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September 13,2000
Courtesy of Safeguard Scientif ics
Warren "Pete"
Musser '49 to give
Founder's address
Warren V. "Pete" Musser '49,
CEO and chairman of the board
of Safeguard Scientifics Inc., will
speak on "The Art of Entrepre-
neurship" at the 122nd Founder's
Day ceremony in Packer Memorial Church on Thursday, Oct.
12. The annual event honors
Lehigh founder Asa Packer, a
19lh-century industrialist, judge
and congressman, and recognizes
academic achievement by professors and students.
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.,
which is located in Wayne, Pa.,
is one of the country's leading
venture capital companies. Since
its formation in 1953, it has
grown to approximately $8 billion
in market capitalization with
more than 40 partner companies.
Musser, who earned a B.S. in
industrial engineering, paved
the way to success for many other
entrepreneurial companies by
offering guidance, capital and
managerial support. Notable
company successes include the
QVC shopping network, the development of the original cable
system for the formation of
Comcast, and the formation and
public offering of Novell Inc.
Through Safeguard, Musser
also brought a number of other
companies public, including
CompuCom Systems in 1985,
' Tangram Enterprise Solutions in
1987, Cambridge Technology Partners in 1994, the Integrated Systems Consulting Group in 1996,
Diamond Technology Partners in
1997, DocuCorp International in
1998, Internet Capital Group in
1999, and both Pac-West Telecom
and eMerge Interactive in 2000.
Musser is a strong supporter
of community activities, education and the arts. At Lehigh, he
has supported the Warren V.
Musser Scholarships, the Musser
Center for Entrepreneurship, Taylor Gym renovations, and the College of Business and Economics.
He has been honored as
United Way Citizen Volunteer of
the Year and American Red
Cross Citizen of the Year. His
generosity has resulted in the
formation of the Musser Blood
Center in Philadelphia, the
Musser Choices Forum at the
Franklin Institute, and Musser
Hall at Ursinus University.
LEO shows children
the 'Walking Purchase'
In 1737, Edward Marshall
ran from Bucks County to
the Poconos in a day and a
half, securing the infamous
"walking purchase" for William
Penn and angering the Delaware
Indians so much that they fought
against the colonists in later
wars.
Last month, hundreds of children visiting Bethlehem
Musikfest's Kinderplatz walked
the same route - in a few minutes. Thanks to Lauren
Brinker '02, an earth and environmental sciences (EES) major,
they merely followed huge fluorescent footprint cutouts, each
displaying part of the map of the
Walking Purchase.
As coordinator of the Lehigh
Earth Observatory (LEO) exhibit
at Musikfest, Brinker, LEO technician George Yasko and others made displays illustrating
environmental activities developed by LEO students. She set
meetings, edited posters, and
helped produce an animated
computer "fly-through" view of
the Lehigh River.
"It was a lot of responsibility," Brinker said, "but a great
way to learn."
LEO was started in 1997 to
offer field experience to students
interested in the environment.
Photos by Pam Shealey
Lauren Brinker '02 demonstrates LEO's instruments to a
young Musikfest visitor.
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Jason Lorenzetti '01  describes LEO's data.
Supervised by faculty, LEO students design Web sites, take water samples, record seismic information, and work with Geographic Information Systems (a
database and software package
for managing spatial data) and
Global Positioning System (used
in surveying to determine latitude, longitude, and elevation).
The students add their observations to public databases.
Funded by the William Penn,
Charles E. Culpepper and W M.
Keck foundations, LEO helps students from various majors experience the professional interaction
they'll likely find in their careers.
"LEO takes students out of the
classroom and helps them put
their learning into practice," said
LEO manager Margie Barry.
Another LEO project featured
at Musikfest was "Salamander
Response to Climate Change."
Advised by Craig Williamson,
professor of EES, students record
activities of salamanders on
South Mountain, Hawk Mountain and Lake Lacawac.
The displays were part of LEO's
efforts to share information.
"We want to take some of the
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U.S. News ranks LU with nation's best
Lehigh was ranked 38th
among national universities in U.S. News & World
Report's recent "Best Colleges"
2001 edition. Princeton ranked
first and Harvard and Yale tied
for second. The university's overall ranking score increased from
67 last year to 70, which means
Lehigh was closer to the No. 1
school as a percentage of its score
(valued at 100 percent). Among
Lehigh's highly ranked individual programs were undergraduate engineering (ranked
35th) and civil engineering (23rd).
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Brad Drexler, vice president
of university relations, said the
rankings confirmed Lehigh's status as one of America's most selective and highly regarded pri
vate research universities, and
pointed out that two other college guides, Barron's and
Peterson's, this year placed
Lehigh in their most competitive
admissions categories, based on
the percentage of applicants a
school accepts and the test scores
and high school class rank of entering freshmen.
For more information, go to
the U.S.News web site at http://
www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/
college/rankings/natunivs/
natu a2.htm
Three new
members join
board of trustees
Three new members have joined
Lehigh's board of trustees:
Sharon Kanovsky '86, a vice
president of Deutsche Asset
Management in Baltimore; E.
William Kuhl, Jr. '66, partner
with Alliance Group International in Cincinnati; and Daniel
E. Smith, Jr. '71, president,
CEO and co-founder of Sycamore
Networks Inc. in Chelmsford,
Mass.
Smith was appointed by the
board and will serve as an appointed trustee. Kanovsky and
Kuhl were elected to the board
by the Alumni Association and
its members and will serve as
alumni trustees. The new members will serve three-year terms
ending in 2003.
In addition, Oldrich Foucek
III '72, previously an alumni
trustee, will join the board as an
appointed trustee for the term
ending in 2003. Foucek is a managing partner with the Allentown law firm of Tallman,
Hudders & Sorrentino.
And three current board
members - Michael J. Caruso
'67, William W. Crouse III '64
and H. Edward Muendel '64 -
will each serve an additional
term ending in 2003.
"I look forward to working
with these accomplished individuals on Lehigh's board of
trustees," said board chairman
Ronald J. Ulrich '65. "Their
vast knowledge, wealth of experience, and dedication to the
work at hand will serve the university well."
Kanovsky, who earned a B.S.
in accounting from Lehigh and
an M.S. in taxation from Temple
University, was named vice
president of mutual fund administration with Deutsche Asset
Management earlier this year.
She worked previously with
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
for more than 14 years, in tax
and audit management, in the
firm's Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Boston offices, as well as in
its New York national office.
Kanovsky has taught taxation at
Northeastern University and
has been published in professional journals.
Kuhl, who earned a B.S. in
chemical engineering from
Lehigh and an M.B.A. from
Xavier University, is a partner
in the Alliance Group International, which provides consulting
services for strategic alliances
worldwide. He is retired from
Procter & Gamble, where he was
associate director of global research and development. Kuhl
helped found the Lehigh University Club of the Ohio Valley and
is a former president of the
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