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News for and about the members of the UNC General
Alumni Association. Want to submit an item? Look for the
“Keeping in Touch” form on page 86, post news online at
alumni.unc.edu or send e-mail to
alumni@unc.edu. The
deadline for the May/June issue is March 1.
’30s Edwin Timanus Elliot (’ 39
AB) of West Des Moines,
Iowa, published four books in
the past year: Three Brothers, a tribute to Elliot’s
forebears from the Palatinate; An Indian Trader
on America’s Frontier, a historical action work
co-authored by Walter S. Dunn; and two novels, The Descent and The Peregrinations of the
Sephardic Jews.
■ obituaries
Edgar W. Bullard (’ 38 AB), 95, of Gastonia;
Sept. 27, 2006. Bullard retired as owner of a
realty company. Earlier in his career, he was
postmaster of Belmont. He was in the Navy,
serving in WWII and the Korean War, and was
commander of the Belmont Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Belmont American Legion.
He was president of the Gaston County Board
of Realtors and a trustee of the county library.
At UNC, he was a member of the baseball
team and was captain his senior year. He also
was captain of the freshman basketball team.
Katherine Buck Cherry (’ 36), 92, of
Raleigh; July 31, 2006. Cherry retired as a
clerical assistant for an insurance company. She
was a member of Chi Omega at UNC. W.
Burke Davis Jr. (’ 37 ABJO), 93, of Meadows
of Dan,Va.;Aug. 18, 2006. Davis was the
author of numerous military history books and
biographies, including To Appomattox: Six April
Days, which was named the best nonfiction
work by a North Carolinian by the N.C. Literary and Historical Association. He worked
for the Charlotte News, the Baltimore Evening
Sun and the Greensboro Daily News. He was a
special projects writer for the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation. He received the
North Carolina Award, was on the board of
the N.C. Botanical Gardens and was co-founder of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens of Duke
University. Monroe Ernest Evans (’ 35),
91, of Fayetteville; Sept. 2, 2006. Evans was
mayor of Fayetteville in the late ’60s, owned a
furniture store and was president of a feed
products company. In addition, he was a marble sculptor. He was president of the Fayetteville Area Habitat for Humanity, the Chamber of Commerce and the Fayetteville
Museum of Art. Tau Epsilon Phi elected him
national Man of the Year in 1965, and the
N. C. Small Business Administration named
him its Man of the Year in 1975. At UNC, he
belonged to Tau Epsilon Phi and the Philanthropic Society. Roger Elliott Holman
(’ 36 BSCOM), 91, of Charlotte; Sept. 12, 2006.
Holman retired as vice president of a lead
smelting company. He was a Salvation Army
volunteer and a hospital volunteer. Earlier in
his career, he was with the Gulf Oil Corp. in
Venezuela. He was in the Navy in WWII,
serving in the Pacific. At UNC, he was a
member of Chi Psi. William Hugh
Leeper (’ 39 BSCOM), 89, of Ardsley, N. Y.;
Oct. 4, 2006. A senior accountant with Avco
Corp., Leeper served in the Army in WWII.
Elizabeth Jones McPherson (’ 32), 96, of
Greenville, S.C.; Sept. 19, 2006. McPherson
was active in the Daughters of the American
Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Junior League of Greenville.
Dr. J. Gilmer Mebane (’ 36 AB, ’ 39 CMED),
91, of Rutherfordton; Aug. 25, 2006. Mebane
practiced internal medicine and cardiology in
Rutherfordton. He served in the Army Medical Corps in WWII and, at UNC, belonged to
Delta Kappa Epsilon and graduated Phi Beta
Kappa. Charles Payne Misenheimer (’ 33
ABED, ’ 48 MAED), 95, of Richfield; Oct. 16,
2006. Misenheimer was principal of Richfield
High School and also coached basketball and
baseball. Following his retirement, he continued to volunteer at the school. He coached
Little League for more than 40 years and was
elected to the Stanly County Sports Hall of
Fame. In WWII, he served in the Army and
was stationed in Germany. At UNC, he was a
member of Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Sigma
Kappa. Roy Bunnyan Mozingo (’ 34), 94,
of Kenly; Sept. 23, 2006. Mozingo worked on
a family farm. Melville Augustus Taff Jr.
(’ 33, ’ 38 BSPUB), 94, of Panama City Beach,
Fla.; March 1, 2006. Taff was a supervisor for
the Public Health Service in California and,
early in his career, worked for the Rockefeller
Foundation in Washington, D.C. He belonged
to the Glee Club at UNC.
’40s ■ obituaries
Mary Fox Arnold (’ 48
MPH), 85, of Denver, Colo.; Oct. 30, 2005.
Arnold was a faculty member in health planning at Pennsylvania State University and, earlier, at the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. She was a
consultant to the health departments of several
states and the National League for Nursing,
among other organizations. She wrote articles
and books about health management. The California Health Association awarded her its
Bronze Medallion for meritorious service.
Marion C. Barbee Jr. (’ 45), 84, of Roanoke,
Va.; Sept. 3, 2006. Barbee was a sales representative with Dillard Paper Co. for more than 40
years. In WWII, he was a navigator in the
Army Air Force. Forced to bail out of his
burning plane as it completed a mission, he
spent eight months in an English hospital
before returning to the U.S. At UNC, he
belonged to Phi Gamma Delta. Melver
Raymond Barnes (’ 47 AB), 88, of Spencer;
Sept. 18, 2006. Barnes retired as a research
chemist from civil service with the Department of the Army. He served in the Army in
WWII. Frank Cardinal “Bloss” Blocksidge Jr. (’ 48 BSCOM), 83, of Chapel Hill;
Sept. 17, 2006. Blocksidge was general manager of an appliance, coal and oil company. He
