Fall 2020

Features

9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About President Pines

Features

Portraits From a Pandemic

Features

Double Infection Fighter

Campus Life

Puzzling Greatness

Campus Life

Just Don’t Call It ‘Adulting’

Not If, but When

Campus Life

Flush With Success

How to Bee of Assistance

Campus Life

A Place to ‘Land’

Class Act

Painting Pictures of Hope

Class Act

Collecting a New Generation’s Stamp of Approval

The Big Question

Epidemiologist Takes Country’s Temperature in 280 Characters

Campus Life

Point of Pride

Campus Life

A Giant, in Theory and Practice

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Alaina Storie ’04

Alaina Storie ’04 was named to The Daily Record’s 2020 VIP List, which recognizes professionals aged 40 or under who have been successful in Maryland. Storie is a partner at Turnbull, Nicholson and Sanders, P.A.

Passings

Rebecca “Becky” A. Herder ’78

Rebecca “Becky” A. Herder ’78 of Friendswood, Texas, died July 31 after an eight-year battle with lobular breast cancer. She was 68. Herder was born in a small farmhouse in Yoakum, Texas, on April 14, 1952. She graduated from Yoakum High School in 1970,…

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Laura Harper ’08

Laura Harper ’08 was named the women’s basketball coach at Coppin State University. As a basketball player at UMD, Harper was named the 2006 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player after leading the team to a national championship. After her college…

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Robert Hollingshead ’92

Robert Hollingshead ’92 was added as shareholder and chair of the Japan IP practice of law firm Greenberg Traurig. Hollingshead joins from the Tokyo office of another global firm, where he was a partner and leader of its Japan patent practice since 2008.…

Passings

John E. Fletcher Ph.D. ’72

John E. Fletcher Ph.D. ’72 died at his home in Ashburn, Va., on June 14. He was 83. Fletcher was born to James Clair Fletcher and Goldie Erin Critcher Fletcher on June 12, 1937, in Banner Elk, N.C. Fletcher grew up in Zionsville, N.C., and graduated from…

Passings

Lt. Col. Patrick M. Cooper ’67

Lt. Col. Patrick M. Cooper ’67 died at his home in Portland, Ore., June 13. Cooper was born Aug. 1, 1944, in Fort Dix, N.J., to Thomas A. and Marian Cooper (later, Marian Poland). He was raised in Phoenix and Hyattsville, Md., and received a bachelor’s…

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Ryan Dofflemeyer MBA ’10

Ryan Dofflemeyer MBA ’10 joined Vident Investment Advisory as senior portfolio manager, specializing in the managing and trading of global equity and multi-asset portfolios. Previously, he was a senior portfolio manager with ProShares. He holds a B.A.…

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Georgie Brophy MBA ’97

Georgie Brophy MBA ’97 was named director of business development at Noblis, a provider of science, technology and strategy services to the federal government. In previous government contracting roles, Brophy led Space Shuttle mission operations for the…