■ obituaries
Robert Burke Atkinson (’ 73, ’ 72 MSLS),
59, of Norfolk,Va.; July 22, 2007. Atkinson
worked at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. He also
worked at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, where
he received the Outstanding Disabled
Employee of the Year award in 1991. Atkinson
organized and led a fellowship for the handicapped and also established a ministry newsletter.
He had been living in Seattle for two years.
Patricia Elizabeth Grigg (’ 73), 61, of
Charlotte; Aug. 16, 2007. Grigg retired as
director of the Mecklenburg County Women’s
Commission. Among the honors she received
were Career Woman of the Year from the
Metropolitan Business and Professional
Women’s Organization and Woman of the Year
from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Black
Women’s Caucus. Robert Pittman Pierce
Jr. (’ 73 AB), 55, of Farmville; July 31, 2007.
Pierce was a farmer and hydrologist whose
career was in international food aid, refugee
relief and economic development. He worked
with 16 African countries, as well as India and
Iraq, among others. He served in the Peace
Corps in Togo, West Africa, in the ’70s.
’ 74 William Charles Gore Jr. (’ 74
AB) of Whiteville has been named
commissioner of the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles. Gore retired as senior
resident Superior Court judge for Judicial District 13A, which includes Bladen and Columbus counties, in July. Daniel Jeffrey Gunsett (’ 74 JD) of Worthington, Ohio, has been
named managing partner of the Columbus
office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. Gunsett, one
of the firm’s founders in 1979, counsels clients
in general business and environmental, class
action and real estate litigation. Nancy
Alexander Simmons (’ 74 BSMAT) of Fair-
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1 Scoffs of contempt
5 Fable
9 Person
14 Shaving-cream additive
15 Last bio
16 Novelist Calvino
17 Subsequent to a class?
19 L.A. pro
20 1971 Matthau film
21 Volatile anesthetics
22 Acme
25 John Lennon’s widow
27 Garden tool
28 Piercing cry
30 Singer Lauper
32 Coral island
33 ___ Raton, FL
35 Philosophies
38 Puzzle type
39 Vichy water
40 Ground-cover herb
41 Kind of poker
42 Teri of “Tootsie”
43 Of a type of dancing
44 Smashing Monica
46 Noisy sleeper
47 Lanka lead-in
49 Wild
52 All the same 6 Where to be taken? 36 “Fibber ___ and Molly”
53 Truthful 7 Stone: pref. 37 Electrical woe
55 Pink shade 8 Afr. nation 40 Barbarian
57 Skillful 9 Hotelier Conrad 42 Lady’s beau
58 Class in the tropics? 10 Zion National Park’s state 45 Sheen
62 Catch a film again 11 Reach a class in time? 46 Twilled fabrics
63 Room extension 12 Olds model 47 One-half-step higher
64 Boot tips 13 Scandinavian 48 Calgary Stampede, e.g.
65 Tough question 18 Kansas City team 50 Perceptive
66 Golf pegs 21 “Orinoco Flow” singer 51 ___ Carlo
67 Lone guy 22 Winter Palace rulers 54 Type of foil
23 Double quartet 56 Why don’t we?
DOWN 24 In support of a class? 58 High-velocity fluid stream
1 Sheepish comment 26 Happen 59 Acquired
2 TV alien 29 Steer clear of 60 Roll-call vote
3 Like a stolen car 31 Painter Rivera 61 NYC arena
4 Search for 33 Beauty’s beau
5 Kind of drum 34 Rowing-crew member Solution on page 100
fax Station,Va., has retired from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Dr. Alan
Davis Stiles (’ 74 AB; ’ 78, ’ 77 MD) of Chapel
Hill has been selected to receive the 2007 Academic Service Award by the N.C. Chapter of
the American Academy of Pediatrics. Stiles is
the M.D. Brewer Distinguished Professor and
chair of the department of pediatrics at the
UNC School of Medicine.
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Patricia Newsome Keicher (’ 74 BSN), 55,
of Pittsboro; July 17, 2007. Janice Lorene
Mills (’ 74 AB), 54, of Hillsborough;Aug. 20,
2007. Mills was the former dean of the N.C.
Central School of Law, where she oversaw a
renovation and expansion of the law school
building. Among the boards on which she
served were the Center for Civil Rights at the
UNC law school and a center on ethics and
child and family health, a consortium of Duke,
N.C. Central and UNC law schools. She was a
lecturer at the Ghana School of Law in West
Africa. At UNC, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and was a Johnston Scholar, a Valkyrie and
active in student government.
’ 75 Evelyn Dove-Coleman (’ 75
AB, ’ 78 JD) of Kinston has
received the 2007 Martin Luther
King Jr. Keeper of the Dream Award sponsored
by Young Women of Promise Inc. Dove-Coleman, a columnist for The Free Press and Eagle
News and a counselor with Pathchoice Ministry, was also a nominee for the Pinnacle
Award. Kenneth Floyd Ledford (’ 75 AB,
’ 78 JD) of Shaker Heights, Ohio, represented
UNC at the investiture of Barbara R. Snyder
as president of Case Western Reserve University. Ledford is associate professor of history
and law at Case Western. Thomas Warren
Ross Sr. (’ 75 JD) of Davidson has been
named the 17th president of Davidson College. Ross is a former N.C. Superior Court
judge and former executive director of the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation. D. Wayne
Thomas (’ 75 BSBA) of Asheboro has been
elected secretary-treasurer of the Randolph
County Economic Development Corp.
Thomas is president of Wayne Thomas
Chevrolet-Cadillac.
■ obituaries
John Jacob Berman (’ 75 AB), 54, of Castle
Hayne; July 23, 2007. Berman was president of
an oil company and involved in real estate
development. He belonged to Zeta Beta Tau at
UNC. J. Donald Ridenbaugh (’ 75 AB,
’ 77 JD), 73, of Annapolis, Md.; June 11, 2007.
Ridenbaugh was a lawyer in private practice,
specializing in immigration, personal injury
and civil litigation. He was in the Air Force in
