In Memoriam
Casper “Cas” R. Taylor, Jr., who died on April 24, 2023, was most proud of his work on behalf of Western Maryland following his tenure in the Maryland House of Delegates. Many times, he organized delegations of legislators and state leaders to visit the area. Taylor’s accomplishments over his 28-year legislative career are numerous, but the One Maryland initiative, as well as his work leading to the development of the Rocky Gap Resort and Golf Course, are two key hallmarks. In January 2007, the new House of Delegates Office Building in Annapolis was named for Taylor. On May 21, 2022, the Baltimore Street Bridge in Cumberland was also named after him. Taylor attended Saint Michael School in Frostburg and was a 1952 graduate of LaSalle High School. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1956 and served in the U.S. Air Force ROTC. He was also the owner and operator of Cas Taylor’s restaurant and package goods store on Mechanic Street in Cumberland. In 1974, Taylor began a three-decade career in government service when he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. While there, he served on the Economic Matters Committee and later as vice chair and chair of the committee. He was eventually elected speaker of the House of Delegates, a position he held from 1994 to 2003, becoming the longest serving speaker in Maryland history at the time. Taylor was a member of the Knights of Columbus Cumberland Council 582, Alhambra Wamba Caravan 89, Maryland Democratic Party and the Speakers Society, as well as a member of Our Lady of the Mountains Parish, St. Mary’s Catholic Church. He was also a member of the Dapper Dan Club and a lifelong Notre Dame football fan who organized “Taylor’s Travelers” trips to South Bend for game weekends. A musician, he enjoyed playing the piano.
Donald Galliher, who died earlier this year, started his career at FSU in 1989. A 33-year employee, he was a supervisor of the groundskeeping staff. Don was a dedicated and hard-working individual with a green thumb who knew every plant in every bed and was committed to making the campus the inviting, charming and relaxing place that generations have enjoyed. If there is a flower garden near an FSU building, Don had a hand in it. When asked about the black-eyed Susan seedlings growing in the hanging pots in front of the Stangle Building, he replied that he had transplanted them from a bed near Westminster Hall. He further explained that black-eyed Susans were his wife Naomi’s favorite flower, and he planted them all over the Lower Quad in 2009, the year his wife of 43 years had died. Naomi Gallaher had also been an FSU employee; she retired in 1995. Don was a widower, a father and a grandfather. He was also a friend who valued his fellow employees’ sincere appreciation of the care he devoted to beautifying the campus at FSU.
Alumni
- 1950+
1950 Marjorie Ann Shireman Thomas Nov. 17, 2022
1952 Charlotte Barringer Diehl May 7, 2023
1952 Elizabeth Starr Hesen March 24, 2023
1954 William E. Neff May 3, 2023
1956 Mary Lou Malcomb Bane May 2, 2023
1956 Roy M. DeVore March 24, 2023
1956 Betty Lorraine Martens Robeson Feb. 22, 2023
1958 Kenneth Bittinger May 17, 2023
1959 Dorothy A. Elrick Appleman May 24, 2023
1959 Bruce W. May M'66 May 20, 2023
- 1960+
1960 A. Eddy Mueller Jan. 27, 2023
1960 Patricia A. Weicht Petre March 25, 2023
1962 William N. Cessna April 11, 2023
1962 Kenneth J. Harris M'70 Feb. 24, 2023
1962 James E. Moffatt M'69 March 27, 2023
1962 Harry Darwin Robeson May 12, 2023
1962 John J. Shuhart M'75 Feb. 14, 2023
1962 Roy W. Sigler, Jr. March 9, 2023
1963 Constance L. Danner Zumbrum May 5, 2023
1964 Wini R. Fresh Redick M'85 Jan. 25, 2023
1964 E. Jayne Wesley M'70 Feb. 21, 2023
1966 Ronald J. Evans April 3, 2023
1966 Cynthia K. Rendar Mappin April 5, 2023
1967 Dorothy E. Harper Bloss Jan. 25, 2023
1967 Richard R. Gruber May 1, 2023
1967 Kenneth E. Nichols May 10, 2023
1969 Dorothy L. Watson Steinacker April 3, 2023
- 1970+
1970 Rodger D. Simons March 17, 2023
1971 Marion E. Hadley Stafford Boettner Feb. 28, 2023
1972 S. Amory Hauver Tehrick April 3, 2023
1972 Karen Bose Power March 24, 2023
1973 M. Pam Thank Feb. 24, 2023
1974 Thomas L. Plewacki Feb. 27, 2023
1975 Carroll N. Michael M'75 Nov. 18, 2023
1975 Richard Dennis Warner March 16, 2023
1977 Sandra M. Swann Rathwell Oct. 6, 2021
- 1980+
1980 Betty Linthicum Bloomfield March 29, 2023
1980 Kevin F. Brooks Feb. 15, 2023
1980 Kathryn L. Nickle Crawford* March 23, 2023
1981 Ronald A. Elkins March 23, 2023
1982 Reneelis Dewberry May 13, 2020
1983 Robert P. Frucella M'83 Feb. 2, 2023
1984 Joseph E. Gillis Jan. 31, 2023
1984 Matthew W. Johnson Feb. 1, 2023
1986 Dr. Christopher B. Ogden May 22, 2023
1987 Garth S. Jones April 18, 2023
- 1990+
1990 Leslie M. Millenson Leibowitz M'90 April 7, 2023
1995 James Byron Davis M'95 May 4, 2023
1996 Thomas H. Attaway, Jr. July 2, 2023
1997 Todd M. Bowman April 11, 2023
1998 Miranda Fitzwater M'06 April 14, 2023
- 2000+
2000 Bruce Hultslander M'00 April 4, 2023
2000 Peter A. Rosskamp April 24, 2023
2000 Monica L. Stewart May 2, 2023
2002 James R. Kinback M'02 Feb. 7, 2023
2005 Charles M. Kelso III M'05 Sept. 24, 2022
2006 Angela C. Gallik M'08 May 17, 2023
2008 Shawn J. Crawford Feb. 25, 2023
- 2010+
2011 John S. Cantler May 4, 2023
2013 Shawn S. Pillai April 28, 2023
2018 Joshua O. Oyoo May 13, 2023
- Friends of the University
Dr. Alan N. Arnson Jan. 21, 2023
Lt. Col. David C. Barton Dec. 115, 2022
John A. Bassett April 28, 2023
Richard H. Beeghly* May 22, 2023
Christopher R. Bock Jan. 2, 2023
Lora J. Martin Bolyard Feb. 28, 2023
Mary Elizabeth Scrivener Bruce Dec. 3, 2022
Brenda J. Lynch Butscher May 9, 2023
Jerry A. Chesser* Feb. 23, 2023
Daniel B. Cox April 8, 2023
Hazel J. Peed Dent April 23, 2023
Franklin W. Goss Jan. 20, 2022
Donald B. Hall, Jr. Nov. 24, 2022
Dr. Lorna M. Irvine Oct. 14, 2022
Carol Confrey Jones April 24, 2023
Harry L. Joyce, Jr. Feb. 27, 2023
Dr. Gordon E. Kershaw* Jan. 22, 2023
James P. McFarland Aug. 10, 2021
James G. Miller Jan. 30, 2023
Irene B. Muise Dec. 28, 2022
Kaye Keister Myers* Feb. 1, 2023
Norma J. Wright Ramsburg May 21, 2023
Nancy P. Rosnow Jan. 13, 2023
Robert C. Sippel Jan. 15, 2023
* Former faculty or staff member