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Winter 2021

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Passings

Dorothy Kauffman Ph.D. ’81

Dorothy Kauffman Ph.D. ’81 died Sept. 25 at age 78 in Selbyville, Del. Born in Chambersburg, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Michael and Sarah Plasterer Detwiler. She was married to Robert Kauffman, who died in 2011. She received her Ph.D. from the…

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John B. Evans ’52

John B. Evans ’52 of Owego, N.Y., died Nov. 26 at age 95. He graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and was immediately drafted to serve his country in World War II, where he earned the Bronze Star. On his return, he went to UMD on the GI Bill and…

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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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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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Nathan Moody ’00, M.S. ’04

Nathan Moody ’00, M.S. ’04, who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was a co-winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2021 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award, for his deep and…

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Lisa Edelman MBA ’09

Lisa Edelman MBA ’09, vice president of marketing at Medifast, was named a 2020 Baltimore Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree.

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Connor Kelly ’13

Connor Kelly ’13 was named director of business development and partnerships at XOi Technologies, providers of a cloud-based mobile application that connects field service contractors with an industry-leading online knowledge base and empowers them to…

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Dorothea “Dorothy” M. Chrismer ’74

Dorothea “Dorothy” M. Chrismer ’74, a longtime University of Maryland employee, died Oct. 5 at age 68. She was born on April 17, 1952, to Carol Dean Shifflett and Elizabeth May (Gussio) Shifflett in Washington, D.C. She was raised in Greenbelt, Md., and…