staff to Montgomery County Council member Nancy Floreen in 2008, a position Lord relinquished due to health issues. She is survived by her husband, Jonathan Shurberg; sons Eli and Ethan; her parents, Hodge E. Lord and Bonnie O’Neal Lord; and siblings Brenda, Jennifer and Kent Lord. Edward Lawrence Sealover ’0, who served as a manager for cities and counties in seven states, died of cancer July 15 at his home in Fernandina Beach, Fla. He was 64. The Dundalk, Md., native played on the Terps lacrosse team and was president of the university’s chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity. He went on to earn a master’s degree in American government, public administration and public law from the University of Texas-Austin in 1971. His career included working for the Maryland Department of Legislative Services, Department of General Services and the Maryland Association of Counties, and serving as a county administrator or manager in Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Florida. He is survived by his wife, Bleecker Sealover; his son, Ed Sealover Jr.; his stepdaughter, Bleecker Elizabeth Hawkins; his mother, Lorraine Sealover; his brother, Michael Sealover; and his sister, Kimberly Sealover. He was preceded in death by his father, Edward Harrison Sealover. Tom Green ’, M.A. ’9, an acclaimed artist and longtime teacher at Washington’s Corcoran College of Art and Design, died Sept. 3 at his home in Cabin John, Va. He was 70 and had been suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, according to The Washington Post. Green was known for his large paintings of colorful “glyphs”—curving figures that resemble letters from a mysterious alphabet. His work was exhibited at the Corcoran and in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Guggenheim Museum. He taught at the Corcoran 42 TeRp fALL 2012
for 40 years. Green’s first marriage, to artist Cynthia Bickley, ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife, Linda Green; stepdaughter, Kathryn Wichmann; and two sisters. D. Patrick Dalton ’ of Orlando, died July 31 at Health Central Park in Winter Garden, Fla. He was 70. He received his law degree from the University of Miami and opened a private practice in 1976 in West Virginia, where he was also a fiduciary commissioner, worker's compensation hearing examiner, municipal court judge and family law judge. He began law practice with Legal Services in Ocala, Fla., in 1991, specializing in representing victims of civil domestic violence. He then practiced with the firm of Trow, Appleget & Perry for five years prior to becoming the child support hearing officer in 2004 for the Fifth Circuit. That year, he received the Richard D. Custureri Pro Bono Service award, then the 2005 President's Pro Bono Service award from the Florida Bar. He is survived by a daughter, Carolyn Wainwright; a son, David Dalton; two sisters, Nancy Hall and Teresa Bragg; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Evelyn P. Valentine M.A. ’, Ph.D. ’, a veteran Baltimore public school educator, died June 14 of heart disease at her Northeast Baltimore home, according to The Baltimore Sun. She was 77. The eldest of 15 children, she entered college at 15 and landed her first teaching job at 19 in her hometown of Beaufort, N.C. Valentine began teaching in Baltimore public schools in 1962 at Calverton Junior High School. She went on to serve as principal of Booker T. Washington Junior High School and what was then called the “New Eastern” high school. She retired in 1990 as an administrator in the Division of Planning and Research at the central office. Valentine was also an adjunct professor at Loyola University Maryland from 1972 to 1992. She was predeceased by her husband of 44 years, Oliver Clinton Valentine, and
is survived by three sons, Timothy Valentine, Ronald Hamilton and Numan Conolly; a daughter, Evelyna Valentine; four brothers, George Pasteur Sr., Joseph Pasteur, John Pasteur and Ernest Pasteur; five sisters, Alice Pasteur Edmonson, Patricia Pasteur, Ketina Pasteur, Deborah Pasteur, and Nellie Joy Pasteur; a grandson; and many nieces and nephews. Roy M. Waxler M.A. ’, a former physicist at what became the National Institute of Standards and Technology, died Aug. 10 at his home in Philadelphia of complications from spinal stenosis. He was 88. A Navy veteran of World War II, he graduated from what is now Drexel University in 1949. In 1952, he received a master’s degree in glass technology from the University of Toledo. He received a master’s degree in physics from Maryland. From 1954 to 1982, Waxler worked in the glass section of what was the National Bureau of Standards. His first wife, Zeumar da Silva, whom he married in 1955, died in 1968. In 1981, he married Olga Padilla. Survivors include his wife; two children from his first marriage, Mark Waxler and Lisa Waxler; two stepchildren, Darryl Fenton and Nina Wright Padilla; and five grandchildren. Mary Jane Ambrose Postove M.Aud. ’9 died June 15 at her Washington, D.C., home. She was 93. In 1944, Postove worked as an audiologist for the Army. She designed an audiology program for returning veterans at the Walter Reed Medical Center, where she remained until retirement as head of the department. Postove became a professor of audiology at Maryland and wrote a book on audiology. She is survived by her best friend Gustavo Adolfo of Washington, her nephew, Thomas Ambrose and her nieces, Lynn Holmes and Mary Nasca. She was predeceased by her husband of 45 years, Herman Postove and, her brothers, Thomas A. Ambrose and Marshall Ambrose.