Obituaries

From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Prettyman practiced corporate law with the Washington office of Kaye Scholer. More recently, he served on the board of directors of EADS North American Defense Security and Systems Solutions Inc. and of Frequentis Inc., an Austrian company involved in the defense industry.

Mr. Prettyman was born in Rising Sun, Md., and graduated from the University of Delaware. He served two years as an Army artillery officer and received a master's degree in history from Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1977.

Largely as a hobby, Mr. Prettyman wrote columns on sports for the Cecil Whig and the Record in Harford County for many years. He was especially knowledgeable about Johns Hopkins lacrosse and followed the team to games up and down the East Coast. On May 28, he was in attendance as Johns Hopkins won the national championship game in Baltimore.

He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City.

His marriage to Janet D. Prettyman ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Barbara Edmonds Prettyman of Ellicott City; two children from his first marriage, Jeffrey R. Prettyman of Richmond and Susan P. Lewis of Seattle; two stepchildren, Leslie L. Edmonds of Virginia Beach and Jeffrey G. Edmonds of St. Petersburg, Fla.; his father, George B. Prettyman of Ellicott City; and four grandchildren.

-- Matt Schudel

Carl M. Vorder BrueggeBusiness Executive

Carl Martin Vorder Bruegge, 77, a former executive with IBM and MCI, died May 31 of pancreatic cancer at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn. He lived in Riverside, Conn.

From 1971 to 1986, Mr. Vorder Bruegge was based in Washington as senior vice president of MCI. He was director of marketing and sales for the company during the prolonged court battles that led to the breakup of AT&T in 1982.