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Class Notes

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Passings

David Allen Trace ’84

David Allen Trace ’84, of Mechanicsville, Va., died May 30. Born April 12, 1962, in Hagerstown, Md., he was the son of Monica (Fish) Trace and the late Lawrence Trace. Trace received his bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from UMD and an MBA from…

80s

Helen Boudreau ’87

Helen Boudreau ’87 was appointed to the board of directors of Evaxion Biotech, a clinical-stage biotechnology company specializing in the development of AI-driven immunotherapies. She also chairs the audit committee. Most recently, she was chief operating…

Passings

Dr. Milford “Mickey” Foxwell Jr. ’75

Dr. Milford “Mickey” Foxwell Jr. ’75 died July 16. Born in Cambridge, Md., on Aug. 1, 1953, he was the son of the late Milford M. Foxwell Sr. and Patsy Foxwell. Foxwell graduated from Cambridge High School in 1971, then UMD and the University of Maryland…

Passings

Barbara Ione Brubaker ’51

Barbara Ione Brubaker ’51 died at her home in Asheville, N.C., on June 7. She was 89. Born and raised in Hyattsville, Md., she was the child of Blanche and Wallace Dobbin. While getting her degree in art education at UMD, she met her husband, Russell E.…

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Robert W. Mowen ’67

Robert W. Mowen ’67, of Smithsburg, Md., died May 17 at age 93. Born on Jan. 10, 1927, in Hagerstown, Md., Mowen served in the Army Airborne Division during the Korean War. He earned an education degree from the University of Miami and an undergraduate…

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Robert (Bob) Alexander Lasken Ph.D. ’72

Robert (Bob) Alexander Lasken Ph.D. ’72 of Clifton, Va., died May 4. He was 76. Lasken was born in Washington, D.C., to Herman and Adele Lasken, and spent his childhood and adolescent years in Maryland and Michigan. He met his wife at the University of…

90s

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…

Passings

Janice Margaret Spotz M.Ed. ’73

Janice Margaret Spotz M.Ed. ’73 of La Plata, Md., died July 6 at age 80. She was born April 11, 1940, in Philadelphia to Margaret Munn and Harry Henderson. She graduated from Penn State in 1961, married that summer and moved to Maryland to pursue her…