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Winter 2020

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Colleen Vacelet '02

Colleen Vacelet '02 was one of Baltimore Business Journal’s 2019 40 Under 40 honorees. She is president of Intreegue Design Landscape Architecture.

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Trina Lawrence '95

Trina Lawrence '95 was promoted to director, business development for Navy systems and services at SRC. Most recently, she served as director, counter-UAS business development. She holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Johns Hopkins…

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Rajeev Mehta '87

Rajeev Mehta '87 joined the board of directors of Qualitest, the world's largest independent quality assurance and engineering company. Mehta most recently served as president of Cognizant. He has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

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…

Passings

Brenda L. Holmes '68

Brenda L. Holmes '68 died Nov. 17 at the age of 76. Holmes grew up boating on the Chesapeake Bay, and spent many happy summers water skiing, sailing and crabbing. Holmes began her career as a home economics teacher, and later became a part-time real…

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Mike Aziz '03

Mike Aziz '03 AIA, LEED AP was elevated to partner at Cooper Robertson. He is an expert on large-scale planning efforts, smart city strategies and waterfront revitalization. Aziz serves on several advisory groups focused on waterfront planning, water…

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Joseph Rothleutner '10

Joseph Rothleutner '10 is the new director of horticulture and facilities at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. He previously served as the director of horticulture at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Under his tenure, the zoo achieved accreditation as an…

Passings

William Francis Pressly M.Ed. '58

William Francis Pressly M.Ed. '58 of Valle Crucis, N.C., died Nov. 16 at age 87. Francis Pressly was born to William Morrison and Eula Bailey Pressly on his father's dairy farm outside Stony Point, N.C., on Nov. 24, 1931. He graduated from Scott's High…