Fall 2013

Pat Moran (now deceased):

Hola, classmates!  Your correspondent is in weekly contact with Wally Field and recently with beaming pride he relayed that his granddaughter, Casey (Cassandra), has been accepted into the Lehigh Class of 2017 with a generous, well-deserved scholarship package.  Congrats, Grandpa!  Casey sounds like a special young woman.  Wally also mentioned CJ McCollum '13, our basketball superstar.  CJ's broken foot has mended and he is currently, as of early May, working out with a trainer preparing for the NBA draft, where he could be a high draft choice.

My Sugar Land, Texas connection, Bill Murray (deceased), and I have been on the horn many times in the last month.  I'm really getting to like his "Wizard of Id”  kind of humor.  Examples: 

• When Christopher Columbus visited the New World while seeking a shorter route to India, did he use the Panama Canal?  Bill tells the many who do not have a clue what he discovered:  He was 422 years too early to use the canal!

• One percent of people make things happen.  Nine percent of people watch things happen.  Ninety percent of people don't know or care what happens.

• The difference between brilliance and stupidity is that there is a limit to brilliance. 

• As painful as it often seems, it is better, faster, and cheaper to do it right the first time. 

• One useless man is a shame; two is a law firm; three or more is a congress.

While Bill is somewhat short of being a comedian, we must remember that he is a force in the oil field pump business with several patents to his name.  While living in California, Bill participated in masters diving, one- and three-meter springboard, and ten-meter platform (Bill was a diver on the Lehigh swim team).  He was also a tennis player until his knees "went out of warranty,”  necessitating replacement.  Thanks, Bill, for making us smile.

A little known fact, or perhaps an unknown fact, is that Carl E Lindquist Jr.  was the class's only fatal casualty in the Korean War.  Carl was killed July 25, 1953, two days before the armistice and is resting in peace in Arlington National Cemetery.

From Arvid Kulits (deceased) comes the news that he received a master's degree in civil engineering at Brooklyn Poly and moved to Connecticut in 1966, where he worked for the State Public Works in structural design until his retirement in 1991.  Arvid and his wife, Zinta, retired to Vancouver, Wash., where they love the climate and beautiful scenery.

That's it for this chapter...Remember, classmates:  You only get a good column if you contribute! 

 Pat Moran (deceased)

Deceased

• Frederick W  Kieshauer

• Henry E  Mensing

• W  Randall Zehner, Jr.