Charlotte Observer after spending the 2007-08 academic year at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow.
Newsom is an associate editor, editorial board member and op-ed columnist. Geoffrey Alan Planer
(’ 74 JD) of Gastonia served as the master of ceremonies at the 2008 Debutante Presentation and
Ball at the Gaston Country Club. Planer is a lawyer in
private practice. Ellen Tart Ruff (’ 74 JD) of Charlotte has moved from president of Duke Energy Carolinas to president, office of nuclear development.
Ruff is responsible for development of nuclear generation, including plans for the proposed Lee
Nuclear Station in South Carolina. G. Hughes
Winborne (’ 74, ’ 75 AB) of Los Angeles edited the film
Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith. Winborne, who
won an Oscar for his work editing the 2004 drama
Crash, also edited an earlier Will Smith film, Pursuit
of Happyness, and the 2008 film The Great
Debaters.
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Phillip Anthony Forest (’ 74 AB), 60, of Washington,
N.C.; Dec. 3, 2008. Forest was an environmental
technician with PCS Phosphate. James Clayton
Goodwin Jr. (’ 74 PhD), 69, of Richmond, Va.; Nov. 11,
2008. Goodwin retired as professor emeritus from
the University of Richmond in 2000. He twice received
the university’s Distinguished Educator Award, as
well as an award for having a positive influence on
students’ lives and careers. He joined the faculty
when the business school began its MBA program in
the 1970s. In the ’60s, Goodwin was a drilling engineer for major companies. He was a Silver Life
Master in bridge.
’ 75 Cindy Worsley Hamilton (’ 75 BSPHR) of
Virginia Beach, Va., has been named
president of the American Medical Writers
Association. Hamilton is principal of Hamilton House,
a medical writing and editing firm. Robert Charles
Schweitzer (’ 75 MBA) of Boca Raton, Fla., has been
named president of Shay Investment Services, a
Miami-based investment adviser to national financial
institutions. Schweitzer has been re-elected chairman of the board of PetMeds and of First Financial
Bank and Trust.
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Robert Charles Blankenship (’ 75 AB, ’ 88 MSRA),
55, of Hillsborough; Nov. 25, 2008. Evern Morgan
Entwistle (’ 75 ABEd), 89, of Rockingham; Nov. 6,
2008. Entwistle retired as a school librarian from the
Richmond County school system. Previously, she was
a nurse. She helped develop her church library and
worked with the Richmond County Board of Elections.
Kim Adrian McGregor (’ 75 AB), 55, of Bridgeport,
Conn.; Nov. 17, 2008. McGregor worked for perfume
manufacturer Shaw Mudge for more than 15 years.
Later, he became active in the Living Water Deliverance
Ministry. William Cofield Stuart III (’ 75 AB, ’ 78
JD), 55, of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Nov. 4, 2008. Stuart
was a musician, playing clarinet, saxophone and
flute, and he recently performed with The Last Resort,
a Maryland jazz group. He moved from Raleigh last
year to Myrtle Beach. At UNC, he belonged to Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
’ 76 W. Mark Crowell (’ 76 AB, ’ 79 MRP) of
Chapel Hill has been named vice president for business development at The
Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Crowell
had led economic development and technology
transfer efforts at Carolina for the previous eight and
a half years. At Scripps, he is focusing on technology
transfer, business development, and research relationships and partnerships with life science companies. David Clement Klinger (’ 76 ABJO) of Martinsburg, W.Va., conducted a video oral history session
with Lester Wolff, a former Long Island congressman,
at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Theodore
Roosevelt’s home, in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Roosevelt’s birth. Klinger is senior writer-editor with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Foster Eugene Norman (’ 76 AB) of Wilmington has been
appointed area director of the Southeastern Center
for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and
Substance Abuse. Cathy Kime Rumley (’ 76 ABEd)
of Graham has been named Principal of the Year for
Orange County schools. Rumley is principal of New
Hope Elementary School.
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Gene Autry Brayboy (’ 76 MPH), 71, of Lumberton;
Nov. 4, 2008. Brayboy was a commissioned officer
of the U.S. Public Health Service, where he had
numerous positions. When he retired in 1992, he
became director of sponsored research and programs
at UNC-Pembroke, where he helped garner $9.3 million in grants and was considered the pioneer in
establishing the Regional Center for Economic,
Community and Professional Development. After high
school, Brayboy served with the Air Force in England,
Germany and Spain. Shirley Ann Davis (’ 76 AB),
55, of Henderson; Nov. 3, 2008. After graduation,
Davis moved to Maryland, returning to Henderson in
1993. She worked with Granville County Board of
Education as a media coordinator at an elementary
school, had taught GED classes at Granville Community
College and had been the incorporating secretary
and bookkeeper for an area funeral service. John
Arvid Hertzman (’ 76 PhD), 80, of Raleigh; Nov. 15,
2008. Hertzman taught design and art history at the
Kansas City Art Institute, N.C. State University School
of Design, Duke and UNC. Dr. Billy Ray Hunter Sr.
(’ 76 MD), 61, of Worthington, Ohio; Dec. 5, 2008.
Hunter was a psychiatrist associated with Psychiatric
Health One Ltd. He was former staff psychiatrist with
the Mount Carmel Hospital System in Columbus,
Ohio. Lawrence Thomas Jones (’ 76 JD), 60, of
Stowe, Vt.; Oct. 18, 2008. Jones, a lawyer in Stowe,
was chairman of Stowe’s Development Review
Board. He was in the military during the Vietnam
War, in charge of a reconnaissance patrol. Belinda
Williams Murrell (’ 76 BSBA), 55, of Winston-Salem;
Nov. 21, 2008. At UNC, she belonged to Delta Sigma
Theta. Vernetta Leatrice “Net” Warren (’ 76), 54,
of Durham; Nov. 30, 2008. Warren worked in medical
positions, including as a personnel technician at UNC
Hospitals, a human resource representative at
Durham County Hospital Corp. and as an administrative assistant in Duke University Medical Center’s
physical therapy department. She was a volunteer at
Hargraves Recreation Center.
80s
’ 77 Warren Louis Bingham (’ 77 AB) of
Raleigh presented a lecture, George
Washington’s 1791 Southern Tour, at
the Joel Lane Museum House. Bingham left his role
as a vice president at the N.C. Community Foundation to focus on writing a book on Washington’s
Southern tour, a piece of history he discovered as a
senior at UNC in a class with William Powell, now a
professor emeritus. Ronald Reed Franklin (’ 77 AB)
of Hillsborough was selected to participate in the
exhibition
100 under 1000 at the Lee Hansley Gallery
in Raleigh. Franklin is a ceramic artist who works in
raku ceramics at his studio, Atelier Du Lac Ltd.
Ralph Nichols Strayhorn III (’ 77 AB, ’ 81 JD) of Charlotte has been named president and CEO of Cape
Fear Bank.
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R. Graham Williams Jr. (’ 77 ABJO) and Betsy Ferrell
Durway (’ 82 BSPH) of Union, S.C.
’ 78 Larry Alan Carpenter (’ 78 AB, ’ 80 MBA)
of Franklin, Tenn., has been named
president and publisher with Standard
Publishing Co. in Cincinnati. Camille Holmes
Hedrick (’ 78 ABEd) of Cary has published her first
book, Retaining Career Switchers, a discussion of the
impact of school culture on teacher retention.
Hedrick is assistant principal at Lufkin Road Middle
School.
’ 79 Steven Douglas Cogburn (’ 79 AB, ’ 82
JD) of Asheville has been named clerk of
court for Buncombe County, serving the
remainder of the term for the court system’s chief
administrator, who retired at the end of 2008. E.
Joy Little (’ 79 BSBA) of Charleston, W.Va., has been
named president and CEO of the newly formed Smith
Little LLC. Little is a CPA and certified financial examiner specializing in insurance regulatory matters and
providing services for outsourced government contracts. Deborah Jane Moose (’ 79 ABJO) of
Raleigh has published her third cookbook, Wings:
More Than 50 High-Flying Recipes for America’s
Favorite Snack. Dr. Paul Boksuk Suh (’ 79 AB, ’ 83
MD) of Youngsville has joined the treatment staff at
Orthopaedic Specialists of North Carolina. Suh specializes in orthopedic spine surgery and works out of
OSNC’s offices in Wake Forest, Chapel Hill and
Oxford.
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David Allen Craft (’ 79 ABJO), 51, of Asheville; Dec. 3,
2008. Craft, a lawyer, was both an intern and legislative assistant to the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms and
was working on a manuscript for the history of NASCAR
and Richard Childress at the time of his death. He
and Childress had been friends since childhood. At
UNC, he was a member of the Society of Janus and
on The Daily Tar Heel staff.
’ 80 Dana Lynn Cagle (’ 80 BSADJ) of Glendale, Calif., has been named chaplain for
the California office of Seasons Hospice.
Forest Orion “Mick” Mixon III (’ 80 AB) of Charlotte
was the featured speaker at the December Carolina
Horizon Series luncheon of the Hood Hargett Breakfast
Club. Mixon is the play-by-play radio announcer for
the Carolina Panthers and is involved with the team’s
community and sales efforts, sponsor and fan events,
and Panther Network Television programming.
