South Mountaineer Volume 24, Issue 24

              Published by the Lehigh University Alumni Association
APRIL 27, 1982
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Spring Football Game May 1
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Anderson Asm&tant Director
Veteran Business Manager
Acquires Additional Duties
Craig Anderson, business
manager of athletics at Lehigh
since 1968, has been promoted to
the position of assistant director
of athletics at the University
effective July 1.
The announcement was made
by Bill Leckonby, director of
athletics, who added that Anderson will continue his role as
business manager and ticket
manager.
"Craig will assume additional
responsibilities," said Leckonby, "becoming more heavily
involved in the administration
of our program which includes
22 men's and women's varsity
sports. Actually his duties
increased several years ago,
with the opening of the Stabler
Athletic and Convocation Center and the success of our football teams, so this role won't be
new to him."
There are two other assistant
directors, John Covert, and
Judy Turner.
Anderson, a former big
league pitcher with the St. Louis
Cardinals and the N.Y. Mets,
where he was one of the "Originals" under Casey Stengel in
1962, is a native of Washington,
D.C., and is married to the
former Judy Kay McCarty of
Benton, 111. They are the parents of two children, Jill, 12, and
Mike, 10.
He left organized baseball following the 1966 season to
become assistant director of
development at Lehigh, his
alma mater.
His duties include special
responsibility for the alumni
class agents' fund-raising program, the annual giving fund
and the senior class gifts program.  In   1968,  following the
death of Paul Short, he was
appointed to his post as business
and ticket manager of athletics.
Anderson was a baseball star
at Lehigh in 1958, 1959 and 1960
winning a total of 12 games with
228 strikeouts and an earned run
average of 1.8. He finished 18 of
23 contests he started and had a
no-hitter against Bucknell in his
senior season.
Following graduation in 1960
he reported to Tulsa, Okla., for
his entry into professional baseball. The big, hard-throwing
righthander advanced rapidly,
starting the 1961 campaign with
Portland, Ore., and finishing it
with the Cardinals.
He was purchased by the
newly-organized Mets in 1962
and spent that season in the Polo
Grounds. In 1963 and 1964 he
divided his time between the
Mets and Buffalo and in 1965 he
pitched for Buffalo and Indianapolis. In 1966 he was with Willi-
amsport, Pa., of the Eastern
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All-Sig Choices
Lehigh football players Larry
Michalski, Mark Sitar, Matt
Morgan and Karl Nielsen have
been named to the first team of
the 1981 All-Sig football team.
Team selection honors outstanding varsity football players who are members of Sigma
Chi, and has been announced
with March publication of the
Fraternity quarterly magazine,
The Magazine of Sigma Chi.
The team is selected annually
from nominations submitted by
any ofthe Fraternity's 178 chapters with members who are varsity football players.
SRD Dinner Is May 10
Alumni and friends are
invited to attend the Student
Recognition Dinner Monday,
May 10. Twelve major athletic
and leadership awards will be
presented at the Grace Hall
gathering which honors coaches
and players of 13 men's and
women's winter and spring
teams.
Cost of the dinner, which begins at 6:30 p.m. following a 5:30
p.m. reception, will be $10 per
person.
While attendance is encouraged, those who are not able to
attend may participate by sponsoring one or more ofthe 300 students expected to attend.
This annual event is the new
format for the former Flagpole
Day program, except for academic awards, which have been
incorporated into the Academic
Convocation held each spring.
Lehigh Valley area South
Mountaineer subscribers will
receive an invitation to the Student Recognition Dinner in the
near future.
Other subscribers may send
reservation checks (payable to
Lehigh University) to Dinner
Chairman Greg Schulze, director of intramurals and recreation, Taylor Gym 38, Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, Pa.
18015.
Seven Newcomers Cited
As Grid Drills Near Finish
CRAIG ANDERSON
Seven newcomers were
among 22players singled out for
special praise, by head coach
John Whitehead, as Lehigh
reached the midpoint of spring
football practice.
The Engineers, who had drills
interrupted by a spring snowstorm, re-scheduled four sessions and are working every day
except Wednesdays and Sundays. Practice ends with the
annual intra-squad game Saturday, May 1, in Taylor Stadium
at 1 p.m.
"We've had a good practice so
far,"  says Whitehead,   "Eve-
Special Olympics
Volunteers Needed
Want to be a hugger? Greet-
ers, guides and huggers are
needed to share their time with
children and adults participating in the Pennsylvania Special
Olympics at Lehigh June 2-5.
More than 1,400 mentally
handicapped children and
adults from across the commonwealth will take part in this
year's event co-sponsored by
Lehigh and the Pennsylvania
Special Olympics organization.
"The program is operated
almost entirely by volunteers.
We need a lot of people from the
community as well as Lehigh,"
says James W. Harper, volunteer committee chairman and
director of Community Relations at the University.
Volunteers are asked to
donate their time as greeters, •
guides and assistants for coaching, scoring and timing, and as
huggers. These people serve as
companions,   on   a  one-to-one
basis, for athletes involved in
the program.
Each volunteer can choose his
own task. They will receive job
descriptions and complete
orientations prior to the event.
Age and experience are not
criteria. "Our youngest volunteer is eight years old," Harper
notes.
The athletes, all winners in
local and area levels of the Special Olympics, will compete in
track and field, basketball,
wheelchair races, soccer and
swimming events. For the first
time an equestrian competition
will be offered.
For more information about
volunteering or the Special
Olympics please contact
Harper in the office of Community Relations at Lehigh (861-
3885).
Spring Golf
Day May 17
The annual Spring Golf
Day and Dinner has been
scheduled for Monday,
May 17, at the Bethlehem
Steel Club in Hellertown.
Golf is slated followed
by the annual dinner at
which special awards will
be made.
Phone Mike Bolton (861-
3119, office) or Keith Rust
(691-5180, home) for additional information.
The next issue of The South
Mountaineer, last of 1981-82, will
be published May 18.
ryone's been hustling, the spirit
has been high and we've been
getting a lot done."
The newcomers who have
been most impressive, all of
them non-lettermen, are quarterback Tony Semler of Allentown, Pa., fullback Doug Ertz of
West Lawn, Pa., split ends Jim
Davidson of Selinsgrove, Pa.,
and Eric Hunsberger of
Schwenksville, Pa., defensive
ends Luis Ramirez of Fairfield,
Conn., and Wayne Kasbar of
Summit, N.J., and linebacker
Andy Krosnowski of Mechanics-
burg, Pa.
Davidson, Hunsberger, Krosnowski and Kasbar played junior varsity football last season
as freshmen. Ertz saw brief
varsity action. Semler and
Ramirez were on the varsity
roster but didn't get into any
games.
The other 15 who've been
especially effective during
spring workouts, according to
Whitehead, are returning letter-
men divided almost equally
between offense and defense.
From the offensive platoon he
cites halfback Ed Godbolt of
Bethlehem, Pa., fullback John
Ahsler of Chatham, N.J., quarterback Bill Rambo of Easton,
Pa., tackles Kevin Greene of
Jersey City, N.J., and Steve
Joseph of Worcester, Mass.,
and guards Scott Fath of Har-
leysville, Pa., and Ron Garris of
Greensburg, Pa.
The defensive choices are
backs Dave Mecca of Dunmore,
Pa., and Mike O'Hagan of Hawthorne, N.J., end Jack Meyers
of Northampton, Pa., and linebackers John Shigo of Bethlehem, Pa., Doug Pearson of
Leesport, Pa., Frank Rudisill of
West Atlantic City, N.J., Jim
Graziano of Hillside, N.J., and
Lee Krasley of Paoli, Pa. Rudi-
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Football Stars Honored
Quarterback Larry Michalski
received the Big LU Award for
leadership, character and ability as Lehigh's football squad
was honored with a dinner at
Blu's Manor in Bethlehem.
He also received an award as
most outstanding offensive
back on the 1981 team. Center
Mark Sitar was named most
outstanding offensive lineman.
Safetyman Joe Macellara and
tackle Russ Becker were chosen
most outstanding defensive
back and lineman, respectively,
and place-kicker Mike Whalen
was selected most outstanding
special teams performer.
Steve Kreider, Lehigh '79, a
wide receiver on last season's
Cincinnati Bengal team which
played in the Super Bowl, was a
guest along with Chuck Bed-
narik, Penn great who's in the
collegiate and professional
halls of fame.
Keith Rust and Mark Par-
seghian, among alumni and others who sponsored the affair,
introduced the coaching staff,
members of the squad and
guests.