Travis Emery ’78

We lost Travis when his giant heart stopped May 29, 2016.

Travis was raised in Baltimore and graduated from Gilman School. At Princeton, he was a member of the Nassoons and Ivy Club, and graduated with honors in architecture.

After earning his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Travis combined his training in architecture and the law in his work for John Carl Warnecke Corp. and later the Hill Corp. in Los Angeles. Moving back to Baltimore to assist in the care of his father, Travis then worked with distinction in the HIV/AIDS housing policy administration of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Throughout his life, Travis devoted his time and financial resources in support of others — tutoring children, restoring homes, purchasing tickets to send young people to cultural events, and covering medical costs for people without health insurance — living out his deeply held faith by helping those less fortunate than he was.

He is survived by his husband, Rob Berry; mother, Anne O. Emery; and brother, Vallen Emery Jr.

Our class, our college, and the communities in which Travis lived were blessed by the life of this remarkable, caring man.