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Winter 2021

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Ronald E. Doherty ’71

Ronald E. Doherty ’71 of Edgewater, Md., died Dec. 23 at age 77. He was the son of the late Clarence Doherty and Jean M. Doherty (Koenig) and was a graduate of Catonsville High School. Doherty served in the U.S. Army from 1964-68 in Korea and Germany.…

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Alec Roskowinski ’15

Alec Roskowinski ’15, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, is the first graduate of the University of Maryland to serve as an officer in the U.S. Space Force. Roskowinski joined the U.S. Air Force as a space operations officer in 2017 and transferred…

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Douglas S. Mintz ’95

Douglas S. Mintz ’95 was named a partner and co-chair of the business reorganization group at Schulte Roth & Zabel, a law firm serving the financial services industry. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Passings

Charles Brosius Thomas ’57

Charles Brosius Thomas ’57 died Dec. 7 at York Hospital in Pennsylvania. He was 85. Born in Frederick, Md., Thomas graduated from Frederick High School, then from UMD, where he studied marketing. He spent two years with the U.S. Army Artillery as a…

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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…

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James Wink ’98

James Wink ’98 was named vice president and managing principal of Huitt-Zollars’ National Capital Region office. He has three decades of experience and expertise supporting federal, municipal and private sector clients with facilities, infrastructure and…

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Audrey Awasom ’18

Audrey Awasom ’18 was named to DC Inno’s 2020 25 Under 25. She is the founder and CEO of Noble Uprising, a nonprofit that helps provide job opportunities and readiness training to women experiencing homelessness and unemployment.

Passings

Margaret J. “Maggie” Cisar ’59

Margaret J. “Maggie” Cisar ’59 of Sabillasville, Md., died Nov. 13 at age 83 of Alzheimer’s disease. She was born in 1937 to Margaret Mathis and Paul Mathis. Cisar graduated from the Margaret Brent School in Mechanicsville, Md., in 1955. She taught at…