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Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Ethan Zweig ’07

Ethan Zweig ’07 received the 2020 Daily Record Excellence in Construction Award-Project Manager. Zweig is the director of project management at Tradepoint Atlantic, where he promotes constructive collaboration among project stakeholders to deliver…

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Helen Lee ’13

Helen Lee ’13 was named to the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce 40 under 40 for 2020. She is environmental program manager at the city of Alexandria’s Department of Transportation and Environmental Services. She manages the city’s recycling division and is…

Passings

Helen Myatt Ferguson Ph.D. ’80

Helen Myatt Ferguson Ph.D. ’80, a resident of Falcons Landing in Potomac Falls, Va., died Dec. 9 at age 95, according to The Baltimore Sun. She was born in Missouri and raised in Hickory Grove, S.C. She graduated from high school at age 16 and…

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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…

Passings

Mildred F. “Mitzi” Swan ’51

Mildred F. “Mitzi” Swan ’51, who participated in the historic 1948 desegregation of Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park tennis courts, died Sept. 12 at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson, according to The Baltimore Sun. She was 90. The former Mildred…

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Jackie Nowicki M.P.P. ’99

Jackie Nowicki M.P.P. ’99 was appointed to the board of directors of the New London Barn Playhouse. Nowicki is a director in the U.S. Government Accountability Office and has more than 25 years of experience in policy and budget analysis, grants…

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Sophia MacDonald ’99

Sophia MacDonald ’99 joined Xometry, the largest U.S. marketplace for custom manufacturing, as chief people officer. She came from Cvent, where she was senior vice president of human resources and grew the employee base from 120 to nearly 4,000. MacDonald…

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Robert (Bob) Cummings ’63

Robert (Bob) Cummings ’63 died at his Hertford, N.C., home Nov. 5 after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 82. Bob was born in Baltimore to Bill and Helen Henry Cummings and attended Patterson Park High School and UMD. There he played lacrosse and…