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’30s ■ obituaries
Dr. Henry Toole Clark Jr. (’ 37 AB,
’ 39 CMED), 90, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 25, 2008. Clark
was vice chancellor of health affairs at UNC (1950-
65), overseeing the expansion of the medical school
to a four-year program; the founding of the schools of
dentistry and nursing; the expansions of the schools
of pharmacy and public health; and the opening of
N.C. Memorial Hospital. He later was named director
of regional medical programs for Connecticut. Among
many medical commitments, he was director of Project HOPE in Jamaica and a visiting professor of community medicine at the University of the West Indies.
In 1981, he retired to Chapel Hill. He had a strong
interest in tennis and, while at UNC as vice chancellor, he helped reorganize the N.C. Tennis Association
and was its president. He initiated the N.C. Tennis
Foundation and was inducted into the N.C. Tennis
Hall of Fame in 1980. In retirement, he and his wife
developed partnerships among Habitat for Humanity,
UNC fraternities and sororities, and local churches,
partnerships that were responsible for more than 25
houses built in Orange County. He helped re-initiate a
chapter of Sigma Nu on campus and refurbish the
chapter house. In 1996, he and his wife were
selected for Order of the Golden Fleece. Other honors included Order of Omega, Alice Call Miller Award
by Habitat for Humanity and the Regent’s Award from
his fraternity. Among his student activities at UNC, he
graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was president of Sigma
Nu and the Interfraternity Council and was on the
golf team. Martha Jones Gundaker (’ 38 ABLS),
92, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Aug. 3, 2008. Gundaker
retired as head of the reference department of the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She also
worked at the Chattanooga Public Library. In WWII,
she served in the American Red Cross in New
Guinea. Dr. Charles M. Hooper (’ 37), 94, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; June 12, 2008. Hooper was a physician in Chattanooga for a number of years. Julia
Holt Kornegay (’ 39 AB), 90, of Louisburg; Oct. 14,
2008. Kornegay was a longtime faculty member of
Louisburg College, teaching art history, education
and ceramics. As a student at Louisburg, she was
Joan Brown Artley, 78, of Burlington; Sept. 18,
2008. Artley was a medical transcriptionist at UNC
Hospitals. She was active in her church, where she
sang in the choir, rang in the hand bell choir and
worked in the food pantry. She was president of
the United Methodist Women and past president of
the Cardinal Chapter of the American Business
Women’s Association. Wayne Alexander
Bowers, 89, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 28, 2008. Bowers
was professor emeritus of physics and astronomy.
After retiring from full-time teaching, he continued
to teach part time for several years. During his
tenure at UNC, he was a visiting scholar at the
Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge and a visiting
professor at MIT. Before joining the UNC faculty, he
worked in the theoretical division of the Manhattan
Project in Los Alamos. He was active in the community, especially in the 1960s integration struggles. He served on the N.C. Council on Human
Relations. Glenda Turner Bracy, 58, of
Creedmoor; Sept. 8, 2008. Bracy was an administrative secretary in the School of Social Work for
16 years. Martha Louise Buckner, 98, of
Graham, Oct. 24, 2008. Buckner was secretary to
Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of
Government (now School of Government). After
Coates retired, she continued as secretary to his
successor, John Sanders. Before joining UNC, she
worked in the Alamance County schools. In
Graham, she was active in her church and volunteered with Meals on Wheels. Dr. Henry Toole
Clark Jr. (’ 37 AB, ’ 39 CMED), 90, of Chapel Hill;
Sept. 25, 2008. Clark was vice chancellor of health
affairs at UNC. Details, ’30s Class Notes. Donald
Francis Clifford Jr., 73, Chapel Hill; Oct. 19, 2008.
Clifford was Aubrey L. Brooks Professor Emeritus at
the UNC School of Law. He joined the faculty in
1964 and taught for 43 years. Five days after
Hurricane Katrina, he organized a seminar on disaster relief. He served as associate dean for academic affairs at the law school several times. In
1989, he conceived and directed the Festival of
Legal Learning at the law school to support continuing legal education for members of the state bar.
He served on numerous legal committees and
commissions. Among his many honors, he was
made a member of the Order of the Long Leaf
Pine. He sang in his church choir for many years
and in the Chapel Hill Community Chorus for 25
years. Collie Coleman, 65, of Lumberton; Oct. 7,
2008. Coleman was assistant to the dean of technical training at UNC, and later, associate vice
chancellor for outreach at UNC-Pembroke. In
between, he was president of Allen University and
vice president for academic affairs at Shaw
University, his alma mater. He spent two years in
Nigeria as a Peace Corps volunteer. Later he was a
cross-cultural coordinator of the Peace Corps and a
Peace Corps director for volunteer-training projects
in Swaziland, Somalia and Kenya. Dr. Norman
Arthur Coulter, 88, of Greenville; Oct. 24, 2008.
Coulter was professor emeritus of the UNC School
of Medicine, where he taught from 1965 to 1990.
He was co-founder of the UNC Biomedical
Engineering and Mathematics Curriculum, now a
department where he was chair for 13 years. He
belonged to a number of professional organizations and published articles and two books on synergetics. He was president of the N.C. chapter of
Physicians for Social Responsibility. He helped
organize a sister city committee for Chapel Hill and
Carrboro with Saratov, Russia. He organized a conference on the prevention of violence and helped
plan a school violence-prevention program. He
received the Peacemaker Award and the Broad
Street Pump Award. Jack Thomas Crumpacker,
88, of Durham; Sept. 14, 2008. Crumpacker
worked at the physics department, retiring in
1983. Previously, he had a long career with
Wright/Sperry Co. Ernest Ludwig Eliel, 86, of
Chapel Hill; Sept. 18, 2008. Eliel moved to Chapel
Hill in 1972 to assume the title W.R. Kenan Jr.
Professor of chemistry. He received the N.C. Award
in Science in 1986. He received honorary doctorates in science from Duke University and Notre
Dame University, where he taught for 24 years
before coming to UNC. He received the Priestley
Medal in 1996 to recognize his distinguished services to chemistry. Most recently, Eliel was making
significant contributions to the chemistry of chiral
chemicals. Josephine Bone Floyd (’ 44 MA, ’ 45
BSLS), 87, of Atlanta; Sept. 20, 2008. Floyd was a
librarian. Details, ’40s Class Notes. Charles
Adams Hale, 78, of Seattle; Sept. 29, 2008. Hale
was professor emeritus of Latin American history
at the University of Iowa. Previously, he taught
briefly at UNC, Lehigh University and Amherst
College. His concentration was on the intellectual
history of Mexican liberalism. He wrote widely on
the topic and received numerous prizes. In spring
