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News for and about the members of the UNC General
Alumni Association. Want to submit an item? Look for the
“Update Your Record” form on page 90, post news online
at alumni.unc.edu or send e-mail to alumni@unc.edu. The
deadline for the March/April issue is Jan. 1.
’20s ■ obituaries
John A. Hebert (’ 26, ’ 28 AB),
103, of Chapel Hill; June 15, 2007. Hebert was
a retired engineer who worked for Southern
Bell and South Central Bell Telephone Co. for
46 years. He spent many of his post-college years
in New Orleans. While at UNC, he belonged
to Dialectic Society and Sigma Upsilon.
’30s ■ obituaries
J. Curtis Blackwood (’ 30),
101, Marysville, Tenn.; Aug. 16, 2007. Blackwood retired as a founder of a North Carolina
automobile parts distributor. He lived much of
his life in Charlotte. At UNC, he belonged to
Phi Delta Theta. Martin Luther Britt Jr.
(’ 38 BSCHE), 92, of Port St. Joe, Fla.; Nov. 1,
2006. Early in his career, Britt worked for an
international paper company. At UNC, he was
a member of Alpha Chi Sigma. Dr. Harold
Broady (’ 37 AB), 92, of Manchester, N.H.;
June 19, 2007. Broady was a physician, serving
as an obstetrician and gynecologist for 25 years
in Meriden, Conn., then for 13 years in Nashua,
N.H. In WWII, he was a medical officer in the
Army Air Forces, serving in England and Africa.
Robert W. Crutchfield (’ 39 MS), 97, of
Salisbury; Aug. 14, 2007. Crutchfield, a CPA,
retired as assistant controller for Cannon Mills
Co. in Kannapolis. He also was an accounting
professor at UNC. During WWII, he was a
civilian employee for the Defense Department,
auditing companies making aircraft. Michael
Penn Cummings Jr. (’ 37), 90, of Ellicott
City, Md.; July 30, 2007. Cummings retired
after a career as an engineer for C&P Telephone
of Virginia. He was an Eagle Scout and vice
chairman of the elections board in Richmond,
Va., where he lived until recently. At UNC, he
was a member of Sigma Nu. Elsie Lawrence
Gribbin (’ 35 AB), 92, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; July
30, 2007. Gribbin was a kindergarten teacher
for 27 years. E. Lee Hauser (’ 34 ABEd), 93,
of Fayetteville; June 21, 2007. Hauser retired
after a 38-year tenure as director of social services for Cumberland County. He served two
terms as president of the N.C. Directors of
Social Services, was recognized as the state’s
Social Services Director of the Year and was
twice awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
Active in Rotary, he was district governor. He
was in the Army in WWII and, at UNC, was a
member of the Marching Band and Dialectic
Society. Carlisle Wallace “Buck” Higgins
Jr. (’ 39 AB), 89, of Galax,Va.; Aug. 18, 2007.
Higgins was chairman of the board of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co.; previously, he was company president and CEO. He began working
for the company in 1939 and holds the record
as its longest-serving employee. Among his civic
activities, he was on the Galax Public Schools
board, a founding board member of the
regional hospital and on the board of directors
of the educational foundation of Wytheville
Community College, which awarded him an
honorary degree in 2005. In WWII, he was a
pilot in the Army Air Corps, serving in Australia, Burma and the Philippines. At UNC, he
belonged to Alpha Tau Omega. Clive
Wayne Laney (’ 39 BSCOM), 92, of Lenoir;
June 13, 2007. Laney retired as traffic manager
for Broyhill Industries. In WWII, he served in
the Army and received two Bronze Stars for
service in the Pacific. Walter Raleigh
“Mick” McGuire Jr. (’ 35, ’ 36 AB; ’ 37 LLB),
93, of Asheville; July 8, 2007. McGuire, a
lawyer specializing in real estate and estate
planning, retired as senior partner of McGuire,
Wood & Bissette PA. Among his civic involvements, he was chair of the board of trustees of
the Asheville-Buncombe Library System and
president of the Buncombe County Alumni
Club. He served as a forward observer for an
Army artillery battalion in WWII and received
the Bronze Star. Near the end of the war, he
served as a trial judge advocate in Stuttgart,
Germany, and was cited for meritorious service. He was a member of Theta Chi at UNC.
Grover Jackson Norwood II (’ 34), 94, of
Collinsville, Ill.; Feb. 1, 2007. Norwood taught
science courses for the Granite City, Ill.,
schools. He also taught extension courses for
the University of Illinois. Clarence Wilson
Place Jr. (’ 39), 90, of Durham; April 25, 2007.
Place retired as a CPA. Edward Ernest
Post Jr. (’ 39), 90, of Brinklow, Md.; July 15,
2007. Post was a writer and editor, most
recently with the National Institutes of Health
as editor of Research Resources Reporter
magazine, now the NCCR Reporter. He worked for
the U.S. Information Agency for almost 25
years in Rhodesia, Egypt, India, the Philippines
and Indonesia. In those countries he helped
open libraries and commissioned translations of
American books. He also edited cultural magazines and was editor and design director of
Titian, an Indonesian magazine. In the early ’50s,
he owned and operated the Cleveland (N.C.)
Times newspaper. He served in the Navy in
WWII in the Pacific and Mediterranean.
John R. Ritter (’ 33), 95, of Goldsboro, July
29, 2007. Ritter retired as a marketing department manager with Allied Chemical Corp. He
was president of the North Carolina-Virginia
Plant Food Institute and was a pilot trainer in
the Army Air Corps. Dr. Louis Lawrence
Salerno (’ 35 AB), 94, of Kinnelon, N.J.; Aug.
1, 2007. Salerno, an anesthesiologist, was on
the staff of St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic, N.J.,
for more than 40 years. At various times, he
was chairman of his department and medical
staff president. He served in the medical corps
in WWII, spending more than two years as a
prisoner of war in Germany. He received the
Bronze Star. Dr. Manuel M. “Shadow”
Stier (’ 37 AB), 91, of Verona, N.J.; Aug. 15,
2007. Stier, a retired dentist, lived in Bloom-
