employment was in sales for the auto glass industry.
He served in the Air Force. u L. Eugene Trondsen
(’ 60 ABEd), 75, of Franklin, Tenn.; June 24, 2009.
Trondsen retired as a salesman with Trondsen
Leather Co. He was a Navy veteran.
’ 61 Charles Ewing Clement (’ 61 AB) of Boone has been inducted into the N.C. Bar Association’s General Practice Hall
of Fame. Clement has practiced law in Boone since
1972. u Dr. Hector Himel Henry II (’ 61 AB, ’05
MPH) of Concord has signed up, at age 70, for his
fifth tour of duty overseas as a general practitioner
for a battalion of N.C. soldiers deployed to Iraq in
August. Henry is a physician at CMC Northeast in
Concord and at the VA hospital in Salisbury. u Jane
Templeman Lewis (’ 61 MEd) of Fayetteville has
received the Spotlight of Excellence Award from the
Campbell University School of Education. Lewis also
has been honored with a plaque of appreciation from
Campbell’s department of social work. u Nancy
Burnette Stanback (’ 61 AB) of Salisbury has 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.
; obituaries
R. Neil Dickman (’ 61 BSIR), 70, of Washington, D.C.;
May 20, 2009. A lawyer, Dickman drafted legislation
through the Office of the Corporation Counsel, part
of the D.C. government. His civic commitments
included work with a substance-abuse treatment
center and an association to help the deaf and hard
of hearing. He was doing promotional work for the
political satire group Planet Washington. At UNC, he
was on the men’s tennis team and belonged to Phi
Kappa Sigma. u Edwin Arnold Justa (’ 61), 69, of
Raleigh; May 6, 2009. Justa became a professional
golfer in 1964 and played on the PGA national tour
for the next two years. He was head pro at several
private golf clubs. In addition, he was vice president
of an insurance company. He was captain of UNC’s
men’s golf team in 1959 when it won the NCAA
Championship. u David Eugene Keever (’ 61 BSPHR),
70, of Indian Land, S.C.; June 2, 2009. Keever, a
longtime resident of Lincolnton, N.C., was a pharmacist who, with his brother, owned and operated two
drug stores in Lincolnton. He was a volunteer for the
Helping Hands Health Clinic after he retired. In 2004,
he was named Volunteer of the Year. u Jeanette
Lamoureux Smith (’ 61 MRP), 74, of Hopkins, Minn.;
March 29, 2009. Early in her career, Smith was an
associate city planner for Des Moines, Iowa.
Adventures in Ideas
FALL 2009 SEMINARS
Join us this fall as we explore interesting and important cultural, moral and social topics
from the perspective of the humanities. Please visit our Web site for more information.
SEPT. 12 ; The 70th Anniversary of the
Outbreak of World War II
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar with
Gerhard L. Weinberg
SEPT. 18 - 19 ; The Greatest Stories
Rarely Told: Scholars & the New Testament
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar with Bart D. Ehrman
SEPT. 23 ; What’s Going On in Iran?
An afternoon at Fearrington featuring
Professor Charles Kurzman
SEPT. 26 ; Southern Comfort: Cultures
of Food in the South
OCT. 3 ; Lincoln – A Bicentennial
Reflection
OCT. 23 ; On Illness: Medicine, Media,
Society & the Experience of Health
NOV. 6 ; Presidential Leadership in
Times of Crisis
NOV. 6-7 ; Venice and the Making of
the Modern World (An Encore Seminar)
NOV. 13 ; Framing the Middle East:
Perceptions and Representations of a
“Troubled” Region
NOV. 20 ; The Current Economic Crisis
in Context: Causes, Course and Outlook
DEC. 4 - 5 ; The Victorian World
Featuring a PlayMakers Repertory Production of
Charles Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby”
Register online at
www.adventuresinideas.unc.edu
or call (919) 962–1544.
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Sponsored by the UNC Program in the Humanities and Human Values and the UNC General Alumni
Association. GAA members receive a registration discount. First-time participants also receive a
special discount. Full-time K- 12 teachers, librarians and administrators in public and private schools
and community college faculty in North Carolina receive a 50% discount on tuition for all seminars.
’ 62 Willis Padgett Whichard (’ 62 AB, ’ 65 LLBJD) of Chapel Hill has 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. Whichard has served on the GAA Board of Directors as a director (1979-80 and 1988-95), first vice
president (1991-92) and president (1993-94).
; obituaries
James Franklin Blue Jr. (’ 62 MEd, ’ 72 PhD), 78, of
Raleigh; April 3, 2009. Blue was vice chancellor for
student affairs at N.C. Central University. After he
stepped down as vice chancellor, he returned to
teaching. During his career, he received a Danforth
Foundation Fellowship and a Ford Foundation
Fellowship. u Jack E. Brothers Sr. (’ 62 MBA), 72, of
Tavares, Fla.; Feb. 11, 2009. Brothers retired as an
estate planner with Barnabas Foundation. Previously,
he was director of alumni relations at Bucknell
University. He also did missionary work in West Africa.
’ 63 Anthony Stephen Harrington (’ 63 AB) of Washington, D.C., has been named CEO of the Albright Stonebridge Group following a merger of Stonebridge International and The
Albright Group. Former secretary of state Madeleine
Albright, former national security adviser Sandy Berger
and former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman of New Hampshire will lead the firm. Harrington, a former U.S.
ambassador to Brazil, served on the GAA Board of
Directors (1987-90, 1997-98 and 2003-06), including as its chair (2004-05). u Richard Allen Vinroot
(’ 63 BSBA, ’ 66 LLB) and Judith Allen Vinroot (’ 65
ABEd) of Charlotte have pledged $1 million to UNC in
honor of Robert W. Bradshaw Jr. to support faculty
and students in the UNC School of Government. Two-thirds of the commitment will be matched by the
N.C. Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund
to support a faculty member who teaches, advises
and has published in the fields of local and state
government. The remaining third will establish a fellowship in support of promising students in the master of public administration program. Richard Vinroot,
former mayor of Charlotte and a senior partner with
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, served on the GAA
Board of Directors as a director (1972-75 and 1983-
86) and as second vice president (1986-87). Judy
