Winter 2021

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A Walk Through Dior’s Gardens—and His Psyche

Class Act

Beauty, Conscious

Post-Grad

Class Notes

Campus Life

Recovering a Fumble in Hiring Practices

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The Big Question

Class Act

Alumni Association News

Features

Blown Away

Features

Keeping an Eye on the Universe

Features

Trigger Guard

Crossing the boundaries between academia and the streets, Professor Joseph Richardson Jr. seeks to find a way out of trauma for young Black men.

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Shaun Bierweiler MBA ’14

Shaun Bierweiler MBA ’14 was appointed senior vice president for public sector at Riverbed. Bierweiler most recently served as president of Cloudera Government Solutions and vice president and general manager of public sector at Cloudera. Bierweiler holds…

90s

Ken Sharp ’93

Ken Sharp ’93 was appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer of DXC Technology. He will be responsible for DXC’s global financial strategy and reporting, general accounting, controllership and investor relations.

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Joseph Amato ’84

Joseph Amato ’84 was appointed executive vice president and senior financial officer of The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He previously served as chief financial officer at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines.

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.…

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

Kenneth “Terry” Terrell Ellington ’70

Kenneth “Terry” Terrell Ellington ’70 of Bowie, Md, died Dec. 2 at age 76. He was born Nov. 12, 1944 to Kenneth, Sr. and Lucille. After graduating from UMD with a bachelor’s degree in business and public administration, he worked for the National Oceanic…

Passings

Dr. Homer Lee Twigg Jr. ’47

Dr. Homer Lee Twigg Jr. ’47 of Twiggtown, died Nov. 24. Twigg was born in 1926 in Westminster to Homer L. Twigg Sr. and Henrietta (Roop) Twigg, and spent his childhood in nearby Hampstead. After graduating from Hampstead High School, he served in the Army…

Passings

Elene Laurie Aiken ’87

Elene Laurie Aiken ’87 died Dec. 20 in Oldsmar, Fla., at age 56. The daughter of Carol and Gil Davis and the late Bernard Samuel Aiken, she graduated from UMD with a degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s in business from the University of…