Spring 2021

News

Sports Briefs

Class Act

Collecting Today’s History

Class Act

Menu on a Mission

A Revolution Goes Public

UMD Mourns Victims of Anti-Asian Violence

The Big Question

Data Farming

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Phone Data Could Speed Up Efforts to Slow Down Traffic

Campus Life

New Residence Halls to Honor Trailblazers

Campus Life

Tallying the Toll of COVID-19

Campus Life

Mural of a Lifetime

Saves in the City

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Andrew Gladstein ’06

Andrew Gladstein ’06 was promoted to special counsel at Schulte Roth & Zabel, where he practices in the areas of complex commercial and white-collar litigation in federal and state courts. He has extensive experience representing investment managers…

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Sean McCreesh ’17

Sean McCreesh ’17 received the 2021 Community Outreach and Service Award from the Philadelphia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a project engineer with Pennoni and has been part of the office’s Transportation Division staff for…

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Sam Millman ’93

Sam Millman ’93 was hired as a loan originator dealing exclusively with reverse mortgages at the Steven J. Sless Group of Primary Residential Mortgage.

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Sidney Sterman ’47

Sidney Sterman ’47 turned 100 on Feb. 13, 2021. Sterman is a member of the M Club and ODK. He was on the UMD football team under Coach Doc Spears, and the boxing team under Coach Rabino. Sterman lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Eileen, who he met…

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Marcella Gruver ’03

Marcella Gruver ’03 has been named supervisor of elementary English language arts in Calvert County Public Schools. Since 2013, she has served as a supervisor of special education.

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Chryl Laird ’05

Chryl Laird ’05 was named the Marvin H. Green Jr. Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College in Maine. A professor at Bowdoin since 2017, Laird studies American politics with a specialization in race and ethnic politics and political psychology.…

Passings

Perie Sollod Meltzer ’62

Perie Sollod Meltzer ’62, of Baltimore, died on Feb. 15 at the age of 80. Meltzer graduated from Forest Park High School in 1958. She earned master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and had a…

Passings

Joanne Wise Williams ’60

Joanne Wise Williams ’60, of Ocean Pines, Md., died on Feb. 15 at age 84. Born in Forest Glen, Md., she was the daughter of the late Joel Wise and Anna Schauck Wise. Williams taught elementary school in Montgomery County, Md. She also worked in…