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Richard B. '86

UMBC's 40th anniversary in 2006 had fireworks and parties, but one of its best remembered moments was a "March of the Retrievers" including UMBC's pep band and a number of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers -- relatives of our own "True Grit" -- decked out with 40th anniversary scarves. (Photo from Castellanos Lab archive site)

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