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Alumni Accomplishments
CONTINUING THE TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE! Congratulations to Alumnus and Award-Winning Olympian Michael Phelps! 8 Gold Medals in a Single Olympic Game 14 Career Gold Medals 16 Career Medals 8 Swimming Olympic Records 7 Swimming World Records
THS Hall of FameInduction - Name - Class Year
-NO PICTURE- 1962 Herschel Allen Jr. (Dec) 1907 WWII Bronze Memorial Plaque.
1984 Ann Conkling Seitz 1934
President of Snack Food Association.
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House of Delegates and Senate. See her accomplishments at : http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/risteau.html
Longtime Alumni Corresponding and Recording secretary. Towson and Baltimore County community affairs activist.
Lawyer, woman of firsts. Graduated from Hood College, 1955 with honors in Economics, received Juris Docturate from University of Maryland School of Law in 1958. First woman States Attorney for Baltimore County and first woman admitted to the Baltimore County Bar Association. Also admitted to Superior Court, New York and American Bar Associations. Delegate, Maryland House of Delegates and Legislative Aide to Chairman of Ways and Means Committee. Assistant and Associate General Council for Distilled Spirits Institute and Distilled Spirits Counsel of the U.S. Has received several awards including Legislator of the Year and Who's Who in the South and of American Women. Currently employed by Joseph Seagram and Sons as a Vice President.
Successful railroad professional rising to work for the Federal Railroad Administration. Accomplished painter having works of railroad scenes and landscapes displayed in many prominent institutions.
Received Purple Heart in Korean War and was very active in veterans affairs heading many civic veterans organizations and founding the Maryland Homeless Veterans Rehabilitation Center in Baltimore.
Economics expert and educator. BA, Physics - Oberlin College 1957. Earned Masters and Doctorate at Yale University in economics. Teacher, provost and chairman at Yale as well as director of Yale's Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. 1996-2002 Board Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Coeditor of Brooking Papers of Economic Activity.
Urban planning expert. Earned civil engineering degree from Johns Hopkins, Masters from Cornell and PhD from U. of Pennsylvania. Educator with the University of North Carolina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Consulted with many countries, including Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China and India as well as several Latin American countries concerning urban planning problems. He has worked with the US Department of Transportation on several metropolitan projects. He has also authored several books and extensive professional publications.
Real Estate Developer and Investor. Graduated from University of Maryland with a BS in Civil Engineering (1961) and Masters in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. Headed Nottingham Properties as President since 1979 and was guiding force behind White Marsh Town Center, the Avenue at White Marsh and many other developments. Has served on numerous committees and task forces including Gov. Glendening's Transportation Trust Fund Advisory Board, Towson TaskForce, Technical Advisory Committee for Growth Management, the Task Force on Economic Development and the Urban Land Institute.
Composer and musician. Attended Peabody Conservatory and Goucher College where she was awarded a scholarship to study at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, 1958. She received her Masters in music from the University of Hartford and her PhD from the University of Connecticut. Her works have beenpublished by Tonger Verlag (Germany), Arisis Press and recorded on the Capstone and Leonarda labels. Her music has been performed internationally with premiers in Weimar, Mannheim, Nashville and Baltimore and has won numerious awards. More information at www.amc.net/member/Elizabeth Austin
Career Maryland State Policeman specializing in missing and exploited children and criminal investigation. Graduated from University of Maryland Law Enforcement Institute and Maryland State Police Academy, 1966. Awarded Superintendant's Commendation for saving a life, Governor's Citation for Excellence in Criminal Investigation, nominated for State Trooper of the Year and named Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by Salisbury Jaycees. Appointed to Governor's Committee on Missing Children and the Advisory Committee to the Office for Children and Youth and received Distinguished Service Award from the Maryland Law Enforcement Officers for said work. Became a Mental Health Counselor in 1991 to help with drug abuse education in the community until his death in 2005.
Teacher and current politician. Graduted from Western Maryland College and teacher/department chair at Towson and Ridgely Junior High Schools. Elected to Maryland House of Delegates, 1978-86 and Minority Leader from 1986-1994 where she served on the appropriations, ways and means and joint budget committees. Was Republican Nominee for Governor, 1994 and 1988. Appointed US Delegate to the UN Commission on Human Rights and UN Commission on the Status of Women where she worked on problems including HIV/AIDS in third world countries, women and child trafficking and women's educational needs. Nominated by President George W. Bush as Assistant Secretary of State. Has received numerous awards including Legislator of the Year, Maryland State of Mind Award and the National Federation of Republican Women's Margaret Chase Award.
Physician and Otolaryngologist, Graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University in 1947 and received his medical degree from University of Leyden, Netherlands in 1957 and postgraduate study in otolaryngology from University of Pennsylvania in 1958. Entered Navy during World War I and served for 20 years as a Line Officer aboard destroyers and later a Captain in the USN Medical Corps. Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, National Naval Medical Center and Professor of Surgery and Chairman of Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Georgetown School of Medicine. Nationally known for his work with jaw and tongue reconstruction and rehab following surgery for oral malignancies. Has published many professional articles.
Early volunteer experiences with the Cockeysville Volunteer Fire Department led to a professional career in fire protection and emergency medical care in Baltimore County for 38 years. From 1990-1994 served as Fire Chief of the Baltimore County Fire Department, the 5th largest in North America. Procedures that Banister developed for high-rise firefighting in Baltimore Co. received national recognition. At the state level, he served on the Maryland Fire and Rescue Education Training Commission, the Governor’s Emergency Management Advisory Committee, the Maryland State Fire & Emergency Medical Coalition, and the Maryland State Fire Prevention Commission.
Began as a Sales Associate in the real estate business in 1965. Evans moved up the ladder to Executive Vice President and owner of Piper & Company. In 1984, he became one of the four partners who developed O’Conor Piper Flynn Realtors into one of the country’s largest residential brokerage firms. In 2003, Evans was named COO of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage with more than 90 offices and 4,000 associates in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Recognized for his integrity and professional achievements, The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
Founded the Alumni Association the year he graduated from Towson High School. After earning a civil engineering degree and a law degree from Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park), Cole was commissioned as first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and assigned to overseas service with the 316th Regiment of Infantry, 79th Division at Fort Meade. In 1927, Cole was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress, serving several terms until 1942. He resigned from the 2nd Congressional seat in 1942 to become a judge of the U.S. Customs Court. In 1952, President Harry S. Truman appointed him to the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; a judgeship he held until his death in 1957. In 1931, he was named to the University of Maryland Board of Regents and served as chairman of the board from 1944 to 1956; Cole Field House was named in honor of his dedicated service to the university.
Received B.A. in 1957 from Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Majors were Psych. Soc., Spanish and an M.S.W. in 1965 from University of Maryland School of Social Work and Community Planning. Major - Community Organization. She is an herbalist who transformed a run-down homestead into a certified organic farm with seasonal workshops, college apprenticeships and a listing on the National Registry of Historic Places. With the creation of her environmentally friendly product line and her initiatives to develop markets in WVA, Myra was named Green Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 by the WVA Environmental Council. One of the founders of the Sustainable Living for West Virginia Organization, a group that works with statewide educators and federal agencies, to encourage sustainable solutions in the economic, environmental, spiritual, and social arenas. Myra was described in the June 2007 issue of Wonderful West Virginia as a “noted herbalist, award-winning entrepreneur, former community organizer and lifelong advocate for people and justice”. www.lapaixherbfarmproducts.com
Founder of Head Huggers, a volunteer organization that creates hats for people who have hair loss due to chemotheraphy, brain surgery or burn wounds. Over 100 international and local satellite groups provide hand-made hats to oncology offices, hospitals and hospices. www.headhuggers.org In 2005, Thompson began another group that distributes handmade items for newborn babies to pregnancy crisis centers and maternity homes in her local area. Within a few months, satellite groups were also formed from Canada to Austrailia. www.miracleshappen.us Her humanitarian efforts also extended to the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women in Jessup, MD where she worked with inmates by teaching, sewing, knitting and crocheting groups.
Griffin was declared the highest-paid fashion model in the world by Ford Modeling Agency in 1966. She was featured in national and international magazine covers, appeared in television commercials and represented sponsors such as Virginia Slims, Avon and Clairol. Griffin co-starred with Dustrin Hoffman in the 20th Century Fox film, John and Mary (1969). Became corporate spokesperson and Director of Beauty and Fashion for Avon Products, Inc. In 1980 she was a co-host and speical correspondent on ABC's Good Morning America and later hosted her own syndicated show, Twice a Woman. Founder of Astara Skin Care, a line of botanical products that has become internationally known. www.astaraskincare.com |
MICHAEL PHELPS
1961 James Leslie 1930
1963 Lawrence E. Ensor (Dec) 1916 
1969 Agnes Mullen Hicks (Dec) 1913
1984 Dr. Walter Scott Baird (Dec) 1926
1984 Lowell B. Nesbitt (Dec) 1951 
1984 Hon. Norman P. Ramsey (Dec) 1939
1985 James Wines 1950
1985 James P. Morris 1965
1986 Dr. Alvin C. Loewer (Dec) 1938
1986 Brig. Gen. John F. Burk, Jr. (Ret.) 1935
1986 Brig. Gen. James Wade Shufelt 1951
1987 John S. White, Jr. 1952
1987 Mary Watters Risteau (Dec) 1907
1987 Martin P. Azola 1964
1987 Ellison W. Ensor 1936
1987 Frederick W. Stieber 1928
1988 Dr. Calvin M. Class, PhD 1940
1988 Liz Whitney Quisgard 1947
1988 Jean Marie Donnell 1938
1988 Barbara Blackstone Hanlon 1942
1990 William H. Kaufman, M.D. 1930 
1990 Margaret Myers DeMoss 1933
1991 M. Jacqueline McCurdy 1951
1992 Col. Bettie Edmonds, (Ret.) 1947
1994 Edward Angell, (Dec) 1934
1994 Harry M. Trebing Ph.D., 1944
1994 Margaret Musterman Houghton, 1954
1995 Peter Willoughby Traynor 1960
1995 Norris A. King (Dec) 1929
1995 Joyce Hens Green 1945
1997 Deane Clark Laycock 1937
1999 Ellen Oosterling Moyer 1954
2001 Richard Hood Harryman 1946
2003 Charles L. Amos 1949
2003 Blair Cross (Dec) 1949
2003 William C. Brainard, PhD 1953
2003 Ralph Gakenheimer, PhD 1953 
2004 Donald LaFayette Strohmeyer 1954
2004 William Morgan Stewart 1954
2004 Thomas Jessop 1954
2004 Marilee Shepler Cole, MD 1964
2004 Herbert Fishpaw 1948
2004 P. Douglas Dollenberg 1957 
2006 Elizabeth Rhudy Austin, PhD 1956
2006 Robert B. Tunney 1963
2006 Ellen Richmond Sauerbrey 1955 
2006 Hugh O. Defries, MD 1941 
2006 Elwood H. Banister 1954 
2007 John Gardiner Evans 1958 
2007 William Purlington Cole1907 
2008 Myra Bonhage-Hale 1953 
2008 Dr. Sue Wilkinson Thompson 1958
2008 Susan "Sunny" Griffin 1958