sador Stuart E. Eizenstat Distinguished Professorship in Jewish History and Culture. Eizenstat, a partner with Covington & Burling LLP,
served as lead negotiator for Holocaust reparation agreements and has been a key proponent
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council since
it was founded under President Carter.
James Baxter Hunt Jr. (’ 64 LLBJD) of
Lucama was featured in a series of interviews
presented by UNC-TV in April. The program,
Biographical Conversations with James B. Hunt Jr.,
was recorded over three days in summer 2007.
Hunt, four-term governor of North Carolina
and a member of the law firm of Womble
Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC, lives on a
beef cattle farm on land that has been in his
family since Wilson County was formed.
■ obituaries
Clara Jenkins Crabtree (’ 64 MEd), 79, of
Durham;April 7, 2008. Crabtree was a classroom teacher, school librarian and first library
supervisor in the former Durham County
Schools. She belonged to many professional
organizations and was awarded a life membership in the N.C. Library Association when she
retired, recognizing her service in the advancement of libraries. She volunteered as librarian
in the Yates Baptist Association. Mary Jo
Maness Manley (’ 64 ABEd), 65, of Ocean
City, N.J.; March 5, 2008. Manley taught
English at several N.C. schools. Earlier in her
career, she taught English in Korea for the
Defense Department. Dr. R. Gale Martin
(’ 64, ’ 65 AB; ’ 68 MD), 65, of Southern Pines;
March 18, 2008. Martin, an ophthalmologist,
was co-founder and president of Carolina Eye
Associates, with locations throughout the state.
He was founder of Eye America, a charitable
foundation to help eye-care professionals. He
was medical director of a joint project with
Carolina Eye Associates to develop an ophthal-mologic clinic and surgery center at the
University of Hangzhou in China. He was one
of a handful of surgeons performing a new
vision-restoring surgical technique, implantable
contact lens surgery. He was a Green Beret in
the Vietnam War and continued as a group surgeon until the early ’70s. He received the
Order of the Long Leaf Pine and co-founded
the UNC Medical Foundation. Robert
Franklin Melvin (’ 64, ’ 72 BSMAT; ’ 70
BSBA), 65, of Lumberton; March 4, 2008.
Melvin lived for many years on his family farm
in Bladen County. More recently, he was an
active member of English Conversation clubs
at N.C. State University. He served in the
Army. Susan Feil Thornton (’ 64 PhD),
69, of Rockville, Md.; Dec. 22, 2007. Thornton
had a 30-year career as a chemistry professor at
Montgomery College. For two years, she lived
in Rajasthan, India, as an educational consult-
ant for the U.S. Agency for International
Development. She received an Outstanding
Service to Education Award from the
Montgomery County public schools. Ivo
Ambrose Wortman Jr. (’ 64 MEd), 70, of
Lillington; April 19, 2008. Wortman was the
retired superintendent of Harnett County
Schools. He had been a Rotary Club member.
’ 65 H. Martin Lancaster (’ 65 AB,
’ 67 JD) of Cary has been honored
with the establishment of the H.
Martin Lancaster Biotechnology Instructor of
the Year Award. Lancaster served as president of
the N.C. Community College System from
1997 until his retirement this year. He was
responsible for building a program of work
force training, providing a basis and incentive
for the growth of the state’s biotechnology sector.
■ obituary
Bruce Frederick Griffith (’ 65 MA; ’ 74, ’ 73
PhD), 67, of Salisbury; Feb. 13, 2008. Griffith
had been a professor and administrator at
Catawba College since 1964. He was director
of the Division of General Education at
Catawba, chairman of the history department
and founder of the college’s Educare freshman
program. He held the William R. Weaver
Professor of history endowed chair and
received the Trustee Award for Outstanding
Service and the Swink Award for Excellence
in Classroom Teaching.
’ 66 A. Graham Allen (’ 66 AB) of
Jacksonville, Fla., has been
inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Allen is chair of
the litigation department of Rogers Towers
PA, where he specializes in commercial and
construction litigation. Anita Anderson
Brown (’ 66 BSN) of Concord has retired as
chancellor for Cabarrus College of Health Sciences. Brown has served in leadership positions
at Cabarrus since 1979 and as its CEO since
1994. Janet Loafman Flowers (’ 66 AB,
’ 67 MSLS) of Hillsborough has retired as head
of the acquisitions department for the UNC
Library.
■ obituary
John Hale Yokley Jr. (’ 66 BSIR), 64, of
High Point; March 26, 2008. Yokley was president of the Mount Airy Furniture Co. and
later was a sales representative for Universal
Furniture Co. He was president of the YMCA
and a director of Rotary Club, among other
community activities. At UNC, he was co-captain of the basketball team in 1966. He also
belonged to Alpha Tau Omega and Gorgons
Head Lodge.
’ 67 Erskine Boyce Bowles (’ 67
BSBA) of Chapel Hill, president
of the UNC System, gave the
commencement address at N.C. State University in May. Thomas Norman Chewning
(’ 67 AB) of Richmond,Va., represented UNC
at the inauguration of Brian K. Blount as president of Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education.
Chewning is executive vice president and chief
financial officer of Dominion Resources and
serves on the GAA Board of Directors.
■ obituary
Donald Elliott Garrison (’ 67 AB), 63, of
Greenville, S.C.; April 10, 2008. Garrison was
retired from Milliken Co., a chemical and textile manufacturing company. He served in the
Army as a veterinary technician. At UNC, he
was on the wrestling team.
’ 68 ■ obituary
Marlys Marie Mitchell (’ 68
PhD), 77, of Chapel Hill; March 8, 2008.
Mitchell was professor emerita of occupational
therapy in the department of medical allied
health professions in UNC’s School of Medicine. She is credited with developing the first
master’s degree program in occupational therapy in North Carolina in the late ’70s; she
became the first program director, serving until
1984. At that time, she returned to full-time
teaching. Among her many honors were the
American Occupational Therapy Association’s
Award of Merit, the Peabody Excellence in
Teaching Award from the UNC School of
Education and the Terry Sanford Award for
Creativity and Innovation in Teaching. She was
an active member of her church in Durham,
where for more than 30 years she was director
of adult education programs.
SAVE
the
DATE
May 8– 10, 2009
Class of ’ 69
40th Reunion
’ 69 Alfred Pershing Carlton Jr.
(’ 69 BSBA, ’ 75 JD) of Raleigh has
joined the law firm of Allen and
Pinnix. G. Williamson McDiarmid (’ 69,
’ 70 AB) of Seattle has been named dean of
the School of Education at UNC and
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Education,
effective Jan. 1, 2009. Richard Douglas
Paige (’ 69 BSBA) of Highlands Ranch, Colo.,
moved from CEO to chairman of PRO
Group. Paige remains CEO of the three PRO
Group affiliate companies: PRO Group Distribution, PGM Integrated and Proven Brands.
