Inc. and ZuZu Bioceuticals Ltd. and held several
patents for fermentation technologies. Previously, he
was CEO of the Maine Center for Innovation in
Biotechnology. He taught as an associate professor
at the University of Chicago, where he was known as
a pioneer in energy analysis. He began his career as
one of the first employees of Research Triangle
Institute. He was co-author of two books and more
than 80 publications in chemistry and economics.
Long was a Morehead Scholar at UNC and was a
member of the debate team, Philanthropic Society,
student legislature and Phi Mu Alpha. Samuel
Edgar Martin (’ 50 BSCOM), 82, of Salisbury; Jan. 20,
2009. Martin retired as an officer of Carolina Tractor
and Equipment Co. in Charlotte before moving to
Salisbury. He served with the Navy in WWII as a teletype operator. George Eugene McCorkle (’ 51, ’ 55
AB), 81, of Alexandria, Va.; Jan. 7, 2009. McCorkle
retired as budget analyst and an international negotiator for the U.S. Department of Defense. He served
with the Coast Guard in the Korean War. William
Henry Melson Jr. (’ 50 AB, ’ 69 MACOM, ’ 69 PhD), 81,
of Northport, Ala.; Dec. 14, 2008. Melson retired as
dean of the University of Alabama in its College of
Communication. Among his accomplishments, he initiated a doctoral program and started a campus public radio station. Early in his career, he was on the
faculty of UNC’s department of radio, television and
motion pictures, becoming a professor and serving
as chairman of the department and assistant dean
of the graduate school. He served in the Navy in the
’40s. While studying at UNC, he worked with The
Lost Colony outdoor drama. He graduated Phi Beta
Kappa. Fred Harrison Mewhinney (’ 54 AB), 76, of
Kilmarnock, Va.; Jan. 9, 2009. Mewhinney retired as
a real estate broker, but his primary career was in
trade association management. At UNC, he was on
the men’s track and field team and was vice president of Sigma Chi. In addition, he was president of
the Interfraternity Council and served on the executive board of the student body president. F.
Thomas Minnis (’ 53 BSBA), 78, of Winston-Salem;
Dec. 20, 2008. Minnis retired from positions in banking, accounting and real estate. After studying voice,
he sang in various church and choral groups. In the
Korean War, he was stationed in Seoul with the
Army. At UNC, he belonged to Glee Club and Alpha
Kappa Psi. Nancy Cook Moore (’ 52 ABJO), 78, of
Burlington; Jan. 30, 2009. Moore was a real estate
agent in Burlington and Alamance County for more
than 30 years. While at UNC, she belonged to Pi
Beta Phi. Dr. P. Milton Moore Jr. (’ 55 AB, ’ 59 MD),
75, of Washington, N.C.; Feb. 8, 2009. After graduating from medical school, Moore spent three years in
the Army Medical Corps. He served in Seoul, South
Korea. He opened his family practice in 1963 and
was one of Beaufort County’s longest-serving physicians. George Arthur Morrison (’ 58, ’ 59 BSPHR),
73, of Suffolk, Va.; Feb. 1, 2009. Morrison was a
pharmacist who lived in the Tidewater area for 46
years. He was involved in Boy Scouts and served on
the board of its Old Dominion Area Council. Past
commander of Nansemond River Power Squadron,
he was involved with other boating groups as well.
Albert Sidney Newton (’ 53 AB), 78, of Spanish Fort,
Ala.; Nov. 21, 2008. Newton was a priest in the
Episcopal Church. He served a number of churches
and was rector of All Saints Church in Montgomery,
Ala., for more than 25 years. He was instrumental in
organizing the Ecumenical Association of East
Montgomery, Ala., which continues today. At UNC, he
graduated Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to Phi
Alpha Theta. Robert Hamilton Nutt Jr. (’ 52), 79, of
Greensboro; Jan. 1, 2009. Nutt worked for Blue Bell
Inc., a division of Wrangler, for 34 years, retiring as a
sales manager. He served in the Air Force in the
Korean War. At UNC, he belonged to Sigma Alpha
Epsilon and later graduated from the Executive MBA
program at Kenan-Flagler Business School. Dixon
Raines Olive Jr. (’ 51 MSSE), 88, of Columbus, Ga.;
Dec. 27, 2008. Olive retired as district chief of environmental health with the Columbus, Ga., Health
Department. In retirement, he worked in real estate.
He was president of the Georgia Public Health
Association and a deacon in his church. He served
with the Army Corps of Engineers in WWII and
remained in the Army Reserve for many years.
Steadman M. Overman (’ 55 MPH), 83, of Canal
Winchester, Ohio; Jan. 15, 2009. A lawyer, Overman
took on many roles in Ohio public health service. He
was a commissioned officer of the U.S. Public Health
Service and chief legal counsel for the Ohio
Department of Health, among other positions. He
was an Army Air Corps veteran of WWII. Dolan
Parks (’ 50 BSCH), 84, of Matthews; Feb. 2, 2009.
Parks retired as vice president of Lloyd Parks Co. in
Charlotte. He was in the Navy in WWII, serving in the
South Pacific and saw action during the invasion of
Iwo Jima. William Doub Poindexter Jr. (’ 53 BSBA,
’ 56 MBA), 77, of Winston-Salem; Feb. 5, 2009.
Poindexter retired as a self-employed CPA. Earlier in
his career, he worked with Arthur Andersen in New
York and North Carolina. He served in the Navy. At
UNC, he was a member of Delta Sigma Pi. Dr.
Jean Rene Poirier (’ 57 BSMED, ’ 60 MD), 79, of
Frederick, Md.; Dec. 13, 2008. Poirier had his medical practice in Frederick for 47 years. Among his
interests was thoroughbred horse racing; he created
a racing stable and bred, trained and raced thoroughbreds. He was a pianist and singer who often
entertained with his Sinatra-like style. When he was
16, he joined the Merchant Marines, then served in
the Army in the Korean War. N. Todd Praigg Jr.
(’ 59 BSBA), 71, of Durham; Jan. 10, 2009. Praigg
was a partner in an accounting firm. Kenneth
Melvin Pruitt (’ 56 BSCH), 75, of Birmingham, Ala.;
Jan. 4, 2009. Pruitt was professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Alabama-Birmingham,
where he was one of the first faculty members in the
department of chemistry. He served as associate
vice president for research and grants and wrote or
co-wrote 90 book chapters and scientific papers. In
1988, he became the state project director for the
National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program
to Stimulate Competitive Research. Outside his professional responsibilities, he played tuba with two
community concert bands. He also co-wrote four novels with a friend and colleague, which were published under a pseudonym. He was a weather officer
in the Air Force in Okinawa and Japan from 1956 to
1960. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was
president of the Marching Band and belonged to
Alpha Chi Sigma, AFROTC, Golden Fleece and the
Symphony Orchestra. Adin Henry Rucker Jr. (’ 59
BSBA, ’ 60 MBA), 71, of Pawleys Island, S.C.; Feb. 5,
2009. Rucker was president, treasurer, CEO and a
company director of Stonecutter Mills textile manufacturers in Spindale, N.C. He served in the Army,
training as a tank driver and gunner. At UNC, he
belonged to Sigma Nu. James Bentley Sanders
(’ 51 BSBA), 79, of Omaha, Neb.; Dec. 14, 2008.
Sanders managed the print shop at a hospital in
Omaha. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Phi Omega.
Alice Hamer Sanford (’ 53 BSLS), 86, of Kilmichael,
Miss.; Jan. 5, 2009. Sanford was professor emeritus
at Mississippi State University, where she taught and
directed the library science program, which she started by obtaining a grant for almost $1 million.
Previously, she was supervisor of school libraries
with the Mississippi State Department of Education
and wrote grants for the department. In her earlier
career, she was a newspaper editor and alumnae
secretary and director of public relations at
Mississippi State College for Women. Her family
farm, Hamer Hill Farm, established in 1837, is a
Mississippi Historic Centennial Farm and remains
with the family. Roland Wright Sasser Jr. (’ 50),
84, of Columbia, S.C.; Jan. 27, 2009. Sasser retired
from Monroe Inc., a business machine division of
Litton Industries. In WWII, he was a B- 25 pilot with
the Army Air Corps. He was active in his church.
Oscar Leroy Shoenfelt Jr. (’ 51), 82, of Montreat; Jan.
25, 2009. Shoenfelt had a long career with the
Equitable Life Assurance Association. He also maintained a home on Pawleys Island, S.C. He was an
artist and recently had a gallery exhibit in Montreat
featuring his oil paintings and pottery. He was
founder and chair of the Montreat German Society.
In WWII, he was an aerial gunner for the Navy.
Robert Leroy Skillen (’ 54 AB), 77, of Bakersville; Jan.
2, 2009. Skillen was a career Navy officer for 31
years. He was a photo reconnaissance pilot in the
Vietnam War, during which he received 24 medals.
Later, he served as commanding officer for the Naval
Photographic Center in Washington, D.C. Upon retirement, he began farming while also serving as a
reconnaissance consultant for private companies. He
was president of Morrison Airfield Foundation and an
elder of his church. At UNC, he was in NROTC, Order
of the Old Well and Theta Chi. Dr. David Bryan
Sloan Jr. (’ 59 AB), 71, of Wilmington; Dec. 19, 2008.
Sloan was an eye doctor in Wilmington for 30 years
and was founder of Eye Associates of Wilmington PA.
He was president of the New Hanover County
Medical Society and chief of staff of the New
Hanover Regional Medical Center. As a UNC alumnus, he was a member of the regional selection committee for the Morehead Scholarship. He served as a
Navy physician in the Vietnam War, stationed in
Guam. At UNC, he was a Morehead Scholar, on the
men’s golf team and a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
Yancey Moore Stallings (’ 50 ABJO), 87, of
Morehead City; Dec. 24, 2008. Stallings was an engineering technical writer for Westinghouse in Raleigh
for more than 25 years. In WWII, he served in the
Navy. Thomas M. Stokes Jr. (’ 54 AB), 76, of
Charles Town, W.Va.; Jan. 17, 2009. Stokes retired
from the Marine Corps, where he received numerous
awards, including the Silver Star and Bronze Star. He
served in an infantry battalion in the Vietnam War
and was commander of 1,800 Marines involved in
multinational peacekeeping in the Middle East in
the ’80s. In retirement, he was chairman of the
Jefferson County United Way Campaign. At UNC, he
was on the men’s lacrosse team and belonged to
Delta Kappa Epsilon. Campbell Lawrence Stubbs
II (’ 54 AB), 76, of Hamden, Conn.; Feb. 13, 2009. In
Stubbs’ career in the computer industry, covering
almost 50 years, he founded and was president of
the Essex Management Center, a management technology firm. He served in the Navy as a surface warfare officer and as an instructor at the Naval
Academy. He continued with the Navy Reserve, retiring
