Carolina Alumni Review - January/February 2010

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R. Glenn Martin
(’ 51 AB), 87, of
Edmonton,
Alberta; Aug. 23,
2009. Martin
retired from the
University of
Alberta as profes-
sor of English. In
retirement, he
taught extension
courses at the uni-
versity in music and literature. He was president
of the English Language Arts Council and editor
and publisher of Alberta English magazine. For
13 years, he was a columnist for Edmonton
newspapers.

Asheboro; Oct. 17, 2009. Wood retired from Burlington Industries in Greensboro. He was a Navy veteran. At UNC, he belonged to Chi Phi. u John Franklin Woodruff (’ 54), 77, of Sparta; April 25, 2009. Woodruff retired as Alleghany County schools superintendent. He was founder and president of Alleghany County Educational Foundation and president of the Alleghany County Recreation Commission. He was honored for his service with the state’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine. u John William Zarker (’ 52 MA), 80, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 12, 2009. Zarker was professor emeritus of classic studies at Tufts University. After he retired, he was a senior lecturer in classic studies at Duke. He served in naval intelligence during the Korean War. At UNC, he belonged to Glee Club.

Hendersonville; Sept. 11, 2009. Patterson owned a number of oil companies and established an educational foundation for the children of his employees to attend college. He was a founding member of the Council of Independent Business Owners Inc. and in 2008 was made a lifetime member. He served in the Air Force in the Korean War. In the ’80s, he served as a GAA officer and director. He also was chair of the Carolina Club for Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood and Transylvania counties. At UNC, he belonged to Delta Sigma Pi. u Roy Brooks Payne Jr. (’ 54), 77, of Dunbar, W.Va.; Oct. 28, 2009. Payne was a professor of management and marketing at several universities. Most recently, he taught at Marshall University. He was instrumental in the development of a small business development center consortium in West Virginia. He served in the National Guard for nine years. At UNC, he belonged to Pi Kappa Alpha and played football. u Sanford Scott Price (’ 57 AB, ’ 60 BSPHR), 81, of Salemburg; Feb. 25, 2009. Price was owner and pharmacist of a local drug store. He served with the Army in the Korean War. u Bettye Foscue Pridgen (’ 59 ABEd), 72, of Jacksonville; Aug. 30, 2009. Pridgen taught in schools in New Jersey and Jacksonville. u John W. “Bill” Ragsdale (’ 56 BSBA), 75, of Atlanta; Sept. 2, 2009. Ragsdale was a founding partner of Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler Patterson & Gray LLP. He was president of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta and vice president of the Mountain Conservation Trust of Georgia. He served in the Navy. At UNC, he belonged to Chi Phi and the staff of The Daily Tar Heel. u John Morris Ryan (’ 50 MA, ’ 53 PhD), 84, of Chapel Hill; Oct. 19, 2009. Ryan retired from Exxon as a petroleum economist. He served in the Army in WWII, was wounded and captured in Germany. He remained a prisoner of war until the war ended. u Robert Glasgow Sanford (’ 50 BSCOM), 82, of Midlothian, Va.; Oct. 13, 2009. Sanford was a CPA in Charlotte and a member of the N.C. State Board of CPA Examiners. He was a Navy veteran of WWII. He moved to the Richmond area in 2000. u Lenore “Nonie” Satterfield (’ 52 ABEd), 79, of Atlanta; Oct. 8, 2009. Satterfield retired as a flight attendant from United Airlines. In WWII, she served in Germany as recreation director for the Army Special Services. Her volunteer activities included serving as a hostess at the governor’s mansion and volunteering at Prevent Child Abuse Georgia. u Alice Springs Scarborough (’ 50 BSLS), 81, of Charleston, S.C.; Sept. 23, 2009. Scarborough, a librarian, volunteered in the libraries of churches to which she belonged. u George Henderson Shull (’ 50 BSCOM),

84, of Shelby; Oct. 11, 2009. Shull retired from the N.C. Department of Transportation. Previously, he owned an insurance and realty agency. He served in the Army in WWII in the parachute combat team, was wounded in France and received the Purple Heart. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Kappa Psi. u Corinne Spears Silas (’ 59), 72, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Oct. 2, 2009. Early in her career, Silas worked for a daily newspaper in the Lookout Mountain, Tenn., area. u Walter Alexander Stoltz (’ 54 BSBA), 77, of Winston-Salem; Sept. 25, 2009. Stoltz retired from AT&T. u Alan Land Susman (’ 51 BSBA), 79, of Beckley, W.Va.; Oct. 8, 2009. A businessman and farmer, Susman operated several enterprises. In the Korean War, he served in the Navy. He was an Eagle Scout. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Phi Omega and Pi Lambda Phi. u Clarence W. Townsend (’ 53), 78, of Clayton; Oct. 26, 2009. Townsend retired as a computer programmer for the Triangle Universities Computation Center. He served in the Air Force in the Korean War. u James Reginald Turner (’ 56 AB), 75, of Greensboro; Oct. 8, 2009. Turner was a lawyer in private practice. The Guilford County Democratic Party named him Democrat of the Year in 2009. He served in the N.C. Senate in 1979 and ’ 80. He served active duty in the Navy Reserve. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to Golden Fleece, Order of the Grail, Order of the Old Well, Dialectic Society and NROTC. u Travis S. Uzzell (’ 50), 81, of Scotland Neck; Sept. 26, 2009. Uzzell retired as register of deeds for Halifax County. He was the N.C. representative to the National Register of Deeds Association. He served as a county commissioner and was a member of the Halifax County Board of Social Service. He taught notary law at Halifax Community College. u Richard James Waters (’ 57), 74, of Poolesville, Md.; Feb. 26, 2009. Waters retired as director of staff development for Geico insurance company. In retirement, he was a volunteer track and field coach at Poolesville High School. He served in the Navy Reserve. At UNC, he was on the men’s track and field team. u William Farrior Ward Jr. (’ 51 AB), 83, of New Bern; Sept. 18, 2009. Ward owned a paint and wallpaper store, sold real estate and worked in his brothers’ law offices. He served in the Navy in WWII. u H. Bradley Wells Jr. (’ 53 MSPH, ’ 59 PhD), 82, of Davidson; Oct. 28, 2009. Wells retired as a biostatistics professor at UNC, then joined the faculty of the department of medicine at Bowman-Gray School of Medicine. During his tenure at UNC, he was a consultant for the Ford Foundation in India and spent a year as a visiting fellow at a cultural center in Honolulu. He served in the Air Force. u George Maurice West (’ 52 BSBA), 79, of Louisburg; Sept. 12, 2009. West was a real estate appraiser who founded and was president of Triangle Realty Corp. He served in the Army. u William Rutherford White (’ 51 AB), 80, of New Providence, N.J.; Oct. 23, 2009. White retired from New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. He was a Navy veteran. At UNC, he was on the men’s basketball team. u Walter Lee Whittington (’ 54), 75, of Raleigh; Sept. 13, 2009. Whittington retired as director of Honeywell Information Systems and worked as a real estate broker. He was an Air Force pilot in the Korean War. At UNC, he belonged to Theta Chi. u David Henry Willis Jr. (’ 51), 83, of Warner Robins, Ga.; Dec. 13, 2008. Willis retired as a civil service employee. He belonged to the Georgia Umpires Association and refereed Little League and college games. In WWII, he served in the Navy; in the Korean War, he was in the Army. u Albert Franklin Wood (’ 56 BSBA), 81, of

’ 61 Anthony Eden Rand (’ 61 AB, ’ 64 LLBJD) of Fayetteville has resigned his N.C. Sen- ate seat to become chair of the state parole board. Rand had been in the Senate since

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’ 60 Dolores Victoria Sampedro (’ 60 MSLS) of Winston-Salem has retired as a librar- ian with the Forsyth County Library.

Sampedro had worked at the library since March 1959. u Lee Philip Shaffer II (’ 60 BSBA) of Durham is chair of the newly formed advisory committee for the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Shaffer, a former UNC and NBA basketball star, is president of Kenan Transport Co. and a member of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

; obituaries

Thomas Howard Howell (’ 60), 74, of Salisbury; Feb. 24, 2009. Howell was head of food services for a food store chain. Earlier, he was in broadcasting. He served with the Navy as an aviation ordnanceman. At UNC, he was on the fencing team. u David Sutton Phelps (’ 60 AB), 79, of Fort Pierce, Fla.; Feb. 21, 2009. Phelps was professor emeritus of anthropology at East Carolina University, where the archeology laboratory is named for him. While he conducted many digs, chiefly in North Carolina, his most significant find was probably the 16th century signet ring at a site near Buxton on Hatteras Island, near the Lost Colony. He served in the Merchant Marine and Air Force as a radio operator in the late ’40s and early ’50s. u Arthur Howard Schwerzel (’ 60 AB), 71, of Beach Haven, N.J.; Sept. 13, 2009. Schwerzel retired after 31 years as a sales and marketing executive for General Motors Corp. Active in retirement in Beach Haven, he was on the executive board of the Jersey Shore Council of the Boy Scouts and vice chair of the board of trustees of the Southern Ocean County Hospital Foundation. He belonged to Chi Psi at UNC. u Frank Watson Smith (’ 60, ’ 61 AB), 70, of Wake Forest; Oct. 19, 2009. Smith owned a furniture company, then worked for an office supply company. At the time of his death, he was co-chair of the Wake Forest Centennial Celebration Committee. He served in the Army and, at UNC, belonged to Delta Upsilon. u Albert Harlan Wallace (’ 60 PhD), 82, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Oct. 22, 2008. Wallace was a professor of French at the University of Tennessee. He was a veteran of WWII. u James Battey White (’ 60, ’ 70 BSBA), 76, of Pineville; Oct. 14, 2009. White owned an accounting firm. He served in the Army. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Kappa Psi.