William Augustus Masterman (’ 45), 84,
of Asheville; April 7, 2008. Masterman, who
owned Carolina Tractor Supply, was involved
in real estate development and investments
after he retired. A WWII veteran, he served in
the Army Air Corps. At UNC, he belonged to
Chi Phi. Philip Hudson McDavid (’ 42),
87, of Sanford; April 20, 2008. McDavid, a
retired electrical contractor, helped establish
the Jonesboro Historical Society. In WWII, he
flew 35 combat missions as a B- 17 pilot in the
Army Air Corps, and his medals included the
Purple Heart. He also flew more than 100
missions in the Korean War. Stuart Betts
McIver (’ 43 ABJO), 86, of Lighthouse Point,
Fla.;April 24, 2008. McIver was an author and
journalist who wrote extensively about South
Florida and the Everglades. He worked as a
journalist at The Baltimore Sun, The Charlotte
News and The Greensboro Daily News before a
career in industrial and documentary films. He
was editor of South Florida History magazine, a
board member of the Florida Historical
Society and, at the time of his death, a member
of the Broward County Historical
Commission. He was a former president of the
Florida chapter of the Mystery Writers of
America and had served as regional vice president. His books included Death in the
Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America’s
FALL 2008
Adventures in Ideas
The overwhelmingly popular humanities seminars continue this fall to
explore interesting and important cultural, moral and social topics from the
perspective of the humanities. Plans for the following seminars are underway:
■ September 13
More Than a Feeling?
Perspectives on the Emotions
from English, History,
Philosophy and Psychiatry
■ September 20
The Silk Road: Cultural
Pathway Between East and
West
■ September 26– 27
Moral Philosophy: An
Introduction to the Classics
■ October 10 – 11
What World is This?
Shakespeare’s Pericles
Featuring a PlayMakers
Repertory Company production
■ October 23 – 24
God’s Problem: The Bible
and Human Suffering
An encore Distinguished
Scholar Seminar featuring
Bart D. Ehrman, James A.
Gray Distinguished Professor
of religious studies
■ November 1
Islam and the West
■ November 6
Golden Age in Spain
A special Thursday seminar with
a visit and reception in the
Ackland Art Museum
■ November 11 – 12
Witnessing and Memory:
What is Gained, What is Lost
and What Remains from
Holocaust Testimonies
The Uhlman Family Seminar
■ November 20 – 21
The Songs of War: Music in
the United States During
World War II
■ November 21– 22
Culture Wars: Religion,
Reason and Atheism Today
■ December 6
Contemporary Iran in
Context
■ December 12
The Berlin Airlift: Sixty
Years On
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar
featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg,
William Rand Kenan Jr. professor
of history, emeritus
GAA members receive a registration discount. First-time participants receive a 50% discount. Online registration
will be available in mid-July 2008. To register, please visit www.adventuresinideas.unc.edu and click on “how to
register,” send an e-mail to human@unc.edu or call (919) 962–1544.
Sponsored by the UNC Program in the Humanities and Human Values and the UNC General Alumni Association.
SPECIAL NOTICE: Full-time K- 12 teachers, librarians and administrators in public and private schools and community college
faculty in North Carolina receive a 50% discount on tuition for all seminars.
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
First Martyr to Environmentalism and Murder in
the Tropics, a collection of true-crime stories,
and Hemingway’s Key West. At UNC, he was on
the staff of The Daily Tar Heel and a member of
the Philanthropic Society. Ernest Cobb
McLean Jr. (’ 48 BSCOM), 84, of
Greensboro; March 15, 2008. McLean retired
as vice president and treasurer of the Pomona
Corp. In WWII, he served in the Army in Italy
and received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge.
He was an Eagle Scout, worked with a Boy
Scout troop and was president of the Kiwanis
Club of Greensboro and the Piedmont Lung
Association. Recently, he traveled with his sons
to Scotland to visit the Maclean clan castle,
Duart Castle, on the Isle of Mull. He was a
member of Phi Gamma Delta at UNC. Dr.
Robert Alderman McLemore (’ 40 AB, ’ 42
CMED), 88, of Columbus, Ohio; Feb. 14,
2008. McLemore had a 35-year career as a surgeon in Springfield, Ohio, with surgical privileges at all area hospitals. He had faculty
appointments at Ohio State University and
Wright State University medical colleges. He
was president of Clark County Education
Foundation and Tri-County Council of
Continuing Education. He was a Navy medical officer in WWII, serving in the Pacific. A
charter contributor to UNC’s Medical
Foundation, he belonged to Alpha Kappa
Kappa at UNC. Francis Iredell Parker
(’ 45 AB, ’ 49 LLB), 84, of Charlotte; March 5,
2008. Parker was a lawyer with the firm now
known as Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LLP.
He served as associate justice of the N.C.
Supreme Court. Among many professional
activities, he was president of the Mecklenburg
County Bar and chairman of the N.C. Board
of Law Examiners. He received the
Distinguished Alumni Award from UNC
School of Law in 2003 and an honorary
degree from Johnson C. Smith University in
1978. He was a Navy veteran of WWII and
the Korean War. At UNC, he belonged to
Delta Kappa Epsilon and NROTC. Ernest
Harold Pittman (’ 43), 84, of Charlotte;
March 10, 2008. Pittman was retired vice president and senior property consultant for
NationsBank. He was president of the
Charlotte chapter of the Institute of Real
Estate Management, from which he received a
number of awards. He was a naval aviator in
WWII and was active in the Navy Reserves,
where he was a former state chapter president.
An Eagle Scout, he served on the UNC Board
of Visitors from 1996 to 2000. At UNC, he
belonged to Alpha Phi Omega. Fairfax
Bates Ralston (’ 42 AB), 86, of Memphis,
Tenn.; March 10, 2008. After graduation,
Ralston worked for Pan American Airways in
Miami. Carter Carpenter Reaves (’ 48
AB), 87, of Orinda, Calif.; Feb. 4, 2008. Reaves
