WWII. At UNC, he belonged to Sigma Chi
and was business manager of Tarnation humor
magazine and a member of the track team.
Haskell Solomon Tubiash (’ 47 MSPH), 94,
of Yardley, Pa.;April 24, 2007. Tubiash retired
as a microbiologist with the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. He was a
veteran of WWII. Dr. Hubert King Turley
Jr. (’ 40 AB), 88, of Memphis, Tenn.; March 17,
2007. Turley retired as a urologist after 34 years.
In addition to his private practice, he taught at
the University of Tennessee medical school and
was chief of staff and president of the medical
staff at Baptist Hospital. He was a charter member and president of the Southern Society of
Urological Surgeons, among many other professional and civic activities. An Eagle Scout, he
served in the Army Medical Corps in WWII
and belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon at UNC.
John Samuel Williamson (’ 49), 81, of
Hamlet; Feb. 12, 2007. George Pickett
Wilson Jr. (’ 41 MA), 88, of Tucson, Ariz.;
May 14, 2007. Wilson retired as professor in
the department of media arts at the University
of Arizona. Previously, he was professor and
chairman of telecommunicative arts at Iowa
State University. He also was an actor and
appeared in The Highland Call by Paul Green
’ 21. In retirement, he was a docent at the
Tucson Museum of Art.
SAVE
the
DATE
May 9– 11, 2008
Class of ’ 58
50th Reunion
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.
’50s Mary Lou Norwood Booth
(’ 57 BSN) of Apex, a retired
business owner, has been
elected to the UNC Board of Visitors. E.
Maurice Braswell (’ 50 LLB) of Fayetteville,
retired from the N.C. Court of Appeals and
formerly senior resident judge of Superior
Court for the 12th District, has received the
Liberty Bell Award from the N.C. Bar Association. Hal Dean Ferraro (’ 51 BSBA) of
Belton, Mo., a former merchandising executive
with General Motors Corp., was honored for
his work on the board and community advisory
committee of the Health Care Foundation of
Greater Kansas City. J. Hugh Fletcher (’ 52
BSPHR) of Valdese has been honored by Burke
Hospice for his financial support and his volunteer work in the Silver Lining Capital Campaign. Fletcher also received the Valdese Rotary
Club’s Service Above Self Award. Benjamin
Eagles Fountain Jr. (’ 50 ABED, ’ 52 MED,
’ 58 PhD) of Cary has received the 2006 John
Tyler Caldwell Award from the N.C. Humanities Council. Fountain began his work in the
community college system in North Carolina
in 1965, turning a small technical college into
Lenoir Community College. He is the second
president of the N.C. community college system, president of Isothermal Community College and a member of the N.C. State University faculty, teaching future community college
administrators. R. Phillip Haire (’ 58 AB,
’ 61 LLB) of Sylva, representative for N.C.’s
119th District, has been elected to the UNC
Board of Visitors. Dr. E. Flynn Harris (’ 56
AB, ’ 60 DDS) of Charlotte successfully climbed
Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2006. Sally
Melvin Horner (’ 57 BSCH, ’ 61 PhD) of
Myrtle Beach, S.C., executive liaison to the
president at Coastal Carolina University, has
received a distinguished service award from the
Southern Association of College and University
Business Officers. Thomas Willis Lambeth
(’ 57 AB) of Winston-Salem has received the
2nd Annual Children’s Lifetime Legacy Award,
presented by Action for Children North Carolina. Lambeth, chairman of the Center for
Teaching Quality and the N.C. Rural Center
and a senior fellow at the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation, is chair of the Tar Heel Network
for the GAA. Betty Ray McCain (’ 52 AB)
of Wilson, former secretary of the N.C.
Department of Cultural Resources, has been
presented with an honorary doctor of humane
letters by UNC-Greensboro, where she was
the commencement speaker in May. Edwin
