70s
service. Braswell, a former member of the N.C. Gen-
eral Assembly, is senior resident Superior Court
judge for Wayne County. His courtroom ranked No. 1
in North Carolina for the disposition of criminal
cases. u Anthony Fox (’ 77, ’ 82 MPA) of Charlotte will
serve as president of the N.C. Association of Munici-
pal Attorneys for the 2009-10 term. Fox is a partner
with Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP and serves
as town attorney for the Town of Weddington and the
Village of Marvin. u George MacDonald Mackie IV
(’ 77 BSBA) of Kiawah Island, S.C., has joined Noro-
Moseley Partners as a venture partner. u Florentine
Alfreda Miller (’ 77, ’ 81 MPA) of Chapel Hill has
received the Assistant Excellence in Leadership
Award from the International City-County Manage-
ment Association. Miller, a town employee for 20
years, is deputy town manager for Chapel Hill. u Dr.
Paula Renee Newsome (’ 77 AB) of Charlotte was
the Women’s Day speaker at St. Mark’s Episcopal
Church. Newsome, the first female African-American
optometrist to open a practice in North Carolina, is a
national speaker. She served on the GAA Board of
Directors (1998-2002). u Warren Gary Rochelle (’ 77
AB) of Fredericksburg, Va., participated in the panel
The World of Sci-Fi and Fantasy at the 2009 N.C. Lit-
erary Festival on the UNC campus. Rochelle is an
associate professor of English at the University of
Mary Washington. His third novel, The Called, is
forthcoming in 2010. u Whitney Ray Shaw (’ 77 MA)
of Charlotte has been named president and CEO of
American City Business Journals. Shaw succeeds his
father, Ray Shaw, who died last year. ACBJ is the
largest publisher of metropolitan business weeklies
in the U.S. and of sports publications, which include
NASCAR Scene, NASCAR Illustrated and Hemmings
Motor News. u Malbert Smith III (’ 77, ’ 76 MEd, ’ 80
PhD) of Chapel Hill has received an Alumni Achieve-
ment Award from the UNC School of Education.
Smith is the president and CEO of MetaMetrics Inc.,
an independent educational measurement firm that
developed the Lexile Framework for reading and the
Quantile Framework for mathematics. u R. Graham
Williams Jr. (’ 77 ABJO) of Union, S.C., has been
named editor at Union County News.
; obituaries
Dr. Joan Annette Cummings (’ 77 MD), 60, of
Petersburg, Va.; Sept. 12, 2009. Cummings had an
obstetrics and gynecology practice in Petersburg.
She was active in her church, filling a variety of posi-
tions. u Susan Gail Rose (’ 77 MPH), 58, of Silver
Spring, Md.; Sept. 8, 2009. Rose, a lawyer and public
health expert, created and was co-director of Lariam
Action, an organization that provided information and
support to people experiencing drug reactions from
mefloquine, widely used for the prevention of malaria.
’ 78 Deuward G.F. “Bud” Bultman III (’ 78 ABJO) of Atlanta serves as managing editor for CNN Productions, which
received the President’s Award for the network’s
longstanding commitment to long-form documentaries at the 30th annual News and Documentary
Emmy Awards in September. As managing editor,
Bultman is responsible for all aspects of CNN’s documentary series, including such documentaries as
Chasing Angelina, Grady’s Anatomy and CNN Presents: Black America. u Van Ellen Eure (’ 78 ABEd) of
Raleigh has agreed to serve on the newly formed
advisory committee for the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.
Eure owns Angus Barn Inc. u Camille Holmes
Hedrick (’ 78 ABEd) of Cary has been named principal of Apex Middle School. u Sharon Vanhook
Morrissey (’ 78 AB) of Rockingham has stepped
down as president of Richmond Community College
to become chief academic officer for the N.C. Community College System. Morrissey will oversee the
move to a semester-based schedule and to allow
community college credits to transfer to any of the
state’s 16 public universities.
; marriage
Thomas Allen Worth (’ 78 AB) and Kimberly Brown
Seaver of Greensboro.
; obituary
GAA FILES
Katherine
Howerin Grave
de Peralta (’ 78
AB), 53, of
Trinity; Oct. 7,
2009. Grave de
Peralta worked
as an interior
designer and a
sales executive
for many years.
She was a dog
breeder and han-
dler of Brussels
Griffons. She vol-
unteered as a counselor for those newly diag-
nosed with breast cancer.
