Summer 2025
Submitted April 1, 2025

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

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

Bob Hoyt wrote in December:  “Jack Platt, Lehigh ’53, his wife, Julie, and I went to Allentown to see the annual wrestling match between Lehigh and Penn State.  Number 1 ranked Penn State defeated number 14 ranked Lehigh 36-3.”

Bob Arndt wrote about Christmas with his family; daughter, Allyn Mathews, son, David and his daughter Jnana from Vermont (I'm not sure if Jnana is David's daughter or Bob's). He wrote his note on an Amtrak, whizzing through Latrobe, PA.

In a follow-up note, Bob added:  “My plan was to stay for 8 days but on Christmas Eve I had an attack of diverticulosis and a few other things which kept me in a Pittsburgh hospital and rehab for almost 3 months!  I have never seen so many dog food commercials on TV (‘it’s not ‘dog food’, it’s food food’)  I also never realized you could run our country by sitting at a desk issuing executive orders. I hope I can do as well when I get home to unscramble everything that has piled up on my desk while I was laid up!”

Young Wally Field wrote:  “Thanks for asking for news, it is good to know some of us are still out there.  Being the youngest* in our class, I have agreed to hold out as long as I can.  So far so good.  I'm slowing down some, but not enough to keep me from my ballroom dancing or singing in my church choir.  If someone had asked me 15 years ago if I would still be singing tenor at 93 I'd have laughed.  I started playing golf when I was 9 and last year was the first time I missed!”  *Remember Wally, if you out-live all of us, YOU will be the oldest member of the Class of ’52!

Wally wondered. “It would be great to have a list of all of us still standing.”  My answer is, “Go to our website www.seeoursite.org/lehigh and look at our pictures on the home page.”

Well, it is 5 minutes before midnight, March 31st, and I still have room so I’ll fill the column with my biking news:  Have only ridden 169 miles this year – too cold in January – unusual for Florida, skin cancer of the head wouldn’t allow a helmet in February - now all healed and I fell in March and bruised the bursa in my right knee – almost healed for riding in April.

I’ve been reading a lot of Kindle books in my dotage and recently found a very unusual science fiction author, Laurence Dahners.  He writes like a Lehigh graduate would write:  Solid technical writing, warped sense of humor, non-discriminatory prose, almost believable and fun to read.