Fall 2019 - Start of On-line Bulletins

Bill Erdman
(407) 644-0391
1171 Willa Vista Trail, Maitland, Fl.. 32751
Class web Site:  seeoursite.org/lehigh

March, 2019:  Tom Balch, my old roommate (He wasn’t old when he was my roommate) called and confirmed that he Is alive and well, living in Vero Beach, FL.  Still beating his treadmill to death and trying to beat the stock market.  He thinks the market is winning.

Hal Wassmann of Scottsdale, Az:  He and wife, Charlotte, are both retired but still practicing Realtors.  Hal survived 2 years in the Army as a draftee when the Army in its infinite wisdom took note of his BS in IE and assigned him to the Chemical Corp.  When he escaped he joined GE - served as an Engineering Manager for 17 years.  H spent another 17 years with Honeywell then retired to Scottsdale to join Charlotte’s Real Estate firm.  He is still active and looks forward to a long, fun life in Arizona.  They have a son, daughter and granddaughter, all nearby. - May 2019

Bill Murray (deceased) called:  He is still in Sugar Land, TX, fighting neuropathy.  Since graduation he went to work for Bechtel Corporation but was drafted and spent 11 months in South Korea as a vehicle nursemaid.  Returned to Bechtel and earned 2 patents on pump design.  Moved from Houston to Oakland, Los Angeles and Savannah before retiring to Sugar Land.  In 1993, at 62, he competed in the Masters Diving Competition, diving from the 10 meter board!  Bill mentioned that Jim Reed is still working as a Financial Advisor for somebody in Los Angeles and that Bob Kradoska is alive and well in the Philadelphia area.

Bob Arndt wrote:  My degree was in Civil Engineering, followed by a 25 year career with Bethlehem Steel.  I worked on several major projects:  Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia, Madison Square Garden, Metropolitan Opera House in NYC and the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station in NH.  I think that is very good for a guy that started as a 10 year old kid with an erector set.

May:  David Garden (deceased), St Helena, CA:  I’m still married to my Bethlehem girl and our 5 kids are all living on our ranch, helping out with all the stuff I can’t do as well as I used to.  It is great to sit back and admire the next generations.  I never made it to CEO status but feel that Nancy and I contributed greatly to our community and raised a fine crop of kids, grandkids and a great, great granddaughter.

June:  Pat Moran (deceased)  thanked me for giving him a break after 38 faithful years of uninterrupted service.  He is doing well.

Elihu Schepps writes that he and wife Joan still live in Boca Raton where he spends his spare time with golf and watercolor painting.  They visited Lehigh in 2016 for their Granddaughter's graduation and when their grandson Max became a Freshman. - he is now in his Senior year.  They usually attend The Tower Society meetings in Palm Beach and usually see Bob Reisman and wife Toby there.

That’s it for this series.  What did I learn from the above?  Lot’s of our classmates don’t realize we have a web site that highlights all of us and what we have done or not done over the years.  Bill.

Deceased: 

• Victor H Cohn
• Alfred C Feickert
• Paul Krenitsky
• Ogden W Link
• Ray E Omholt
• Neil C Randall
• David R Steetle
• William B Young