Carolina Alumni Review - November/December 2009

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3, 2009. Vernon spent 16 years as a teacher in New York public schools. Earlier, he taught and was a supervisor at an Indian reservation, then taught veterans at the Naval Apprentice School of the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point. In WWII, he served in the Navy. u William Franklin Watson (’49 BSCOM), 85, of South Charleston, W.Va.; June 29, 2009. Watson retired as business development specialist in the Small Business Development Center in Charleston. He served on the board of Meals on Wheels. In WWII, he served in the Army. u George Crabtree Whitner (’47 BSCOM), 86, of Jacksonville, Fla.; July 29, 2009. Whitner retired as president and CEO of Florida National Banks of Florida. He was instrumental in bringing Florida Community College to Jacksonville, then served as first president of the Florida Community College Foundation. During WWII, he served in the Navy. A competitive swimmer in high school and at UNC, at one time he held the American record in the 100-meter breaststroke. In addition to the swim team, his UNC activities included Delta Kappa Epsilon, Order of the Grail and NROTC. u James Barnes Worley III (’47), 83, of Orlando, Fla.; Aug. 10, 2009. Worley’s professional life was as an insurance agent. In addition, he was a football and basketball referee for high school and college games. An Eagle Scout, he was a Boy Scout Scoutmaster and was awarded the Silver Beaver. He served in the Navy in WWII as a mine specialist. At UNC, he was on the boxing and soccer teams and belonged to Kappa Sigma. u Kay Hunt Youngblood (’45), 81, of Greensboro; Aug. 11, 2009. Youngblood was a community organizer, helping start the Greensboro CROP walk, now considered the second-largest in the country. She was on the board of directors of Urban Ministry and worked in the soup kitchen, the night shelter and commodity food distribution center.

Winston-Salem has received the French Legion of
Honor for his contribution to the U.S. role in the liber-
ation of France in World War II. Macklin was honored
with the Croix de Guerre avec Palme by the Free
French in 1944. u Sherwood Hubbard Smith Jr. (’56
AB, ’60 JD) of Raleigh has been inducted into the
Raleigh Hall of Fame. Smith, chairman emeritus of
Carolina Power and Light Co., was honored for his
role as a business leader, advocate for education
and philanthropist. u T. Hilliard Staton (’52 AB) of
Mountain Home has been inducted into the Hender-
sonville High School Hall of Fame. Staton is retired
senior vice president of Merrill Lynch International
and retired investment counsel/marketing director
for Thompson, Siegel and Walmsley of Richmond, Va.
u Richard Franklin Taylor (’50 BSCOM) of Lumberton
has been chosen as the flag-bearer for North Carolina
at the 2009 National Senior Games in Palo Alto, Calif.
Taylor, chosen All-America in track and field in 1949
and a three-time conference champion, has been
competing for more than 20 years in the N.C. Senior
Games, taking home more than 250 medals at the
local level and 20 gold medals at the state finals. He
is a former member of the GAA Board of Directors.
obituaries
Charles Lee Auman (’59 MSW), 84, of Durham; June
23, 2009. Auman retired as director of psychiatric
social work at John Umstead Hospital in Butner.
When he joined the staff in 1946, he was the hospi-
tal’s first social work employee. He was honored by
the N.C. Association of Social Workers in Mental
Health and received North Carolina’s Order of the
Long Leaf Pine. He was in the Navy in WWII. u
William Halbert Baker (’55, ’56 AB), 77, of Orlando,

Fla.; Aug. 19, 2009. He also lived in Walloon Lake, Mich. Baker was a real estate developer. After college, he served in the Marine Corps. At UNC, he belonged to Phi Delta Theta and Gorgon’s Head Lodge. u Charles Martel Barrett (’55 AB, ’58 MA), 79, of Raleigh; Aug. 25, 2009. Barrett retired as vice president of the N.C. Community College System. Previously, he was professor of English and director of theater at what is now Western Carolina University. He also performed in The Lost Colony in Manteo and, later, in several Raleigh Little Theatre productions. In the Korean War, he served in the Air Force. u Edward Bryce Baucom (’59 BSBA), 72, of Danville, Va.; June 26, 2009. Baucom retired as senior vice president of finance for the Memorial Hospital of Danville. He was active in community affairs, particularly the Boy Scouts and his church. He served in the Marine Corps. At UNC, he was in Delta Sigma Pi and NROTC. u Dr. Wilbur Bryan Bland (’58 AB, ’63 DDS), 76, of Pinehurst; Aug. 16, 2009. Bland retired to Pinehurst after practicing dentistry for 25 years. He served in the Marine Corps in the ’50s. At UNC, he belonged to Delta Sigma Pi and the Marching Band. u Joan Weeden Brackett (’54 MA), 79, of Palm Coast, Fla.; Sept. 24, 2008. Brackett retired as a senior program analyst with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. u Harvey D. “Happy” Bradshaw (’54 ABJO), 76, of Sneads Ferry; Aug. 19, 2009. Bradshaw served in the Marine Corps for 26 years, retiring as a colonel and chief of staff at Cherry Point. He flew more than 300 combat missions during the Vietnam War and received the Distinguished Flying Cross and 23 additional medals. The Marine Corps named him Aviator of the Year in 1977. Upon

’50s lotte, the first man to run a mile indoors in less than four minutes, James Tully Beatty (’57 AB) of Char-

was the special guest speaker at the opening of the regional Special Olympic Games. u Henry Ell Frye (’59 JD) of Greensboro was honored by the N.C. Democratic Party with the renaming of the annual Sanford-Hunt

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1968, Frye became the first African-American elected to the state legislature in the 20th century, serving in the House, 1969-80, and in the Senate, 1981-82. In 1983, he became the first African-American to serve on the N.C. Supreme Court and, in 1999, the first African-American to serve as its chief justice. Story, page 62. u Richard Hampton Jenrette (’51 ABJO) of New York has joined the Dix Visionaries Business Advisory Council, a group working to turn the Dorothea Dix Hospital into a local version of New York’s Central Park. Jenrette, a founder of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, works with the nonprofit Classical American Homes Preservation Trust to restore historic homes. u Wilbur David Jones Jr. (’55 AB) of Wilmington has published Football! Navy! War! How Military “Lend-Lease” Players Saved the College Game and Helped Win World War II. Jones is a retired Navy captain. The book includes a chapter about UNC All-America football player Charlie Justice ’50. u Ronald Macklin (’50 BSCOM) of

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