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These pages represent alumni news shared with the Advancement Office from July 1 through November 15, 2020.

Greg Young ’70 has dedicated more than twenty seven years of service to the San Antonio Police Department, volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and The St. Vincent de Paul Society, and sings in a German men’s choir as he celebrates his fiftieth reunion year from Bishop McNamara. n Keith Lytle ’75 was inducted into the Bishop McNamara High School Hall of Fame on November 5, 2020. Arthur Horne ’79 received the Honorable James H. Taylor Award from the Prince George’s County Bar Association for his years of dedication and commitment to the law and the Prince George’s County community. Arthur is past Board Chair at Bishop McNamara, the President and Managing Partner of Shipley & Horne, P.A., and has been practicing law for more than twenty five years. n Ralph P. Sita Jr. ’80 is the President and CoFounder of Cybrary, a crowdsourced Cyber Security and IT career development and training platform. Cybrary was recently named as one of the top twenty places to work in the Washington Metropolitan region by The Washington Post. n Michael Bozeman ’84, along with the 2003 Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team, were inducted into the Bishop McNamara High School Hall of Fame on November 5, 2020. Mike served as the team’s Head Coach. n Dr. Marco Clark ’85, former President/ CEO of Bishop McNamara High School, began his new role in July as the first layperson to serve as the Executive Director of the Holy Cross Institute at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. n Jeff Kinney ’89 is the international bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy 2020 the fifteenth book in it titled The Deep End where Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. The series started off online on Funbrain.com in 2004 and made its print debut in April of 2007. There are now more than 200 million copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books

available in 77 editions in 65 languages. n Tiffany Evans ’93 was inducted into the Bishop McNamara High School Hall of

Fame on November 5, 2020. n David C. Lindsey ’95 is a world renowned and award-winning songwriter, producer, mix engineer and musician, whose love for music was cultivated at the tender age of 2. He has written and produced music

Kid series who published on October 27, professionally for over twenty years. n Stacey Oldenburg-Buckhaults ’00 was inducted into the Bishop McNamara High School Hall of Fame on November 5, 2020. n

Jason Reynolds ’00 published his debut novel for adults with Scribner titled The Mouthless God. The novel tells the story of a boy named Mm who is born without a (continued on next page)

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mouth and comes of age in a carnival town, where the power of storytelling can equally sustain or harm. Jason is the New York Times best-selling author of All American Trey Proctor ’04 was selected as a recipient for the 40 Under 40 Social Innovation Fund for Prince George’s County. Trey was also recently selected to serve on the Prince George’s County Advisory Board by The Greater Washington Community Foundation. He, along with his colleagues, are responsible for advising The Community Foundation on the challenges and opportunities specific to Prince George’s County, and sharing their knowledge on issues of community leadership for greater impact. n Kristian Owens ’05 was selected as a recipient for the 40 Under 40 Social Innovation Fund for Prince George’s County. n Boys, the Track series, Long Way Down, For Everyone, and Miles Morales-Spiderman. n Anthony Conway ’07 works as a Booking Producer at Windy City Live for Disney Television in Chicago, IL. n Marcus Fitts ’07 earned the cover of USA Triathlon Magazine and he is the founder of the District Triathlon Club and the new GRIT USA club in Washington, DC. n Karla Garcia ’07 was invited by the Fine Arts Department in October to be one of this year’s participants in its Guest Artist Series. For more about her accomplishments, see Mustang Moments. n Jesse Kirkland ’08 has been named one of the senior editors of the New York University Law Review. n Jitter Garcia ’08 works as Head of Events & Director of Event Marketing at Univision Communications Inc. in New

York, NY. n Brianna Pippens ’08 works as a Business Analyst for the Department of Energy. She is also a visual and performing artist whose illustrations have reached the Instagram pages of Jada Pinkett-Smith, Taraji P Henson, Viola Davis, Jordan Peele,

and more. n Craig Glover-Hines ’09 began this fall his Master of Divinity program at Duke University Divinity School in Durham, NC. Craig taught Freshman Gateway Seminar and won the Caritas Faculty Award for Distinguished Service during his tenure on the Bishop McNamara

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Jonathan Molineaux ’10 is a fisheries biologist and winner of the 2020 Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award, part of the Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM

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Conference. His interest in endangered species conservation began at a local pond and led to the ocean. n Marli Washington ’10 is the Design Director, CEO, and Founder of gc2b in the apparel and fashion industry. Marli was recently highlighted by Google LLC for work to promote diversity and inclusion in these spaces. n Taylor Brown ’11 was selected as a recipient for the 40 Under 40 Social Innovation Fund for Prince George’s County. n Eric Darnell ’12 works in film and development and lives in Los Angeles, CA for AGBO, which was founded by award-winning directors Anthony and Joe Russo, is an artist-led entertainment company focused on creating content born of innovative story universes across film, television, and digital platforms. n Meghan Wyvill ’12 works as a nurse in the University of Maryland’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (I.C.U.). For more about Meghan and her accomplishments, please see the feature story titled Interviews with BMHS Alumnae Devin Swiner ’12 and Devin Swiner ’12 won The Ohio State University’s Next Generation Innovator of the Year award for a current project she is working on developing a biological fluid collection patch for cystic fibrosis biomarker detection. For more about Devin and her accomplishments, please see the feature story titled Interviews with BMHS Alumnae Devin Swiner ’12 and Meghan Wyvill ’12. n Morgan Faulkner ’13 works as a Public Relations Specialist for The Washington Football Team where she plays a lead role for the organization’s Black Engagement Network that does outreach to colleges Meghan Wyvill ’12. n and universities, which provides mentoring and scholarship opportunities for those pursuing careers related to professional sports. n Safiya Parker ’13 wrote Discover Your

Dollars & Restructure Your Riches. n America in Black American Stories. n

Alex Meyers ’14 published Being Black in Eric Powell ’15 served as a special alumnus guest speaker to Michael Pozniak’s Global Studies classes. Eric is a recent graduate of Howard University. n

Frank Godfrey, III ’16 joined the Investment Solutions Group at Brown Advisory, a company that delivers investment performance and strategic

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advice. Frank interned with Brown Advisory during his second summer with The Institute for Responsible Citizenship before graduating from The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. n Nicole Yeargin ’16 began running track her senior year at Bishop McNamara High School and she is on-course to compete for Scotland in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She attends The University of Southern California on a Division I Track & Field scholarship and is pursuing a degree in Real Estate in The Sol Price School of Public Policy. n Kayla Preston ’17 will be working as a systems engineer in the Space Systems sector at Northrop Grumman in Linthicum Heights, MD. Kayla interned this past summer at Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector in Annapolis, MD. She will start this position upon her graduation with a Bachelor of Science in Information Science and minor in Law and Society from The University of Maryland, College Park. n Lauryn Shaw ’17 currently majoring in Health Administration at Towson University earned a Microhelp internship at Tysons Corner Virginia. n Brookes Yates ’18 has earned the rank of E-3 Private First Class (PFC) in the United States Army. He will be stationed

abroad for the next several months. n Nyela Williams ’19 recently published My Year of COVID-19 and Civil Unrest in Imagine, a publication for Maryland Business Roundtable for Education. Nyela is a student in the Class of 2023 at The University of Maryland, College Park. n

Chinyere Okonkwo ’20, Nicky Zhang ’20, Catherine Ramsey ’18, Jasmine Adgerson ’17, Aniya Arrington ’17, Anna Walton ’17, Josephine Kalshoven ’15, Rachel Leader ’15, and Jordan Mosby ’15 gave students in the Class of 2021 recorded flip grid testimonials with words of encouragement to start the new school year in Michael Pozniak’s Global Studies classes. Thank you to these #BMHSALUMNI for their kindness to current students at Bishop

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