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Class Notes

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10s

Jenna Frey ’10

Jenna Frey ’10 is now vice president of operations at Whitebox, an e-commerce automation company based in Baltimore.

80s

Greg Wright ’87

Greg Wright ’87 was nominated to the board of directors of Paramount Group, the real estate investment trust. He is chief investment officer of Digital Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT specializing in data centers, with responsibility for spearheading…

Passings

Bernard (Bud) Leightheiser ’55

Bernard (Bud) Leightheiser ’55 died on Feb. 16 in Wyomissing, Pa. He received a full tennis scholarship to attend UMD and was a business student. After graduation, he received a commission in the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant and spent two years…

90s

David Biespiel MFA ’93

David Biespiel MFA ’93 is the author of “A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas,” the story of the rise and fall of his Jewish boyhood in Texas and his search for the answer to his life’s central riddle: Are we ever done leaving home? The book is…

00s

LaRee Tracy M.A. ’02

LaRee Tracy M.A. ’02 leads the new West Coast office of PHASTAR, a global contract research organization, as director of biostatistics. Tracy’s career also includes senior roles in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug…

00s

Kevin Hebbel ’05

Kevin Hebbel ’05 was promoted to director at SC&H Group, an audit, tax and consulting firm. Since 2012, Hebbel has taken an active role in shaping the firm’s employee engagement initiatives, and for the past five years he has served as a team lead for…

80s

Margaret Meixner ’87

Margaret Meixner ’87 was appointed director, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Science Mission Operations for Universities Space Research Association. Prior to joining USRA, Meixner was at the Space Telescope Science Institute,…

00s

E.J. Henderson ’02

Former Minnesota Vikings linebacker E.J. Henderson ’02 will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December. A consensus First-Team All-American as a junior and senior with the Terps, Henderson received the 2002 Bednarik Award as the…