Harriett Burch Brooks (’ 62 BSPHN), 82, of
Brooksville, Fla.; Sept. 10, 2006. Brooks was a
public health nurse who worked for the
Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and the Citrus County Health Department and was director of nurses for the Leon
County Health Department. Ruth
Stephenson Hassanein (’ 62 MSPH), 70, of
Liberty, Mo.; Sept. 1, 2006. Hassanein was professor emeritus of biometry at the University
of Kansas Medical Center. In addition, she
served in administrative positions in the medical school. She received the medical center’s
first Faculty Assembly Stewardship Award and
was the author or co-author of more than 100
scientific papers. John Bruce Kime Kenrick (’ 62), 67, of West Orange, N.J.; Aug. 15,
2006. Kenrick retired as a textile executive
with a yarn company. At UNC, he was on the
varsity soccer team and was a member of
Alpha Tau Omega. Dr. H. Wayne Mayhue
(’ 62 BSMED, ’ 65 MD), 66, of Jefferson, Ind.;
June 17, 2006. Mayhue was an obstetrician
and gynecologist. He served in the Air Force
and was an Eagle Scout. At UNC, he belonged
to Sigma Nu. Hal McLean “Mackie”
Redwine (’ 62 LLB), 70, of Green Village,
N.J.; Sept. 1, 2006. Redwine was legal counsel
for government agencies in Washington, D.C.,
for many years. His positions included legal
counselor for international negotiations for
the Customs Service and senior counsel in
the Office of Legislative Affairs in the
Department of Justice. Earlier in his career, he
practiced law in Charlotte with Henderson,
Henderson and Shuford. He served in the
Army.
’ 63 Robert Doyle Greeson Jr. (’ 63
AB) of Bristol, Tenn., employed
for the past nine years by Virginia
Wholesale Inc., a regional wholesale grocery,
has retired after 40 years in sales.
■ obituaries
Leonard Hugh Dawson III (’ 63 MSPH),
69, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 1, 2006. Dawson was
clinical professor emeritus of health education
at UNC’s School of Public Health. He joined
the UNC faculty in 1966 and was appointed
director of master’s degree programs in the
school. He developed a training program,
Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis, to help
professionals develop public health programs
for communities. Following his retirement, he
was a consultant and technical adviser, assisting
other organizations in implementing his community health care programs. He traveled to
Nigeria, Indonesia and Malawi as an adviser
and also worked with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and the Rapides Health
Foundation. Among his honors, Dawson was
awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine and
the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
from his home state. His papers are in the
Southern Historical Collection at UNC
Library. Miriam Greene Lawrence (’ 63
BSPHR), 64, of Hickory; Sept. 1, 2006.
Lawrence was a pharmacist for a Hickory
drug store and also worked for pharmacies in
Newton, Morganton and Lenoir. Along with
her late husband, she owned two businesses. At
UNC, she was a member of Kappa Epsilon.
Dr. William Robert Wentz (’ 63 MSORT),
78, of Durham; Oct. 3, 2006. Wentz was a
retired orthodontist who served as president of
the Durham chapter of the American Cancer
Society. Active in musical groups, he belonged
to the Durham Symphony, the Village Band
and Durham Band, among others. In the Korean
War, he was a dentist with the Air Force.
’ 64 ■ obituary
Leonard M. Stephenson Jr.
(’ 64 BSCH), 63, of Philadelphia; Aug. 26,
2006. Stephenson was vice provost for
research and professor of chemistry at Drexel
University. Other universities with which he
was associated include the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stanford
University, Case Western Reserve University
and the University of Southern California. At
UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was a
member of the men’s golf team and Alpha
Chi Sigma, and received the Venable Medal as
the outstanding senior in chemistry.
’ 65 Joseph Reeves “Pitt” Hyde III
(’ 65 AB) and his wife, Barbara
Rosser Hyde (’ 83 AB), of Memphis, Tenn., have pledged $5 million to endow
the Academic Leadership Program in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC and
to name the program for Ruel W. Tyson, who
stepped down from the directorship of the
program after 20 years. H. Martin Lancaster (’ 65 AB, ’ 67 JD) of Cary, president of
the N.C. Community College System, has
received the Distinguished Citizen Award from
the Wake County Alumni Chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa. James Arlyn Rogerson (’ 65 AB) of
Charlotte has retired from a career in archives
and records management that included the
reorganization of the archives and records
management program at UNC-Greensboro,
the beginnings of the archives and records management system at UNC-Charlotte, and the
initiation of the process at N.C. A&T University.
■ marriage
Donald Benton Parrott (’ 65 BSBA) and
60s
Cathy C. Harris of Charlotte.
■ obituary
Robert Ray Shipman (’ 65, ’ 66 BSBA), 64,
of Atlanta; Oct. 17, 2006. Shipman retired as
president of Sunbelt Resorts Inc. He was vice
president of a company that manufactures and
imports architectural details for decorating. He
was named to the UNC Board of Visitors in
2004 and, at UNC, belonged to Kappa Alpha
Order.
’ 66 Clyde Carlyle Edgerton (’ 66
ABED, ’ 73 MAT, ’ 77 PhD) of
Wilmington, UNC-Wilmington
professor of creative writing and the author of
numerous works of fiction, has received the
Ragan Old North State Award for his first
nonfiction book, Solo: My Adventures in the Air,
a memoir of his years flying combat missions
in Vietnam.
■ obituaries
Judith Jeffrey Letsinger (’ 66 MSLS), 68, of
Raleigh; Oct. 1, 2006. Letsinger worked for the
N.C. Department of Public Instruction in the
division of educational media. Among her
responsibilities, she was director of projects to
identify model programs to help educators
improve their own schools. Jack Erwin
Reece (’ 66 PhD), 67, of Pueblo, Colo.; Sept. 4,
2006. Reece was a chemist and statistician in
the semiconductor industry. At UNC, he was a
member of Alpha Chi Sigma. Ruth Willis
Williamson (’ 66 MA), 94, of Roanoke,Va.;
May 5, 2006. Williamson retired as an assistant
professor of Latin at Radford University.
SAVE
the
DATE
May 11– 13, 2007
Class of ’ 67
Reunion
’ 67 Steven Durant Bell (’ 67 AB) of
Greensboro, chairman and CEO
of Steven D. Bell & Co., has been
inducted into the Junior Achievement of N.C.
Business Hall of Fame. George Perry
Sawyer Jr. (’ 67, ’ 69 MA) of Hartsville, S.C.,
has been selected by the Darlington Soil and
Water Conservation District as Conservationist
of the Year. In addition to serving as director of
Kalmia Gardens of Coker College, Sawyer has
been involved in Hartsville Trees for Tomorrow, the S.C. Cotton Trail committee and the
Darlington County planning team. Joseph
Carlyle Sitterson Jr. (’ 67 AB, ’ 75 PhD) of
Doha, Qatar, professor of English at Georgetown University, and his wife, Lisa Nanney
(’ 77 AB, ’ 89 PhD) have joined the department
of English teaching faculty of the Georgetown
