fraud by Florida prison inmates, digging up the
cause of fires in Ford trucks and exposing
problems in Florida’s daycare system.
■ marriages
Felecia Piggott McMillan (’ 83 ABEd, ’02
PhD) and Ben Long of Winston-Salem.
Steven Jon Rogers (’ 83 AB) and Julie Lynn
House of Aspen, Colo.
■ obituary
David William Moore (’ 83, ’ 82 CGREd),
56, of Pinehurst; April 4, 2007. Moore was
program manager of Health Promotion and
Chronic Disease Prevention for Wake County,
for which he worked since 1994. Previously,
he was a teacher, coach and director of health
education in Moore County Schools. He also
worked at Valdosta State University in
Georgia.
’ 84 Clarence Pate Brown (’ 84, ’ 83
PhD) of Washington, D.C., has
been appointed director of the
Washington Office on Aging. Previously,
Brown was the director of the Multidisciplinary Gerontology Center at Howard University School of Social Work and director of the
Family and Community Resource Center.
James Keith Brown (’ 84 AB) of New York
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has been appointed chairman of the national
advisory board for UNC’s Ackland Art
Museum. Brown is a partner and head of
investor relations for Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. An avid collector of contemporary art, Brown is a board member of the
Andy Warhol Foundation, the New School
and the New Museum of Contemporary Art,
chairman of the Vera List Center for Art and
Politics, and a trustee of the Dance Theater
Workshop. R. Dodd Haynes (’ 84 BSBA)
of Charlotte has been named chief financial
officer for Muzak, a 70-year-old company that
provides music services to business customers
in the U.S. and abroad. Gardner Lee
Johnson (’ 84) of Bennettsville, S.C., has been
appointed director of human resources for the
Marlboro County school district. Sarah
Park Rankin (’ 84 AB) of Gastonia has been
named communications coordinator for the
Gaston Chamber of Commerce. Susan
Elizabeth Walsh (’ 84 BSBA) of Durham, a
champion swimmer when she was at UNC,
has won six events and set six world records in
the 45-49 age group at the 2007 U.S. Master’s
Swimming National Championships in
August. Walsh is director of endowment and
stewardship of the UNC Educational Foundation and served as the GAA’s representative on
UNC’s Athletic Council in 1988-89.
■ family addition
Dennis Keith Wesson (’ 84 BSPHY) and
Jeanne Ramsey Wesson of Bogart, Ga.; a
daughter, Emily Ramsey Wesson, on March 8,
2007.
■ obituaries
Lisa Lynn Garmon (’ 84), 47, of Durham;
July 3, 2007. While at UNC, Garmon was
active in the club sport of cycling. Paula
Lytle “Gina” Ray (’ 84 BSADJ), 45, of
Asheville; Aug. 17, 2007. Ray was a special
agent for the State Bureau of Investigation for
17 years. At UNC, she was on the circulation
staff of Black Ink. J. David Rollins (’ 84
BSBA), 45, of Marietta, Ga.; May 22, 2007.
Rollins was a senior software engineer for
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. At UNC,
he belonged to Phi Eta Sigma. Eugene
Street Simmons (’ 84 BSPHR), 53, of Siler
City; Aug. 27, 2007. Simmons was former
director of the pharmacy at Chatham Hospital
and owner of the Chatham Pharmacy in Siler
City. The drugstore he owned was the one in
which he worked part time as a teenager.
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
’ 85 Kurt Robert Birdwhistell (’ 85
PhD) of New Orleans has co-authored an article, “
Development of a method for investigating carbon
removal processes during film growth using
