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Winter 2025

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Salt Life

Take a Home Tour to Learn How We’re Worsening Salinity Around the World

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Freshmen Philanthropists

For 10 Years, iGive Students Have Learned by Awarding Grants to Nonprofits

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Steady Eye on the Target

Hoops Shooters and Sharpshooters Pioneered Terp Women’s Sports a Century Ago

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A ‘Mind-Blowing’ Premiere, 130 Years Later

UMD to Debut Oldest Existing Opera by Black Composer

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A Taste of Adele’s

Panera Opens at Site of Longtime Restaurant—Without the Tin-foil Swans

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Shooting for Success, Fueled by Family

With Passed-Down Perseverance, Shyanne Sellers Eyes Championship Run

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Sports Briefs

Terp Races to NCAA Cross Country Championship; Men’s Lacrosse Defensive Coordinator Earns Top Assistant Coach Honor

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Trailblazing NBA Exec Donates $18M to UMD

Gift From Stephen M. Schanwald ’77 to Endow Sports Management Program

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‘Do Good’ Vibrations

Interactive Exhibit of Giant Rings Aims to Inspire Service

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UMD Climbs to No. 17 Among Public Universities in U.S. News’ Ranking

Record-High Placement Reflects Improvements in Graduation Rates, Student-to-Faculty Ratio, Alums’ Earnings

Class Notes

News on Friends and Classmates

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Troy R. Anderson MBA ’95

Troy R. Anderson MBA ’95 was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Kelly, a global specialty talent solutions provider. Most recently, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Universal Technical…

Passings

Joel Katzin ’60, Ph.D. ’68

Joel Katzin ’60, Ph.D. ’68 of Venice, Fla., died on Dec. 2, 2024, at the age of 87. He was a professor at Florida Technological University (now the University of Central Florida) and later worked as a physicist for the Naval Research Laboratory and as a…
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Passings

Barrett Lee McKown ’57

Barrett Lee McKown ’57 of Edgewater, Md., died on Nov. 25, 2024, at age 89. After majoring in education at UMD, he received his Master of Biological Science degree from American University. McKown began his career teaching biology at Suitland and DuVal…
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Paul C. Barrett ’04

Paul C. Barrett ’04 was named chief financial officer of Cleveland. Most recently, he managed the debt and investment portfolios for the city of Jacksonville. Barrett also brings over 10 years of experience in client service, operations, research,…

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Mindi B. (Pollak) Levin ’98

Mindi B. (Pollak) Levin ’98 received the Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for educational excellence. The award is presented to a member of the faculty annually for…
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Amy Burke Friedman '02

Amy Burke Friedman '02 was named to the Maryland Daily Record 2024 Best Women-Owned Business List. She is the owner and CEO of Profiles LLC, a public relations and marketing firm based in Baltimore. She has been recognized as one of The Baltimore Sun’s…
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Passings

Joanne Ruth Linduska Price ’59

Joanne Ruth Linduska Price ’59 of Lewes, Del., died on Dec. 13, 2024, at age 87. She was a graduate of Laurel High School and earned a degree in elementary education at UMD, where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Price taught kindergarten for…
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Passings

Hugh Robert Kennedy Sr. ’59

Hugh Robert Kennedy Sr. ’59 died on Dec. 14, 2024, at the age of 87. Kennedy was born and raised in Baltimore, and was a track and cross-country star at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before enrolling at the University of Maryland where he majored in…