Carolina Alumni Review - March/April 2009

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Mary Pfaff Allen (’ 62 CDH), 66, of Reidsville; Dec. 10, 2008. Allen was a dental hygienist for more than 35 years. Horace Gales Herndon Edwards Jr. (’ 62), 69, of Raleigh; Oct. 17, 2008. Edwards had worked at Rex Hospital since 1994. Earlier, he was a plumbing and heating contractor. He was active in his church. Dr. Arthur Simonton Lynn Jr. (’ 62 MD), 72, of Granite Falls; Nov. 5, 2008. Lynn practiced internal medicine in Catawba County, including at Catawba Valley Medical Center, where he was chairman of the department of medicine and chief of staff. He also was a senior partner with Catawba Valley Internal Medicine and had been president of the N.C. Medical Association. After medical school, he served in the Air Force. James Norwood Settle (’ 62 PhD), 79, of Greenville, S.C.; Nov. 14, 2008. Settle retired as dean of humanities and the arts at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He also had been involved with the American Council of Learned Societies.

’ 63 Jamie Monk Freeland (’ 63 AB) of Hillsborough has joined the board of the Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County. Freeland is retired from a 31-year teaching career. S. Jackson Hill (’ 63 AB, ’ 66 MA, ’ 70 PhD) of Lewisburg, Pa., in November attended the London premiere of his musical composition Remembered Love by the King’s Singers in Cadogan Hall. The work has been released on the Signum Classics label. John Neal Morris (’ 63, ’ 64 AB) of Chapel Hill has retired as director of the N.C. Division of Water Resources. Morris was awarded the Order of the Long

Leaf Pine, the state’s highest civilian honor; the Commander’s Award for Public Service by the Army Corps of Engineers; and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the N.C. Shore and Beach Preservation Association. Robert Lee Rearden Jr. (’ 63 BSBA, ’ 64 MBA) of Atlanta has been appointed to the board of the Transylvania Regional Hospital Foundation. He is chairman and CEO of Kestrel Communications LLC, a sports entertainment production company he founded. Rearden is a past member of the GAA Board of Directors (1989-92) and was its second vice chair (1994-95). ■ obituaries Melvyn Michael Fox (’ 63 AB), 67, of Charlotte; Nov. 28, 2008. Fox was associated with Gurney Industries of Gastonia and Winton Diamonds in Charlotte. He was a member of the American Contract Bridge League, where he became a life member in bridge. At UNC, he belonged to Pi Lambda Phi. Hughes Bayne Hoyle III (’ 63, ’ 62 BSMAT; ’ 63 MA; ’ 67 PhD), 67, of Charleston, S.C.; Nov. 24, 2008. Hoyle was a retired professor of math and computer science at The Citadel. Earlier, he taught at UNC-Greensboro. He was founder of Hoyle and Hoyle Software, which created computer adventure games and database systems. At UNC, he belonged to Pi Mu Epsilon. Susan Keel Lamar (’ 63 ABEd), 66, of Rocky Mount; Nov. 30, 2008. Lamar, an educator with the Nash-Rocky Mount school system, was named district Teacher of the Year and was state director of the N.C. Association for Gifted and Talented. In fall 2008, she coordinated the Paws for a Cause walk and animal parade, raising more than $100,000 for UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she served on the board. At UNC, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Elizabeth Ann Prendergast

(’ 63 MPH), 81, of Chevy Chase, Md.; Oct. 29, 2008. Prendergast retired in 2000 after many years as chief nutritionist of the maternal and child health bureau in Maryland’s Health Resource Service Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. Grant Walton Wheeler (’ 63 AB), 67, of Ocean Ridge, Fla.; Nov. 12, 2008. Wheeler was a financial analyst. He was founding principal of Stock Market Index Inc. and was portfolio manager and senior adviser for Duquesne Capital Investments. At UNC, he belonged to Golden Fleece, Gorgon’s Head Lodge, Order of the Grail and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

’ 64 James Baxter Hunt Jr. (’ 64 LLBJD) of Lucama, former governor of North Carolina, has received the Friday Medal from N.C. State University’s College of Education for his lifetime dedication to improving education. At the presentation, Hunt spoke on the future of education under President Barack

^Obama. ^After ^leaving45^th^Class ^of ^’64:office in 2001, Hunt May 8–10, 2009

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Sandridge & Rice and the Institute for Emerging Issues. Stephen Trimble Lindell (’ 64 AB) of Savannah, Ga., has been appointed to the Historic Preservation Commission in Chatham County, Ga. John Burchfield McMillan (’ 64 AB, ’ 67 JD) of Raleigh has been installed as president of the N.C. State Bar. McMillan, a partner with Manning, Fulton & Skinner PA, has served on the GAA Board of Directors (2006-07).