1981 and served as rules chair and majority leader.
He serves on the GAA Board of Directors as treasurer
and is a past GAA director (1986-89 and 1992-95)
and board chair (1996-97).
; obituaries
Stephen Ross Burch Jr. (’ 61 AB, ’ 63 LLBJD), 70, of
Nags Head; Sept. 6, 2009. Burch practiced law in
Windsor with Pritchett, Cooke & Burch. In Windsor,
he was past president of Rotary Club and the
Jaycees. At UNC, he belonged to Delta Upsilon. u
Elinor Flinn Burgess (’ 61 MEd), 88, of Charleston,
S.C.; Aug. 5, 2009. Burgess retired as a program specialist with the Fairfax County schools and became
executive director of the DECA, an international
organization of management and entrepreneur
teachers, from which she received an honorary life
membership. At retirement, she moved to Pawleys
Island and opened Classic Consignments, which she
operated for 10 years. In WWII, she joined the
American Red Cross and served in England. u Sarah
Bonnycastle “Sally” Hardy (’ 61 ABEd), 70, of
Columbia, S.C.; Oct. 9, 2009. Hardy, a specialist in
early childhood education, was on the faculties of
the University of South Carolina and Allen University.
She was a trainer for Head Start and other federal
programs, did consulting and planning for various
Native American tribal communities and served on
the boards of numerous nonprofits and social organizations. At UNC, she belonged to Kappa Kappa
Gamma. u Keith Eugene Mixter (’ 61 PhD), 87, of
Columbus, Ohio; Oct. 23, 2009. Mixter was professor
emeritus in the School of Music at The Ohio State
University. He taught in the music history division
and was chair of graduate studies. In WWII, he
served in the Army.
’ 62 J. Jey Deifell Jr. (’ 62 BSBA) of Black Mountain has retired after 45 years of pastoral ministry, including in Georgia,
Maryland, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and
Edinburgh, Scotland. u Wade Hampton Hargrove Jr.
(’ 62 AB, ’ 65 LLB) of Raleigh, a partner with Brooks
Pierce law firm, has been elected to UNC’s Board of
Trustees. Hargrove is a past member of the GAA
Board of Directors (1990-91). In October, he was
honored with the establishment of the Wade H. Hargrove Communications Law and Policy Colloquium.
Funds for the annual media law program at UNC
were raised by the N.C. Association of Broadcasters,
the N.C. Cable Telecommunications Association, the
Hearst Corp. and the UNC School of Journalism and
Mass Communication Foundation.
; obituaries
William Haywood Bunch (’ 62), 69, of Mount Olive;
April 8, 2009. Bunch owned and operated a home
improvements company for many years. At UNC, he
belonged to Kappa Psi. u Nan Dameron (’ 62 AB),
68, of Hillsborough; Sept. 11, 2009. Dameron was
executive director of the United Way of Stamford,
Conn., and marketing director at Deloitte & Touche,
also in Stamford.
’ 63 ; obituaries Jerry Webster Fouts (’ 63), 67, of Carrboro; Dec. 27, 2008. Fouts was a furniture designer
and president of Southern Furniture Reproductions
in Elizabethtown. He served in the Army in Vietnam
and was the bugler for hundreds of military burials at
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William Lewis
Cathey Jr.
(’ 69 BSBA),
62, of Santa
Ynez, Calif.;
Oct. 17, 2009.
Cathey was a
lawyer special-
izing in
finance and
banking. He
retired as a
partner with
Munger, Tolles
& Olson in Los
Angeles. He was active in community affairs in
Pasadena and Santa Ynez. He served in the Air
Force.
the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in
Honolulu. u Anne Roberds Wood (’ 63 MPH), 80, of
Ellijay, Ga.; Sept. 5, 2009. Wood retired as a social
services specialist with Community Action and the
Gilmer County Department of Family and Child Services.
’ 64 Philip Augustine Baddour Jr. (’ 64 AB, ’ 67 JD) of Goldsboro has received a 2009 Citizen Lawyer Award from the N.C. Bar
Association in conjunction with the Citizen Lawyer Task
Force. Baddour, formerly a member of the N.C. House,
practices with Baddour, Parker & Hine PC. He is a
past member of the GAA Board of Directors (1971-
74 and 2004-07). u James Baxter Hunt Jr. (’ 64
LLBJD) of Lucama was honored by N.C. State University with the groundbreaking of the James B.
Hunt Library. The building will be home to the Institute for Emerging Issues, which Hunt founded as
governor.
; obituaries
Cornelia Coltrane “Connie” Bocchini (’ 64 MSW), 69,
of Wyndmoor, Pa.; Oct. 16, 2009. Bocchini ran a
landscape design business. Previously, she was a
child foster-care caseworker in Philadelphia. u
Rebecca Deal Burgess (’ 64 CMT, ’ 65 BSMTC), 66, of
Hickory; Sept. 21, 2009. Burgess was a laboratory
supervisor with Catawba Pediatrics Associates. She
was president of the Hickory Service League and
helped start the Catawba Science Center. At UNC,
she was president of Alpha Delta Pi. u Ronald
William Davis (’ 64 LLBJD), 73, of Kempner, Texas;
Oct. 13, 2009. Davis was a career Army officer, retiring after 30 years of active duty. He was a member
of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. u Dorothy
Dobransky “Doe” Ferrell (’ 64 MSW), 86, of Raleigh;
Oct. 4, 2009. Ferrell was a social worker for more
than 60 years. She served in numerous capacities
with service agencies and was recognized as the first
psychiatric social worker in private practice. In 1999,
she received the Social Worker of the Year Award
from the N.C. Society of Clinical Social Workers. u
Hollis Eldon Huxford (’ 64), 66, of Phoenix; Jan. 29,
2009.
’ 65 Evelyn Pauline Lloyd (’ 65 BSPHR) of Hillsborough has been reappointed as a member of the Historic Hillsborough
Commission. Lloyd is the pharmacist-manager and
owner of Lloyd’s Pharmacy and a member of the
Hillsborough Town Board. u Robert Ray Morgan (’ 65
AB) of Ithaca, N. Y., discussed his biography of
explorer Daniel Boone, Boone: A Biography, at the
2009 N.C. Literary Festival on the UNC campus. Mor-
gan is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell
University. u John Quincy Myers (’ 65, ’ 66 BSBA) of
Wilkesboro has retired as senior vice president and
branch manger at the
Yadkin Valley Bank after
’ 66 Clyde Carlyle Edgerton (’ 66 ABEd, ’ 73 MAT, ’ 77 PhD) of Wilmington and Red Clay Rambler Mike Craver (’ 66, ’ 70 AB)
of Lexington performed a musical rendition of Edgerton’s book, The Bible Salesman, at the 2009 N.C. Literary Festival on the UNC campus. Edgerton is a professor of creative writing at UNC-Wilmington. u Dr.
Hugh A. “Chip” McAllister Jr. (’ 66 MD) of Houston
has donated $7 million to establish the UNC McAllister Heart Institute. The donation will be supplemented by support from his personal foundation and
provisions in his will. McAllister retired from active
practice in 2000 after serving 16 years as founding
chair of the department of cardiovascular pathology
at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal
Hospital in Houston.
; obituaries
Charles Allison Horton (’ 66 PhD), 81, of Zebulon;
Aug. 28, 2009. Horton’s academic career included
chairing the music department at Campbell University
and the choral department at Ferris State
University in Michigan. For 20 years, he was arts
and book editor for The Chapel Hill Newspaper. He
was music director for The Lost Colony and Unto
These Hills. In the late ’70s, he was director of
education for the N.C. Symphony Society. u Philip
Tyree Wade (’ 66 PhD), 78, of Cullowhee; Oct. 6,
2009. Wade was professor emeritus of English at
Western Carolina University, where he was department chair for a number of years. He served in the
Navy.
