Ellen Fairbanks Diggs “Taffy” Bodman
(’ 47 MA), 82, of Chapel Hill; July 7, 2007.
Bodman was a film consultant for the Media
Support Center and a visiting lecturer in
UNC’s former department of radio, television
and motion pictures. Details, ’40s Class Notes.
Marie Wilder Butts, 60, of Hillsborough;
Aug. 4, 2007. Butts retired after 37 years as an
administrative assistant at the Frank Porter
Graham Child Development Institute.
Dallas Alexander “Tex” Cameron Jr. (’ 61
AB, ’ 64 LLBJD), 68, of Raleigh;Aug. 13, 2007.
He once served as assistant to the dean of men.
Details, ’ 61 Class Notes. Bernita Diane
Charles, 52, of Durham; July 30, 2007. Charles
was an administrative secretary at UNC
Hospitals. Phillip Wayne Cooke (’ 56
MSW), 75, of Pittsboro and professor emeritus
at the School of Social Work; July 30, 2007.
Details, ’50s Class Notes. Delacy Cornelius
Corbett Crisp, 52, of Hillsborough; June 22,
2007. Crisp was employed at UNC Hospitals
in environmental services. Robert W.
Crutchfield (’ 39 MS), 97, of Salisbury; Aug.
14, 2007. Crutchfield had been an accounting
professor. Details, ’30s Class Notes. Alvin
Ennis, 69, of Rougemont; July 3, 2007. Ennis
was an electrician. Moreland Heflin
Hogan, 71, of Charlotte; July 8, 2007. Hogan
once served as editor-in-chief at UNC Press.
Most recently, he was a writer for The
Mecklenburg Times. He was managing editor of
the University of Georgia Press and taught at
Davidson College and Wofford University,
among others. In the 1970s, he founded
Briarpatch Press, publishing poetry, fiction,
essays and local history. Mary E. Holsclaw,
70, of Salisbury; July 27, 2007. Early in her
career, Holsclaw was a medical technician at
UNC Hospitals. She retired from Presbyterian
Hospital in Charlotte, where she worked for 40
years. Burke Haycock Judd, 79, of Chapel
Hill; June 11, 2007. Judd, a geneticist, was an
adjunct professor at UNC for 20 years and at
Duke University for 22 years, after retiring as
a professor at the University of Texas. He also
had been chairman of the Human Genome
Initiative Review Panel for the Department
of Energy, an editor of Molecular and General
Genetics, associate editor of Genetics and president of the Genetics Society of America. He
served in the Army. Carl Killingsworth Jr.,
70, of New York; June 23, 2007. Killingsworth
was manager of press and publicity for WNBC
in New York. He had been a senior writer
and producer at the station and also managed
syndicated programs for Time Life Films. At
UNC in the late 1950s, he worked for the
educational television network (now
WUNC-TV). He served in the Army’s picto-
rial center as a director for training films.
Albert Warren King (’ 50 AB, ’ 56 MSW)
81, of Burlington; July 14, 2007. King had
been on the faculty of the School of Social
Work, also serving as associate dean. Details,
’50s Class Notes. Olina Morris McLean,
88, of Durham; July 17, 2007. McLean was a
laboratory technician. Dr. Christine Ellis
McRee, 85, of Raleigh; Aug. 23, 2007. McRee
was a key developer of the child psychiatric
fellowship training program for UNC’s medical school. She was a private physician and
director of clinical services at the child psychiatric outpatient clinic at Dorothea Dix Hospital.
Craig Lance Michalak, 59, of Chapel
Hill; Aug. 20, 2007. Michalak, who came to
UNC in 2005, established and administered
the state’s first local health agency accreditation
program, part of the N.C. Institute for Public
Health in the School of Public Health. He
came from the University of Utah, where he
was associate executive director for career and
organization education. Earlier, he was an
administrator in the University of California
system and had a commercial real estate business. William P. Murphy, 87, of Chapel
Hill; Sept. 29, 2007. A retired law professor,
Murphy taught constitutional law and labor
law at UNC (1971-90) and held two endowed
chairs. After he retired, students endowed an
annual lecture in his name. Before coming to
UNC, Murphy taught at the University of
Missouri. In 1967, his book, The Triumph of
Nationalism: State Sovereignty, the Founding
Fathers, and the Making of the Constitution, was
published. When he taught constitutional law
at the University of Mississippi in the 1950s
and ’60s, his statements that segregated schools
were unconstitutional angered some, especially
members of White Citizens Councils, who
wanted to preserve segregation with private,
all-white academies. He left that teaching
position just before federal troops enforced
the admission of the first black undergraduate
at the University of Mississippi. In an oral history interview, Murphy said he never set out
to take a stand about segregation, that the only
thing that made it unusual and caused problems was the time and the place. Alan Ray
Novotny (’01 BSN), 58, of Carrboro, with
UNC’s medical school and the Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center; June 5, 2007.
Details, ’01 Class Notes. Mary Virginia
Muddiman Perry, 98, of Roanoke, Va.; Aug.
4, 2007. Perry worked at UNC’s Division of
Health Affairs and Kenan-Flagler Business
School. In Roanoke, she was active in the
Order of the Eastern Star. Jerry Wayne
Quinn, 61, of Chapel Hill; July 31, 2007.
Quinn was with UNC for 25 years, first as a
laboratory assistant, and
then as a maintenance
mechanic. He served in
the Army in Vietnam and
Germany. Carol
Lucile Richard, 59, of
Chapel Hill; Aug. 21, 2007. Richard was on
the dance faculty at UNC and taught at the
Ballet School of Chapel Hill. Other teaching
positions included the N.C. School of the Arts
and Elon College. Charles Arthur Rowe,
63, of San Antonio; June 26, 2007. Rowe was a
former director of corporate development.
Margaret Lansing Schopler, 82, of Chapel
Hill; July 16, 2007. Schopler worked with
autistic and other communication-related
handicapped children at UNC’s TEACCH
division. She was to be president of the Chapel
Hill Kiwanis Club in the coming year. Roy
Elmer Sommerfeld, 93, of Chapel Hill; July
11, 2007. Sommerfeld retired from UNC as a
professor in the School of Education.
Throughout the 1960s, he was a basketball
and football official. He was a charter member
of the Chapel Hill Civitan Club, of which he
was president and area lieutenant governor. In
WWII, he served in the Army as part of an
anti-aircraft squadron in the South Pacific.
Michael Perry Thompson, 59, of Chapel
Hill; July 27, 2007. Thompson worked in the
public safety department. He was a volunteer
camp host at Jordan Lake’s Crosswinds. He
served in the Army in Korea and Germany.
Pascal Louis Trohanis, 64, of Chapel Hill;
June 23, 2007. Trohanis was a senior scientist
at Frank Porter Graham Child Development
Institute. He served as director of the National
Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center,
which aided in ensuring that young children
with disabilities could participate in commu-
nity life. He was with UNC for 35 years. He
was a consultant to the Open Societies Institute
and received the Outstanding Services Award
from the Council of Exceptional Children,
division of early childhood. Eunice
Nickerson Tyler, 98, of Asheville; June 21,
2007. Tyler retired after more than 20 years
on the faculty of the School of Public Health.
She helped create the first curriculum on
public health education in the U.S. and was a
consultant to the World Health Organization.
The department of health behavior and
health education named its highest alumni
award in her honor. Cody Vincent, 49, of
Burlington; June 19, 2007.Vincent was a
maintenance mechanic. Dr. Joe Thomas
Wall (’ 53, ’ 55 BSBA; ’ 60 DDS), 77, of
Pittsboro; July 16, 2007. Wall retired as an
associate professor in the School of Dentistry.
Details, ’50s Class Notes.
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