Winter 2014

Features

Imprint on History

Innovation

Monroe’s Doctrine

In Brief

Illustration Courtesy Of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

Spacecraft Goes AWOL, but Leaves “Deep Impact”

Campus Life

Digging It

Class Act

Engineering a Better Beer

Class Act

The Power of Artivism

In Brief

Smoke Detectors

UMD Launches Language Center

Innovation

Waste Not

Campus Life

A LEAP Forward

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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70s

Daniel Robert Anderson ’76

Daniel Robert Anderson ’76 and Gregory Joseph Melanson were married Nov. 9 at the Mansion on O Street, a hotel in Washington. Anderson has a law degree from the University of Baltimore and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard and is a…

70s

John Graves ’77

John Graves ’77, owner of the software company NetComm Inc. in Rockville, Md., and married grandfather of five, has signed up for a coveted flight into space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo later this year. “After meeting (Virgin founder) Richard…

70s

Ross J. Kelbaugh ’71

Ross J. Kelbaugh ’71 is among the expert appraisers appearing in the fourth season of Maryland Public Television’s program Chesapeake Collectibles, which began Jan. 9. The president of Historic Graphics LLC in Pikesville, Md., he is expert in all aspects…

50s

Lester Brown M.S. ’59

In “Breaking New Ground: a Personal History,” Lester Brown M.S. ’59, founder of the Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institutes, traces his life from his childhood on a small farm to his leadership on global environmental issues.

00s

Ryan Spiegel ’00

Ryan Spiegel ’00 has joined the law firm of Paley Rothman as a member of the litigation, commercial transactions and government contracts practice groups. He spent the past decade in the D.C. office of Winston & Strawn, and he graduated from Stanford…

Passings

Joan A. (Adams) Spurrier ’58

Joan A. (Adams) Spurrier ’58, a retired legal secretary and former UMD “Queen of the May,” died of kidney failure Oct. 27 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, according to The Baltimore Sun. The Idlewylde resident was 80. Spurrier was a 1951 graduate of…

10s

Julie Baughman ’12

Julie Baughman ’12 joined the staff of the Independent Record in Helena, Mt., as the cops and courts reporter.

00s

Bradley A. Marcus ’01

Bradley A. Marcus ’01 has been promoted to counsel at the financial services and criminal and civil enforcement law firm BuckleySandler LLP. He received his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2006, where he graduated first in his class.