at Bethesda, after an incredible 13-year battle with leiomyosarcoma, a rare smooth muscle cancer in his leg. Andrew was commissioned into the Maryland National Guard as a lieutenant. Subsequently, Andrew moved onto active duty with the U.S. Army, where he rose to the rank of major and was military intelligence officer. Andrew was medically retired from the Army in 2002, after which he joined Booz Allen Hamilton for a short time. He was a gifted leader and speaker. He recently was the recipient in 2012 of the Civilian of the Quarter and Civilian of the Year awards. Andrew left behind his wife Deborah, two children, Hayden, 10, and Juliet, 8. He loved attending their sporting events and musical performances. Jamie Alban is the president at Alban Tractor in Baltimore. Felipe Albuquerque is a neurosurgeon in Phoenix, Ariz., where he lives with his wife. The westerly winds brought some long-time California residents closer to “home.” David Brecher and his wife recently resettled in Baltimore after a long stint in California where he worked as general counsel to a few companies and was involved with a number of start-ups. He now has a son at Gilman and two daughters at Bryn Mawr. Lee Sterne told me that he “started working at Fidelity investments in Merrimack, N.H., in November. Family is moving out this summer. We will be living in Lexington, Mass. Only five days skiing this year. In Whistler at Christmas.” Timothy Carroll was recently promoted to global director, research and technical computing at Dell. George Cassels-Smith lives in Glyndon and is president/CEO of Tobacco Technology in Eldersburg. John Clarke is one of many of our classmates that makes his home in Connecticut and commutes into N.Y.C. John is a lawyer with one of the nation’s largest law firms, DLA Piper. Both Joel Cohn and Rob DeMuth work in wealth management in Baltimore with MorganStanley SmithBarney and both remain very physically active: Joel running half marathons and Rob continuing to ski despite his aging joints. David Cosby moved to Ojai, Calif., with his wife to take a music teaching position. Despite leaving Fairfax, his band still carries the name D.C. Experience, a dynamic group that plays a wide range of grooves and styles from Stevie Wonder and Sting. He encourages his classmates to like his Facebook page. Ronald Creamer is a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in N.Y.C. Mackie Cromwell, no relation to the law firm Ron works at, lives in Roland Park and works at the Forest Park Golf Course. Max Curran is still an energy lawyer and partner at Saul Ewing, a Mid-Atlantic business law firm. He successfully tried a case last year before the Maryland Public Service Commission to merge Constellation Energy and Exelon Corp. Daughter Maeve, 13, will be a freshman next year at Bryn Mawr and daughter Dacey, 12, is going into seventh grade at Calvert School. Max was recently elected to the board of directors of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.
Max reminded us: “And of course I’m going to be a Dancing Star at this year’s Alzheimer’s Association Memory Ball, which raises awareness and funds to fight Alzheimer’s disease. I need a lot of votes to top Tony Foreman’s win last year.” Tony Dahbura is the technical director, mobile applications at TASC in Centreville, Va. John-William DeClaris reports that he relatively recently migrated to the civil service area and is a branch chief at the Food and Drug Administration, responsible for the processing of post-market adverse event reports for medical devices and radiological devices. “I love my job and the opportunities it brings.” He also spent two weeks in Russia in October 2012 touring Moscow and St. Petersburg via a river cruise. “It was an amazing trip and I would do it again in a heartbeat.” Jose DeLeon lives in Towson and works as accountant with T. Rowe Price. Willie Deveas is the principal at Deveas Family Dentistry, living in Towson. Michael Eng is a doctor in Portland, Maine, and recently moved to a great old farm house. He continues to enjoy outdoor activities in New England, both skiing and sea kayaking. “Still working and still single,” he e-mails. “Moved to a cabin on the lake all summer, and that was awesome. So restful and good for the soul. Skiing a ton thru the long Maine winter. Raising a horde of chinchillas in my basement. Became a notary public, and I’ve married two couples in the last two years. Was teaching yoga dance for a while, and I’m hoping it’ll restart again soon. It’s all so random . . . I can’t figure out what is the common thread.” Charles “Griff” Evans is a vice president at ER&M, Ecological Restoration and Management. He makes his home in Chester, Md. Wayne Farley lives in Reisterstown, Md., and is a principal with The Roland Park Company, a real estate company. Alan Fleischmann continues to work globally and give speeches about leadership, strategy, communication, entrepreneurship and free trade. His ImagineNations Group focuses a lot in Africa and in the emerging markets and enables entrepreneurs to connect to other entrepreneurs, mentors and sources of financial capital. And as principal and managing board member of the global strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group, he focuses a lot on Latin America, and the firm now works in over 80 countries. Through White House presidential appointments, he serves on the International Trade Advisory Commission (ITAC) and on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He just recently joined the board of the Atlantic Council — and is in Baltimore often as a board member of the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, Shock Trauma and the University of Maryland Medical System — and to see his Dad and spend time with my kids. Alan and Dafna live in Chevy Chase with their two girls, Laura Julia, 8, and Natalia, 6. Congrats to Tony Foreman on several fronts: he was recently married, opened another restaurant in Roland Park (Johnny’s) and his Charleston restaurant was picked as one of top in the nation. Gino Freeman works in internal medicine and lives downtown.
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