Belk store in South Park Mall. At UNC, he
belonged to Kappa Alpha. Dr. James John
Hudock (’ 62 BSIR, ’ 68 DDS), 67, of Kinston;
May 11, 2007. Hudock was a retired dentist. At
UNC, he played baseball and basketball. He
was captain of the basketball team his senior
year, playing for then first-year head coach
Dean Smith. Robert Leroy Scott (’ 62
MPH), 83, of Monroe; June 25, 2007. Scott
had been a partner in a real estate company
and executive director of Union County’s
industrial development commission. He was a
Navy motor machinist mate in WWII and participated in the liberation of the Philippines.
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’ 63 W. Gaston Caperton III (’ 63
BSBA) of New York has received
the James Bryant Conant Award
from the Education Commission of the States
for his leadership as president of the College
Board and his role in expanding access and
service by the College Board for low-income
and underrepresented students. Dr. James
Davenport Hundley Sr. (’ 63 AB, ’ 67 MD)
of Wilmington has received a 2007 Star-News
Lifetime Achievement Award. Hundley is an
orthopedic surgeon with Wilmington
Orthopaedic Group and served as the GAA
board representative for medicine in 1998-99.
Otis Martin “Bud” Oliver (’ 63 LLB) of
Mount Airy has retired as chief District Court
judge for N.C. District 17B, Surry and Stokes
counties.
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Elizabeth T. Britton (’ 63 MAT), 96, of
Dunn; June 1, 2007. Britton was a chemistry
professor at Campbell University for 20 years.
Eugene Chaney Jr. (’ 63 BSBA), 67, of
Mountain Home, Idaho; Aug. 13, 2007. Chaney
was owner of the Horseshoe Club in Carson
City, Nev., where he had lived for 35 years.
’ 64 Alan Jones White (’ 64 MEd) of
Burlington has been inducted into
the Elon University Sports Hall of
Fame. White served for 27 years as director of
athletics at Elon until his retirement in 2006.
He was inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of
Fame this year.
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Ronald Reid Kiser (’ 64 AB), 68, of Mars
Hill;Aug. 12, 2007. Kiser was a real estate broker and appraiser for 30 years. Active in his
church, he was a member of the Voice Choir.
Wilhelmina Wilson Rickenbacker (’ 64
BSPHN), 98, of Old Town, Fla.; Nov. 26, 2006.
Rickenbacker retired as a registered nurse with
Tampa General Hospital. Dr. E. Franklin
Shavender (’ 64 AB, ’ 68 MD), 65, of
Davidson; July 8, 2007. Shavender was an
obstetrician and gynecologist in Durham. In
retirement, he was a physician for the developmentally disabled at the Murdoch Center in
Butner. He served in the Navy as a physician.
Dr. William R. Walker (’ 64 MSSE), 81, of
Blacksburg,Va.; March 21, 2007. Walker, a
physician, retired as director of the Virginia
Water Resources Research Center. Earlier in
his career, he was on the staff of East Carolina
University School of Medicine and was an
Army physician.
’ 65 Ronald Forrest Hunt (’ 65, ’ 66
AB;’ 68 JD) of Asheville has been
elected chair of the board of
trustees for Warren Wilson College. Hunt, a
legal consultant and private investor, was formerly executive vice president and general
counsel for the Student Loan Marketing Association. Patricia Taylor Thompson (’ 65
AB, ’02 MA) of Chapel Hill has retired as head
of the Joseph C. Sloane Art Library at UNC.
Thompson plans to continue her research on
the artists Edith Branson and Henrietta Gardner Macy and to offer her services as an independent art consultant.
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Allen William Emerson (’ 65 MA), 69, of
Clifton Springs, N. Y.; Feb. 11, 2007. John
Hardwick Stembler Jr. (’ 65 AB), 63, of
Atlanta; July 16, 2007. Stembler owned Zota
Theatres Inc., with locations in Alabama and
Florida. In 2006, he was named Show South
Statesman of the Year, honoring his motion
picture theater career. He was active in Boy
Scouts and received the Silver Beaver Award.
He served in the Navy and, at UNC, belonged
to Delta Kappa Epsilon and NROTC.
’ 66 Delbert Marvin Cranford (’ 66
BSPHR) of New London has
been named to the local advisory
board of First Bank. Cranford owns Denton
Drug Store. Cathy Waldron Parrish (’ 66
BMEd) of Simpsonville, S.C., has retired from
Bethel Elementary School, where she taught
music for 20 years and was named Bethel
Teacher of the Year and Greenville County
Fine Arts Teacher of the Year.
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Charles Parrish Blitch (’ 66 PhD), 82, of
Statesboro, Ga.; July 22, 2007. Blitch was professor emeritus of economics at Old
Dominion University. He belonged to numer-
ous academic associations and had published
journal articles and a book. In WWII, he was a
navigator in the Army Air Forces, serving in
the South Pacific. Jerri Eller Cathey (’ 66
ABEd), 62, of Wilmington; Aug. 22, 2007.
Cathey retired as associate dean of Forsyth
Technical Community College. She also was
an instructor at the college and had taught
high school English in Pittsboro. Tommy
Cowan McNeely (’ 66), 63, of Stony Point;
July 25, 2007. McNeely was a vice president
and business development officer for Peoples
Bank. He was involved in many community
activities, including a 30-year run as announcer
for West Iredell High School football games.
He was president of Rotary and a Paul Harris
Fellow and on the board of the West Iredell
Fire Department. William Grant Tennille
III (’ 66, ’ 67 AB), 63, of Miami; July 22, 2007.
Tennille retired as an investment banker with
J.P. Morgan in New York. At UNC, he was a
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
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Class of ’ 68
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’ 68 William Sherrod Brown (’ 68,
’ 71 BSBA) of Greenville has been
elected chairman of the N.C.
Automobile Dealers Association. Brown and
his brothers own Brown & Wood Pontiac,
Cadillac, Buick & GMC Truck, the dealership
started by their father in 1936. John Hector Clark (’ 68 AB; ’ 73, ’ 72 MACT) of
Asheville has been named executive director
for the Asheville Choral Society. Clark spent
much of his career building the fledgling
Davidson College radio station, WDAV-FM,
into a cultural and classical music station reaching out from Charlotte to Boone and Salisbury. Clark spent the past five years as director
of Chamber Music at St. Peter’s in Charlotte.
Scott Grove Patterson (’ 68 AB) of Easton, Md., has been elected president of the
Maryland State’s Attorneys’ Association. Patterson serves as state’s attorney for Talbot County.
David Bomar Smith (’ 68 AB) of Conway, S.C., represented UNC at the inauguration of David Anthony DeCenzo as the second
president of Coastal Carolina University. Smith
is president and senior partner of Holliday-Smith Farms. Dr. Auston Culeigh
Williams Jr. (’ 68, ’ 69 BSDEN; ’ 72 DDS) of
Dunn has been voted Best Dentist in Harnett
County.
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Carol Modlin Dunlap (’ 68 AB, ’ 73 MSW),
63, of Plano, Texas;Aug. 3, 2007. Dunlap was a
