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Winter 2021

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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70s

Wendy Johnson ’74

Wendy Johnson ’74 was added to the board of directors of Exagen, an organization dedicated to transforming the care continuum for patients suffering from autoimmune diseases. She is currently the chief operating officer of Reneo Pharmaceuticals, where she…

Passings

John R. "Jay" McKenna Jr. ’70

John R. "Jay" McKenna Jr. ’70 of Annapolis, Md., a former development specialist at the World Bank and Green Beret, died Nov. 5. McKenna was born in 1944, in Oakland, Calif., where his parents, Lt. Cmdr. John R. McKenna and Mary C. McKenna, were stationed…

Passings

Gordon Howard Lester Jr. ’69

Gordon Howard Lester Jr. ’69 died Dec. 11 after a 15-year battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He was born on Nov. 27, 1946, to Dorothea Joachim Lester and Gordon Howard Lester Sr. and grew up in Takoma Park, Md. Lester graduated from High Point…

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

Nancy Gray Waller ’53

Nancy Gray Waller ’53, a retired Baltimore County Public Schools kindergarten teacher, died of COVID-19 on Dec. 8 at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home in Hunt Valley, according to The Baltimore Sun. She was 89. The daughter of Dr. James King Gray…

Passings

Raymond E. Spaulding Ed.D. ’71

Raymond E. Spaulding Ed.D. ’71 of Radford, Va., died Sept. 16 at the age of 80. Upon graduating from Guilford College, he taught mathematics in Dundalk, Md. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and taught at Radford University. In…

Passings

Eugene “Gene” L. Kibbe Jr. ’56

Eugene “Gene” L. Kibbe Jr. ’56 died in Towson, Md., Nov. 9 at age 87. Born in Philadelphia to Mary and Eugene L. Kibbe Sr., he attended Polytechnic Institute and graduated from Towson High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration…

Passings

John “Jack” T. Schofield ’66

John “Jack” T. Schofield ’66 died Oct. 15 in Annapolis, Md., two weeks shy of his 77th birthday. Born on Oct. 27, 1943, he was the son of Mary and John T. Schofield Sr. Jack was a standout athlete from a young age, playing football for the Annapolis…