Fall / Winter 2025
Due August 1, 2025

Bill Erdman
(407) 376-0221 cell, (407) 644-0391 home (ID yourself please)
1171 Willa Vista Trail, Maitland, FL, 32751
Class website:  seeoursite.org/lehigh

From Bob Reisman's son Larry, Lehigh '81:  Every time I see dad, he says he owes you an email.  Today, he was reminiscing about Lehigh and I showed him his page.  After reading your comments on how long a white, male, born in 1930 was expected to live, it led to: "What is expectancy of a 94-year-old today?"  On average, it looks like a little more than three years.  Not many days left so my sister and I try to speak to my parents daily.  I trust dad will browse away in his free time and hopefully email you at some point.  He still does the shopping but I'm not sure he would admit it.  He and Toby celebrated 67 years together in 2024. They moved to the Vero Beach area in 1994.  Bob's grandson, my oldest son, Rhett and his wife, Brielle, both graduated from Lehigh.  Hang in there -- and thank you for what you do for Lehigh!  Larry Reisman - April 2025

The end of a life well lived:  Bob Hoyt passed June 5 2025 at his retirement home in suburban Philadelphia.  Service of remembrance will be held in Wayne, PA, on September 12.  There isn’t enough room in this column to do justice to all Bob contributed to Lehigh and our class.  He was one of the most faithful news reporters over the past 73 years.  The Class of ‘52 column will miss him - his news, his commentaries and his challenges.  See Bob’s obituary in this issue of the Alumni Bulletin.

Bob’s passing makes it very difficult for me to update the column this month.  I do Lehigh’s Class of ’52 column and our website (seeoursite.org/Lehigh) plus my and Kay’s high school websites.  It is a traumatic event each time I move an active person from the websites’ active section to the deceased section.  Sadness and tears make it difficult to close his or her website chapter.  The realization of how meager and incomplete the information about their life achievements and joys I have been able to communicate to you, their friends, is depressing.  I cheer myself up by trying to visualize how much joy those that we have lost, have given to their loved ones.  I pray that I will be able to finish my odyssey as an enabler, not as a grump.  Stay safe and loving.

Bill <><

Deceased: 

• Bob Hoyt
   

  NOTE:  See individual's page for complete transcript of the news sent to me.  Because of space restrictions, I had to crop their entries to fit the Alumni Bulletin.

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