Winter 2020

Features

Growing Beyond Meat

Features

A Life of Sentences

Campus Life

Oh, the Places You’ll Sniff!

Campus Life

Harry Potter, Shoved Aside

Campus Life

Live From College Park!

Campus Life

Fostering Community

Plans Unveiled for Basketball Performance Center

As the World Turns

Scales of Success

Class Act

Man-to-Man Coverage

Campus Life

Getting the Hall Rolling

Campus Life

News

Campus Life

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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90s

James Benjamin Jr. '94

James Benjamin Jr. '94 is the new Baltimore County attorney. He was previously a member of the Business, Litigation and EMERGE Teams at Gordon Feinblatt LLC. He is a graduate of UMD and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

10s

David Olson '11

David Olson '11 is the new managing director at Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia. Olson previously worked for six years at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where he served as manager of the executive office and board…

Passings

F. Colson “Cole” Taylor '61

F. Colson “Cole” Taylor '61, a Baltimore-area veterinarian for more than three decades, died of complications from Parkinson’s disease on Oct. 31 at the Heron Point of Chestertown retirement community. He was 89. The son of James E. Taylor and the former…

Passings

Frank A. Lovelock Ph.D. '81

Frank A. Lovelock Ph.D. '81 died Sept. 23 after a long battle with ALS. He was 76. Lovelock was born on Aug. 16, 1943, in Newport News, Va., the son of the late Liddelle and Francis Alexander Lovelock Jr. He graduated in 1966 from the University of…

Passings

Paul E. Palmer '64

Paul E. Palmer '64 died Oct. 28 in a car crash in Del Mar, Calif. He was 76. Born Nov. 18, 1942, in York, Pa., Palmer was raised by his grandparents in Howard County, Md. At UMD, he studied broadcasting, worked for the campus station and met his future…

Passings

David P. Seyler '78

David P. Seyler '78 of Kill Devil Hills, N.C., died at his home on Oct. 30 at age 64. He was born on Nov. 25, 1954, in Lock Haven, Pa., and grew up in Clinton, Md. Seyler graduated from Surrattsville High School in Surrattsville, Md. After completing his…

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…

10s

Michael Zilber '15

Michael Zilber '15 joined the law firm Carlton Fields in Miami as a member of the firm’s business litigation practice. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami.