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Class Notes

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90s

Anirma Gupta ’90

Anirma Gupta ’90 was appointed senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Carbon, a leading 3D printing technology company. Gupta was most recently at Tanium, a cybersecurity and systems management software company, where she built…

Passings

J. Richard Lewis Ph.D. ’75

J. Richard Lewis Ph.D. ’75 died Nov. 11. He was born on Feb. 29, 1936, to Sirmon Green Lewis and Mary Myrtle Gregory in Camilla, Ga., and the family settled in Bagdad, Fla., before World War II. He graduated from Milton High School, Mercer University and…

Passings

James “Jim” Erwin Christensen ’70

James “Jim” Erwin Christensen ’70 of Greeneville, Tenn., died Oct. 12 at age 79. Christensen was born on Aug. 15, 1941. He spent 30 years working in UMD’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions, first as an admissions counselor, then assistant and associate…

10s

Emily Arneson ’11

Emily Arneson ’11 was named to The Daily Record’s 2020 Leading Women honorees. The award recognizes women who are 40 or younger for their career accomplishments. Arneson is the director of government relations at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Passings

John L. Whaley M.A. ’90

John L. Whaley M.A. ’90 died in Wilmington, N.C., due to complications from COVID-19. He was 83. He played football and was team co-captain at High Point High School, graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was accepted into the…

Passings

Miriam Gershfeld MLS ’87

Miriam Gershfeld MLS ’87 died on Oct. 18 due to complications from COVID-19. She was 89. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Gershfeld was an only child. The family moved to Scranton, Pa., and Baltimore before eventually arriving in Atlantic City, N.J. Gershfeld…

00s

Lyndon Brown ’04

Lyndon Brown ’04 was appointed chief strategy officer of Pondurance, an organization that provides managed detection and response services. Previously, Brown served as vice president of business development at FireEye Mandiant, where he focused on…

00s

Alison Stine MFA ’02

“Road Out of Winter,” the debut novel by Alison Stine MFA ’02, was published by MIRA Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in the fall. The book, about a young woman farmer in southeastern Ohio who must protect her found family, received starred reviews…