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Spring 2020

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

David Beltran Phillips ’67

David Beltran Phillips ’67 of Madison, Wisc., died on Feb. 13. He was born to Anna and Beltran Phillips in Charleston, W.Va., in 1946. He grew up in Baltimore and attended Friends School, followed by the University of Maryland. He was an all-state athlete…

80s

Thomas Bradley ’80

Thomas Bradley ’80 was appointed chairman of the board of directors of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., an underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products. Bradley became a director for Argo Group in 2018. He retired from Allied World…

10s

Sophia Hadjipanteli ’18

Sophia Hadjipanteli ’18, founder of the #UnibrowMovement on social media, was featured on a cover of the digital February issue of Glamour UK, celebrating self-love and showing the changing faces of beauty.

Passings

Richard Spinelli ’71

Richard Spinelli ’71 of Watertown, N.Y., died on Jan. 10 at age 78. Spinelli was born on July 4, 1941, to Paul and Alberta (Eddy) Spinelli. He received his bachelor’s degree from UMD and taught for 28 years at South Jefferson Central School in Adams…

Passings

Robert “Ed” Novak Sr. ’50

Robert “Ed” Novak Sr. ’50 died of heart failure April 18 at the Glen Meadows Retirement Community in Glen Arm, Md., at age 94. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Franklin J. Novak Sr. and his wife, Pearl. He was a 1944 graduate of Baltimore City…

70s

Bruce Surosky, M.D. ’79

Bruce Surosky, M.D. ’79 was recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Lifetime Achiever in the field of Medicine as an OB/GYN at Twin Tier Women's Health. He trains residents in vaginal surgery and has served as a clinical professor of OB/GYN at Rochester…

10s

Erin Breit ’11

Erin Breit ’11 was promoted to audit partner at ACM LLP. She joined the firm in 2005.

Passings

Jack A. Grubber ’59

Jack A. Grubber ’59 died on March 17 at his home in Great Mills, Md., at age 89. He was the son of Michael J. Grubber and stepmother Jean Elaine Grubber, and Sara Ellen Bennett and stepfather Joseph H. Bennett. He was born on May 13, 1930, in Moundsville,…