Carolina Alumni Review - March/April 2008

retary for legislative affairs for the Department of Homeland Security. Sural will serve as lead liaison to the U.S. House for Secretary Michael Chertoff. Anthony Andre Teague (’ 90 AB) of Hickory has been appointed vice president of merchandising-upholstery for Broyhill Home Furnishings, where he will be co-leader of the new Design Center of Excellence. ■ marriage Dr. John Granville Alley Jr. (’ 90 AB, ’ 98 MD) and Elizabeth Grimes Purrington (’ 93 AB, ’00 MBA) of Raleigh. ■ obituaries Jodie Miller Helms (’ 90 AB, ’ 91 BSPHR), 41, of Matthews; Dec. 7, 2007. Helms was a pharmacist with Eckerd Drugs and Kaiser Permanente. She was the leader of a Girl Scout troop. Sarah Stone Johnston (’ 90 JD), 55, of Wellesley, Mass.; Nov. 21, 2007. Johnston was an editor and writer in the publishing industry. Thuy Bui Smith (’ 90 AB), 39, of New Canaan, Conn.; Oct. 21, 2007. Smith had worked for the marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather in New York. Deborah Anne Sugg (’ 90 PhD, ’ 95 MSW), 56, of Durham; Dec. 21, 2007. Sugg was a professor of special education at N.C. Central University. In addition, she was a consultant and teacher for visually impaired children in Durham Public Schools and a social worker for the Division of Services for the Blind.

’ 91 Timothy Quaid Karcher (’ 91 AB) of Jersey City, N.J., has become a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Russell Benjamin Killen (’ 91 AB) of Knightdale has been elected mayor of Knightdale. Killen is a partner in the litigation department of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP. David Curtis Smith (’ 91 AB) of Durham has been appointed to the board of trustees for the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics. Smith is a lawyer with Herring McBennett Mills & Kratt and president-elect of the N.C. Association of Health Underwriters. ■ family additions Tracey Vacca Atkinson (’ 91 ABJM) and Keith Frederick Atkinson (’ 99 JD) of Charlotte; a daughter, Elise Catherine Atkinson, on Oct. 31, 2007. Kimberly Webster Floyd (’ 91 AB) and Jonathan Daniel Floyd of Raleigh; a son, Nicholas Charles Floyd, on July 24, 2007. ■ obituary Debra Lee McClinton (’ 91 AB), 39, of San Francisco; Nov. 18, 2007. McClinton moved to San Francisco in 1993 and had her own

photography studio. Her photographs appeared in national publications, including Newsweek, Wired, People and Country Living, and in numerous gallery showings.

’ 92 Matthew Patrick Bright (’ 92 AB) of Forest City has been named to the board of trustees for Rutherford Hospital. Bright is a financial adviser with Raymond James Financial Services Inc. L. Taylor Harrell III (’ 92 BSBA) of Ahoskie has been promoted to vice president and regional business development officer for Southern Bank. P. Bradley Southerland (’ 92 BSBA) of Wilmington has

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joined Senn Dunn Insurance as insurance adviser for the company’s new Wilmington office. Dr. Clifford Roberts Wheeless III (’ 92 MD) of Oxford has launched wheelessonline.com, a free, online textbook that includes more than 11,000 pages and 5,000 images explaining orthopaedic conditions, injuries and treatments, updated daily. Wheeless has offices in Louisburg, Henderson and Wake Forest and coordinates Franklin Regional Medical Center’s orthopaedics division. He started the online medical textbook for his honors thesis at Duke University and donated the rights to Duke in 2004. He continues to serve as chief editor.

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