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Winter 2021

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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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…

Passings

Ann Gibson Sloan ’58

Ann Gibson Sloan ’58 of Charleston, S.C., died Oct. 30 at age 84. Born in Cumberland, Md., she loved story time with her grandfather, as well as dancing. At UMD, Sloan majored in home economics, continued dancing, was active in Alpha Gamma Delta sorority…

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Anthony Sartori ’18

Anthony Sartori ’18 was named to DC Inno’s 2020 25 Under 25. He is the founder of Evolving Minds, a mental health nonprofit launched in 2019. The nonprofit’s eight-week professional development program, which aims to improve psychological well-being and…

Passings

Norma L. Reeves ’62

Norma L. Reeves ’62 died Nov. 27 at her Street, Md., home. She was 81. Born in Forest Hill, Md., to Norman Phillip and Catherine Charlotte (Clark) Robinson of Bel Air, she attended Bel Air High School and UMD, where she received a degree in clothing and…

Passings

Carl V. Dreisbach Jr. M.Ed. ’68

Carl V. Dreisbach Jr. M.Ed. ’68 of Elizabethtown, Pa., died Nov. 1 at age 98. He was the eldest child born to Carl Valentine Dreisbach Sr. and Ethel Trout Dreisbach in York, Pa. Dreisbach graduated from William Penn Sr. High then served with the 83rd and…

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Kimberly Wilson ’09

Kimberly Wilson ’09 was one of 76 recipients nationwide awarded funds from the Google for Startups’ Black Founders Fund. Her D.C.-based startup, HUED, connects Black and Latino patients with culturally competent health care providers.

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Scott A. Hughes '04

Scott A. Hughes '04 was recently promoted to counsel at global law firm Hogan Lovells. He works in the Intellectual Property, Media and Technology group in the Washington, D.C. office.

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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…