Hamburg Area School District will be inducting five members into the Alumni Academic Hall of Fame on May 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the high school. The school district is recognizing alumni for their career and life achievements which were developed through their academic preparation while a student in Hamburg Area schools. Nominees must have graduated at least 20 years before they are considered.
The selection committee announced the following 2015 Inductees:
G. Larry Adams, Class of 1958Larry Adams graduated from the University of Michigan with B.S.E, M.S.E, and Professional degrees in aerospace engineering, the last in 1967. He was elected to Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering society, and was named a James B. Angell Scholar for his academic achievements.
During his subsequent 34 year career with Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colorado, he worked on the Skylab program, several planetary programs, and a classified Defense System program. He was a member of the Viking Flight Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California that achieved the historic first successful unmanned landings on the planet Mars. Later he became the System Design Lead for the Mars Odyssey spacecraft that entered Mars orbit in 2001 and that continues to operate successfully today.
Since his retirement from Lockheed Martin he serves as coordinator of the “Remembering Our Veterans” organization in Castle Rock, Colorado that is dedicated to educating students about the service and sacrifice of Douglas County veterans of WWII. As a volunteer for the Douglas County History Research Center, he has also interviewed several WWII veterans for the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress.
Dr. Nelson Markley, Class of 1958
Nelson went to Lafayette College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1961, and then graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1962 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He continued his study of Mathematics at Yale University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship earning a Master’s degree in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1966.
His first academic appointment was as Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He remained there for the next 31 years with a promotion to Professor in 1977. During those years he served as Department Chair, Associate Vice-President and Provost. In 1997 he was appointed Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Lehigh University.
Professor Markley has been active in mathematical research throughout his career publishing more than 30 original research papers. In addition he published an undergraduate textbook, two graduate books, and is finishing a monograph in his area of expertise.
Dr. Thomas B. Moll, Class of 1958
Dr. Thomas B. Moll studied biology at Ursinus College and graduated with distinction in 1962. He earned a medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University Medical College in 1966 and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. After completing his residency training at Geisinger Medical Center, Dr. Moll served two years as a medical officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War attaining the rank of Captain. Following his return from military service in Vietnam, Dr. Moll completed additional specialty fellowship training in ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
Dr. Moll joined the ophthalmology practice of Dr. Thomas B. Souders in Reading in 1973. The practice later became Souders, Moll & Associates with several offices in Berks County. Dr. Moll served on the Board of Directors for the Berks County Medical Society. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society and Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology. He was instrumental in establishing a program for providing free eye care to students in the greater Reading Area school district.
Andrew M. Muller, Jr., Class of 1965
Andrew M. Muller, Jr. is the owner of the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad (RBMN) as well as its two related companies, Lehigh George Scenic Railway (which handles passenger excursion trains) and Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Real Estate Company, which manages thousands of acres along the railroad’s 320+ mile right-of-way. Mr. Muller is also the President of Reading Jet Center and Reading Jet Maintenance both based at the Reading Regional Airport.
Mr. Muller began his professional life as a school teacher after graduating from East Stroudsburg University in 1969. In 1963 he followed a lifelong passion and began selling coins and precious metals at Muller Rare Coin in Hamburg, a business now run by his son Aaron Muller in Hamburg.
In 1983 he followed another passion and began operating freight and passenger trains over lines owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He expanded on those operations in late 1990 when he acquired that so-called “Anthracite Cluster” from Conrail. From his acquisition of this struggling, poorly-maintained railroad, Mr. Muller has built a nationally recognized railroad empire. Just this year, RBMN was again recognized as Regional Railroad of the Year. RBMN is the first railroad in the nation to be so honored three times. Similarly the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway has been nationally recognized being named the number one excursion railroad in the country last year. More than 70.000 visitors took the opportunity to ride on its trains in 2014. Along the way, Mr. Muller became a licensed railroad engineer.
In 2005 Mr. Muller followed yet another passion – being a jet pilot. He purchased the Reading Jet Center and has expanded its business. He now sits on Board of the Reading Regional Airport Authority.
All of Mr. Muller’s varied companies are close to his home in Hamburg. He is committed to this region and has proven his commitment by hiring more than 180 people to work in his various companies.
Dr. Gerold L. Schiebler, MD, Class of 1946
Graduated as Valedictorian-Hamburg Class of 1946.
Received BS, Magna Cum Laude from Franklin and Marshall College in 1950.
Graduated from Harvard Medical School, MD in 1954.
Dr. Schiebler did graduate work in Pediatrics 1954-1957 at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and then at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He then served as a Pediatric Cardiology Fellow at both the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
From 1960-2001, he held many appointments at the University of Florida College of Medicine. In those 41 years, he was Chief of Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, and then Associate Vice President of Health Affairs for External Relations.
He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, AOA (honorary) and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
At the University of Florida, he was involved in the legislative arena primarily at the state level. In that capacity Dr. Schiebler played a key role in the passage of 50 pieces of legislation related to child health, including the landmark statute of mandating that all insurance companies insure newborns from the moment of birth! This statute became the model for the rest of the United States.
Presently, he serves as the statewide Consultant for the Children’s Medical Services unit of the Florida Department of Health.
Additionally, for more than three decades, he has been significantly involved in the state’s addiction program for more than 29 categories of health professionals.
