing of his wife, Terry. She battled cancer for seven years and is survived by Bob, six children and 15 grandchildren. We extend sincerest condolences from the class to Bob and his family. In July 2003, Bob, along with 1,200 other veterans from 21 countries, spent five days in Korea celebrating the end of hostilities that occurred 50 years ago on July 27, 1953. Bob also mentioned that he has spent 18 years modeling and recently appeared in a Brooks Brothers ad in Vanity Fair magazine.

March 2004: I returned last week from at 13 day swing through Florida seeing two first cousins, two of my nephews, two of my children's in-laws, two of my wife's bridesmaids and two of my ushers, namely Fred Gartside and Bill Henderson. Arriving in Jacksonville, I drove 120 miles northwest into Georgia and spent a couple of nights with Fred and Judy Gartside. Fred sold his CPA business in Jacksonville a few years ago and now spends six months of the year in a small town, Broxton, near their daughter and grandchildren. In the summer they go to their summer place in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina. Fred put in a call to Bob Horning and we had a nice telephone conversation with him. Later in my trip, when I was staying with one of my son's in-laws in Boca Raton, I had lunch with big Bill Henderson. It was good to see both of my classmates.

This past Saturday I went to Bethlehem to attend the banquet for the wrestling team honoring their 3rd win in a row at the EIWA and their tie for 3rd in the Nationals. At the dinner at the Hotel Bethlehem sitting at my table was Dick Schmidt's son, who is a Lehigh grad living in NJ and working in NYC for an environmental company. His father, Dick, lives in Arizona or New Mexico.

One other classmate that I tried to contact, when I was staying with my cousin in Vero Beach, was Tom Balch, but he was away in Utah skiing for 3 weeks. When I got back home last week, we compared notes on our service in the Army in Korea in 1953-54. When I talked with Tom last fall soliciting money for Lehigh, I mentioned about my 50th anniversary trip to Korea in July 2003. He had expressed some possible interest and I told him where to get the info from the Military Historical Tours in Virginia. He is considering buying a summer home on Lake Erie in Ohio, near his wife's relatives.

When I was making phone calls last fall for Lehigh, I talked with Ken Kircher in Delaware and I believe both he and his wife were both having health problems.

February 2004 #1: In June I was in NYC for a Brooks Brothers ad commemorating 185 years of being in business. This was in the October 2003 issue of Vanity Fair. There were three of us in this shot: a guy, Tim Easton, with whom I modeled 18 years ago, who is 40 and a 10 old boy. I was the grandfather. A couple of weeks ago I was in New York in front of a Barnes and Noble store facing Union Square. I was supposed to be a customer exiting the front door. It was 20F outside and we had to do the shot dozens of times. There were others in the shot: a 20 year old Asian girl (youth), a 35 year old black lady model, a guy from India (who must have been 45), and a Hispanic. They, the client (Barnes & Noble), wanted to show diversity in their customers. I was the token Caucasian and I represented the senior citizen class! Everything has to be politically correct.

February 2004 #2: In March 2003, I attended the EIWA ("The Easterns") at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. Lehigh won! After the awards on a Saturday night the Lehigh wrestling fans (some 125) attended a dinner at a restaurant in downtown Ithaca that was formerly the Lehigh Valley Railroad station. Most everything was preserved. The bar was behind the cages (like in a bank) where the ticket agents used to be. It was very sentimental to me because I remember vividly traveling with the wrestling team by bus through all the towns on the way to Ithaca for there was no Pennsylvania NE Extension of the Turnpike then. It must have taken a long time. When we arrived in Ithaca the bus had difficulty in going up the hill to Cornell, (it's worse than South Mountain) and so Billy Sheridan turned to the head manager, Bill Erdman, and said something to the effect, " send the bus home empty, we'll go by train the way we always used to go". The train arrived at night, it was a sleeper bound for New York City. We all got on and I, along with all the rest of the team, had separate compartments. Not all sleepers were this way, as a learned later when I was working for GE and took a sleeper from Pittsburgh to NYC. It was one open car with only curtains and very little privacy. Well, anyway back to the LV train, we must have arrived in Bethlehem in the wee hours before dawn and our car was disconnected so that the rest of the train could proceed to New York. Our car was to be picked up when the first Reading RR train came up to Bethlehem from Philadelphia. This meant that we were not roused up too early more like a civilized time of 8 AM.

Denny Diehl, the able scribe of the Lehigh e-mail wrestling news, was interested in this story for part of his lore of Lehigh wrestling history. For all I know this could have been the last time that Lehigh's wrestling team traveled by train and or sleeper at that.

November 2003: In early September I told Pat Moran of my return trip to Korea, as a guest of the Koreans, in appreciation of having served there in the Army 50 years ago. My 18 year old grandson accompanied me, since my wife was ill. This story did not make it into the Fall 2003 Alumni Bulletin.

On November 1st my dear wife, Terry, died of ovarian cancer. We were married on November 27, 1954, almost 49 years ago. She is survived by our six children and 15 grandchildren. Bob

Bob Hoyt writes, Spring 2003, that while on a Nantucket vacation, I visited with Pete Shaw, and also spent some time with Bruce Hill and John Seville hiking in the Laurel Mountains near Pittsburgh.

From 50th Reunion Book, 2002 - Upon graduation, I went into the Army and served in Korea. Returning in the Spring of 1954, I drove to Harvard for an MBA school interview. On the same trip, my cousin set me up on a date with Terry Richards, who was just graduating from Mount Holyoke. Although I was accepted by Harvard, I chose to go to work, get married and raise a family.

Now 47 years later, we have 6 children and 11 grandchildren. I worked 12 years for GE in 7 different locations as a sales engineer. The only course at Lehigh I ever dropped was in sales management, because I thought that I'd never need that! I changed jobs once and worked 4 years for Univac. When they wanted to transfer me to St. Paul, I decided to take a gamble on my own business and stay put in the Philadelphia area. I started a payroll service company and today we're still going strong with over 400 accounts. Why didn't I spend more attention to that co-accounting for engineers at Lehigh?

The first 2 years of being in business were a severe financial strain, but by the 3rd year, when our oldest went off to Yale, the money was there! At age 56, I got my first job as a professional model. This followed over the next 15 years with 300 assignments to Europe, Asia, Africa, Hawaii and the U.S. Terry and I have summered in Nantucket for 47 years, where I enjoy sailboat racing, water skiing, tennis and bike riding.

May 2001 - Since I got my first degree from Lehigh in 1951, I'm going to my 50th reunion June 8-9, 2001, so I'll know what it's like for my '52 50th reunion. I am still running my payroll service business; we have over 400 clients in the Philadelphia area.

For the past three years, I've taken the entire summer off to go with my wife, Terry, to Nantucket Island, where we've been going since 1954. One of my sons, Christian, has been working with me for 11 years and he plans to continue the business, after I go out to pasture.

My modeling work has slowed down, but I did have a nice trip last July for Orvis to snow capped Mt. Hood in Oregon. Since 1986 I have had some 350 assignments that have taken me all over the US, including Hawaii, to Europe 40 times, and to Africa and Asia. The German I took at Lehigh finally came in handy for many of the clients were German.

Five of our six children are married and we have 10 grandchildren, with two more on the way. Our only unmarried son, John, has been for many years the world's top paid model and is now trying to break into the movie business. Bob Hoyt

Donald "Don" Hubsch

May, 2000: One of the best letters I have received in 15 years as your correspondent came from Don Hubsch. I will share it with you verbatim. "I have finally retired (the second time) and have moved from Westfield, N.J., to Del Webb Sun City, Hilton Head, S.C., to play golf and bridge with my wife, Margaret. Our three sons are doing well. Our youngest went to Lehigh (Class of '80) and still holds several track records there. He is now treasurer for Fox Sports."

"I worked for ITT for 24 years and spent most of the time traveling the world. I was in charge of the organization and productivity of their 400,000 employees in 132 countries. I took early retirement at 55 and went into the printing business with a friend of mine. We will be spending the Millennium in Budapest and I hope to get back to Lehigh for the big one in 2002." Thanks, Don. I would love to get more "out of the past" letters from your mates out there!

Charles Huch

June 4th, 2002 - In the Reunion Book I made no mention of my military service in Korea. I arrived in the "Land of the Morning Calm" in early November 1953. It would have been sooner had the war continued past July of that year. I served as a rifle platoon leader and finally a Heavy Weapons Company commander in the 7th Infantry Division.

Spent approximately six months along the Demilitarized Zone where we passed time digging deeper trenches, improving bunkers, installing new positions for our weapons and doing extensive field training. Was quite fortunate in reducing my scheduled eighteen month Korean tour to eleven months when presented with the opportunity to transfer to another infantry division which was moved to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii where I served for a year prior to my army discharge.

Happy 50th!

From 50th Reunion Book, 2002 - I cherish my Lehigh experience through my volunteer work at the Senior Alumni Office where I have been taking care of alumni records for the last 10 years. Other activities and interests which have occupied my time since retirement from Bethlehem Steel include travel, writing military history, involvement in military veterans affairs and enjoying the company of my family, especially the 6 grandchildren.

The photo of Bernice and me was taken the summer of 2001 on board the Midnight Sun Express from Anchorage, Alaska headed to Denali National Park. We are looking forward to celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary on June 14, 2002.

Anthony Iarocci

William Jackson

Daniel Jenks