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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Krystal N. Clark M.Ed. ’07

Krystal N. Clark M.Ed. ’07 was named director for employee learning and organizational effectiveness in Vanderbilt University’s human resources department. Clark joined Vanderbilt’s Office of the Dean of Students in 2011 as associate director of Greek…

Passings

Peggy Culbertson Lott ’55

Peggy Culbertson Lott ’55 died Aug. 9 from complications of a stroke. She was born Aug. 28, 1933, in Washington, D.C., to Paul T. and Maria Bisset Culbertson. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1955, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa…

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Chuck Hicks ’92

Chuck Hicks ’92 was promoted to chief operating officer of NCI Information Systems, a provider of advanced information technology solutions and professional services to U.S. federal government agencies. He retained his current position and…

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J. Kelly Ganjei ’95

J. Kelly Ganjei ’95 was named a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Southeast Award. Ganjel is CEO of Cognate BioServices. The award program honors entrepreneurial business leaders whose ambitions deliver innovation, growth and…

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Dr. Christine Savage ’97

Dr. Christine Savage ’97 joined Integral Rheumatology and Immunology Specialists in Plantation, Fla. Savage most recently practiced at UHealth in Deerfield Beach. She attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine, completed her internal medicine…

Passings

Stanley Gene Pitts ’61

Stanley Gene Pitts ’61 died Aug. 8 at the age of 82. He was born March 8, 1938, at Fort Sill, Okla., to the late Ogene and Lucille Cox Pitts. Pitts held a master’s degree in education and taught physical education at UMD for 20 years. He also held the…

Passings

Ralph C. Ward ’59

Ralph C. Ward ’59, of Richmond, Va., died on Aug. 1. Born to Ralph Cordell Ward Sr. and Mabel Josephine Cross on March 11, 1935, he grew up in Rockville, Md. At Montgomery Blair High School, he earned letters in football, basketball and baseball and was…

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Rob Albritton ’08

Rob Albritton ’08 was named senior director of Reston-based government technology company Octo Consulting Group’s AI Center for Excellence. He most recently worked as a machine learning engineer at the Mitre Corp., a nonprofit that conducts research for…