KEVIN SHEA ’76 has been appointed administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service after serving as acting administrator since June 2012. He has spent more than 20 years at the agency. He earned a law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Baltimore.
TERRENCE SCHOFIELD ’82 and Christine Chum-
bler exchanged wedding vows June 29 at their home on the banks of the Little Applegate River in Jacksonville, Ore. He is affiliated with Resilient Systems. In Less Than a Minute to Go: The Secret to World-class Performance in Sport, Business and Everyday Life, BILL THIERFELDER ’82 reveals the secrets
to becoming a worldclass performer, making peak performance a common occurrence and playing with
passion. A former AllAmerican track star at Maryland, he is a licensed psychologist, president of Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C., and the father of 10 children. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) inducted MEL WAGNER ’82 into its Hall of Fame. He is employed part-time by TRIAM LLC in Sterling, Va., and was honored for his leadership role in the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (CJMTK) for geo-processing and visualization in the Department of Defense. Wagner’s career spanned 37 years as a government employee with NGA, and an additional 10 years supporting the CJMTK program as a contractor for NGA. Baltimore City Circuit JUDGE W. MICHEL PIERSON ’70 has been named administrative judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit (Baltimore), effective Dec. 1. Pierson was appointed to the Circuit Court for Baltimore in 2004, and has been judgein-charge of the civil docket since 2009, and a judge in the court’s Business and Technology Program since 2008. He earned his J.D. with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law and is an adjunct faculty member there.
Passings Amy Friedheim M.A. ’89, a specialist in international tax, finance and transfer pricing, died July 22 in a San Francisco hospice after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 53. Born in Seattle, she later moved to Reston, VA., graduated from Herndon High School, then University of Southern California and served in the Peace Corps in Lesotho. She earned a master’s in economics from Maryland, specializing in international trade and finance and public choice. Friedheim held managerial, investigational and analytic positions in several government agencies, including the Government Accountability Office, the Senate Finance Committee and the Department of the Treasury, where she was with the Competent Authority when she died. She also worked at private companies such as Intel and GE Capital. An inveterate traveler, she also loved soccer, skiing, scuba diving and kayaking, as well as music, books and public radio. Survivors include her mother, Robin Friedheim of Carlsbad, Calif., and a sister. Bruce Rawlings ’81 died Aug. 23 at Med Star Montgomery Hospital. He was 54. Born in Olney, Md., Rawlings graduated from Gaithersburg High School and worked for a Maryland C.P.A. firm until 1987. He then moved to New Hampshire, where he became corporate controller and an information technology specialist. Rawlings was an avid sports enthusiast and a New Hampshire Class A racquetball champion. He is survived by his parents, J. Daniel and Sally B. Rawlings, of Laytonsville, Md. He also leaves behind his former wife, Dyann Hall Rawlings, and four brothers, Kevin, Brian, Dana and Dale Rawlings.
Patricia M. (Clements) Graham M.A ’73, a former high school English teacher who spent most of her career at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, died Aug. 1 at her home in Medford, Ore., according to The Washington Post. She was 79 and had congestive heart failure. She graduated from Eastern High School in 1950 and from the University of Hawaii in 1969. She received a master’s degree in special studies from George Washington University in 1979. At Northwestern High, Graham helped develop an Advanced Placement English program, coordinated an interdisciplinary program for talented and gifted students and helped sponsor a National Honor Society chapter. In 1980, she received one of 15 Outstanding Educator awards from the Prince George’s school system. She received grants and fellowships for professional study at the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. She retired in 1999 after 30 years in the Prince George’s public school system and moved to Oregon in 2005. Her marriage to retired Air Force Maj. John S. Graham ended in divorce. Survivors include two daughters, Jill L. Graham of Ashland, Ore., and Robyn L. Graham of Rockville, and four grandchildren. John Allen Hawkins D.M.A. ’80 died May 9 following a two-month bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 61. Hawkins earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from West Virginia University. He moved to Keyser, W.Va., in 1979 to work at Potomac State College, where he taught music appreciation, music theory, great composers and jazz history for 34 years. A piano player, he organized and performed with the Potomac State Jazz Singers as well as with the Potomac State College Community Band and as a solo pianist and as part of a trio or quartet at FALL 2013 TERP 39