50s
U.S. Pony Club district commissioner in the ’70s and
belonged to a quilting group. Fate Burnette
Williamson (’ 46 BSPHR), 82, of Black Mountain; Jan.
20, 2009. Williamson retired as a pharmacist from
the VA Hospital in Asheville. She was the great-granddaughter of the first settler of Black Mountain. At
UNC, she belonged to Kappa Epsilon. F. Ray
Williard (’ 49 BSCOM), 82, of High Point; Feb. 22,
2009. Williard was an accountant for a men’s clothing company and worked as a contractor and developer. He helped start the Oakview and Deep River
Volunteer Fire departments, and he was a life member and charter president of Oakview Lions Club,
where he had perfect attendance for 55 years. He
served in the Navy in WWII as a ship’s quartermaster. At UNC, he belonged to Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi
Alpha Delta. Mary Tom Gilman Woodson (’ 47 AB),
83, of Suffolk, Va.; Dec. 29, 2008. Woodson was
involved with the Virginia chapter of the Colonial
Dames of America and was a charter member of the
Portsmouth Service League. At UNC, she belonged to
Chi Omega.
’50s Roger William Ackerman (’ 54 AB)
of Sumter, S.C., has received the
Rotary
International Service 50th Class of ’59: Above Self Award. Ack- May 8–10, 2009
Reunion
erman is retired president of Ackerman Management Inc. Dawson
Verdery Carr (’ 58, ’ 60 BSMAT; ’ 65 MAT; ’ 76 PhD) of
West End spoke at the Weymouth Center for the Arts
and Humanities as part of the lecture series North
Carolina’s Extraordinary Coast. Carr, retired from his
teaching career at Sandhills Community College, discussed the history of the 150-year-old Hatteras Lighthouse. Dr. Robert Seitz Cline (’ 54 BSMED, ’ 57
MD) of Sanford was the guest speaker for the open
meeting of the Ombudsman Community Advisory
Committee of Moore County, the volunteers who
work to protect the rights of residents living in long-term care facilities in the county. Marian
Hollingsworth Cusac (’ 57 MA, ’ 64 PhD) of Marion,
S.C., has been recognized by the naming in her
honor one of the five buildings of the Forest Villas
complex at Francis Marion University, where she is a
retired professor of English and former coordinator of
the college life academic program. Neal Mills
“Buddy” Forney Jr. (’ 58 AB) of Salemburg was honored by the FBI National Academy Associates, N.C.
chapter, with the creation of the Neal Forney Award
to be given to a member who demonstrates exemplary character through heroism, community service
or innovation. The recipient will be eligible for the
FBINAA’s national-level Livio A. Beccaccio Award. Forney is a former assistant director of the UNC Institute
of Government and a member of the FBINAA.
Perry Wilburn Harrison (’ 58 MEd) of Pittsboro spoke
at the Chatham County Historical Association program “A Conversation with Perry W. Harrison.” Harrison, retired, shared his experiences as superintendent of Chatham County schools from 1967 to 1994.
Lewis Royall “Snow” Holding (’ 50 BSCOM) of
Raleigh has resigned as chairman of First Citizens
BancShares and its First Citizens Bank and IronStone Bank subsidiaries and has retired from the
board of directors of each company. Holding also has
retired as CEO of IronStone Bank. Holding’s career
with First Citizens BancShares spans 52 years. His
nephew, Frank B. Holding Jr. (’ 83, ’ 82 BSBA), has
stepped into the vacated roles. J. Kenneth Lee
(’ 52 LLBJD) of Greensboro has told his life story in a
collaboration with his sister, Winona Lee Fletcher, who
has published No Way! Memoirs of J. Kenneth Lee,
Esq. Lee was one of the first two African-Americans
to enter the UNC School of Law after joining as plaintiff in a lawsuit demanding integration of the school.
As a lawyer, he has represented more than 1,700
civil disobedience cases in North Carolina, and he
chartered the American Federal Savings and Loan
Association when other banks would not lend to
blacks. James Louis Maxwell Jr. (’ 50 BSCOM) of
Goldsboro, chairman of the board of the Goldsboro
Milling Co., and his cousin, Gordon Maxwell, received
a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National
Turkey Federation. Started as a small feed mill, the
company grew to become a world leader, maintaining one of the largest breeder populations, turkey
hatchery complexes and processing plants in the
world. Thomas Edward Sibley (’ 54 AB, ’ 57 MEd)
of Cary has received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine
for his work with The Raleigh Boychoir. Sibley is director and president of the choir, which he founded in
1968 to provide performance opportunities for 8- to
15-year-old boys. Bynum Ellsworth Tudor Jr. (’ 55
AB) of Winston-Salem has been made an honorary
visiting fellow of Kellogg College in Oxford, England.
Tudor retired as a vice president with RJR Nabisco.
■ obituaries
William Wiggins Alston (’ 51 BSBA), 86, of Lumberton;
Feb. 16, 2009. Alston retired as an insurance investigator for Equifax. He served with the Army in Europe in
WWII. He was active in his church and the Lumberton
Kiwanis Club. Frederick Dana Bingham (’ 52
BSGEO), 80, of Raleigh; Feb. 7, 2009. Bingham
attended UNC after serving in the Marine Corps. His
30-year career with Mobil Oil Co. took him to India
and Pakistan. After he retired, he was a geological
consultant on the Clarksville Bypass Bridge at Kerr
Lake. At UNC, he was president of Sigma Gamma
Epsilon. Margaret Kennedy Blakely (’ 56 MEd), 93,
of Due West, S.C.; Dec. 22, 2008. Blakely taught
school in the Carolinas and then taught in American
schools in Paris, Tokyo and Germany. In her church,
she sang in the choir, played the piano and taught
Sunday school. She became a painter of china and
taught china painting for 15 years. Some of her art is
on display at Erskine College, from which she graduated. She was Erskine College class agent for 30
years and served as World Witness chairman for the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Erskine
College honored her with its Mary Mildred Sullivan
Award, honoring an “outstanding Southern lady with
high Christian ideals.” Nancy Bates Boone (’ 51 AB,
’ 54 MSLS), 79, of Chapel Hill; Jan. 12, 2009. Boone
retired after 30 years of service with UNC’s Academic
Affairs Library in Wilson Library. She served as head
of catalog maintenance. Harvey L. Bosell (’ 54), 94,
of Fayetteville; Dec. 29, 2008. Bosell taught band at
Fayetteville High School and later worked for the
Womack Army Hospital. A musician, he played a variety
of instruments and composed and arranged music.
For years, he led the Lee Boswell Orchestra, named
to reflect a common misspelling of his name, and he
volunteered with the ministry of music at his church.
While serving in the Army in WWII, he formed the
Fort Bragg Variety Show for the soldiers on base and
wrote a song he called the Fort Bragg March. In
Europe, a general who knew of Bosell’s work asked
him to form a musical group. He put together The
