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September 28, 2004
CRAWFORD, LAKATTA, AND CALLAHAN JOIN PACKARD
CENTER BOARD
The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
at Johns Hopkins has added three new members to its Board of Governors.
All three have local ties to Baltimore, but also are nationally recognized
in their specific areas of specialization.
Monty M. Crawford, J.D., a partner at Piper Rudnick
in Baltimore, is a litigator specializing in corporate law. He joined
the Packard Center board to “better understand” amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Crawford’s mother-in-law, who lives in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,
was diagnosed with ALS in 2003. Crawford, who has been at Piper Rudnick
for the past 10 years, earned his undergraduate degree from Bucknell University,
in Pennsylvania, and his law degree from the University of Chicago, where
he was editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
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Pat Lakatta, president of Marketing Communica-tions,
Inc. in Baltimore, has more than 25 years’ experience in marketing
communications after beginning her career as a registered nurse. Lakatta
earned her nursing degree from Nesbitt Memorial Hospital School of Nursing,
in Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in communications from Goucher
College. Her master’s degree in science is from Johns Hopkins University.
She is a faculty member of Goucher College, the College of Notre Dame
of Maryland, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She serves on
the board of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. While teaching a continuing
education course at Goucher College, Lakatta befriended one of her students,
Laurie Russell, who had ALS. Russell, who prior to her death was a board
member at the Packard Center, asked Lakatta to take her place on the board.
Russell died in the spring of this year.
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David Callahan helped found Baltimore SmartCEO Magazine,
a collection of management-centered business features with a subscriber
base of 19,500 CEOs and business owners in the Greater Baltimore region.
Now editor-in-chief of the magazine, he also is a vice president of EMI
Media. In 2001, Callahan’s mother succumbed to her battle with ALS.
Baltimore SmartCEO sponsors a charity golf tournament in her honor—which
has become an annual event—and raises nearly $10,000 annually for
the Packard Center.
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