Nov. 13, 2007. Fredrickson was founder of
Adams County Head Start and its director for
nearly 30 years. During her tenure, the program grew from a single classroom with two
teachers to 10 classrooms and a staff of 75,
serving more than 200 students a year.
James Earl Lasater (’ 67, ’ 68 AB; ’ 69 MSW),
62, of San Antonio, Texas; Nov. 6, 2007. Lasater
was a social worker with the Veterans
Administration Hospital. Previously, he was in
the Army and Army Reserve for 22 years. He
was a social worker while serving in the Army.
In addition, he was an award-winning photographer. George Kenneth Thompson (’ 67,
’ 68 AB; ’ 72 MAT), 62, of Chapel Hill; Nov. 5,
2007. Thompson was owner of North State
Inc. since the early ’70s. He recently retired as
a mortgage broker. He served in the Army in
the Vietnam War. Roger Chapman
Vaughn (’ 67 MAT), 90, of Cocoa Beach, Fla.;
Nov. 16, 2007. Vaughn taught at Cocoa High
School and Brevard Junior College until his
retirement. He served in the Navy in WWII
and the Korean War.
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Class of ’ 68
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’ 68 Willard Joseph “Mike” Overlock Jr. (’ 68 AB) of Greenwich,
Conn., has received a William R.
Davie Award. The award, the highest award
given by UNC’s Board of Trustees, is named
for the Revolutionary War hero considered to
be the father of the University. Overlock is
retired as a senior director at Goldman Sachs
& Co. He served as co-chair for the Carolina
First Campaign and is active in a number of
educational institutions including Prep for
Prep, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and
Phoenix House. Ronald Lee Smith (’ 68
BSBA) of Salisbury has been named grand
marshal for the 2007 Holiday Caravan. Smith,
whose father was one of the founders of Food
Lion, has been associated with the company
for more than 40 years and serves as a board
Correction
A Class Note in the January/February issue
of the Review incorrectly reported a new
role taken on by Irvin White “Hank”
Hankins III (’ 68 AB, ’ 75 JD) of Charlotte.
Hankins has been sworn in as president of
the N.C. State Bar. He is a partner and litigator with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
LLP, where he was the firm’s managing
partner from 1986 to 2002. He served on
the GAA Board of Directors as representative from law in 2003-04.
member of the Food Lion Credit Association
and the Lion’s Pride Foundation. John
Stanley Willardson (’ 68 AB, ’ 72 JD) of
Wilkesboro has been elected to the board of
directors of the Defense Research Institute, a
national organization of civil defense lawyers.
Willardson served on the GAA Board of
Directors from 1984 to 1987 and is a former
alumni club president.
■ obituaries
Pedro Fermin Moscoso (’ 68 MSPA), 79, of
Greensboro; Dec. 15, 2007. Moscoso retired as
an instructor of management and human relations at Catawba College. Previously, he
worked with the Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Co. and the United Fruit Co. and as
a staff development specialist for the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. A native of Ecuador, he served
in the Ecuadorian navy as an aide to both the
head of the navy and the president of the
country. John Moore Wilson Jr. (’ 68), 60,
of Murrells Inlet, S.C.; Oct. 11, 2007. Wilson
was an assistant manager at a grocery. He was
in the Navy in the Vietnam War.
’ 69 Burley Bayard Mitchell Jr. (’ 69
JD) of Raleigh has received the
2007 North Carolina Award for
Public Service. Mitchell retired in 1999 as
chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court,
where he had served since his election as an
associate justice in 1982. He wrote the decision in the landmark case that established the
right of every child in North Carolina to a
public school education. Mitchell now heads
the appellate advocacy and government relations group at Womble Carlyle Sandridge and
Rice PLLC.
■ obituaries
William Thomas Berger (’ 69 MAT), 79, of
Rockaway, N.J.; Oct. 20, 2007. Berger retired
after teaching biology for more than 30 years
at Hanover Park High School. He was a
Master Mason of the Jephthah Lodge.
William Kenneth Land Jr. (’ 69), 60, of
Sanford; Dec. 17, 2007. Land retired from the
N.C. Department of Transportation as a coordinator with the Right of Way Division.
’ 70 John Allen “Jan” Davidson Jr.
(’ 70 AB, ’ 72 MA) of Brasstown
has received the 2007 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts. Davidson has served
as director of the John C. Campbell Folk
School since 1992. In the 1970s, he and his
rock band, Southern States Fidelity, collaborated with The Red Clay Ramblers on the
musical Diamond Studs. In the 1980s, Davidson
was curator of the Mountain Heritage Center
at Western Carolina University and completed
a dissertation on blacksmithing for his doctorate in folklore, history and museum studies at
Boston University. Dr. H. Shelton Earp
III (’ 70 MD; ’ 72, ’ 71 MS) of Chapel Hill presented the 2007 Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture at the UNC School of Medicine. Earp is a professor of medicine and
pharmacology, Lineberger Professor of Cancer
Research and director of UNC’s Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also is a
former faculty representative on the GAA
Board of Directors. Dr. David Thomas
Tayloe Jr. (’ 70 AB, ’ 74 MD) of Goldsboro has
been elected president-elect of the American
Academy of Pediatrics. His father, Dr. David
Thomas Tayloe Sr. (’ 46 AB), served the
academy at the state level. Tayloe practices
pediatrics in Goldsboro. William Holton
Wilkerson (’ 70 AB) of Greenville has been
appointed to the board of trustees for the Pitt
Memorial Hospital Foundation and named
vice chairman of the investment advisory
committee for the City of Greenville. Wilkerson is president of Wilkerson Co. Inc.
■ obituaries
Beverly Briggs (’ 70 BA), 59, of Philadelphia;
July 31, 2007. Briggs was a landscape architect.
Dr. James Charles Kelly Jr. (’ 70
MSPRO), 70, of Virginia Beach, Va.; Aug. 18,
2007. Kelly retired as a captain in the Navy
after 31 years of service. A dentist, his positions
included commanding officer of the Naval
Regional Dental Clinic in San Diego and
chief of staff for the Navy Dental Corps for
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in
Washington, D. C. He was in the Vietnam War,
where he received the Legion of Merit,
Bronze Star and a number of other awards.
’ 71 Charles Ross Carrigan (’ 71
BSBA) of Manassas, Va., has been
named by Washington Smart CEO
as one of its SmartCPAs. Carrigan is senior
vice president of Savantage Solutions.
Russell Miller “Rusty” Carter (’ 71 ABJO) of
Wilmington and his siblings, Velda Carter
Hughes (’ 76 ABJO) and Linda Metzger, honored their father, W. Horace Carter (’ 43, ’ 49
ABJO), with the creation of the W. Horace
Carter Distinguished Professorship at the
UNC School of Journalism. W. Horace Carter
is founder and owner of The Tabor City Tribune,
which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for a campaign against the Ku Klux Klan. John
Shuey Day (’ 71 AB) of Atlanta has been
appointed a member of the board of directors
of Force Protection Inc., a supplier of armored
vehicles to U.S. combat troops. Day is a director of real estate and financial services for
Deloitte and Touche LLP. Edward Smoot
