Maryland Will Miss... Dr. Allan Bandel of Howard County died
on November 2. He was 82. Dr. Bandel earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Univer- sity of Maryland in 1959 and then his Master of Science degree in 1962. Dr. Bandel went on to earn his PhD in 1965. In August of 1964, Dr. Bandel started his career as an Extension Soil Specialist at UMD’s Agronomy Depart- ment. He was the recipient of the Excellence in Extension Award in 1981. Ten in 1995, Dr. Bandel received the Career Service Award from the American Society of Agronomy. He also served on the Howard Soil Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors for 20 years.
Longtime TROT member Dana Grabiner of Hyattsville died on November 6. She was 61. Grabiner was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Montgomery County. She gradu- ated from the Academy of the Holy Cross in 1975 and earned a BA from the University of Maryland before going on to earn a MA in
Education from George Mason University. She moved to Prince George’s County in the late 1970s and worked as a journalist for the Prince George’s Journal. She was also a legislative aide to Councilman Stephen Del Guidice and a staffer at the Gateway CDC. Grabiner was also an instructional designer at the US Depart- ment of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture before retiring and moving to Hyattsville.
Dr. Tomas J. Blackwood, Jr., of Potomac
died on November 11 at the age of 93. Affec- tionately known as “Grumpy,” Blackwood was a member of the Potomac Hunt Club, New Market-Middletown Valley Hounds and Mid- dletown Valley Beagles. Blackwood was born in New Jersey and was a World War II veteran. After graduating from Georgetown University and Georgetown Dental School, he stayed in the Washington, DC, area. He had a 65-year career as an orthodontist.
Mary Gillian Crimmins Fenwick of Monk-
ton died on October 18 at the age of 93. Born in Sevenoaks, England, Fenwick grew up in Eng- land and Ireland before moving to the US at the outbreak of World War II. She, her mother, a maid and one horse traveled across the Atlan- tic Ocean in 1939 aboard the President Hard- ing. She graduated from Radcliffe College, now Harvard University. In 1948, she mar- ried Henry Robertson Fenwick of Glyndon; they divorced in the late 1960s. Fenwick rode sidesaddle and hunted with Elkridge-Harford Hunt and Green Spring Valley Hounds, where she served as a whipper-in during the late 1950s. Te Fenwicks trained racehorses out of Warburton Farm in Butler, now called West- ern Run Farm. Portions of the Grand National Steeplechase run through this property. Fen- wick’s most well known horse was Fluctuate, winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1959 and 1960. She was also involved in the early train- ing of the famed Jay Trump, who won both the Maryland Hunt cup (three times!) and English Grand National at Aintree.
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