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’20s ■ obituaries
Havens Taylor Spivey (’ 29, ’ 33
ABEd), 102, of Summerville, Ga.; Dec. 10, 2008.
Spivey, an active volunteer, was known as a concert
pianist and often accompanied visiting musical
artists who performed at the University of Florida,
where her husband was a professor and dean. She
also was president of the University of Tennessee
Dr. William Hazard Barnwell II, 83, of Charleston,
S.C.; Feb. 6, 2009. Barnwell completed a fellowship
in cardiology at UNC’s medical school. He practiced
cardiology at the Medical University of South
Carolina, retiring in 1995. He was director of cardiac rehabilitation until 2004. He served in the
Army Air Force in WWII. William Everett
Blackwood, 89, of Calvander; Feb. 1, 2009.
Blackwood was an employee of the UNC athletics
department who started his own grading and excavating business. In WWII, he served in the military
in Europe and North Africa. Nancy Bates Boone
(’ 51 AB, ’ 54 MSLS), 79, of Chapel Hill; Jan. 12,
2009. Boone was an academic affairs librarian at
UNC. Details, ’50s Class Notes. Virginia Jones
Boswell, 82, of Burlington; Feb. 23, 2009. Boswell
retired as an employee of UNC Hospitals. She was
active in her church. John Calmore, 63, of
Chapel Hill; Feb. 24, 2009. Calmore was Reef C.
Ivey Professor of law at UNC, beginning in 1999. He
was initially invited to campus as a speaker; a year
later, he was asked to join the faculty. He specialized in issues of poverty and social justice, bringing
his firsthand knowledge from his work as director of
litigation for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los
Angeles, as well as other similar positions. He was
a co-author, with Martha Mahoney and Stephanie
Wildman, of a law school text, Social Justice:
Professionals, Communities, and Law. In 2006,
UNC’s law school devoted a symposium to
Calmore’s work, resulting in a special issue of the
North Carolina Law Review in March 2008. Ruby
Faculty Women. She and her two sons, one on violin,
the other on cello, often provided chamber music
concerts at the University of Florida.
’30s ■ obituaries
Nancy Gordon Dameron (’ 35 AB),
94, of Marion; Jan. 20, 2009. Before moving to a
retirement community in Deerfield, Dameron lived in
Marion, where she was active in her church and a
volunteer in school activities. A nurse, she was a volunteer with the American Red Cross Bloodmobile
and the Marion General Hospital Auxiliary. She
helped reopen the public library after it was closed
due to budget cuts. She was honored for her volunteerism with a state volunteer award from the governor. At UNC, she belonged to Pi Beta Phi and was
Hayes Chalmers, 82, of Durham; Jan. 20, 2009.
Chalmers retired from UNC Memorial Hospital.
Jessie Ward Cheek, 79, of Calvander; Feb. 5,
2009. Cheek retired from the UNC student bookstore. She and her husband ran a dairy farm in
Chapel Hill. Natalie Anne Edmund (’ 90 AB), 41,
of Graham; Dec. 10, 2008. Edmund was a research
technician at UNC. Lucile Brown Gaither, 86, of
Statesville; Jan. 9, 2009. Gaither was secretary to
the chairman of the department of pediatrics at
UNC’s medical school. To help pay her husband’s
expenses through dental school at UNC, she typed
manuscripts and term papers on a $35 typewriter.
She used that same typewriter for 40 years as
bookkeeper for her husband’s dental practice. She
was active in Beta Sigma Phi, her church and the
Iredell County Dental Auxiliary. Lois Rathburn
Gaylord, of Stamford, Conn.; Jan. 27, 2009. Gaylord
taught dance at UNC, among other colleges. She
was the first student at Smith College to receive a
degree in dance. L. Russell “Rush” Jordan (’ 43),
84, of Jacksonville, Ala.; Feb. 10, 2009. Jordan was
a health care professional who taught in the UNC
business school early in his career. Details, ’40s
Class Notes. Julius J. Lane, 93, of Morehead
City; Jan. 21, 2009. Lane retired from UNC’s
Institute of Marine Sciences. A longtime Morehead
City resident, he was past exalted ruler of his Elks
Club. He served in the military. Isabel Sears
Lawrence, 95, of Apex; Feb. 10, 2009. Lawrence
worked for the purchasing department at UNC. She
was a member of her church choir and an officer in
vice president of the women’s association.
Joseph Patrick Derrickson (’ 37 AB), 93, of Sanford;
Feb. 13, 2009. Derrickson was a vice president of
BB&T in Sanford. He was treasurer of the American
Legion building committee and was actively involved
in the national elections of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. In WWII, he was a clerk in a 1,500-bed MASH
unit in Wales. At UNC, he was treasurer of his senior
class. William W. Henderson Jr. (’ 39, ’ 48 AB; ’ 50
LLBJD), 90, of Pensacola, Fla.; Dec. 29, 2008. Henderson was appointed to the Court of Records,
Juvenile Division, in Florida. He also served as
administrative judge for Escambia County Court until
he retired in 1988. Previously, he practiced law with
the firm of Fisher, Hepner & Hertz. He belonged to
both the N.C. and Florida bar societies and was
admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Military
the N.C. State Grange. William Frederick Little
(’ 52 MA, ’ 55 PhD), 79, of Chapel Hill; Feb. 27,
2009. Little, University Distinguished Professor of
chemistry and former chair of the chemistry
department at UNC, held various administrative
roles at UNC, including vice president of the UNC
System. Story, page 64. Charles Freeman
Longino Jr. (’ 67, ’ 68 PhD), 70, of Pfafftown; Dec.
25, 2008. Longino, a professor of gerontology,
taught at UNC early in his career. Details, ’ 67 Class
Notes. Barry H. Margolin, 66, of Chapel Hill;
Jan. 28, 2009. Margolin was professor and chairman of the department of biostatistics at what is
now the Gillings School of Global Public Health,
beginning in 1987. He also became director of the
biostatistics facility at UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center. Before he joined
UNC, he taught at Yale University and published
extensively in the area of experimental design. He
was mathematical statistician and head of the
statistical methodology section at the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in
Research Triangle Park. He held memberships in
numerous professional organizations and received
awards from the American Statistical Association
and the National Institute of Health. In the community, he was president of the Durham-Chapel
Hill Jewish Federation and co-founder of the
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Community Foundation.
Doris Johnson McCauley (’ 45), 89, of Durham;
Dec. 17, 2008. McCauley worked in personnel and
placement at UNC. Details, ’40s Class Notes.
