50th Reunion

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In June, 1983, I retired from my position as professor of Physics at Lafayette College after 34 years as a member of the faculty, 22 of them as department head, eleven as clerk of the faculty, one as acting dean of the faculty. For the last eight years I held the title Marshall Metzgar Professor.

I received my M.A. degree from Penn in 1938, my Ph.D. from Brown in 1949. I served as instructor at Franklin and Marshall for one year, at Muhlenberg for five years and at Brown for two years. I served on local planning and zoning boards for 17 years and as a non-lawyer member of the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for six years.

The most important element in my life has been my family, Margaret Yuza (Peggy) and I were married in 1944. She is: a graduate of Coe College. We went to graduate school at Prawn together where she received her Sc.M. degree. We raised four sons in whom we take normal parental pride. They have provided us with four lovely daughters-in-law and nine grandchildren on whom we dote.

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When our sons were small we moved to the village of Martins Creek, Pa. We bought a property that turned out to be the remaining portion of lands obtained in 1749 by James Martin from the sons of William Penn. We got an old stone grist mill, the miller's cottage and upwards of ten acres of woodland bordering the banks of Martins Creek. I've renovated the miller's cottage and lived in it for a time but later remodeled the mill into the home where we have lived for 21 years. During our years in Martins Creek Peggy raised our sons, taught school, ranging from third grade to high school physics, studied nursing, planted an herb garden and wrote a couple of books on the subject, became an accomplished cook and filled in odd moments spinning and weaving, proving that she is the accomplished member of the family.

Not willing to rust away in retirement and yielding to our penchant for reclaiming old things we are now engaged in renovating an early 19th century farmhouse near Boyertown, Pa., which we shall share with one of our sons and his family and where we shall help to raise grandchildren, assorted livestock, perhaps, and great quantities of garden vegetables and fruits as we try to grow old gracefully.