In Memoriam
Jeanne Moore Cordts, who died Oct. 18, 2022, taught at Frostburg State Teachers College part-time, served as editor of the Journal of the Alleghenies for 14 years, chaired the Frostburg Historic District Commission, was active in the American Association of University Women and served as president of the Frostburg Garden Club. She and her late husband Harold (who chaired the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Frostburg State Teachers College, taught and coached) had received academic scholarships and other financial aid – support essential to advance their education. Prior to her husband’s death in 2004, they funded a scholarship at Frostburg State University – it endures today. Cordts studied at Cazenovia Junior College, SUNY-Albany and Syracuse University, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees and pursuing a doctorate as well. She was a college student during World War II, then a high school English and history teacher in upstate New York. Cordts initiated the Jeanne Moore Cordts Class of 1942 Academic Excellence Scholarship at Cazenovia College in appreciation of the generosity shown by Cazenovia College’s then president who enabled Cordts to attend college after a hailstorm destroyed the family’s apple crop in 1940. (Cazenovia College also held a dedication ceremony last year for The Jeanne Moore Cordts ’42 Study in Witherill Library.) Establishing these scholarships was a way for Cordts and her husband to show gratitude for those who supported their education. In 2014, Cordts published the book “Windfalls: Stories in the History of the Moore Apple Farm of Upstate New York” that recounts a rare time in history remembered by those from this era.
Phyllis R. Sell MacVeigh, who passed away Oct. 12, 2022, began her service on the Frostburg State University Foundation Board of Directors in 1998 and completed her active duty in 2008, at which time she was granted emerita status. MacVeigh and her husband created the John R. and Phyllis Sell MacVeigh Scholarship at Frostburg State University during their lifetimes, which is designated for students from Allegany or Garrett counties studying business administration. She graduated from Ursuline Business School in 1943, and the University of Maryland’s College of Business and Public Administration in 1947. At Maryland, she majored in finance and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, a significant achievement for a woman in the 1940s. She also did graduate business studies at Frostburg State University in the 1970s. MacVeigh was appointed by former Govs. William Donald Schaffer and Parris Glendenning to the State of Maryland Judicial Nomination Commission, where she served for 12 years. She was a member of the University of Maryland Alumni Association, Alpha Omicron Pi Social Sorority (UMD) and the American Association of University Women. She was also a member of the Frostburg State University Alumni Association, the Junior Women’s Civic Club and the Women’s Civic Club. MacVeigh was a 50-plus-year member of the Daughters of the American Revolution-Cresap Chapter, Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, which became the Western Maryland Health System Auxiliary, and the Cumberland Country Club.
Clifford A. Walls, who died Aug. 13, 2022, retired from the Frostburg State University Police Department. He served in the United States Air Force from 1958 until 1961, and for a time was deployed in Pakistan. Walls was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 99 and Farrady Post American Legion No. 24.
Dr. Peter B. Halmos, who died Dec. 1, 2022, was a committed financial supporter of arts and education. Particularly close to his heart was the establishment of The Community Trust Foundation’s Peter and Iris Halmos Community Fund, which continues its mission of helping Allegany County and its residents to flourish and prosper. He was also an exemplary community advocate. Over the years in the area, he served as chairman of the Department of Medicine and was president of the Memorial Hospital and Allegany County Medical Societies, as well as volunteered at the Allegany Health Right and the Allegany County Health Department. His was president of the YMCA, the Allegany Arts Council, the Cumberland Theatre, the Community Trust Foundation, the Cumberland Bridge Club and the local chapter of the American Heart Association. He was also treasurer for the Allegany College Foundation, the C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts and the WMHS Foundation, as well as served as a board member for many nonprofit organizations, including the Maryland State Arts Council. Halmos survived World War II and the holocaust in Hungary and escaped in 1956. After a short stay in a refugee camp, he traveled to Vienna, London, Edinburgh and finally to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he received a full scholarship to Queens University. He completed his medical and cardiology specialty training with honors in 1965. In 1966, he traveled to the United States with his wife and children to work and teach at West Virginia University Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., and in 1968, accepted an invitation to initiate a cardiology program at Memorial Hospital in Cumberland, where he pioneered the development of a cardiac intensive care unit, a high-level care unit, a stress-testing lab, an echocardiogram lab and a monitored exercise program. These were followed by a cardiac catheterization unit and cardiac surgery. He also established The Children’s Diagnostic Center to triage cardiac problems for the area’s youth and was medical director for more than 40 years at the Cumberland Nursing Home.
Alumni
- 1940+
1948 Jeanne Mehrling Uhl June 13, 2020
- 1950+
1950 Barbara Smith Bowles Nov. 21, 2022
1950 Paul J. Byrnes Aug. 4, 2022
1953 Rev. William R. Fearer July 8, 2022
1953 James M. German Oct. 16, 2022
1953 Bonnie Wilson Graney Oct. 3, 2022
1953 Dolores “Dodie” M. Gillard Pope May 28, 2022
1953 Dr. Francis “Frank” A. Ruffo, Sr. Sept. 9, 2022
1953 Betty Lou Arbogast Willett Sept. 3, 2021
1954 Martha J. Frank Brant Dec. 9, 2022
1954 Nellie McCoy Harding Nov. 22, 2022
1955 Dr. Carleton A. Shore Jan. 8, 2023*
1956 Donald J. Bell Jan. 7, 2023
1956 Dale S. Bittner April 6, 2022
1956 Patricia A. Dixon Cross-Gellner June 17, 2022
1956 Galen G. McKenzie Sept. 8, 2022
1956 Florence “Floss” A. Marshall Rahn July 15, 2022
1957 Eunice E. Moffatt Junkins Jan. 12, 2023
1957 Sally D. Bland Thompson Dec. 15, 2022
1958 Richard S. Gilpin Dec. 21, 2022
1958 Sara J. Murphy Hartman Nov. 23, 2022
1958 Wayne R. Johnson M’64 Oct. 8, 2022
1959 S. Oliver “Ollie” Rephann July 17, 2022
- 1960+
1960 Carol J. Lannon Lloyd Dec. 4, 2022
1960 Dr. George E. McKenney July 17, 2022
1960 Rita Wiant Schoenadel Aug. 23, 2022
1962 Marvin E. Chaney Oct. 20, 2022
1962 Ralph “Skip” E. Mahaney, Jr. March 22, 2022
1962 Andrew J. Mara, Jr. Dec. 18, 2020
1962 Twyla A. Perry Minor April 30, 2019
1962 Penelope Caulkins Phelps July 30, 2022
1962 Gerald “Gerry” L. Smith Sept. 15, 2022
1963 Charles “Chuck” J. Meese May 11, 2022
1963 Mary R. Alexander Potts Jan. 11, 2023
1963 Calvert A. Upton II Nov. 5, 2022
1964 Patricia E. Page Charuhas Oct. 29, 2022
1964 James L. Hampson Dec. 30, 2022
1965 Joanne M. Holtzapple Hay Aug. 28, 2021
1965 Jane A. Keefe Prytherch Sept. 8, 2022
1965 George “Sonny” J. Schoenadel M’69 Aug. 4, 2022
1966 Anne Melvin Blake Dec. 9, 2020
1966 Cecile Wynne Boccuto Oct. 14, 2022
1966 William H. Seiler Aug. 9, 2022
1966 William P. Wentworth, Jr. Sept. 18, 2022
1967 Sandra M. Browning Huggins Aug. 8, 2022
1967 John J. Mertz Dec. 3, 2022
1967 Dr. Pamela Wolfe Roblyer Aug. 4, 2022
1968 Margaret C. Bowdle Alberts July 3, 2022
1968 Curt R. Douglas, Jr. April 20, 2022
1968 Elain House June 23, 2022
1968 Rev. C. Edward Pritts Oct. 29, 2022
1969 William J. Parker M’72 May 24, 2022
1969 Susan C. Trout-Wright Dec. 4, 2022
1969 T. Roger Wrenn May 30, 2022
- 1970+
1970 Shirley Walker Giarritta Nov. 22, 2022
1970 Joan A. Morris Nofsinger Aug. 22, 2022
1972 J. Francis “Frank” Billard M’96 Sept. 18, 2022
1972 Michael R. Cockey Dec. 3, 2022
1972 Carolyn A. Glass Wagner Dec. 28, 2022
1973 Scott J. Currey May 10, 2022
1973 Sharon L. Cox Floyd June 21, 2022
1973 Robin J. Forster March 20, 2022
1973 Laren R. Leonard July 27, 2022
1973 Lucia A. Capobianco Love March 14, 2021
1973 William T. Wright M’73/M’79 Nov. 15, 2022
1976 Anthony M. Callahan March 16, 2022
1976 D. Russell Guhr, Jr. March 20, 2022
1976 Charles David Wilson June 26, 2022
1977 Dr. James M. Snider M’77 Nov. 13, 2022
- 1980+
1980 Lynda Lehr Barker July 15, 2021
1981 Patrice S. Boulanger July 4, 2022
1981 Susan A. Dishong M’81 Sept. 1, 2022
1981 Charles R. Oliver M’81 Nov. 23, 2022
1982 Robert L. Wempe, Sr. M’82 Sept. 20, 2022
1983 Rev. Gary L. Gordon Oct. 10, 2022
1985 John C. Duffey M’85 Jan. 19, 2023
1985 William Mark Garner Oct. 23, 2019
1985 Rev. Joseph R. Penick July 2, 2022
1985 Elizabeth V. Carpenter Ross M’85 Jan. 2, 2023
1986 Melvin L. Nines M’86 Dec. 15, 2022
1987 Donna Jean Blank Liller Jan. 17, 2023
1988 William P. Armbrust M’88 April 16, 2022
1988 Frank L. Fleckenstein M’91 Oct. 9, 2022*
1988 Melody A. Flinn Aug. 28, 2022
1988 Sally P. Maycock Watsic May 18, 2022
1989 Judith E. Bollenbacher Price M’89 Aug. 27, 2022
- 1990+
1991 Jennifer C. McCubbin Lewis M’15 Dec. 23, 2022*
1993 Heidi L. Enderle-Diaz M’07 Nov. 25, 2022*
1993 Lorrinda K. Rizer Dec. 14, 2022
1994 Kelli I. Trovinger Michael Aug. 27, 2022
1995 Lewis N. Rackley M’95 July 21, 2022
1996 Steven J. McAdams M’96 Dec. 25, 2022
1999 Sherry L. Crowe Frick M’99 Sept. 13, 2022
- 2000+
2000 Charles W. Boyd Dec. 28, 2022
2000 Sabrina “Bean” N. McCoy M’00 Oct. 27, 2022
2001 Lilian Eftosky Miller July 23, 2022
2004 William Dwayne Burt, Sr. M’04 Jan. 4, 2023
2005 Harvey Adam Hogamier Sept. 13, 2022
2007 Fallon V. Long Boyce Sept. 8, 2022
2007 Chris L. Wedding Nov. 10, 2022
2009 Karl A. Glocker July 16, 2022
- 2010+
2011 Jeffrey M. Hottle M’11 Sept. 19, 2022
2012 Ryne A. Bridges Dec. 17, 2022 NOTE: Obit says 2011.
2018 Alexandria M. Alvarez Oct. 8, 2022
2018 Aaron M. Beckner Aug. 6, 2022
- Friends of the University
Loretta M. Barnes Almquist Dec. 2, 2022
Audrey Callaway Asbury July 22, 2022
George V. Bender Aug. 2, 2022
Howard H.J. Benson, Jr. Jan. 4, 2022
Harold E. Bertrand, Jr. July 8, 2021
Matthew E. Bieniek Oct. 3, 2022
Daphne Y. Bradshaw June 9, 2022
Robert E. Capece Sept. 24, 2022
Daniel G. Carpenter Jan. 31, 2022
Jeanne Moore Cordts Oct. 18, 2022
J.W. Milton “Milt” Creager Dec. 7, 2022
Robert L. Delauter July 31, 2022
Dorothy Zitnik Delp Nov. 10, 2022
Irma G. Kalet Dezen July 8, 2022
Robert N. Dickinson, Sr. Dec. 1, 2022
J. Kenneth Driessen July 22, 2022
Pauline Payne Eyler Oct. 16, 2022
Dr. Robert “Robin” Feddis Nov. 13, 2022
Donald H. Galliher Jan. 7, 2023*
Randy C. Galliher Oct. 24, 2022*
Roy T. “Junior” Garlitz, Jr. Oct. 18, 2022
Stuart I. Goldman May 3, 2022
William P. Guididas Oct. 10, 2022
Dr. Peter B. Halmos Dec. 1, 2022
Dr. Linda A. Resmini Handy Sept. 10, 2022
Helen M. Hartridge Sept. 3, 2022
Stephen G. Hinson May 31, 2022
Robert C. Hittel Jan. 15, 2022
Oneida L. Hinman Hollinger May 31, 2022
John L. Huffman March 18, 2021
Shirley C. Russell Hughes July 11, 2022*
Steven C. Kauffman, Jr. Oct. 23, 2022
Emory D. Lancaster Aug. 25, 2022*
Mary Christine “Chris” Riley Lantz Sept. 14, 2022
Dr. John “Jack” P. Light Aug. 2, 2022
Linda G. Shuey Mackay May 17, 2022
Phyllis R. Sell MacVeigh Oct. 12, 2022
William J. Magers Jan. 11, 2023
John A. Makell, Jr. June 16, 2022
Douglas J. Malchenson Oct. 30, 2022
Ruth “Betsy” Brown Maxfield July 20, 2022
Robert P. McDermott June 27, 2022
Rose M. Cook McElfish Dec. 20, 2022
Doris L. McKenzie Dec. 31, 2022*
Dr. Michael C. Meyers July 17, 2022
Edward W. Mowle, Jr. Aug. 13, 2022
Larry E. Norris July 28, 2022
Walter Oesch Aug. 12, 2022
Herta B. From Pittman Aug. 20, 2022
James E. Pittman Nov. 10, 2022
Agnes H. Doniecki Potter Aug. 30, 2022
Scott M. Powers Oct. 23, 2022
Jason W. Redman Oct. 22, 2022
Richard M. Retta, Jr. Dec. 27, 2021
Dr. Geoge Braden “Brad” Rinard Nov. 9, 2022*
Ronald E. Ritchie Jan. 11, 2023*
Erma C. Lloyd Robertson Jan. 23, 2023*
Gary L. Robinette June 28, 2022*
Allan “Kim” Routzahn June 28, 2022
Robert E. Saffle Aug. 2, 2022
Courtny L. Schupfer Sept. 30, 2022
Bonnie Shipley Serpick Feb. 18, 2022
Pete Shepherd Jan. 24, 2022
Sharon A. Hersick Stakem Oct. 22, 2022*
James E. Steele, Sr. June 1, 2022*
James B. Walczak Oct. 28, 2022
Sandra L. Sher Walker Dec. 6, 2022
Dr. Robert B. Wallace Aug. 23, 2022
Clifford A. Walls Aug. 13, 2022*
Donald J. Walukas March 5, 2022
Margaret A. Marsh Weikart Nov. 13, 2022
Leslie Wolf Nov. 30, 2022
* Former faculty or staff member