Carolina Alumni Review - May/June 2008

N.C. Theater Arts and active in his church. In WWII, he was a fighter pilot in the Army Air Forces. Among his honors were the Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with Clusters. As a UNC alumnus, he was president of the alumni club for Buncombe, Madison, Henderson and Transylvania counties. Mattie Burgess Richard (’ 43 MEd), 99, of Winston-Salem; Jan. 26, 2008. Richard retired as principal of John W. Moore School in Winston-Salem, where she previously was a teacher. Immediately after WWII, she served two years in Europe with the American Red Cross, working with hospitalized American soldiers. George Lester Rogers (’ 44), 85, of Anderson, S.C.; Jan. 13, 2008. Rogers retired as a special agent with New York Life Insurance Co. Active in the Republican Party, he was county chairman, a member of the executive committee of the state party and a delegate to the 1976 Republican National Convention. At UNC, he belonged to Chi

Phi. Elizabeth Osborne Rollins (’ 49 JD), 82, of Greensboro; Feb. 4, 2008. Rollins practiced law for more than 50 years. She retired as a partner in Turner Rollins Rollins & Clark. Early in her career, she was the first clerk and solicitor of the Guilford County Domestic Relations Court. At UNC, she was on the board of editors of the Law Review. Hartley S. Rowe (’ 44 AB), 83, of River Edge, N.J.; July 30, 2007. Rowe retired as owner of a lumber corporation in New York. He served in the Army Air Forces and the Naval Reserve. W. Braxton Schell (’ 48 BSCOM, ’ 51 JD), 83, of Greensboro; Feb. 13, 2008. A lawyer for 56 years, Schell was a founding partner of Schell, Bray, Aycock, Abel & Livingston. He specialized in securities law. In 2005, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Greensboro Bar Association. He was a director of several private foundations established by the William R. Kenan Jr. family and a trustee of a Frank H. Kenan Trust. He was board chairman of the

N.C. Outward Bound School. Schell was a supporter of UNC women’s soccer, and the Kenan Trust contributed $1 million in fall 2007 to the soccer program in his honor. In WWII, he was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corps. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was president of Zeta Psi and a member of Phi Eta Sigma and Gorgon’s Head Lodge. He was associate editor of the Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. Samuel Jackson Scott (’ 46 AB), 80, of Nokomis, Fla.; Oct. 9, 2007. Scott served in the Navy and, at UNC, belonged to NROTC and Phi Gamma Delta. James Edward Seifert (’ 49 BSCOM), 85, of Decatur, Ga.; Feb. 9, 2008. Seifert founded a manufacturers’ representative company for the automobile repair industry. He served in the Army in WWII and, at UNC, belonged to Phi Delta Theta. John Newton Shaw (’ 48), 81, of Bluffton, S.C.; Jan. 4, 2008. Shaw retired from a sales position with a printing company in Hartford, Conn. He served in the

BEN CARNEVALE 1915–2008
Basketball Coach Took UNC to 1946 Title Game

He coached basketball for just two years at Hank Iba and featured 7-foot center Bob leaving Carolina, he coached at

Carolina but took a team to the national Kurland. the U.S. Naval Academy for 20 years, win-finals. As a college player and coach, he had Carnevale had been a standout player for ning more than 260 games. He later was a 5-0 record against UNC. And he provided New York University and a member of its athletics director at the College of William a key link in the chain of events that 1934 national championship team. After & Mary. brought Dean Smith to Chapel Hill. He was a past president of the National Ben Carnevale, a veteran college coach Association of Basketball Coaches and was a and early professional player who is a mem- 20-year member of the U.S. Olympic ber of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Committee, including four years as its chair, Hall of Fame, died March 25 in 1964 to 1968.

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Williamsburg,Va. He was 92. Carnevale was a close friend of former While in the Navy in World War II, UNC Coach Frank McGuire from their Carnevale was for a time athletics director of days as college and professional players in the V- 12 pre-flight program in Chapel Hill. New York. In 1958, McGuire found himself Journalist Tom Wicker ’ 48 recalled some with a problem. Dusty DiStefano, his assis-years ago that Carnevale was one of the tant at Carolina, had a phobia about flying room inspectors to whom Navy cadets had — a liability in his job as a recruiter. to answer. McGuire asked Carnevale for advice on hir-Carnevale took over as Carolina’s basket- ing a new assistant. ball coach in 1944, when the team included “He said, ‘I have to get a new coach,’” John “Hook” Dillon ’ 48, Jim Jordan ’ 46 and Carnevale recalled at a GAA forum on the Bob Paxton ’ 47. That team finished 22-6 history of Carolina basketball in 1999. “I and won the Southern Conference need somebody that will be very dedicated Tournament. The next season, after Horace and very honest and loyal. I don’t know “Bones” McKinney ’ 48 joined the team in anybody in the East. Do you know any-January, UNC was 30-5 and lost in the body?’ I said, I don’t know anybody in the Southern final to Wake Forest. Big Ten, but I know Bob Spear out at the Carolina was invited to the 1946 NCAA Air Force Academy. Bob was my assistant at tournament anyway — having beaten Wake Navy for four years, and he’s told me that by 23 and 29 points in the regular season he’s got a very fine assistant out there.”

— and won two regional games before los- In his two years as Carolina’s basketball coach, Ben The assistant was Dean Smith, and ing to Oklahoma A&M 43-40 in the title ^{Carnevale’s} ^teams ^were ^22-6 ^and ^30-5^. ^The ^1945-46 ^teamMcGuire soon hired him.