agent, has been presented with the Greater
Chapel Hill Association of Realtors 2006
Office of the Year Award. J. Thomas
Gooding (’ 51, ’ 50 BSBA; ’ 54 MBA) of High
Point and his wife, Jean, celebrated their 53rd
wedding anniversary by adding the seventh
continent, Antarctica, to uphold Gooding’s
vow to see the world after taking Professor
James Harland’s course on ancient architecture
in 1949. Thomas Willis Lambeth (’ 57
AB) of Winston-Salem, represented UNC
during the inauguration of Susan E. Pauly as
the 19th president of Salem Academy and College. Lambeth serves on the GAA Board of
Directors as chair of the Tar Heel Network,
and he received the GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1988. F. Fetzer Mills (’ 54,
’ 59 AB;’ 61 LLB) of Wadesboro retired as a
Superior Court judge in April, having served
40 years on the bench. Upon his retirement,
Mills was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf
Pine, North Carolina’s highest honor, at a surprise celebration. John Shorter Stevens
(’ 56 AB, ’ 61 LLBJD) of Asheville, a past member of the GAA Board of Directors, represented UNC during the inauguration of
William Sanborn Pfeiffer as the sixth president
of Warren Wilson College. A. Hardy Sullivan (’ 55) of Morehead City has opened a new
business, Coastal PhotoGraphics.
HuFamll anities Seminars
Save
the
Date!
Adventures in Ideas—the overwhelmingly popular
Humanities Seminars—continues this fall to explore
interesting and important cultural, moral and social topics from the perspective of the humanities. Plans for the
following seminars are underway:
September 22 • Understanding India an encore seminar
September 29 • Queen Bees: Sovereign Women from Cleopatra
to Victoria Regina
October 12– 13 • Star-Cross’d: Love & Loss in Shakespeare
featuring a performance of Romeo and Juliet
by the PlayMakers Repertory Company
October 22 • Ancient Wisdom: Faith & Doubt in Ecclesiastes,
Job, Proverbs & the Psalms
October 26 • Books We Love: Great Teachers Talk About
Favorite Fiction
November 3 • The Mind-Body Paradigm: Philosophy,
Psychology & Wellbeing
November 9– 10 • Crime & Punishment: Rethinking the Death Penalty
November 16– 17 • Religion & Society from the City of God & Utopia
to the Moral Majority
December 7– 8 • Xenophobia: Nationality & Ethnicity
in Wartime America
December 14– 15 • The Holidays on Stage & Screen:
From The Nutcracker & A Christmas Carol
to It’s a Wonderful Life
GAA members receive a registration discount. First-time participants
receive a 50% discount. Online registration is now available.
To register, please visit www.adventuresinideas.unc.edu and click
on “how to register,” send e-mail to human@unc.edu, or call
(919) 962–1544.
sponsored by the
unc humanities
program, the
college of arts
and sciences and
the unc general
alumni association
Special Notice:
Full-time K- 12 teachers, librarians and
administrators in public and private
schools and community college faculty
in North Carolina receive 50%
discount on tuition for all seminars.
■ obituaries
A. Fred Alexander Jr. (’ 53 BSBA), 75, of
Raleigh; March 9, 2007. Alexander retired as a
senior research analyst with Progress Energy.
He was a veteran of the Army and performed
with the First Army Band. He belonged to
Delta Sigma Phi and the Marching Band at
UNC. Ernest A. Barth (’ 53 MA, ’ 56
PhD), 82, of Seattle; Feb. 22, 2007. Barth was a
faculty member in the department of sociology at the University of Washington. His
research interests were in race and minority
community relations. In WWII, he served in
the Navy. Mary Sutton Bell (’ 53), 75, of
Charlotte;April 1, 2007. Bell retired as a counselor for New Hanover Public Schools in
1997. Previously, she was a teacher and counselor at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. She
was a trustee of Cape Fear Community
College and served on the board of the
Southeast Center for Mental Health.
Barbara Whipple Bitter (’ 51 AB), 79, of
Hilton Head Island, S.C.; Feb. 9, 2007. Bitter
retired as director of advisement and head of
the department of developmental studies at
Georgia Southern College. At UNC, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to
Valkyries, Order of the Old Well and Alpha
Gamma Delta. E. Dwight Blackwelder
(’ 50 ABED, ’ 54 MA), 80, of Concord; March
24, 2007. For more than 30 years, Blackwelder
taught in the Concord City Schools, where he
was director of instruction and edited the
monthly newspaper. He and his wife owned
and operated a framing shop in retirement. He
served in the Army in WWII. At UNC, he
graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Jack Bullock
Bragg (’ 51), 78, of Wilmington; June 30,
2006. Bragg was a retired employee of the
Unocal Oil Co. of California. He was an Army
veteran of the Korean War. Berry Nolan
Brewer (’ 57 BSBA), 75, of Cape Coral, Fla.;
July 31, 2006. Brewer was a manufacturer’s
representative for a cabinet company. At UNC,
he belonged to Pi Kappa Phi. Verona
Hilton Brown (’ 51), 94, of High Point; May
28, 2006. Brown was a registered nurse who
worked in public health. Lawrence Martin
Cohen (’ 50 AB), 79, of Greensboro; March 14,
2007. Cohen was the retired chairman of
Carlyle & Co., his family’s jewelry business.
Among his civic activities, he was a founder
and president of the N.C. Triad Jewish
Federation and president of Temple Emanuel
in Greensboro. He received the Ben Cone
Award from the Greensboro Jewish Federation.
He served in the Navy in WWII and, at UNC,
belonged to Zeta Beta Tau. Rex Atris
Collins (’ 50 BSCOM), 82, of Chillicothe,
Ohio;April 4, 2007. Collins was an executive
with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron,
