KEY

A&S	= Arts & Sciences
AGRI	= College of Agriculture
ARCH	= School of Architecture
ARHU	= College of Arts & Humanities
BMGT	= College of Business & Management
BSOS	= College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
CLIS	= College of Library & Information Services
CMPS	= College of Computer, Mathematical, & Physical Sciences
EDUC	= College of Education
ENGR	= College of Engineering
GRAD	= Graduate School
HUEC	= College of Human Ecology
JOUR	= College of Journalism
LFSC	= College of Life Sciences
PERH	= College of Physical Education, Recreation, & Health
PUAF	= School of Public Affairs
UGS	= Undergraduate Studies

OBITUARIES

'51
Charles J. O'Shaughnessy, BMGT, of White Stone, Va., and formerly of Bethesda, Md., died Feb. 15, 2002. A soldier, cowboy and businessman, O'Shaughnessy entered the Marine Corps when he was 17 years old immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He served as a forward observer on Saipan, Tinian, Iwo Jima and the Marianas Islands. After World War II, he graduated from the University of Maryland, spending his summers as a cowboy in Cody, Wy. He was employed as a vice president of the Roger H. Spencer Company in Rockville, Md., and later formed C.J. O'Shaughnessy Inc., a real estate and property management firm, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. O'Shaughnessy is survived by his wife, Patricia Sawyer O'Shaughnessy, a son, four daughters and 17 grandchildren.

'57
Lyndon Sheridan Cox, ENGR, of Chapel Hill, N.C., died Feb. 21, 2002. Cox had a long and distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Defense, from which he retired in 1990. For the past seven years, he had been a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is survived by his wife, Robbie Cox, of Chapel Hill, three children, eight grandchildren and his sister.

'55
Joseph Gonsalves, ENGR, has written a new book, Battle at the 38th Parallel: Surviving the Peace Talks at Panmunjom, published by Hellgate Press. The book is a nonfiction account of battles along the line of contact during the final months of the Korean War. Gonsalves is a combat veteran of the Korean War and is retired after 37 years in the aerospace industry.

'57
Thomas D. Murphy, ENGR, of Morristown, N.J., has been named chairman of ASTM Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics. Murphy's industry experience includes technical management responsibilities at American Cynamid and Hercules. Within the field of chemical engineering and statistics, Murphy has worked on process development, manufacturing, quality control, experiment design and clinical studies.

'60
Bruce Brough, JOUR, has been appointed director of corporate communication at Grey Zone, Inc. Grey Zone provides software to power secure business extranets. Brough was formerly vice president and public relations practice director at Cintara, a full-service branding agency in San Jose, Calif. Brough has been active in the Silicon Valley area since he left Texas Instruments in 1976 to become vice president of public relations for Regis McKenna Inc. Prior to Texas Instruments, he spent eight years with IBM in public relations management.

'67
Ellyn Bache, ARHU, M.A., recently published Holiday Miracles, a heartwarming story for adults about an interfaith family celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah until a child's illness casts doubt on their decisions. The book is based partly on the author's experiences as a Jewish woman married to a Christian man, and the couple's celebration of both Christmas and Hannukah in their home. Bache is best known for her novel, Safe Passage, which was adapted into a screenplay and film starring Susan Sarandon. Bache also was a recipient of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize for her short stories.

Alan Luther, CMPS, Ph.D., was recently awarded the American Physical Society's prestigious Oliver E. Buckley Prize. The prize serves to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics. Luther is a professor at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen.

'68
Francis A. Contino, BMGT, has been inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame of Calvert Hall College High School. Contino is executive vice president and chief financial officer at McCormick & Company Inc. in Sparks, Md. A member of the American Institute and Maryland Association of CPAs, Contino was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland as part of the school's 75th anniversary celebration in 1999. At Calvert Hall, Contino played soccer and was a member of the varsity and spirit clubs. Calvert Hall, a Catholic college prep school for boys, has been run by the Christian Brothers Catholic Order since its founding in 1845.

'72
Kathryn Crockett Lyon, BSOS, of Topsfield, Mass, has joined the Salem law firm of Stern, Keilty & Wall, LLC as an associate. She is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School. Prior to joining Stern, Keilty & Wall, LLC, she worked as an associate for the O'Connor Law Firm in Topsfield, Mass. At Stern, Keilty & Wall, she will specialize in areas of estate planning and elder law.

'73
Michael Chernick, CMPS, was recently named a fellow in the American Statistical Association. His book, Bootstrap Methods: A Practioner's Guide, has sold more than 1,600 copies since its publication by Wiley in 1999. His second book, co-written with Robert Friis on statistics for health science majors, will be published in late 2002 or early 2003.

Janis Judson, BSOS, M.A. '73 and Ph.D. '86, of New Market, Md., was promoted to associate professor of political science at Hood College, where she has served on the faculty since 1984. She is the author of The Landscape of Hate: Law, Media and Culture, published by Peter Lang Press. She has published several articles on constitutional issues in the U.S. Encyclopedia of Affirmative Action as well as presented research papers on the Supreme Court and the First Amendment. Judson is also serving a four-year term on the Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy.

'74
Portia Shields, EDUC, Ph.D., was the 2002 recipient of the College of Education's Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Maryland Alumni Association. Shields is president of Albany State University in Albany, Ga., a position she has held for five years. Before that, she was dean of the School of Education and director of medical and biomedical communications for the College of Medicine at Howard University.

'75
Mary H. Beam, CMPS, was recently named national staff manager for Verizon's Safety, Health and Environment division. As a board-certified industrial hygenist, Beam has responsibility for strategic safety, ergonomics and industrial hygiene initiatives.

Richard Eidlin, BSOS, has joined the board of directors of Solar Works Inc., a full-service renewable energy firm based in Montpelier, Vt. Eidlin serves as the firm's vice president of sales and marketing and is responsible for developing partnerships throughout the Northeast with state agencies, environmental organizations, equipment manufacturers, school districts and utilities interesting in promoting the broader use of solar power and wind turbine systems.

Roger Reitman, BSOS, M.A. '77 and Ph.D. '91, of Frederick, Md., was promoted to professor of sociology at Hood College. Reitman's research has centered on international development and on the impact of macroeconomic policy on culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reitman's work emerged in part from a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Malawi. With the support of a Teagle Foundation Fellowship, Reitman spent part of 1998 as a visiting scholar in the economics department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

'76
Dana K. Kelly, EDUC, will be honored as one of five teachers across the country to be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. Kelly is a language, art and math teacher at Southwest Elementary School in Lakeland, Fla.

'78
David DeCenzo, BSOS, has been named dean of the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration at Coastal Carolina University. DeCenzo moves to Coastal from Towson University, where he was director of partnership development in the college of business and economics since 1999. As a professor of management at Towson, DeCenzo's teaching and research interests involved human resource management, management and organizational behavior. He is the author if numerous textbooks that are used at colleges and universities throughout the United States and the world.

Michael Feldman, LFSC, Ph.D., has been named Magee Professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Feldman joins Jefferson from the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System, where he was Harry S. Tack Professor of Medicine, chief of the division of cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and director of the Cardiovascular Institute of UMPC Health System.

Brian Forsythe, ARHU, was promoted to vice president of underwriting at 1st Mariner Bank. Forsythe will direct the credit division of 1st Mariner Mortgage and will be responsible for setting policy and procedures for the underwriting of conventional, FHA and VA mortgages. Prior to joining 1st Mariner Bank, Forsythe spent four years as an underwriter with United Guaranty Residential Insurance Co.

'79
Patricia Ganey, LFSC, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, received the Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence. The award recognizes her research on inflammatory processes in chemically induced liver injury.

Louis N. Magazzu, BSOS, a partner in the Vineland, N.J., office of Obemeyer, Rebmann Maxwill & Hippel LLP, was the 2002 recipient of the County Leadership Award from the New Jersey Conference of Mayors. The NJCM presents the award to a county official who has demonstrated leadership on a statewide level. Magazzu was credited for his work in building statewide consensus for establishing the site and scope of a $54 million motorsports facility.

Paul R. Murphy, BMGT, M.B.A., Ph.D, '85, professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Logistics at John Carroll University in Cleveland, will receive the school's Distinguished Faculty Award for the 2002 academic year. The Award is presented annually to the faculty member who best demonstrates quality classroom performance, a balanced contribution to scholarship and community service, and dedication to the spirit of Jesuit education. Murphy joined the John Carroll faculty in 1987.

'80
Carolyn Karcher, ARHU, Ph.D., received two teaching awards from Temple University, where she has served on the faculty for 21 years. Karcher is an expert on 19th-century American culture, feminist and abolitionist writing and has dedicated herself to multi-cultural instruction. Karcher received the $15,000 Great Teacher Award, believed to be the largest award given by a college for teaching, and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

'81
Marie Finn, EDUC, Ph.D. '92, associate professor of education, was granted tenure at Hood College in Frederick, Md. A specialist in human development, Finn joined the Hood faculty in 1999 after 10 years at Mount St. Mary's College, where she was director of the master of education program and associate professor of education.

'82
Debra B. Epstein, JOUR, M.A., was appointed vice president and general manager of corporate communications at Canon U.S.A. in Long Island, N.Y. Epstein will oversee public and investor relations, industry analyst relations, events promotion, corporate advertising, corporate branding and philanthropy.

'84
William O. Lewis, ENGR, was promoted to general manager of the Austin Company's Southeast Region office in Alpharetta, Ga. He is responsible for the overall management and business development of the regional office--from preliminary sales, design, estimating and engineering to purchasing, accounting and construction. The Austin Company provides site-location, planning, design, architecture, engineering and construction services to industrial, commercial and governmental clients.

'88
Julia Dolan, LFSC, was named a fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at the organization's annual meeting in February 2002. She was recognized for her significant contributions to the forensic science field, particularly in analyzing evidence related to accelerants used in incendiary fires.

Bijan Siahatgar, BSOS, has been named a partner in the Houston office of the law firm Strasburger & Price, LLP. He is a member of the firm's Admirality & Maritime practice, primarily handling maritime and energy litigation matters. The practice represents land-based and offshore oil and gas companies, drilling contractors, service contractors, stevedores and vessel owners in all types of litigation.

Al Uluatam, BSOS, was named a partner in Sullivan & Worcester, LLP in Boston, working in the areas of bank financing and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Sullivan & Worcester in 1996, Uluatam spent more than two years in Turkey, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, leasing and financing matters. He received his law degree from the Cornell Law School in 1991. He lives in Somerville, Mass., and is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and New York.

'89
Gerald Gems, HHP, Ph.D., professor of health and physical education at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., won the $1,000 Dissinger Prize for faculty scholarship. An expert on ethnicity in sports, Gems is president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History and serves as a book review editor for the Journal of Sport History. Recent journal publications include "Negotiating a Native American Identity through Sport," and "Sport, Colonialism, and the Reconstruction of Nature."

Greg M. Wollard, ENGR, was appointed director of engineering and planning at the Rhode Island Airport Corp., manager of six airports in the New England area. Wollard has worked for the Metro Washington Airports Authority for the past 11 years and has been involved in the growth and development of Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport.

'90
Melanie Berkemeyer, ARHU, M.A., has been named a "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" accredited professional by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is a rating system that promotes an integrated design process to reduce the environmental impact of buildings, while improving indoor environments for building occupants, reducing operating costs, and enhancing building marketability. Berkemeyer is a senior associate and project manager at Cannon Design, which has offices around the country.

Donald Deardorff II, JOUR, M.A., has been promoted to assistant professor of English and granted tenure at Cedarville University in Ohio. He joined the Cedarville faculty in 1996.

Daryn E. Rush, BSOS, was named partner of White and William, LLP in Philadelphia. Rush practices in the commercial litigation department and the reinsurance and insurance fraud practice groups. He is admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Supreme Court Bars, as well as the United States District Court for the districts of New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Stanley W. Wiles, ENGR, was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy and reported for duty with the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Five in Port Hueneme, Calif.

'93
David Irish, BMGT, was promoted to vice president at the Frost Miller Group in Bethesda, Md. Irish, who has worked at Frost Miller Group since 1997, was previously director of Web development. In his new position, Irish will continue to direct Frost Miller Group's Web services, but will also help with overall management of the marketing communications firm.

Richard E. Link, ENGR, Ph.D., M.S. '84, B.S. '83, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the United States Naval Academy, has received a 2002 ASTM Award of Merit and the title of Fellow in the society. He received the award for his distinguished and sustained contributions in the areas of fatigue and fracture. Link also serves on the ASTM Committee on Publications and as an associate editor of the Journal of Testing and Evaluation.

Hua O. Wang, ENGR, Ph.D., has been appointed associate professor at Boston University's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, beginning fall 2002. He is currently assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University and is also program director for systems and control at the Army Research Office in Durham, N.C.

'94
Judith Allen Krajnak, ARCH, M.A., has been awarded a Ph.D. in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation focused on health care policy in Illinois. Kragnak is the director of research and evaluation at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Larry Parker, JOUR, was appointed government affairs director for the New Jersey Apartment Association, which represents the owners and suppliers of 120,000 apartments throughout the state. Parker lobbies the state legislature on issues regarding affordable housing in the state, as well as overseeing the group's political action committee. Parker worked from 1994 to 1995 as a political reporter for the South Jersey bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

'95
Helena Elizabeth Cole, EDUC, M.A., was promoted to assistant dean of students for residence life and judicial affairs at Hood College. She oversees all aspects of residence life, including coordinating comprehensive programming, special populations and overseeing hall activities. Cole joined Hood in 1998 as the director of residence life. Previously she was residence director in the Office of Housing and Residence Life at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

'96
Barbara Lovitts, BSOS, Ph.D, has written a new book, Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departures from Doctoral Study, an analysis of the structure and process of graduate education. The book, published by Rowman & Littlefield, identifies the root causes of attrition among graduate schools and examines the social structure and cultural organization of graduate education. Lovitts is a senior research analyst at the Pelavin Research Center of the American Institutes for Research.

'97
Eric Johnson, LFSC, graduated from basic officer training in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps. NOAA Corps officers manage and operate the agency's fleet of ships and aircraft used to gather data and conduct environmental science research. Johnson will be serving aboard the Oregon II, a side trawler that conducts fishery and livng marine resource research.

Kenneth S. Ulman, BSOS, an estate planning attorney with the law firm Hodes, Ulman, Pessin and Katz, P.A., has been appointed by the Maryland General Assembly to the Governor's nine-member Procurement Advisory Council. The council provides a forum for discussion of procurement issues and problems in the state of Maryland, advising the board on the procurement process and making recommendations or improving state procurements.

Tammy Mank Wincup, PUAF, M.P.M., has accepted a political appointment at the U.S. Department of State as a special assistant to the chief financial officer and assistant secretary of resource management. She will be responsible for evaluating and proposing policy changes on resource formulation and financial systems development. She also will work with the assistant secretary to coordinate resource spending across government agencies to properly reflect the administration's foreign policy priorities.

'99
Adejumoke Oladokun, BSOS, earned a law degree from Ohio Northern University.

'01
Stephanie M. Cox, ARHU, has been named campus relations manager of Vector Marketing's Eastern Region division based in Plano, Texas. Cox joined Vector as a Baltimore-based sales representative in May 1998 and was quickly promoted to field sales manager. She won a Vector All-American Scholarship in 1998, an award given to full-time sales reps who are also full-time college students. She has passed her $100,000 personal sales milestone and has been a six-time winner of the company's President's Club award for outstanding sales achievement.

Veronica M. Duron, BMGT, recently received her commission and rank of ensign in the U.S. Navy after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, in Pensacola, Fla.

Brian M. Koczan, ARCH, has been named to the professional staff of the architectural firm of Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects. Koczan, of Manasquan, N.J., is serving on a design team for the Circle Houses, student dormitories at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J.

David A. Mack, BMGT, recently received his commission and rank of ensign in the U.S. Navy after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, Pennsacola, Fla.

Taylor F. Rempe, ARHU, a U.S. Navy ensign, recently returned from a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf while assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage. Rempe was one of more than 10,000 Atlantic Fleet sailors and marines aboard the ships involved in Operation Enduring Freedom.

Michael B. Sarich, PUAF, M.P.M., was elected last March to the Laurel City Council in Laurel, Md. Sarich is the owner of McHale Aquatics, a pool management and lifeguard training company in Laurel. During his two-year term on the council, Sarich will represent a constituency of more than 10,000 residents. He has lived in Laurel for 23 years.

Andrew Smarick, PUAF, M.P.M., is a legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md., specializing in issues related to education, tax policy and social security, banking, welfare and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Gilchrest represents Maryland's 1st Congressional District, including much of the Chesapeake Bay region.

'02
Thomas Vossen, BMGT, Ph.D., has been appointed assistant professor of business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at Maryland, Vossen was affiliated with the A. James Clark School of Engineering's Institute for Systems Research. His appointment at Colorado will be within the Systems Division of the Leeds School of Business.