About this page
Honoring Lehigh
Engineers
Since
2007, the engineering college at Lehigh has been sponsoring a website
dedicated to some of the greatest engineers in our history: The Lehigh
Engineering Heritage Initiative (LEHI). Though most are graduates of
the engineering college, we have also included faculty and benefactors
who made great contributions to the school so that Lehigh could continue
to produce excellent engineers. In its pages are biographies for some
of our most illustrious family members like Asa Packer, Pete Rossin,
Howard McClintic and Charles Marshall, James Ward Packard, Eugene
Grace, Monroe Rathbone, and Lee Iacocca, but fame is not a
requirement for inclusion. You may not know that Bill Amelio,
‘79, is not only President and CEO of Lenovo, the 4th largest
PC manufacturer in the world, but he and his wife started the non-profit
organization Caring for Cambodia which helps to provide teachers and
build schools for the children of Cambodia so they can be educated, that
Walter Okeson, 1896, was the chairman of the NCAA football rules
committee, a vice president of Lehigh, and creator of the Lehigh Alumni
Fund, that Frederick Durant, ’39, helped to put Explorer I into
space, was an assistant director at the National Air and Space Museum in
the Smithsonian, and was an advisor for the CIA, or that John
Hutchinson, ‘60, was one of the youngest full professors to hold an
endowed chair at Harvard. The purpose of our site is honor the best of
the best from Lehigh University.
Three members of the class of 1952 are already featured on
the site (which can be visited at
www.lehigh.edu/heritage), Frederick
Kieshauer, Andrew Gibson, and
recently, Wilmer Wilbern.
While we spend a lot of time looking for new candidates and researching
them, we’re bound to miss people. One of the goals of the site is to
provide a place for past, present, and future Lehigh family members to
view the accomplishments of their peers and predecessors. The purpose
of the Wiki format of LEHI is to allow alumni to add their own entries
or make corrections to the site.
That
being said, if you have any suggestions for new candidates—whether they
were your classmates, or just someone else from the Lehigh community
that you have heard about and think is important—please feel free to
either create a new account in Wiki and upload the information on your
own or send it to Chrissie Rapp at
cer204@lehigh.edu . Any and all information that you can send with
names of candidates would be much appreciated including contact
information. Please do not hesitate to add your own bio; it is the
purpose of the site! The only requirement is that the person must be an
engineering graduate from Lehigh, a faculty member in one of the
disciplines, or a major benefactor to the college.
Please
also direct any questions, concerns, or ideas for improvements to
Chrissie Rapp at
cer204@lehigh.edu. I am a student at Lehigh and an intern in the
communications department of the engineering college and the site
manager for the time being.
“When the sun
goes down and the moon comes up, Lehigh will shine!”Revised:
February 08, 2009
