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Award in 1998. He served on the GAA Board of
Directors from 1986 to 1990. As a lieutenant in the
Navy Reserve, he served in the Pacific in WWII. Story,
page 68. u Claude Elton Hobbs Jr. (’ 37, ’ 39 BSCOM;
’ 40 LLB), 96, of Washington, D.C.; May 27, 2009.
Hobbs retired as vice president for government relations for Westinghouse. He served as alumni club
president for the greater Washington, D.C., area and,
at UNC, belonged to Phi Delta Phi. u Lawrence
Edward Masten (’ 38 AB), 94, of Winston-Salem; May
10, 2009. Masten retired following a long career with
State Beauty and Barber Supply. u Hugh Algernon
McGowan (’ 36), 95, of Raleigh; May 22, 2009.
McGowan established Smithfield Electrical Supply,
then expanded to include other companies. In the
heyday of the Lumina dance hall on Wrightsville
Beach, he performed with Jelly Roll Morton. He also
played violin with what would become the N.C. Symphony. u Craig Shuford McIntosh (’ 36 AB), 94, of
Greensboro; May 4, 2009. McIntosh retired as vice
president of finance with Pilot Life Insurance Co. He
was a pilot with the Army Air Corps in WWII. A major,
he received the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters.
At UNC, he belonged to Campus Y and Alpha Phi
Omega. u William DeRoy McLean Jr. (’ 38 BSCOM),
92, of Asheville; May 6, 2009. McLean retired as
president of the McLean Insurance Agency. He
received the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts
for his service to the organization. He served in the
Navy in WWII. At UNC, he was business manager of
The Daily Tar Heel and belonged to Phi Gamma Delta
and Beta Gamma Sigma. u George Lemuel Mewborn
Jr. (’ 39), 93, of Snow Hill; June 6, 2009. Mewborn
retired as Greene County finance officer. u J. Ivan
Miller Sr. (’ 32, ’ 34 ABEd), 101, of West Jefferson;
June 7, 2009. Miller was a sales representative for a
furniture manufacturing company, after retiring as
’30s ; obituaries M. Edmund Aycock (’ 33), 95, of
Raleigh; March 30, 2009. Aycock had a long career
with Wachovia Bank. After he retired, he served on
the Wake County Board of Commissioners, 10 years
as chairman. At UNC, he belonged to the Philanthropic Society. u Brooks Spivey Creedy (’ 37), 92, of
Bennington, Vt.; May 27, 2009. Creedy devoted her
career to civil rights and the needs of underprivileged
children. She was director of the volunteer network
at a residential treatment center for boys from inner-city New York, and she was executive director of a
similar program in Westchester County. She went on
to launch Runaway and Homeless Youth Network of
Westchester County. After she retired, Westchester
County proclaimed Brooks Creedy Day to honor her
service. u Ruby Myers Davis (’ 30 ABEd), 103, of Wilson; June 21, 2009. Davis lived most of her life in
Winston-Salem, where she taught in the public
schools of Forsyth and Yadkin counties for 30 years.
u Dr. Francis Duncan Gibson Jr. (’ 38 BSMED, ’ 38
CMED), 93, of Memphis, Tenn.; May 15, 2009. Gibson was a retired physician. He worked for the VA
Hospital for 30 years. In WWII, he served with the
Army Medical Corps. At UNC, he belonged to Glee
Club and Theta Kappa Psi. u Edwin Jones Hamlin
(’ 38 ABJO), 93, of Raleigh; June 16, 2009. Hamlin
retired in 1982 as state administrator for the disability determination service, responsible for making
Social Security decisions on disability. He earned his
law degree and was admitted to the N.C. bar at 71,
practicing law for three years. His earlier career was
as editor and publisher of two newspapers, The News
of Orange County and The Alamance News. He
served in the N.C. General Assembly in the ’60s. In
WWII, he served in the Army Air Force. At UNC, he was
an editor and columnist for The Daily Tar Heel and
belonged to the Philanthropic Society. u George
Alexander Heard (’ 38 AB), 92, of Nashville, Tenn.;
July 24, 2009. Heard retired as chancellor of Vanderbilt University, a position he held from 1963 to 1982.
He was known for guiding that university through the
tumultuous 1960s as well as expanding its programs
and facilities. At the time he was selected as chancellor, he was dean of the graduate school at UNC, where
he had been a professor of political science. Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard
Nixon each appointed him to various advisory commissions. At UNC, he was a member of Golden
Fleece, Campus Y and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
He was presented the UNC Distinguished Alumnus
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superintendent for the Ashe County school system. He
also worked for a ship-building company in Baltimore. At UNC, he was on the boxing team. u Horace
Wilson Raper (’ 39 AB, ’ 48 MA, ’ 51 PhD), 90, of
Cookeville, Tenn.; May 30, 2009. Raper was professor
emeritus of history at Tennessee Tech University.
Among other teaching positions, he was an instructor
of history at UNC in the ’40s. In WWII, he served in
the Army. u Norman Charles Speight (’ 36), 96, of
Columbia, S.C.; May 23, 2009. Speight retired from
Tidewater Supply Co. as a supply representative. Active
in Kiwanis Club, he was presented an international
service award. At UNC, he was on the football team.
Gabrielle McColl
Wilson (’ 32 AB), 98,
of Charleston, S.C.;
April 4, 2009.
Wilson’s activities at
UNC included serving as president of
the Woman’s
Association and
member of Pi Beta
Phi. She graduated
Phi Beta Kappa.
’40s James Landis Chavasse (’ 49 BSCOM) of Raleigh took home two gold medals for wins in both the singles
and doubles tennis competitions in the 80-85 age
group at the Wake County Senior Games. u John
Marsden Ehle (’ 49 AB, ’ 53 MA) of Winston-Salem,
Ida Howell Friday (’ 47 MPH) and William Clyde Friday
(’ 48 LLB) of Chapel Hill, Andy Griffith (’ 49 AB) of
Manteo, R. Philip Hanes (’ 47) of Winston-Salem,
Robert Burren Morgan (’ 48) of Lillington and William
Charles Stanback (’ 43 BSCOM) of Salisbury have
been named to the honorary board of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina, an organization that
provides support to 24 local land trusts and works
with direct land protection along the Blue Ridge Parkway. u Harry Corpening Martin (’ 42 AB) of Asheville
joined fellow World War II veterans in Project IF, with
the goal of recording 200 interviews with veterans
from western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and
beyond at a gathering in June in Johnson City, Tenn.
Martin joined the Army Air Corps and was assigned
to a B- 25 used for surveillance photography of Japanese forces before and after battles. Martin is a former associate justice of the N.C. Supreme Court and
current associate justice and former chief justice of
the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. u William
Patrick Mayo (’ 49 AB, ’ 53 LLBJD) of Washington,
N.C., has been inducted into the N.C. Bar Association’s General Practice Hall of Fame. Mayo, in practice
with the firm of Mayo & Mayo, has been admitted to
both the N.C. Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme
Court. u Wellborn Clark Phillips Jr. (’ 49 BSCOM) of
Miami Beach, Fla., has graduated from the Long
Ridge Writers Group school. Phillips has registered
with The Miami Herald to submit regular letters to
the editor and is at work on two books, An Anthology
of Famous Kidnapping Cases and How I Am Winning
My Personal War Against Cancer and Heart Trouble.
