Spring 2020

Class Act

More Than a Meal

Reconstructing Lives Forgotten

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Class Act

The Role of a Lifetime

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Edward J. Norris ’69

Edward J. Norris ’69 died on March 18 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 77. Norris was born on March 8, 1943, in Cumberland, Md., the son of the late Jesse and Beulah Norris. He graduated from Fort Hill High School and UMD, where he…

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Nicholas Ladany ’85

Nicholas Ladany ’85 wwill become president of Oglethorpe University in Georgia in July. Ladany is currently dean of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences and associate provost for academic outreach at the University of San Diego. Ladany will…

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Virginia Rice Morton M.L.S. ’02

Virginia Rice Morton M.L.S. ’02 died Feb. 29 at her home in Fredericksburg, Va., at age 64 of complications from cancer. Morton was born and raised in Alexandria, Va., the daughter of Edward Taylor Morton and Virginia Read Morton. She graduated from…

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Peter Mehlman ’77

Peter Mehlman ’77, a former writer and executive producer for “Seinfeld,” has a new novel out, “#MeAsWell,” about a veteran sportswriter whose non-PC joke puts him at the center of a media firestorm and the #MeToo conversation.

Passings

Shirley S. Gooch ’54

Shirley S. Gooch ’54 of Easton, Md., died at home on Feb. 29. She was 88. Born in Philadelphia in 1931, she was the daughter of the late William Isaac Steele and Maria Carter Steele. She was raised in Takoma Park, Md., where she graduated from Calvin…

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Jessica Solomon ’04

Jessica Solomon ’04 was named vice president of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, which annually makes grants in excess of $4 million to Baltimore-area nonprofits. Solomon joined the foundation in 2017 as a senior program officer.

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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,…

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Louis F. “Tuck” Tyler Jr. ’65

Louis F. “Tuck” Tyler Jr. ’65 died March 4. He was 82. Tyler was the son of Louis F. Tyler and Elizabeth Quinn Tyler. He was also the stepson of Harry Glavin. Born in Baltimore and raised in South Baltimore, Tyler was a 1955 graduate of Loyola Blakefield.…