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Passings

Retired Maj. Gen. Mark V. Rosenker ’69

Retired Maj. Gen. Mark V. Rosenker ’69, a public affairs specialist who served in Republican presidential administrations and led the National Transportation Safety Board, died Sept. 26 at a hospice center in Alexandria, Va. He was 73. Rosenker was born…

Passings

Vernon H. Walker ’50

Vernon H. Walker ’50, a retired Westinghouse Electric Corp. engineer and a World War II veteran, died Sept. 25 of cancer at Brightview Severna Park. The former longtime Catonsville resident was 94. The son of Robert Hamilton Walker and Doris Wagner Walker…

Passings

Betty Faye (Cornblatt) Fink ’54

Betty Faye (Cornblatt) Fink ’54 died Dec. 17 at the age of 88. Fink received her master’s in teaching from Johns Hopkins University. She was a social worker for Social Security and dedicated teacher in Baltimore City schools for nearly 30 years and an…

Passings

Hillyer G. Norment ’51, Ph.D. ’56

Hillyer G. Norment ’51, Ph.D. ’56, an accomplished research scientist and genealogist, died Dec. 20 of pneumonia at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass. He was 92. Born in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 1928, Norment was the son of the late Hillyer G.…

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Robert E. Waltermine Ph.D. ’89

Robert E. Waltermine Ph.D. ’89 was announced senior vice president, chemistry, manufacturing and controls of Venatorx Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he was a senior vice president of product development at Palatin Technologies.

20s

Samy Abisaleh ’20

Samy Abisaleh ’20 is the founder of Oil-O, a startup that takes the hassle out of car maintenance by by sending mechanics to customers.

90s

Carmala Garzione ’94

Carmala Garzione ’94, an associate provost for faculty affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology, received the 2020 William R. Dickinson Medal from the Society of Sedimentary Geology, in recognition of her contributions to orogenic history and…

Passings

Elene Laurie Aiken ’87

Elene Laurie Aiken ’87 died Dec. 20 in Oldsmar, Fla., at age 56. The daughter of Carol and Gil Davis and the late Bernard Samuel Aiken, she graduated from UMD with a degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s in business from the University of…