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A Built Legacy

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UMD Takes Extraordinary Steps to Keep Virus at Bay

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Rewriting the Student-Athlete Care Playbook

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Class Notes

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Passings

Robert L. Ridgeway ’51

Robert L. Ridgeway ’51 died Aug. 4. He was born on Oct. 24, 1925, in Berwyn, Md. He earned a B.S. in business, and an LL.B from George Washington University. Ridgeway was drafted into the U.S. Army in November 1943, and served in Patton’s Third Army in…

90s

Michael Klein ’95

Michael Klein ’95 was appointed co-head of JLL Capital Markets in its New Jersey office. Klein joined JLL as part of the HFF acquisition in July 2019 and has more than 18 years of experience in the commercial mortgage banking industry. He has been…

80s

Michael Palmer ’87

Michael Palmer ’87 was appointed to the board of directors of Newtopia, a habit change platform for disease prevention. Palmer is the founding CEO of Exhale Advisors, focused on healthcare strategy, M&A, digital transformation and innovation…

80s

Alice Squires ’84

Alice Squires ’84 was named the Wendell J. Satre Distinguished Professor in Washington State University’s engineering technology management program. Squires has taught in the program since 2014 and has more than 30 years of technical and leadership…

Passings

Frank Robert “Bob” Stone Jr. ’65

Frank Robert “Bob” Stone Jr. ’65, of Charlottesville, Va., died June 25. Stone was born on Sept. 29, 1942, in Washington, D.C., to the late Frank Robert Stone Sr. and Lelia Flippin Stone, and grew up in North Carolina. Stone had a Bachelor of Science in…

10s

James Green MBA ’11

James Green MBA ’11 joined the Chartis Group, a provider of advisory services and analytics to the health care industry, as a director in the firm’s revenue cycle practice. Green has more than 25 years of experience leading and advising hospitals and…

Passings

Beth Ann (Barron) Agar M.Ed. ’98

Beth Ann (Barron) Agar M.Ed. ’98 died at her home in Sugar Land, Texas, on Aug. 12. She was 67. Agar was born in Houston on Aug. 6, 1953. After living most of her adult life in Germany, Agar returned to the States and art and AP art history classes at…

Passings

Benjamin L. Chaney ’17

Benjamin L. Chaney ’17 died unexpectedly in his sleep on July 7. Chaney was born in Hagerstown, Md., and was raised and lived in Greencastle, Penn. He worked at Target in Hagerstown, where he found his “work family.” Chaney graduated from Greencastle High…