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Winter 2021

Class Notes

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Shaun Bierweiler MBA ’14

Shaun Bierweiler MBA ’14 was appointed senior vice president for public sector at Riverbed. Bierweiler most recently served as president of Cloudera Government Solutions and vice president and general manager of public sector at Cloudera. Bierweiler holds…

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James Melonas ’99

James Melonas ’99 was named head of the U.S. Forest Service in North Carolina, which consists of 1.25 million acres of land. He oversees 200 employees in the new role. Melonas previously served as the forest supervisor for the Santa Fe National Forest in…

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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…

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Betty Valdes MPP ’91

Betty Valdes MPP ’91, who works as Montgomery Municipal Cable, Channel 16, was one of the winners of the 2020 Icon Honors awards, which recognize leaders across Maryland in business, law, politics and nonprofits, who are over the age of 60.

Passings

Craig Donoff ’71

Craig Donoff ’71, a South Florida tax and estate attorney, died at his Miami home on Dec. 26 of lung cancer, four days after turning 71. Donoff was born in Miami and graduated from the University of Maryland with a business degree and from the American…

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Barbara E. Arndt Ph.D. ’79

Barbara E. Arndt Ph.D. ’79 of Westlake, Ohio, died Dec. 8 at age 82. She was the daughter of Lester Timm and Dorothy Schlote of Waterloo, Ontario. She received a B.S. cum laude from UCLA and M.S. from the University of Oklahoma. Her postdoctoral work at…

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Tangere Hoagland M.A. ’14

Tangere Hoagland M.A. ’14 received a fellowship from the American Association of University Women. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in state-sponsored violence/violence against women at the University of Maryland.

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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…