Carolina Alumni Review - May/June 2009

the football team. He was governor of his district of the Lions Club and was state chairman of its district governors. Nancy Boyd Taylor (’ 65 MSN), 83, of Chapel Hill; Dec. 30, 2008. Taylor retired as chief of nursing for the Veterans Administration in Salem, Va., and retired to Chapel Hill in 1991. Previously, she was on the faculty of the UNC School of Nursing. At UNC, she belonged to Sigma Theta Tau.

’ 66 William Charles “Bud” Cohoon Jr. (’ 66 AB) of Raleigh has been named executive director of Triangle North, a network of tax-advantaged business and industrial parks in Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren counties. Howard Nathaniel Lee (’ 66 MSW) of Chapel Hill, former chairman of the N.C. State Board of Education, spoke at Fayetteville State University as part of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Richard Byron Lupton (’ 66 AB, ’ 70 MA) of Westerville, Ohio, has published an article, “Hyde County Public Buildings and the Public Sector Infrastructure: 1930-87,” in the fall 2008 issue of High Tides. ■ obituaries Andrew John Augustine (’ 66 BSBA, ’ 73 MBA), 65, of Fayetteville; Feb. 2, 2009. Augustine was branch manager of Stifel Nicolaus in Fayetteville and previously had been manager for Wachovia Securities. In his career, he was controller for Xerox Corp. and Sunoco Products Co. He served four years in the Air Force before acquiring his MBA. At UNC, he belonged to AFROTC and Kappa Alpha Order. James Merrick Balivet (’ 66), 64, of Danville, Vt.; Jan. 18, 2009. At UNC, he was a member of the Glee

Club. Anne Cheshire DeLaVergne (’ 66 AB), 64, of Columbia, Md.; Jan. 21, 2009. DeLaVergne ran a tiling and mosaics business. Many homes in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina contain tiles and mosaics created by her. At UNC, she was a member of Delta Delta Delta. Margaret Gregory Hunt (’ 66 ABEd), 64, of San Diego; Dec. 16, 2008. Early in her career, Hunt was a teacher in Virginia Beach. While living in San Diego, she was co-founder of an organization that teaches children to accept other children with disabilities. In addition, she was a Bible study teacher and a volunteer with the Navy Relief Program. At UNC, she belonged to Chi Omega. William Forrest Kendall (’ 66 MSPH, ’ 73 PhD), 72, of Fayetteville; Jan. 12, 2009. Kendall was board certified in health, therapeutic and diagnostic physics. He served in the Army Medical Service Corps for 21 years at various government medical centers. He also was an ambulance commander for the Army in Germany. After leaving the military, he worked in a number of hospitals, most recently the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.

’ 67 Franklin Edward Freeman Jr. (’ 67 AB, ’ 70 JD) of Raleigh has retired as legislative liaison after four decades of public service in North Carolina. In his career, Freeman served as an elected district attorney, director of the administrative office of the courts, secretary of correction, chief of staff for the governor and N.C. Supreme Court justice. Barbara Potts Semonche (’ 67 MEd, ’ 76 MSLS) of Durham has retired as director of the Park Library in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication after heading the library for 19 years. Semonche served on the GAA

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Board of Directors in the ’80s representing library science alumni. Coy Orville Williard Jr. (’ 67 BSBA) of High Point served as campaign chairman 2008 for the High Point United Way and fulfilled his promise to parade up Main Street in an N.C. State University cheerleader’s outfit if the campaign raised more money than the previous year. Williard is president of Williard-Stewart Inc., a painting and paper-hanging business. Robert Maynard Young (’ 67 BSMAT) of Leominster, Mass., has published Walking to Wachusett, in which he describes his re-enactment and the history behind Thoreau’s 1842 journey, on foot, from Concord to Mount Wachusett in Princeton, Mass. Young is a manager at Boston Centerless Inc., a supplier of precision ground bar materials. ■ obituaries Kenneth Lawrence Beard (’ 67 MAT), 73, of Lenoir; Jan. 2, 2009. Beard was a lifelong educator. At one time, he taught science for the Caldwell County schools. Charles Freeman Longino Jr. (’ 67, ’ 68 PhD), 70, of Pfafftown; Dec. 25, 2008. Longino specialized in the study of aging and retirement migration. He was the Washington M. Wingate Professor of sociology at Wake Forest University, director of the Reynolda Gerontology Program and a professor of public health sciences. President of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, he also was editor of the Journal of Gerontology. He taught at other Southern universities, including UNC. He was an Eagle Scout. A master judge with the Kansas City Barbeque Society, he traveled throughout the central East Coast judging barbecue contests.