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Class Notes

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90s

Karen Pallotta MBA '90

Karen Pallotta MBA '90 was appointed to the board of directors of Stewart Information Services. She retired in 2011 from Fannie Mae as executive vice president, single-family mortgage business. Pallotta most recently served as president of KRP Advisory…

10s

Stephen M. Underhill Ph.D. '12

Stephen M. Underhill Ph.D. '12, associate professor of communication studies at Marshall University, published his dissertation as a book with Michigan State University Press, "The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the…

Passings

Richard T. Bracken '61

Richard T. Bracken '61, a retired sales and marketing executive, died Oct. 17 of complications from dementia at St. Elizabeth Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Baltimore. The longtime Catonsville resident was 84. He was born to Thomas Bracken, a…

Passings

Robert P. Ernst '82

Robert P. Ernst '82 died Nov. 9 at age 59. Ernst was born on June 27, 1960, in Cheverly, Md., to George and Lillian (Gaither) Ernst. He met his future wife, Tracey, in band class at Beltsville Junior High School, and graduated from High Point High School.…

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Jaimee Holmes '07

Jaimee Holmes '07 was a recipient of the Daily Record 2019 Leading Women Award. She is a lawyer in private practice. Prior to opening her own practice, Holmes interned in the Charles County Office of the Public Defender.

Passings

Oliver Slater “Ollie” Travers Jr. '49

Oliver Slater “Ollie” Travers Jr. '49, a business executive whose holdings included wheelbarrow manufacturing and who co-founded a charitable foundation to aid Baltimore’s poor and other causes, died of leukemia Oct. 23 at Gilchrist Hospice Towson. He was…

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Jennifer Christman '95

Jennifer Christman '95 married Brian Cia on Nov. 9 at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock, Ark. Christman is associate editor for Arkansas Living, a magazine for the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas.

Passings

John P. Spicer M.Ed. '62

John P. Spicer M.Ed. '62, of Waldorf, Md., formerly of Forestville, died Oct. 18 at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in Charlotte Hall, Md. He was 89. Born on April 7, 1930, to Mary Agnes Murphy Spicer and Benjamin Franklin Spicer, he was raised in…