Carolina Alumni Review - July/August 2008

system and the Atlanta Crackers in the Dixie Series. He served in the Philippines as a Navy navigator in WWII. Penny Hartman Bost (’ 55 ABEd), 73, of Birmingham, Ala.; Feb. 10, 2008. Bost taught in the Winston-Salem City School System. At UNC, she belonged to Pi Beta Phi and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Charles Lee Brackett Jr. (’ 51), 81, of Timberlake; May 4, 2007. Brackett retired as superintendent of maintenance at Duke University. Previously, he worked for Wright’s Machinery and Crown Aluminum. He was a Scoutmaster for nine years. He was a Marine and served in WWII. Wilbur Young Bridgers (’ 50 BSCOM), 80, of Greenville, S.C.;April 18, 2008. Bridgers retired as senior vice president of Bank of America. He was active with many community groups in the Greenville area; the teen center at the Caine Halter Family YMCA and the Pendleton Place Children’s Shelter were dedicated in his name. He served in the Army. At UNC, he was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi. Thomas Sherman Bryan (’ 50 AB), 79, of Chapel Hill; April 3, 2008. Bryan retired as a lieutenant commander from the Navy, where he was a naval aviator. At UNC, he was in the first graduating class of NROTC. Lyle Lewis Campbell (’ 52), 77, of Moore Haven, Fla.; Oct. 19, 2007. Gertrude Sowell Clarke (’ 50), 87, of Carrollton, Ga.; April 28, 2007. William Grimes Clark III (’ 55, ’ 56 AB), 74, of Tarboro; March 30, 2008. Clark was chairman of Clark Industries, a farming and investment business. He served in the Air Force. He was active in many community organizations and was president of the UNC Educational Foundation during the building of the Dean E. Smith Center and helped create Family House, a temporary residence for families of patients at UNC Hospitals. He served on the UNC Board of Visitors (1979-83 and 2001- 05). At UNC, he was a member of AFROTC and Delta Kappa Epsilon. William Curtis Charles (’ 57 BSGEO, ’ 60 MS), 77, of Lake Charles, La.; March 28, 2008. Charles was a retired engineer with Schlumberger Offshore Services and a member of the American Petroleum Institute. He served in the Navy in the Korean War. Jane Dicks Connelly (’ 58 AB), 95, of Chapel Hill;April 22, 2008. Connelly worked in the political science department at UNC, then at various universities in the Washington, D.C., area. In WWII, she served in a secret communications unit in the South Pacific with the Women’s Army Corps, rising to the rank of captain. She later was a civilian employee of the Army, working in special services, which provided education and recreation for troops worldwide. She lived in Korea after the war, where her husband was a lawyer and diplomat helping rebuild the

country’s legal institutions. Frances Abee Corley (’ 57 AB), 72, of The Villages, Fla.; Feb. 27, 2008. Corley retired as a special education teacher. Her activities in Florida included participation in The Villages Clown Alley and a storytelling guild in Lady Lake. Charles William Crone (’ 52 AB), 77, of Mount Olive; Dec. 14, 2007. Crone retired as president of his own ad agency, which won several Cleo awards. Among his many community activities, he was chairman of the county library board, the school board and the Johnston County Morehead Selection Committee. He was named Man of the Year in Clayton in 1969. At UNC, he was active in Christian Youth Group, played football and belonged to AFROTC. He served in the Air Force and Air Force Reserves. Dwight Little Cranford (’ 54 AB, ’ 60 LLBJD), 75, of Roanoke Rapids; March 12, 2008. Cranford was a retired Superior Court judge and lawyer in Halifax County. He had previously been a District Court judge and was admitted to the state and federal bars in North Carolina and the U.S. Supreme Court bar. Among his community activities, Cranford had served on the Roanoke Rapids Planning Board, was a former president of the Halifax County Kiwanis Club, the N.C. Symphony Society and the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce and was former chairman of the Halifax County

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Democratic Party. He served in the Army. At UNC, he belonged to Phi Alpha Delta. William Adams Darden (’ 58 AB), 77, of Harrisburg; June 11, 2007. Darden retired as president of his own insurance agency. In his Navy career, he was selected for the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and was awarded the naval aviator Wings of Gold. He was an Eagle Scout. At UNC, he played lacrosse. Edward William Davis III (’ 54), 75, of Baltimore; Dec. 26, 2007. Davis was a salesman for Hollywood Photo Studio. Ernest Cornelius Deane Jr. (’ 57), 73, of Richmond, Va.; Feb. 13, 2008. Deane was president of Deane & Co., an ice cream and frozen dessert freezer company. He was active in the National Football Foundation, which promotes amateur football as a way to develop leadership, character and academic achievement. Ben Elbert Douglas Jr. (’ 51), 83, of Charlotte; March 7, 2008. Douglas, a master furrier, owned Douglas Furs. He also was involved in commercial real estate brokerage and hotel and motel franchising. He served with the Army in WWII and was among the first to enter Germany and liberate Dachau prison camp. Forrest Edward Drum (’ 57), 78, of Newton; Oct. 9, 2007. Drum retired as a salesman with Catawba Sox Inc. He was a member of the Catawba Valley Hosiery Association. He served in the Army in the

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