Carolina Alumni Review - May/June 2007

the Youth Services Board and the High Point Public Library Board. He was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. He served in the Navy in WWII and, at UNC, belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi. Christopher Jim Shay Jr. (’ 49 AB, ’ 51 MED), 82, of Lake Wales, Fla.; Nov. 28, 2006. Shay retired after 18 years as an administrative assistant in the St. Lucie County, Fla., schools. He was on the board of directors of the YMCA and president of the Classroom Teachers Club, which named him Man of the Year in 1970. In WWII, he was part of an Army parachute team. Dr. Richard Shelton (’ 41), 84, of Miami; Nov. 8, 2006. Shelton, who was known as Richard Silverman at UNC, was a dentist in New York for 50 years before retiring to Florida. For many years, he was the dentist for staff at Belmont and Aqueduct race tracks. Also, he was on the board of directors of several film companies. In WWII, he was with the Army, serving in the Aleutian Islands. William Alfred Sizemore (’ 48), 82, of High Point; Dec. 26, 2006. Sizemore was the owner of a property rental company and was in the retail grocery business. In WWII, he served in the Army Air Corps. Zachary Taylor Smith II (’ 47 AB), 83, of Winston-Salem; Jan. 14, 2007. Smith retired as treasurer and director of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. after almost 40 years. He was a director emeritus of the UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation

Inc., vice chairman of the UNC Board of Visitors, a past member of the GAA Board of Directors and on the board of the Medical Foundation of North Carolina. He also was past president and life trustee of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, life trustee of Wake Forest University, president of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation and on the Reynolds Scholarship Committee. He served in the Navy and, at UNC, belonged to Beta Theta Pi. Sybil Drake Southmayd (’ 49 AB), 77, of Tulsa, Okla.; March 18, 2006. John Walter Starr Jr. (’ 47 AB), 85, of Albany, Ga.; Jan. 29, 2007. Starr worked in the career development department of Darton College, following his retirement from the office equipment business. An artist, he was past president and honorary life member of the Georgia Artist Guild of Albany. His paintings hang in an Albany area church, a college and private homes. He was a pilot in the Army Air Force in WWII, flying in the Dutch East Indies. Elizabeth Maynard Stout (’ 45 AB), 82, of Fayetteville; Oct. 20, 2006. Stout was manager of a snack bar. Earlier in her career, she taught French and Spanish at Chapel Hill High School and was a kindergarten teacher for 15 years. At UNC, she was a member of the Philanthropic Society. Sarah McLean Thomson (’ 40 AB), 87, of Lake Waccamaw; Nov. 10, 2006. Thomson served on the board of directors for the Depot Museum

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and received an honorary life membership from the Presbyterian Women’s Association. E. Lloyd Tilley Jr. (’ 45 BSCOM), 82, of Winston-Salem; Jan. 1, 2007. Tilley was a partner in an accounting firm until he retired in the early ’80s. He served on the boards of ministry organizations and his church. Elizabeth Andrews Twiford (’ 46 AB), 82, of Clarksdale, Miss.; Dec. 10, 2006. Twiford was a volunteer with Meals on Wheels for many years and president of her church women’s group. At UNC, she was president of Chi Omega. Ira Albert Ward (’ 42, ’ 46 BSCOM), 85, of Chapel Hill; Dec. 21, 2006. Ward retired as president of the Orange Savings and Loan Association. Earlier in his career, he was the tax supervisor for Orange County. In WWII, he was in the Army Air Corps, serving in the southwest Pacific. Among his honors, he received the Distinguished Flying Cross with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with three Bronze Service Stars. At UNC, he was on the baseball team. James Herndon Warren (’ 47 AB), 80, of Hermitage, Tenn.; Jan. 25, 2007. Warren, an ordained Methodist minister, was professor of religious drama at Scarritt College. He conducted a number of religious drama workshops during his career and was a member of the cast of The Lost Colony at Roanoke Island. Martha Lorene Wertz (’ 46), 84, of Durham;