It's our sad duty to announce another passing. Glenn Strohl, 1967 graduate of LHS, passed away March 31, 2025, in a battle with mantel cell lymphoma which is a blood cancer. Glenn resided in Texas. There's more information in a warm, heartfelt letter from Glenn's wife, Anita, on the Memorial homepage. Keep their family in prayer at this sensitive time.
It's with great sadness we announce a 3rd passing of John F. Lehman, Jr., 75, of Bethlehem, who entered his eternal rest on Friday, March 21, 2025, at his home after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Born on August 17, 1949, in Bethlehem, he was the son of the late John F. and Anna C. (Ivankovits) Lehman. For more information, please see our Memorial page for a link to his obituary. Remember to keep his family in your prayers.
We are so sorry to have to announce another passing of LHS '67 classmate Wayne Koffel. Wayne passed away March 8, 2025 at home after a long battle with HPV throat cancer. Please remember his family in prayer. For more information and a link to his obituary, please see the Memorial page.
It's our sad duty to announce yet another LHS '67 classmate, William Woodring.. William Henry “Woody” Woodring passed away quietly on Tuesday 03/11/2025 at St. Joseph’s Health Hospital in Syracuse, NY at the age of 75. For more information and a link to his obituary, please see our Memorial page. Please keep his family in your prayers.
I received an email from Joe Kempfer about an activity that may interest many of you in the local area....
Greetings again boys and girls,
Having lost several classmates recently in just such a short time span, it makes one think about one’s own mortality – and stuff like that.
As you may or may not know, there are a bunch of us (almost exclusively LHS 1967 grads) who get together yearly to play a round of golf – the You Guys Invitational Golf Tournament. Some of us refer to it as “Wilderness Golf”. But, we’ve only been doing this since 1994! After discussing this with Butch Macri, the organizer of this auspicious golf tournament, we thought it would be a great idea to invite any female golfers from our class who might enjoy playing a round of golf at the Bethlehem Municipal Golf Course with us; either as an entire female foursome or as part of one of the guy’s groups.
This year’s edition will take place on Friday, August 1st – 8:30 AM with a shot-gun start at Bethlehem Municipal Golf Course. This will be the beginning weekend of Musikfest 2025.
If you might be so inclined to waltz around Bethlehem Municipal Golf Course with some of your old classmates, please let me know and we’ll begin developing foursomes (or fivesomes?), or if you already know of a group of golfers with whom you could partner up, let me know that too.
Generally speaking, the golf fee is well less than $100.00 and you pay for your own food and drink(s) afterwards. More on this to follow.
As always, please pass this on to any classmates (particularly the girls!) for whom I do not have a current e-mail address.
Stay well,
Joe
50th Class Reunion
The Liberty High School, Class of '67, 50th Reunion was a huge success! A big 'thank you' goes out to all who attended. The Reunion Committee members felt that all our efforts were worth it! Everyone had a great time and the display's that were set up had a steady stream of classmates gazing at pictures and items brought in by other classmates. The room was filled with chatter and laughter as people reconnected with classmates they hadn't seen in 50 years! I believe we will carry many warm memories with us for years to come from this milestone event.
Other thanks goes out to our guest speaker, Gary Lavelle for sharing his heart with us. Many will carry those words home with them. Thanks to John Bereuter for his help in setting up and tearing down. He also contributed many pieces of memorabilia to our display table. Thanks John. You've got the gift of helps.
And last, but not least, a huge thank you goes to our tour guide, John Quigley, and Liberty High School, for allowing us to see the new renovations made to our ole' Alma Mater. It was fun. We were so impressed with the new additions and changes made to so many areas of the campus. The cafeteria was amazing and the pool ...wow! I wanted to jump in and take a swim, lol.
All things do come to an end and even though it's over, the memories we took with us from this weekend will warm our hearts for a long time to come. Stay connected to this website for future events, maybe even before 5 more years :)