business specializing in art restorations.
James Robert Duncan (’ 70 MA), 85, of
Wilmington;April 28, 2008. Duncan, an Army
colonel, served in the military for 31 years. He
served throughout WWII, primarily in the
Pacific, and then in the Korean War. Selected
to attend the British Staff College, he later was
assigned to high-level staff positions with the
Army in Washington. Among his honors are
three Legions of Merit, two Silver Stars, a
Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf clusters and
two Combat Infantryman badges. Donald
K. Gowan II (’ 70 AB), 61, of Kent, Conn.;
April 12, 2008. Gowan was dean of students
and chair of the history department at Kent
School, where he had also coached football,
basketball and lacrosse. At UNC, he was a
Morehead Scholar and president of Chi Psi.
Josephine M. Plummer (’ 70 MSRA), 82, of
Durham; March 22, 2008. Plummer, a registered nurse, retired from John Umstead
Hospital in Butner after 25 years. In 1950, she
was the first black RN hired at Duke Hospital.
She was an active ordained minister at Greater
Emmanuel Full Gospel Baptist Church.
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■ obituaries
Michael Dougald Culbreth (’ 71), 59, of
Niceville, Fla.; Feb. 2, 2008. Culbreth had a 27-
year career with the Air Force, receiving
numerous medals and retiring as a lieutenant
colonel. He served in the Vietnam War.
Stephen Cooper Winger (’ 71 AB), 60, of
Asheville; Jan. 24, 2008. Winger was in the textile industry, working with companies such as
Dan River and Beacon Blanket.
’ 71 J. Daniel Fisher (’ 71 BSBA) of
Dunn has been named executive
vice president and chief credit officer for New Century Bank and New Century
Bank South.
The DTH Crossword Edited by Wayne Robert Williams
ACROSS
1 Wake up and get with it
11 Warm up with gloves
15 Began
16 Early Hitchcock film
17 Some noble women
18 How clumsy of me!
19 List of candidates
20 ___ for profit
21 Dancer Duncan
27 Couple
28 Periods
31 Rudner and Moreno
32 Louise or Turner
33 Riga resident
34 Finds faults
35 Debate side
36 Marriage vow
37 Collegiate cheer
38 Noisy clamor
39 Server’s handout
41 Egyptian peninsula
43 Isn’t wrong?
44 Frosts
45 Fall bloomer
46 Reminds, again and again
47 Alaska port
48 Alexandrian astronomer
50 100 square meters
51 Homer’s last letter
55 Gets some sun
57 Lost one’s cool
62 Bologna eight
63 Disrespectful
64 Relax
65 Wills
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1 Corn holders
2 Like a gentleman’s agreement
3 Sorvino of “Mighty Aphrodite”
4 Conceited one
5 Fork points
6 Single unit
7 Spanish article
8 Possessive pronoun
9 Professional charge
10 Bradley and Begley
11 B’way sign
12 City near Bombay
13 Naming
14 Limitations
22 Bowlike shape
23 Anais Nin or Samuel Pepys
24 Strait off Italy
25 “School of Athens” painter
26 Beast of burden
27 Sch. org.
28 All-or-nothing victor
29 Change furnishings
30 Expiations
40 Put to work
41 Weaken
42 Anger
43 Ever again
49 Computer communicator
52 Divisible by two
53 Lady’s beau
54 Martial ___
56 Barfly
57 Tiny portion
58 Pitchblende or galena
59 Tax collectors’ letters
60 Do-over tennis service
61 Gabor of Hollywood
Solution on page 92
’ 72 Douglas Donaldson Bradham
(’ 72 AB; ’ 75 MPH; ’ 81 DRPH;
’ 83, ’82 MA) of Wichita, Kan., has
been named professor and chair of preventive
medicine and public health at the University
of Kansas School of Medicine. Bradham will
assume the Distinguished Professorship funded
by the Kansas Health Foundation. Lee
Hood Capps (’ 72 ABJO) of Kilmarnock, Va.,
has been named convener at CAPPS (Citizens
Achieving Policy Performance Solutions) Ltd.
Sharon O’Connor DeBragga (’ 72 ABEd;
’ 76, ’ 75 MEd) of Fairfax,Va., has received the
Bruce Oliver Leadership Award from the Fairfax County Public Schools for helping students
learn how to plan for a career. DeBragga
recently was elected president of the Virginia
Career Development Association. Fred N.
Eshelman (’ 72 BSPHR) of Wilmington has
announced that Pharmaceutical Product
Development Inc., the company he founded
and directs, will expand to a medical office
building on the Kannapolis Research Campus,
bringing up to 300 jobs to the area. Lee
Wilson Hauser (’ 72 MACOM) of Elizabethtown has received the 2007 Rising Star Award
and the 2007 Million Dollar Roundtable
Award from Martha Lee Realty of Holden
Beach. Hauser joined the firm in 2006 after a
career as a radio broadcaster.
■ obituaries
Carol Saunders Blessing (’ 72, ’ 71 MEd),
59, of Cincinnati; March 24, 2008. Blessing
was director of student support at Cincinnati
Hills Christian Academy. Mary Morecroft
Fowler (’ 72 PhD), 85, of Flemington, N.J.;
March 22, 2008. Fowler was a retired associate
professor of East Carolina University, where
she received an Outstanding Teacher Award
from the ECU alumni association.
Virginia Lee McKay (’ 72 MEd), 86, of
Raleigh;April 4, 2008. McKay spent her
career as an educator, including more than 20
years at Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base
as an elementary school teacher. After retiring, she was a volunteer for Meals-on-Wheels
and the Harnett County Adult Literacy
Program, a docent at the N.C. Museum of
Art, member of the Daughters of the
