Carolina Alumni Review - July/August 2008

American Revolution and National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century and an avid international traveler. Josephine Ziona Woll (’ 72 MA, ’ 75 PhD), 57, of Chevy Chase, Md.; March 12, 2008. Woll was a professor of Russian at Howard University. She also was an author and editor.

’ 73 Charles Franklin Blackburn Jr. (’ 73) of Raleigh has received a 2008 Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award from St. Andrews Presbyterian College in recognition of his work as a literary artist. Blackburn and T. James Dickerson Jr. (’ 73 AB, ’ 80 MSLS) of Chapel Hill, Steven William Esthimer (’ 73 AB) of Chapel Hill, Dr. Thomas Ballard Cole (’ 88 MPH) and Spence Foscue have released their debut CD, Shotgun Wedding. Their band, When Cousins Marry, began as a rock-and-blues cover band 25 years ago, but now writes songs ranging from rock to country, blues and beyond. John Edward Mickey (’ 73 BSBA) of Clem-mons has been recognized as a leader in production with MassMutual Financial Group. Mickey is a principal of Holden Mickey & Mickey Inc. Thomas Hart Sayre (’ 73 AB) of Raleigh has received a 2008 Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award from St. Andrews Presbyterian College in recognition of his work as a sculptor and public artist. Sayre was profiled in the May/June 2008 issue of the Review. Susan Rowland Waters (’ 73 ABEd) of Oxford has been elected to the area board of RBC Cen-tura. Waters is a managing partner of the CPA firm Phillips, Dorsey, Thomas, Waters & Braf-ford PA. ■ obituaries Margaret Bowers Barrett (’ 73, ’ 97 AB; ’03 MAT), 60, of Chapel Hill; April 11, 2008. Barrett was among the first bus drivers in the Chapel Hill bus system and had also been a pastry chef and run a sewing business. For the past 20 years, she was an English-as-a-second-language teacher with the Burlington School System. Barbara Britt Muse (’ 73 ABEd), 56, of Charlotte; Feb. 29, 2008. Muse taught at West Charlotte High School and was an active volunteer in her church. Thomas Herman Nixon (’ 73), 56, of Nags Head; March 19, 2008. Nixon was a commercial fisherman. Allen Buford Sanders (’ 73 PhD), 89, of Burlington; March 25, 2008. Sanders retired from Elon College, where he had been chairman of the department of business administration. The college presented him its Elon Medallion in 1997 for his loyalty and service. In 1999, he was named Alamance County’s Citizen of the Year. His community activities included serving on the board of The ARC of North Carolina and its Life Guardianship

Council. The ARC also named him its Volunteer of the Year. He was on the mayor’s council on disabilities and worked with the Special Olympics, had been county campaign chairman for several Democratic candidates to the legislature and worked with the Allied Churches of Alamance County. Previously, he served in the Navy as a supply corps officer for more than 20 years. Robert Allan Weir (’ 73 PhD), 84, of Knoxville, Tenn.; March 21, 2008. Weir had a 22-year career in the Navy, where he was recognized as an expert pistol marksman. He later earned a doctorate in finance and joined the University of Tennessee as a professor until his 1989 retirement.

’ 74 Barbara Ann Baker (’ 74 MSLS) of Durham has retired as vice president for student support services at Durham Technical Community College after more than 35 years in libraries and student services in N.C. community colleges. Dennis Alvin Wicker (’ 74 AB) of Sanford has joined Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn. Wicker, who served as N.C. lieutenant governor from 1993 to 2001, will be part of the Columbus, Ohio, law firm’s expansion into Raleigh. Diane Carol Wilson (’ 74 BSN, ’ 76 MSN) of Gainesville,Va., was named professor emerita after retiring as interim dean of nursing at Northern Virginia Community College. Wilson, who has taught at the college since 1978, was named professor of nursing in 1994 and program head in 1999. ■ obituaries Joshua Warren Munden III (’ 74 BSBA), 56, of Rocky Mount; March 9, 2008. Munden was owner and CEO of Simmons & Harris and Metro Maintenance in Rocky Mount. He was serving as chairman of the Rocky Mount planning board and was a past member of the Rocky Mount City Council, among numerous civic responsibilities. He received the Rocky Mount Realtor of the Year Award and the Distinguished Service Award, and his company received the Service to Humanity Award. He was an Eagle Scout. At UNC, he was eminent commander of Sigma Nu. Sylvia Knopp Polgar (’ 74 PhD, ’ 81 MSW), 79, of Wilmington;April 9, 2008. Polgar lectured at UNC before becoming a faculty member at UNC-Wilmington for almost 20 years, teaching sociology, social work and anthropology. She volunteered in Wilmington, focusing on relations among ethnic groups and improvement of public health.