Community Action Program and was a reporter
for the local newspaper. He also taught high
school on Nantucket Island and owned an inn.
He was one of 12 children who were the subjects of Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their
Toes. His inn-keeping days were the subject of
Inside Nantucket, written by his brother. He
served five terms in the New Hampshire House
of Representatives and was a representative to
the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention
of 1984. He was on the Franklin school board
and a trustee of the public library. At UNC, he
belonged to Philanthropic Society. James
Irvin Groome Jr. (’ 43), 86, of Colfax; Aug. 7,
2007. Groome retired as vice president of sales
with a furniture manufacturing company. He
served in France, Belgium and Austria in the
Army during WWII. At UNC, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Nancy Fitch
Gunion (’ 46 AB), 81, of Aptos, Calif.; April 3,
2007. In addition to working as a receptionist
for a large company, Gunion volunteered as a
Boy Scout den mother, a Camp Fire Girl leader
and Junior Women’s Club president. At UNC,
she participated in water ballet. S. Ervin
Hall (’ 43), 86, of Richmond,Va.; July 27, 2007.
Hall retired as senior vice president of Harrison
& Bates Realtors, for which he developed a
number of commercial properties in his 50-
year career. In WWII, he was with the Army in
the Aleutian Islands. In retirement, he was a
volunteer tour guide for the Historic Richmond
Foundation and served on the board of directors of the Hanover Tavern Foundation. At
UNC, he was on the track team and belonged
to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. James M. Hedrick
Jr. (’ 47 AB), 80, of Winston-Salem;Aug. 23,
2007. Hedrick was an optometrist in Winston-Salem for more than 40 years. He served in the
Army in the Korean War. Mary Harris
Kingsbury (’ 47 BSPHR), 82, of Union City,
Tenn.; March 14, 2007. Kingsbury, a pharmacist, was a member of Rho Chi and Kappa
Epsilon at UNC. Robert Platt
Knickerbocker (’ 40 BSCOM), 89, of
Sarasota, Fla.; July 6, 2007. Knickerbocker, who
lived for many years in West Hartford, Conn.,
retired as vice president of finance with United
Technologies. He served in the Army in WWII.
Among his UNC activities were Marching
Band, baseball team and Phi Gamma Delta.
William Lockhart Kyle Jr. (’ 48), 80, of
Jacksonville, Fla.;Aug. 17, 2007. Lockhart was
president and CEO of the parent company and
subsidiaries of Voyager Insurance, of which he
was a founder. He was a director of the
Jacksonville Museum of Arts and Science and a
trustee of the children’s hospital. He served in
the Navy in WWII. He belonged to Kappa
Sigma at UNC. Sarah Shirley Lander (’ 45
MORRIS ROSENBERG ’ 40 1920–2007
Sharing the Secrets of Success in memoriam
His claim to fame was a long career with ones,” Cole said. As a professor, Rosenberg Yopp, when he learned of Rosenberg’s death,
The Associated Press, serving as bureau was “Mr. I’ve Been There, Done That” — in Maroney said, “Morris was much more than
chief in foreign countries, but in the School a nice way. a teacher; he was a friend and someone who
of Journalism and Mass Communication he Jan Johnson Yopp, senior associate dean of genuinely cared about the future of journal-
was respected as a teacher, mentor, friend and the school, said Rosenberg spent a great deal ism, starting with his students.”
gentleman. of time working with the students, reviewing Rosenberg had designed the course so that
Morris Rosenberg ’ 40, 87, died Sept. 15 their papers for hours and suggesting changes. students became virtual foreign correspon-
in Chapel Hill. He was scheduled to dents. They were assigned a country
teach his special class, “The Secrets of to cover, using the Internet to keep
Being a Foreign Correspondent,” at up with events there. “Morris want-
the school in the spring semester. ed his students to have a perspective
Rosenberg clearly had the creden- of the world beyond the U.S. bor-
tials for teaching students about the ders and the issues in other coun-
skills needed to be a foreign corre- tries that need to be reported on in
spondent. He joined AP in New York the U.S.,” Yopp said.
in 1959 as its world services news edi- Rosenberg’s journalism career
tor before becoming AP bureau chief was honored by the school when
for Mexico, Central America and the he was inducted into the N.C.
Caribbean and then bureau chief in Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989.
Paris; he later returned to Mexico as The French government named
director general for AP operations in him Chevalier of the Legion of
Latin America. In 1979, he was made Morris Rosenberg ’ 40, describes the flow of wire service news to Professor Honor when he retired from AP.
chief of world services operations in Richard Cole, who later became dean of the School of Journalism and Mass While a student at UNC,
Communication, in this 1976 photo.
AP’s Washington bureau. Rosenberg spent four years on the
After retiring in 1988, he was a media He had taught the course three times in the staff of The Daily Tar Heel, including his senior
consultant for news agencies and journalistic school. year as managing editor. He also was a mem-
groups around the world. He moved to A former student of Rosenberg, who ber of Tau Epsilon Phi.
JOAN HILL/THE CHAPEL HILL NEWSPAPER
Chapel Hill in 2004 and became a lecturer in received the school’s Charles Kuralt internship Rosenberg served with the U.S. Office of
the school. at Voice of America and now works there, War Information and with the Allied Forces
“He was a true gentleman,” said Richard had high praise for Rosenberg and his foreign Psychological Warfare Branch in WWII. After
Cole, the former dean who asked Rosenberg correspondent class. Sean Maroney ’06, a the war, he reorganized an English-language
to serve on the school’s board of visitors and broadcaster with Voice of America, sent his publication in Caracas,Venezuela, turned it
recruited him for the faculty. Cole described former professor an e-mail during his intern- into a daily newspaper and was its first edi-Rosenberg as a world citizen who had “no ship: “I have to tell you, I’m so thankful I tor-in-chief. At the same time, he was a cor-airs” about him and loved teaching. “He took your seminar last spring. You definitely respondent for AP.
could draw the students out — even the shy prepared me for this job.” In an e-mail to — Sally Walters
