roll” during her modeling and acting career for her
iconic beauty, Kyser’s photo was recently used in
places as diverse as an illustration in a New York
Times story on beauty and medicine, and on cocktail
napkins that declared, “An attitude is a terrible thing
to waste.” u James Wiley Narron (’ 70 AB) of Smithfield has received a 2009 Citizen Lawyer Award from
the N.C. Bar Association in conjunction with the Citizen Lawyer Task Force. Narron is a partner in Narron,
O’Hale and Whittington PA. u Aleda Vender Roth
(’ 70 MSPH) of Seneca, S.C., has been named a
2009 Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and
Service Operations Management Society. Roth, the
Burlington Industries Professor of supply chain management at Clemson University, is the first woman to
receive the scholarly recognition in operations management. u James Creekmore Wann Jr. (’ 70 AB) of
Tybee Island, Ga., wrote and composed Pump Boys
and Dinettes in 1983. The musical, nominated for
Tony and Drama Desk awards, was revived last fall,
opening again at the Metropolis in Chicago. u
William Leonard Wilson (’ 70 BSBA) of Charlotte has
retired as executive vice president of real estate and
store planning for Belk Inc. after 32 years with the
company.
; obituary
Mildred Washington Sanders (’ 70 MSLS), 84, of
Charlotte; Sept. 22, 2009. Sanders was technical
services librarian at Johnson C. Smith University until
her retirement. She was on the board of directors of
Loaves and Fishes and the Charlotte Presbytery’s
Committee on Hunger.
’ 71 John Andrew Allison IV (’ 71 BSBA) of Lewisville has been inducted into the N.C. Business Hall of Fame as a 2009 Laure-
ate. Allison, who retired as CEO of BB&T in 2008, is
Distinguished Professor of Practice at Wake Forest
Schools of Business. In November, he delivered the
2009 BB&T Discussion on American Capitalism Lec-
ture at Marshall University. u Elizabeth Anania
Edwards (’ 71 AB, ’ 77 JD) of Chapel Hill spoke about
her latest book, Resilience: Reflections on the Bur-
dens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities at the N.C.
Literary Festival on the UNC campus. In October, she
spoke at The Women’s Conference 2009 in Califor-
nia, where she joined Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa
Niemi, and Susan St. James, who, like Edwards, lost
a child in an accident, on a panel addressing death
and loss. Edwards is a senior fellow with the Center
for American Progress, working on health-care issues
and contributing to the Wonk Room, the center’s
policy rapid-response blog. u Janet Icenhour
“Jana” Sandarg (’ 71 AB; ’ 75, ’ 74 MA; ’ 80 PhD) of
Evans, Ga., has received the Florence Steiner Award
for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, a life-
time achievement award from the American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Sandarg is a
professor of Spanish at Augusta State University and
co-founder of the Augusta-area Hispanic organiza-
tion, Asociación Cultural Hispanoamericana. u
Rebel Sumner (’ 71, ’ 73 AB) of Cliffside Park, N.J.,
A Class Note in the November/December 2009
Review listed an incorrect master’s degree for
Richard Yates Stevens. Stevens’ degrees are
’ 70 AB; ’ 74 JD; and ’ 74, ’ 78 MPA.
Correction
has returned to his position as a contracting division branch chief with the Army Corps of Engineers
after working in Germany for the 409th Contracting
Support Brigade. u John Douglas Swofford (’ 71 AB)
of Greensboro has agreed to serve on the newly
formed advisory committee for the N.C. Sports Hall
of Fame. Swofford, Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner, was inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of
Fame in May. In October, he was the keynote
speaker at a benefit luncheon for Hospice/ACC.
; obituaries
Betty Lynch Bowman (’ 71 EdD), 85, of Burlington;
Oct. 6, 2009. Bowman retired as principal of a middle school in the Alamance-Burlington school system.
She was a trustee at Alamance Community College,
served on state educational boards and was named
Woman of the Year by the Burlington Civitan Club
and by the American Business Women’s
Association. u Larry Dale Hicks (’ 71 MEd), 68, of
Shelby; Sept. 23, 2009. Hicks taught math, science
and reading for more than 40 years in the Baltimore
city schools, Durham County schools and Shelby
city schools. He was a musician and singer at various churches in the communities where he lived. u
Helen Nobles Turlington (’ 71 MSW), 89, of Raleigh;
Oct. 12, 2009. Turlington and her husband were
missionaries in China. When the Chinese
Revolution cut short their work, they returned to
the U.S., moving to Chapel Hill in 1961 for her husband to become pastor of University Baptist
Church. She became the first executive secretary of
the newly organized Inter-Faith Council. She
resigned a teaching position at Meredith College to
return with her husband to mission work, this time in
Tehran, until forced to leave due to the Iranian
Revolution. She later served in India, Japan and the
Philippines.
’ 72 James Lawrence Andrews Jr. (’ 72 AB) of Bronxville, N. Y., has joined Ventas Inc., as vice president, hospital business
development. Ventas Inc. is a health care real
estate investment trust with properties in the U.S.
and Canada. u D. Ralph Huff III (’ 72 BSBA) of
Fayetteville has received the Chairman’s Award from
the Fayetteville-Cumberland County Chamber of
Commerce. Huff is the president and owner of H&H
Homes. u Robert Amory Myers (’ 72 MA, ’ 76 PhD)
of Alfred, N. Y., presented a talk at the David A.
Howe Public Library on the way language in the U.S.
is loaded with “gunspeak.” Myers is a professor of
cultural anthropology at Alfred University. u Peter
Mitchell Scott III (’ 72 BSBA, ’ 77 MBA) of Raleigh
has been elected to the board of Cleco Corp., a
regional energy company headquartered in
Pineville, La. Scott is the retired executive vice pres-
ident and chief financial officer of Progress Energy
Inc. and former president and CEO of Progress
Energy Service Co. Scott served as MBA represen-
tative on the GAA Board of Directors (1986-87). u
John Scott Westefeld (’ 72 AB, ’ 73 MPH, ’ 78 PhD)
of Iowa City, Iowa, has received the Excellence in
Teaching Award from the UNC School of Education.
Westefeld is a professor of educational psychology
at the University of Iowa. His teaching and
research focuses on counseling psychology, with a
particular interest in suicide and suicide-prevention
with adolescent and college students. u Roy Allen
Williams (’ 72 ABEd, ’ 73 MAT) of Chapel Hill has
been named College Basketball Coach of the
Decade by Sporting News, part of a 14-page tribute
to the athletes, coaches and teams of the 2000s
that includes former UNC center Tyler Hansbrough
(’09 AB).
; obituaries
Thomas Earl Tyson (’ 72 AB), 59, of Nashville, Tenn.;
Oct. 26, 2009. Tyson was a musician and songwriter.
He helped found Aqueduct Conference Center near
Chapel Hill, where he was executive director for many
years. u Frederick Andrew Whitaker III (’ 72 AB), 59,
of Marietta, Ga.; Aug. 29, 2009. Whitaker was a
founding partner of a company that evaluated and
sold public and private companies in Georgia. He
received an award in 1995 from the Georgia
Association of Business Brokers, honoring his long
commitment to volunteer service.
’ 73 Susan Taylor Block (’ 73 ABEd) of Wilm- ington has published a new book, How to Gossip Nicely: A Southerner Ponders
the Grapevine. u Angela Rebecca Bryant (’ 73
BSMAT, ’ 76 JD) of Rocky Mount has received the Legislator of the Year Award from the N.C. Sustainable
Energy Association for her leadership role as chair of
the N.C. House Energy and Energy Efficiency Committee. Bryant served as a director on the GAA Board
of Directors (1979-82). u Marc Randall Bush (’ 73
BSBA) of Greensboro has agreed to serve on the
newly formed advisory committee for the N.C. Sports
Hall of Fame. Bush is president of the Greensboro
Sports Commission. u Lars Gustav Schoultz (’ 73
PhD) of Chapel Hill discussed his new book, That
Infernal Little Cuban Republic – the United States
and the Cuban Revolution, at the 2009 N.C. Literary
Festival on the UNC campus. Schoultz is the William
Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of political science at UNC.
u Marjorie Julian Spruill (’ 73 AB) of Columbia, S.C.,
was featured in The Wall Street Journal in a column
by Sally McMillen, who chose Spruill’s New Women
of the New South as one of the five best books to
read on women’s suffrage. Spruill is a history professor at the University of South Carolina and serves on
the GAA Board of Directors. u Barbara Brandon
“Bonnie” Weyher (’ 73 ABJO, ’ 77 JD) of Raleigh has
been sworn in as president of the N.C. State Bar, the
second woman to hold the position. Weyher is a
founding partner of Yates, McLamb & Weyher LLP, a
civil defense law firm.
; obituaries
Irving Jerrold Ginsberg (’ 73 AB), 58, of Wilmington;
Oct. 5, 2009. Ginsberg was co-owner of a furniture
company in Wallace. He was president of B’nai Israel
Synagogue at the time it celebrated its 100th
anniversary. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and belonged to Zeta Beta Tau and Hillel Foundation.
u Dorothy McInnis Scura (’ 73 PhD), 76, of Knoxville,
Tenn.; Oct. 8, 2009. Scura was professor emerita
and former chair of the English department at the
University of Tennessee-Knoxville. A specialist in
Southern literature, she published widely and was
involved in many academic societies. She was president of the Ellen Glasgow Society.
’ 74 Atwell Jerome Brookshire (’ 74 BSBA) of Asheboro has retired as international project manager after nearly 35 years
with Energizer Battery Co. u W. Watson Hopkins
(’ 74, ’ 73 MA; ’ 87 PhD) of Chapel Hill has been
named the Roy H. Park Distinguished Visiting Profes-
