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’30s David Kittner (’ 39
BSCOM) of Philadelphia has
joined with the Samuel and
Rebecca Kardon Foundation to provide $1
million to establish an endowed innovation
fund for the department of ophthalmology at
the UNC School of Medicine. In his honor,
the department has been renamed the Kittner
Eye Center. Kittner is a lawyer practicing in
Philadelphia. Leonard S. Rubin (’ 38
ABJO) of Maywood, N.J., has published his
third book, My First 91 Years, a memoir consisting of 115 brief stories. Rubin and his wife,
Lil, founded the weekly newspaper Our To wn
in Maywood in 1948 and retired in 1992.
■ obituaries
William Franklin Aberly (’ 38 BSCOM), 90,
of Jacksonville, Fla.; April 22, 2008. Aberly
retired as chairman and CEO of Stockton,
Whatley, Davin & Co., a mortgage banking
institution. Previously, he worked on the construction of NORAD headquarters, inside
Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, and on a
nuclear power plant in Washington state.
During WWII, he worked in New York on the
Norden bomb site. At UNC, he was on the
track team, belonged to Beta Gamma Sigma
and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. James W.
Austin Jr. (’ 37, ’ 38 AB), 92, of Chula Vista,
Calif.;April 6, 2008. Austin retired as chairman
of a high school mathematics and science
department with Sweetwater Union High
School District. He joined the Navy in 1940
as an aviation cadet and flew patrols in Hawaii
and bombing missions in the South Pacific. He
was awarded an Air Medal and Presidential
Unit Citation. He retired as a naval officer in
1961. At UNC, he was on the wrestling team.
Olin Henry Borum (’ 38 BSCH, ’ 47 MA,
’ 49 PhD), 90, of Woodbridge,Va.; Jan. 22, 2008.
Borum retired as a chemist, employed by the
federal government. In retirement, he was a
real estate broker. He served in the Army in
WWII, then in the Air Force. He was active
with National Sojourners, a Masonic veterans’
organization. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta
Kappa. Evelyn Page Burdette (’ 34), 95, of
Martinsburg, W.Va.; Feb. 29, 2008. Early in her
career, Burdette was a county superintendent
of public welfare in North Carolina. At UNC,
she belonged to Chi Omega. Robert
Ferrando (’ 37), 91, of New York; Feb. 20,
2008. Ferrando, a lawyer, retired after 25 years
as chief court attorney in Richmond County
Surrogate’s Court. He was in the Army Corps
of Engineers in WWII in the Middle East and
Burma. He belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha at
UNC. Edward Adolphus Griffin Jr.
(’ 37), 91, of Cary; April 29, 2008. Griffin
retired as postmaster in Sanford, his hometown. In WWII, he served in the Army in
North Africa, Italy, France and Germany and
was awarded the Bronze Star. He left the Army
as a captain and reached the rank of lieutenant
colonel in the Army Reserve. He was a tennis
enthusiast, playing regularly into his 70s, and a
gardener, surrounding his home with hundreds
of azaleas, camellias and other flowers and
shrubs. Nesbit Rickert Holland (’ 36
BSCOM), 96, of Penfield, N. Y.; March 7,
2008. Holland retired from a long career as an
accounting supervisor with Eastman Kodak
Co. in Rochester. He was president and
national director of the Rochester chapter of
the National Association of Accountants. In
WWII, he served in the Army in the anti-aircraft and artillery division. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to Beta
Gamma Sigma and the wrestling team.
Mary Elizabeth King Hurley (’ 38 AB), 90,
of Alligator Point, Fla.; Oct. 23, 2007. Hurley
volunteered with the turtle patrol at Alligator
Point to protect sea turtles. She also helped
start the Alligator Point Volunteer Fire
Department and the local taxpayer association.
Dr. William Stone Jordan Jr. (’ 38 AB),
90, of Bethesda, Md.; March 11, 2008. Jordan, a
vaccine researcher, most recently was volunteer
emeritus with the National Institutes of
Health. During his career, he wrote numerous
articles and books about the use of vaccines.
He also served as chairman of the preventive
medicine department at the University of
Virginia medical school, dean of the University
of Kentucky medical school and associate professor of preventive medicine at Western
Reserve University. In 1976, he joined the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, part of the NIH. He established the
Jordan Report, which documents research in
vaccines. His numerous honors included the
Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal for exemplary
research in the field of vaccinology in 2004. In
WWII, he served with the National Naval
Medical Center, first in Iceland and then with
the tropical disease service, where he treated
Marines in the South Pacific. At UNC, he
belonged to Alpha Tau Omega and Golden
Fleece, was president of Alpha Omega Alpha
and Alpha Epsilon Delta, and was on the staff
of The Daily Tar Heel. He graduated Phi Beta
Kappa. Roger Michael Kelly (’ 33), 97, of
Vero Beach, Fla.; April 21, 2008. Kelly, a railroad executive, was vice chairman and chief
financial officer of Seaboard Coast Line
Railroad. He also was vice president of the
Baltimore Colts pro football team in the late
’50s. He joined the Navy in WWII and was in
charge of aircraft procurement and served on
the staff of James V. Forrestal, then secretary of
the Navy. In retirement, he split his time
between his farm in Oxford, where he bred
red Angus cattle, and his home near Vero
Beach. Kent Mathewson (’ 39 BSPUB),
90, of Advance; March 31, 2008. Mathewson
was the first and only UNC student to get a
