Carolina Alumni Review - January/February 2009

Greensboro. Leonard William Wood (’ 72 MBA) of Atlanta has received the 2008 Leadership Award from the Kenan-Flagler Business School. In 2007, Wood retired from Wood Partners LLC, the company he founded in 1998. He is a former principal of Trammell Crow Residential. ■ obituaries James Monroe Becker (’ 72 MA; ’ 81, ’ 80 PhD), 65, of Norfolk, Va.; Aug. 29, 2008. Becker was a pastor for Methodist churches in Virginia until he retired in 2005. He continued to teach at Old Dominion University and Tidewater Community College. While in northern Virginia, he volunteered as a chaplain for several groups. He also volunteered in Georgia during the civil rights movement. Kathy LaMarr Munday (’ 72 AB), 57, of Tarboro; Oct. 1, 2008. Munday retired as dean of credit programs at Edgecombe Community College in Tarboro. Earlier in her career, she was instructional development coordinator and administrative assistant for the Health Sciences Consortium at Chapel Hill.

’ 73 Charles Franklin Blackburn Jr. (’ 73) of Raleigh joined fellow members of the band When Cousins Marry — T. James Dickerson Jr. (’ 73 AB, ’ 80 MSLS) and Steven William Esthimer (’ 73 AB) of Chapel Hill, Thomas Ballard Cole (’ 88 MPH) and Spence Foscue — in a gig at the Pittsboro General Store in October. Their song Quiero Mas Dinero has taken off as a surprise hit on the KTHX-FM radio show “The Risky Biscuit Hayseed Hoot” in Reno, Nev. John Walker Bullard (’ 73 ABEd) of Pinehurst has joined FrontGate Properties, returning to real estate after a career in banking. In 2008, Bullard led the merger of Longleaf Community Bank with Four Oaks Bank & Trust. Godfrey Cheshire III (’ 73) of New York has ended his association with The Independent Weekly of Durham to join Metro Magazine of Raleigh. Cheshire teamed with Metro editor and publisher R. Bernie Reeves III (’ 69, ’ 70 AB) to start The Spectator in 1978. William Fowler Ezzell Jr. (’ 73 BSBA) of Arlington, Va., has received the 2008 Master of Accounting Alumni Merit Award from the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Ezzell is national managing partner of legislative and regulatory relations for Deloitte LLP. Ezzell was a member of the board of directors of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1998-2004) and served as its chairman for two years. Missy Julian Fox (’ 73 AB) of Chapel Hill has been named director of the UNC Visitors’ Center. Patricia LaFevers Holsten (’ 73, ’ 93 ABJM) of Wilmington has been chosen to head the new regional offices of American Security Mortgage for southeast North Carolina and northeast South Carolina. Robert Hamilton Long II (’ 73 BFA) of Chapel Hill has been reappointed to the Roanoke Island Commission. Long, principal of the Theatre Consultants Collaborative, consulted on the renovation of UNC’s Memorial Hall and guided the renovation of the Playmakers Theatre. Dr. Ora John Wells (’ 73 AB) of Brevard spoke about LaCrosse encephalitis at a community education program sponsored by Transylvania Community Hospital. LaCrosse encephalitis is the most common mosquito-borne virus affecting the region.

’ 74 Jane Tudor Brewer (’ 74 ABEd) of Walterboro, S.C., has been promoted to athletics director at the Salkehatchie campus of the University of South Carolina.