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Winter 2021

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Alice May Burton Robinson MLS ’72

Alice May Burton Robinson MLS ’72 died Dec. 2. She was born on July 15, 1938, to Mack Burton and Virgie Thornton in Rougemont. Robinson was preceded in death by her parents and siblings, Beatrice Burton Hawley and Mack Burton Jr. She is survived by her…

Passings

Wallace K. “Wally” Pond Ph.D. ’73

Wallace K. “Wally” Pond Ph.D. ’73 died Nov. 5 at age 83. Born in Boise, Idaho, on Jan. 19, 1937, to Wallace and Lucielle Matthews Pond, he graduated from Boise High School in 1955 and remained friends with many of his classmates. Pond attended Boise…

80s

Kathleen Neuzil ’83

Kathleen Neuzil ’83, director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, was named one of The Baltimore Sun’s 2020 co-Marylanders of the Year: The other was the thousands of men and women who make…

Passings

Barbara A. Neumann ’50

Barbara A. Neumann ’50 of Smithsburg, Md., died peacefully at Elmcroft Assisted Living at age 97. Born in Toronto, Canada, she was the daughter of the late Frank Burgess and Mabel Black Tanner of Oberlin, Ohio. Following graduation from high school in…

90s

Susan Ferensic ’91

Susan Ferensic ’91 was named FBI special agent in charge of the Columbia Field Office in South Carolina. Ferensic began her career with the FBI as a computer forensic examiner in 1997 and was selected as a special agent in 2000.

Passings

Fred Wright Hopkins Jr. M.Ed. ’64, Ph.D. ’69

Fred Wright Hopkins Jr. M.Ed. ’64, Ph.D. ’69, a longtime resident of Linthicum, Md., died Dec. 21 at Glen Burnie Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Staten Island, N.Y., on Nov. 19, 1935, to the late Fred W. Hopkins Sr. and Margaret Helena…

10s

Sarah Brown ’12

Sarah Brown ’12 was named one of The Daily Record’s 2020 Leading Women honorees. The awards recognize women under the age of 40 for career accomplishments. Brown is an associate at Hillman, Brown & Darrow, P.A.

70s

Neil H. Katz Ph.D. ’74

Neil H. Katz Ph.D. ’74 recently received two prestigious awards in his field: the Distinguished Faculty of the Year Award from the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University, and the William Kriedler Award for…