News Release
August 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)—Moravian College trustee Richard Kingston ’77
and his wife, Leslie, have been hosting the College’s annual
Freshman Welcome Picnic for almost a decade. This year, what had been
a pleasant event for between 50 and 120 participants at past picnics
became a whopper of a party for more than 160 people on July 31. Dr.
Kingston is an oral surgeon with a practice in Bethlehem.
Participants included Moravian faculty (one with
his very own incoming freshman to introduce), staff, and current
students, who welcomed some
40 members of the Class of 2007. They ate hamburgers and hot dogs and
a cake made by Martha Sternbergh Neff ’70, pastry chef and baker
for Wood Dining Services at Lehigh Valley Hospital. The incoming freshmen
played volleyball.
Bernard J. Story ’80, vice president for enrollment, said the
Class of 2007 is Moravian’s largest ever, with 387 confirmed
students selected from a record applicant pool of about 1,600. In addition
to size, the class has the highest average SAT score of any incoming
freshman class at the College.
Moravian “legacy” students—those who are the second
generation in a family to attend the College or who have had at least
one sibling at Moravian—include Samantha Madison, the daughter
of John Madison ’71 and Marcia Reedman Madison ’72, Coopersburg;
Lauren Kuhns, daughter of Dennis ’81 and Sandra Kuhns, Allentown;
and Andrew Remsing, Bath, whose sister Alyson ’03 graduated in
May. Dennis Kuhns is director of network services at Lehigh Valley
Hospital. John Madison is a retired police officer and his wife a teacher.
Samantha Madison is a Comenius Scholar, a designation of honor for
those in the top 10 percent of their high school class with a specified
SAT score. Other Comenius Scholars at the picnic were Todd Butillo,
Kaitlyn Holva, Lauren Scevola, Lori Spadoni, and Blair Zickmund.
James West, professor of economics and business,
and his wife, Ruhi, will see their son, Ben, become a freshman at
the College this fall.
Other faculty at the picnic included Anne Dutlinger, assistant professor
of art and chair of the art department; Christopher Jones, assistant
professor of biology; Dennis Glew, professor of history and chair of
the history department, and his wife, Dorothy, a reference librarian
at Reeves Library; Dan Libby, professor of chemistry and chair of the
chemistry department, and his wife, Carol Baker Libby, an adjunct instructor
of chemistry; and Kelly Krieble ’86, assistant professor of physics
and a member of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees.
Moravian alumni included:
- Roland Leibenguth ’48, a retired
engineer
- Thomas Keim ’49, retired from Metropolitan
Life Insurance
- Anthony Jaso ’50, a retired teacher
in the Wilson Area School District, and his wife, Pat
- Constantine “Gus” Loupos ’60,
a retired teacher in the Bethlehem Area School District, his wife,
Cleo, and
their daughter Theo
- Thomas Wiegner ’68, retired from
Lucent Technology
- Don Beck ’71, a psychology professor
at Penn State
- Amy Hawley ’76, owner of Hawley Realty,
Allentown
- Lauren Turnbach Brennan ’86, a teacher
in the Bethlehem Area School District, and her husband
- Donna Moser ’90, a teacher at St. Jane’s
School, Easton
- Holly Derhammer ’91, a special education
teacher in the Allentown School District
- Lisa Garger McGill ’91,
a planning and logistics analyst with Merck Pharmaceuticals, West
Point
- J.P. Orlando ’96, risk adviser and
trainer with Henry S. Lehr Inc., Bethlehem
- Ann Rissmiller Flood ’96,
a project specialist with Specialty Minerals, Bethlehem
- David ’98, an account executive with Lehr
Inc., and Missy Connor ’00, a staffing coordinator with Kelly
Services, Bethlehem
- Bob Thear ’98, an auditor with Guardian
Life, Bethlehem
- Stephanie Rickards ’99, a 10th-grade
English teacher with the Bethlehem Area School District
- Jessica Edris ’00,
development director of the Program for Women and Families in Allentown
- Brian Mansfield ’00, with the Dun & Bradstreet
office in Bath
- Lauren Nicholas ’01, a graduate student
at the New England Conservatory of Music
- Julie Jones ’02, an
honor graduate in chemistry who is now in a doctoral program at Princeton
University
- Erica Pysher ’02, a French teacher
in the East Stroudsburg school district.
Leibenguth, Keim, Derhammer, the Jasos, and the Loupos family were
among the hard-working volunteers.
Current students Jacqueline Collette ’05, Bethlehem; Donna Kohut ’05,
Easton; and Tom Ruhf ’06, Bethlehem, also attended.
Staff included: Robert Schoenen, vice
president for institutional advancement, and his wife, Pat ’70; Joan Lardner Paul, a director
of major gifts, and John Williams, director of planned giving, with
his wife, Mary Ann, who is on the staff of LVAIC (Lehigh Valley Association
of Independent Colleges); Robert Windolph, dean of student life in
the Office of Student Affairs; Bertie Francis Knisely ’69, director
of alumni relations, and Kristen Orgera, assistant director of alumni
relations; Amy Whelan, assistant director of admissions; Erika Bayles
Mondok ’90, admissions officer, and her daughter Chloe; and Christie
Jacobsen ’00, the College’s web manager.
