Ohio, in its atomic energy division. He also
worked in a number of other cities for the
company, as well as in Belgium. He was a
Navy veteran of WWII. William Edward
Davis II (’ 51 BSPHR), 89, of Reidsville;
March 16, 2007. Davis, a pharmacist, owned
Davis Pharmacy and later co-owned Link
Brothers Pharmacy. He was a Navy veteran of
WWII. Joan Palmer Donald (’ 52 AB), 75,
of McMurray, Pa.; Dec. 23, 2006. Donald formerly was director of the Diabetes Association
of Pittsburgh and an assistant treasurer for
ALCOA Inc. At UNC, she was a Chi Omega.
W. Maxwell Edney (’ 50 AB), 82, of
Houston; Dec. 10, 2006. Edney had retired as
vice president of Ben Luc Inc. He served in
the Marine Corps in WWII and, at UNC, was
on the track and field team. Raimond
Emmers (’ 55 MA), 82, of River Edge, N.J.;
Aug. 8, 2006. Emmers retired as an associate
professor of physiology from Columbia
University Medical School. Robert
McCormick Figg III (’ 54 MA, ’ 65 PhD),
78, of Lutz, Fla.; Feb. 17, 2007. Figg was a professor of English and American literature at the
University of South Florida for 38 years.
Before attending UNC, he served with the
Army in WWII. Dr. R. Hogan Gaskins
Jr. (’ 57 DDS), 77, of Jacksonville; March 12,
2007. Gaskins practiced dentistry for 34 years.
His civic activities included serving on the
board of a day school and on the county board
of health. Alan Dixon Goodwin (’ 56
MRP), 80, of Port Townsend, Wash.; March 14,
2007. He served in the Army in WWII. His
volunteer activities included Methodist
Volunteer Missions and Habitat for Humanity.
Sidney Earl Gregory (’ 59), 74, of Raleigh;
March 29, 2007. Gregory retired as manager of
the Raleigh branch of Atlantic Tobacco Co. In
the Army, he trained in its Radio Signal
School. Perry Earl Haggins (’ 51), 76, of
Greensboro; Oct. 31, 2006. Haggins retired
from Lucent Technologies. In WWII, he was in
the Navy. H. Dale Hannan (’ 50 MA), 87,
of Munroe Falls, Ohio; Nov. 25, 2006. Hannan
retired as a senior associate editor of document
analysis with the Chemical Abstracts Service at
Ohio State University. Perrin Quarles
Henderson (’ 59 AB), 69, of Charlotte; Feb. 9,
2007. Henderson retired as president of Home
Realty and Management Co. and was selected
Realtor of the Year in 1990. An Eagle Scout,
he was involved in Boy Scouts as an adult and
was on the Eagle Scout Review Board. He
served in the Pacific with the Navy. On the
cross country team at UNC, he was a member
of the ACC championship team of 1957. He
also was captain of the wrestling team and a
member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Delta
Phi. David Esley Hudson Jr. (’ 50
BSCOM), 79, of Richmond,Va.; Feb. 21, 2007.
Hudson retired after 30 years as a credit man-
RONALD W. HYATT ’ 59 (MED) 1933–2007
A Gentle Spirit, a Great Sport
Gently and with humor — that’s the way supervised students who went on to be lead- Hyatt: always creative, always full of energy,
Ronald W. Hyatt ’ 59 (MED) herded ers, including Athletics Director Dick always full of ideas and always showing
colleagues into orderly columns at University Baddour ’ 66 and men’s head basketball coach tremendous enthusiasm. That’s the way he
ceremonies as faculty marshal. But his leader- Roy Williams ’ 72. talks. That’s the way he teaches. And that’s the
ship did not start or end with the sterling sil- way he treats people.”
ver staff he held for 11 years in the position. A retired colonel in the National Guard
As a teacher, professor, coach, director, presi- with 41 years of service, Hyatt taught
dent and widely published scholar in the Baddour’s leadership class when he was going
field of physical education, his leadership has through the National Guard’s Officer
long been recognized at the University, in the Candidate School.
community and in the state. He died June Hyatt published more than 30 articles in
14, 2007, in Chapel Hill. He was 74. scholarly journals. In 1968, he was instru-
“The faculty marshal has two jobs — mental in getting the Faculty-Staff
praying for good weather and lining the fac- Recreation Association, better known as The
ulty up two by two. Both require an act of Farm, on its feet — negotiating a 99-year
God,” Hyatt joked to The Chapel Hill News lease for the site for $1, clearing the site of
in 2006. Hyatt was appointed faculty marshal Ronald W. Hyatt ’ 59 (MED) kudzu and then serving as the group’s first
in 1992 by Chancellor Paul Hardin. president.
DAN SEARS ’ 74
When he retired from the role in 2003, a Over the years, Hyatt hosted GAA alumni
Faculty Council resolution stated that Hyatt travel programs and led classes for the GAA’s
“shared his life’s wisdom with members of Carolina College for Lifelong Learning,
the University community, putting up with including a tribute to the 1957 basketball
liberals (he said — ‘I love them all, brother. team held last fall.
… Them’s my people’), and the weather He received the University’s C. Knox
(observing as to rain on Commencement— Massey Distinguished Service Award in 2000;
‘When’s it’s raining on you, why cry? … You the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state’s
only add to the water’)” and that his highest award for leadership, scholarship and
“warmth, dignity and spirit will remain with service, in 2004; and the athletics department’s
all those he has touched forever.” Priceless Gem Award in 2006. He also was
Hyatt is credited with almost single-hand- named by the N.C. High School Athletic
edly building the intramural program at Association as one of the 50 most influential
Carolina in the 1960s and ’70s, former dean people in state high school sports in the past
of students Fred W. Schroeder Jr. told The 50 years.
Chapel Hill News in 2006. Hyatt taught and
in
memoriam
Hyatt came to Carolina to get his master’s
degree in education and then directed intramural programs, coached and taught at the
high school and college levels. He came back
to Carolina in 1966 as an assistant professor
of physical education and director of intramural sports, earning his doctorate in 1970
and becoming a full professor in 1980. He
was director of the Program for Public Policy
in Sport and helped start the sports administration master’s program, considered one of
the best of its kind in the U.S.
“Ron Hyatt is who he is,” Baddour said in
an interview with the University Gazette in
2006. “Whether he is in front of a class or he
is in front of your desk, there is just one Ron
