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Class Notes

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Passings

John D. Corun ’72

John D. Corun ’72 of Hagerstown, Md. died Nov. 29. He was 73. He was the husband of Nancy Dronebrug Corun. Born in Waynesboro, Pa., he was the son of the late D. Melvin and Edith L. Kite Corun. After earning an economics degree at UMD, Corun worked at the…

80s

Paul Thompson ’87

Paul Thompson ’87 was added to the board of Carsins Run at Eva Mar, Harford County’s first continuing care retirement community. Thompson is president and director of Architectural Design Works.

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…

10s

Jay Turakhia ’11

Jay Turakhia ’11, the greater Baltimore market president of Truist Financial Corp., was named to The Baltimore Sun’s 40 Under 40.

Passings

John R. "Jay" McKenna Jr. ’70

John R. "Jay" McKenna Jr. ’70 of Annapolis, Md., a former development specialist at the World Bank and Green Beret, died Nov. 5. McKenna was born in 1944, in Oakland, Calif., where his parents, Lt. Cmdr. John R. McKenna and Mary C. McKenna, were stationed…

Passings

Brewster Chamberlin ’66, Ph.D. ’72

Brewster Chamberlin ’66, Ph.D. ’72, a writer and historian, died at the age of 81 on Nov. 12 in Key West, Fla., his home since 2001. After completing work on a Ph.D. in modern European history, Chamberlin became known for the seminal German-American…

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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Lynne Bratten ’73

Lynne Bratten ’73 was recognized by The Daily Record as one of the 2020 Top 100 Women in Maryland. She is the owner of Bratten Rentals and Bratten Properties and spent 37 years in public education as a teacher, counselor and administrator.