During a visit to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), David Oros stood on the roof of the ten story Administration Building as President Freeman Hrabowski completed one of his famous “roof top tours” of the campus. With considerable excitement, Hrabowski pointed out several new building projects and numerous capital improvements. A member of the UMBC Class of 1980, Oros (President and CEO of Aether Systems, Inc., a growing wireless data systems firm) recalled a time when his fellow students joked that UMBC stood for “U Must Be Crazy to go to school here.” Twenty years later, however, he gratefully acknowledged that “UMBC’s achievements have made me look good.” Now, as a member of the UMBC Board of Visitors, Oros had become a central player in institutional efforts to reach a $50 million capital campaign goal.
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