Herman Lipton, 100, is the second male centenarian to have his photo highlighted on the wall of honor in the office of Dr. Raymond Fritz Jr.

Lipton will join Charles Herman of South Whitehall and several 100-year-old female patients in the photo gallery at Allentown Family Foot Care, South Whitehall Township.

Lipton told The Press he moved to Allentown 50 years ago from Bronx, N.Y.

Today, Lipton lives with his third wife Althea, 86, at Country Meadows in Lower Macungie Township.

He said he met Althea when they were both volunteers at Gross Towers in Allentown.

"I chased after my wife for over a year before she would go out with me," Lipton said. "We have been married now for 16 years."

"One day when there was an ice storm, I went out to my garage where I was living at Liberty and 25th streets and slipped on the ice," he said. "After I woke up and made it back into the house, I called Althea and she took me to the doctor, that started our romance."

Lipton said his first wife died giving birth.

"I have three daughters Carol, a school teacher in New York; Marilyn, a housewife in New Jersey and Myrna, a florist in Denver, Colo.," he said. "My second wife Rose helped care for and raise my three girls."

Lipton said he met Rose, his wife of 30 years at a block party in New York his mother set up because she could not continue caring for his three daughters.

When asked what he did for a living, he said he was a manufacturing supervisor for the former Sondra Manufacturing Company, an underwear factory under the 8th Street Bridge, in Allentown, until he retired.

"I took care of 12 sewing machines at the factory," Lipton said. "During the war with Japan, we couldn't get the silk to make underwear for the armed services."

"I also worked for Sure Fit in Bethlehem for a while," he said.

When asked whether he still drives, Lipton said he had to stop driving after he had an accident at the age of 95 years old.

"I drove 50 years without an accident," he said. "My insurance company gave me a citation and one year of insurance without paying."

Lipton said he will turn 101 years old May 8.