Eye, has been published to accompany the
exhibits. William Charles Stanback (’ 43
BSCOM) of Salisbury has received an honorary degree of humanitarian service from
Catawba College. Stanback ran the family
business, the Stanback Co., for more than 35
years. He serves on the advisory board for the
Catawba College Center for the Environment.
■ obituaries
Wardie Allen Adams (’ 44), 82, of
Wilmington; May 14, 2007. Early in his career,
John D. Boone Jr., 78, of Carrboro; April
28, 2007. Boone retired as head of the purchasing department. Among many community activities, he was on the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen and was mayor pro tem, volunteered with the auxiliary police, Orange
County Rescue Squad and UNC’s athletics
department. He received the Village Pride
Award from WCHL and Citizen of the Year
from the Jaycees and Exchange Club. He was
a tank commander with the Army in the
Korean War. Dr. John David “Jig”
Bridgers Sr., 86, of High Point; May 12,
2007. While in private practice in High Point,
Bridgers was assistant clinical professor and
visiting lecturer at UNC’s medical school. He
helped found the Developmental Evaluation
Clinic of High Point, now part of Moses
Cone Hospital, organized the city’s oral polio
vaccination drive and served on the city’s
board of education. A member of East
Carolina University’s Board of Trustees, he
was instrumental in establishing its medical
school. In 1984, he joined The Joint
Commission for the Accreditation of
Hospitals, then was medical director of what
today is the Cape May (N.J.) Regional
Medical Center. He was a dive-bomber pilot
in the Navy in WWII and a flight surgeon in
the Korean War. In WWII, he received the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the Navy Flying
Cross and five Air Medals. Betty Jane
Milliner Carrington, 79, of Durham; May
25, 2007. Carrington retired from UNC
Hospitals, where she was a recovery room
supervisor. She worked at the hospitals for
more than 30 years. Ruby Wheeley
Carter, 92, of Hillsborough; April 25, 2007.
Carter retired as a baker for The Carolina Inn.
Thelma Horner Duncan, 86, of Chapel
Hill; June 24, 2007. Duncan retired as a UNC
employee. Leonard Willis “Pop”
Eubanks, 95, of Pittsboro; March 29, 2007.
Eubanks retired from the maintenance
department for the UNC athletics department. In WWII, he served in the Army.
Catherine Dunn Hall, 88, of Winston-Salem; June 8, 2007. Hall, a retired legal secre-
Adams worked in the traffic department for a
Parkersburg, W.Va., company. In WWII, he was
in the Navy. Martha Anderson (’ 49 BSLS),
84, of Marion, Va.; May 4, 2007. Anderson
retired as a research librarian with the Oak
Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratories, managed
by Lockheed-Martin Energy Systems.
Edwin Ruffin Andrews (’ 41 PhD), 92, of
Milledgeville, Ga.; April 17, 2007. Andrews was
a research chemist with Merrill Laboratories,
retiring in 1976. Walton Avery (’ 47), 81, of
Morganton; Aug. 20, 2006. Avery served in the
tary, worked for former Chancellor Robert B.
House. Mary Ann Hall Johnson, 64, of
Durham;April 29, 2007. Hall worked at
UNC Hospitals for more than 15 years. Later,
she owned Little Angels Daycare. Dr.
George Johnson Jr. (’ 48, ’ 49 BSMED; ’ 50
CMED), 81, of Chapel Hill; May 15, 2007.
Johnson was professor emeritus of surgery in
UNC’s School of Medicine. Details, ’40s Class
Notes. Dr. H. Gerard Hartzog III (’ 58
AB, ’ 62 MD), 71, of Raleigh; June 15, 2007.
Hartzog was a clinical associate professor in
the department of surgery at UNC. Details,
’50s Class Notes. Howard Jay Hickes, 88,
of Sylva; June 5, 2007. Hickes joined the faculty in 1950 as associate professor of special
education. He began the first exceptional-children classes for the N.C. Department of
Education and was director of special education for the Charlotte/Mecklenburg School
System for 17 years. He received the Melvin
Jones Award for Dedicated Humanitarian
Services from the International Lions Club. In
WWII, he served in the Navy and retired
from the Naval Reserve in 1979. Roselyn
Valjean Little, 63, of Columbus, Ga.; April
24, 2007. Little taught microbiology at UNC
and at Johnson C. Smith University in
Charlotte. Doug Marlette, 57, of
Hillsborough; July 10, 2007. Marlette, a syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, had been
employed by the Tulsa World since 2006. He
was a cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer for
15 years, and also worked for The Atlanta
Constitution, Newsday and the Tallahassee (Fla.)
Democrat. His cartoons also appeared in The
Daily Tar Heel. He was appointed
Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School
of Journalism and Mass Communication in
2001. He taught courses specifically designed
for him, Humor Writing: Behind the Chuckles
Racket and Sacred Cows and Holy Hamburger.
At the school, he was a speaker for a number
of executive education programs and for the
N.C. Scholastic Media Association. He served
on the school’s Board of Visitors and was
inducted into the N.C. Journalism Hall of
40s
Navy in WWII. Norman Cowell Barnes
(’ 49 AB), 83, of Yarmouth Port, Mass.; March
8, 2007. Barnes retired as a foreign service officer for the State Department. He served in
various locations in Asia, including Hong
Kong, Manila and Kuala Lumpur. Before joining the foreign service, he was with Voice of
America. In WWII, he was in the Marine
Corps, serving in the Asiatic Pacific. An auto
racer, he participated in the Macau Grand Prix
and in the Johor, Malaysia, Grand Prix. On
Cape Cod, he served on the Yarmouth
Fame in 2002. His syndicated comic strip, Kudzu,
was adapted as a musical
by Marlette and the Red
Clay Ramblers musical
group, and was performed at Duke
University and Ford’s Theatre in Washington
D.C., among other places. His first novel, The
Bridge, was named Best Book of the Year for
Fiction by the Southeastern Booksellers
Association in 2002. His second book, Magic
Time, was published this year. At the time of
his death, he was working with a high school
group in Oxford, Miss., that was preparing to
perform the musical Kudzu in a national
competition. The collection of cartoons for
which he won the Pulitzer included a number about evangelists Jimmy and Tammy Faye
Bakker. His 1986 cartoon, drawn after the
Challenger exploded, was widely reprinted. It
shows the American eagle looking skyward,
shedding a tear. Shelia Gale McMillian,
51, of Chapel Hill; May 20, 2007. McMillian
retired from the staff of Davis Library.
Carol Hunt Quinlan, 73, of Carrboro; May
7, 2007. Quinlan retired from UNC Hospitals
after 30 years of service. She was active in the
Durham Kennel Club. Richard Duncan
Settle, 75, of Chapel Hill; May 11, 2007.
Settle was a professor in the department of
radio, television and motion pictures for more
then 20 years, teaching TV production, writing and media speech before retiring in 1993.
He created and directed the RTVMP High
School Institute for 10 years. He also read
voice-over scripts for Morehead Planetarium
productions. He served as a medical technician in the Korean War. Dr. William H.
Sprunt III, 85, of Deland, Fla.; March 20,
2007. Sprunt, a radiologist, joined UNC’s
medical school as an associate professor in
1953. Later, he formed a radiology partnership affiliated with WakeMed. He taught procedures not previously available in Wake
County, including ultrasound, computer axial
tomography and angiocardiology. His practice
had grown to 58 radiologists in 14 locations.
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