Thomas Kirkpatrick Spence (’ 59 LLBJD), 78, of
Charlotte; Dec. 27, 2009. Spence practiced law for
35 years and presented to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the Korean War, he served with the Marine Corps.
u Clarence Webb “John” Tatum (’ 52 BSBA), 82, of
Winston-Salem; Nov. 28, 2009. Tatum worked in
sales. He served in the Navy in WWII. After his service, he enrolled in UNC and was a member of the
football team. u Norfleet Earl Umstead (’ 50 BSCOM),
84, of Mount Airy; Nov. 19, 2009. Umstead retired as
a pharmaceutical salesman. He was a paratrooper in
WWII and received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart
for service in the Battle of the Bulge. At UNC, he
belonged to Pi Kappa Alpha. u E. Gene Warren (’ 52
AB), 80, of Goldsboro; Dec. 1, 2009. Warren retired
from UNC-Pembroke as sports information director
and public information director. He was a member of
the first class of Wilmington College, which became
UNC-Wilmington, and helped select the Seahawk
name and school colors. He served with Army 82nd
Airborne Special Forces in the Korean War. u Joyce
Bruner Whitman (’ 53 MSLS), 90, of Lenoir; Oct. 10,
2009. Whitman was director of the Caldwell County
Library for many years. She was a bereavement volunteer with Caldwell County Hospice and received
several awards recognizing her work. u St. Clair
Williams (’ 52 MA), 81, of Durham; Dec. 12, 2009.
Williams taught theater at the University of Arizona,
Stanford University and N.C. Central University, as
well as being active in theater. Her volunteer work in
Durham included preservation of the Eno River. She
was active in Wood Carvers of Durham and a founding member of Women With Knives and Wood Spirits.
As a graduate student, she received an award from
Carolina Playmakers. u James Bryan Wingate (’ 54),
92, of Greenville; March 16, 2009. Wingate served
in the Army in WWII. u Dr. J. Lindsay Winstead Jr.
(’ 58 MD), 75, of Greenville; Nov. 11, 2009. Winstead,
a surgeon in Greenville for more than 30 years,
taught in the Brody School of Medicine at East
Carolina University, was a founding member of the
Medical Review of North Carolina and helped establish Greenville’s first ambulatory surgery center. u
Stanford Ray Young (’ 51, ’ 50 BSCH), 84, of Concord;
Dec. 8, 2009. Young was a chemist for Allied
Chemical Co., then taught in the Essex County
school system. He served in the Navy in WWII and, at
UNC, belonged to Alpha Chi Sigma.
’ 60 Michael Winder Haley (’ 60 BSBA) of West Palm Beach, Fla., has donated $100,000 to help build a Ronald
McDonald House on East Morehead Street in Charlotte. Haley is former CEO of Triton Management Co.,
which owned 60 McDonald’s restaurants in the Charlotte region. u Shelby Dean Stephenson (’ 60 AB) of
Benson was featured on the UNC-TV series North
Carolina Bookwatch With D.G. Martin on Nov. 29,
2009. Stephenson shared his latest collection of
poems, Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave
Girl. See story, page 67.
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Edward Callaway “Ned” Austell (’ 60 MBA), 72, of
Winston-Salem; Dec. 24, 2009. Austell retired as
senior vice president for wealth management of
Wachovia Bank, following a career as a banker. He
served in the Army. u Sara Storey Batten (’ 60
MSLS), 94, of Greenville; Nov. 16, 2009. Batten
retired as a librarian at East Carolina University. u
Jean Walker Blankenship (’ 60 AB), 71, of High
82 March/April 2010
Point; Nov. 14, 2009. Early in her post-college
career, Blankenship was a teacher-intern with the
Teacher Corps. At UNC, she was secretary of the
Student Union. u Ralph Edward Carmode (’ 60 AB),
71, of St. George, Utah; Oct. 15, 2009. Carmode
retired as a faculty member in the communications
department of Talladega College. Previously, he
taught at Jacksonville State University. u Nancy
Baker Hatfield (’ 60 ABEd), 70, of St. Louis Park,
Minn.; Sept. 6, 2009. Hatfield was owner and manager of apartment complexes. At UNC, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to Kappa Delta
and Valkyries. u David Bernard McGregor (’ 60), 72,
of Laurinburg; Feb. 15, 2009. McGregor retired as
regional sales director with a hotel management
company. u Eddie Kemp Roberts (’ 60 BSBA), 71, of
Raleigh; Nov. 10, 2009. Roberts was a developer
and real estate agent who is credited with building
more than 3,000 homes. He served on the Raleigh
City Planning and Zoning Committee in the ’70s.
Among his awards was N.C. Home Builders
Association Builder of the Year. He was president of
the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake
County. He served in the Army Reserve. At UNC, he
belonged to Delta Sigma Pi. u Wayne Bennett
“Hose” Young (’ 60, ’ 61 ABEd), 72, of Winston-Salem; Dec. 5, 2009. Young retired from Winston-Salem Sanitation Division. At UNC, he was an All-American pitcher for the baseball team.
’ 61 Gary Fenton Barefoot (’ 61 ABEd, ’ 68 MSLS) of Mount Olive has received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from
Mount Olive College. Barefoot served as director of
library services at the college for 34 years and was
named director emeritus of library services upon
retirement. He continues to serve as curator for the
college’s Free Will Baptist Historical Collection. u
Charles Edward Burgin (’ 61 AB) of Marion has
joined the board of Hospice of McDowell County.
Burgin recently retired as senior partner in the law
firm Dameron, Burgin, Parker & Jackson PA. He is a
member of the McDowell County Mountain Rescue
Team and chair of the county’s strategic planning
initiative. u Louise Chapman Hoffman (’ 61 AB) of
New Orleans is the author of Josephine Crawford,
An Artist’s Vision, published by the Historic New
Orleans Collection as part of its Louisiana Artist
Biography Series. Hoffman explores the life and art
of Josephine Crawford, born in 1878 to a large Cre-
ole family in the French Quarter, who began to
study art seriously in her mid-40s and went on to
exhibit in New York, Philadelphia and Central
America.
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Mabel Smith Johansson (’ 61 MPH), 93, of Juno
Beach, Fla.; Nov. 13, 2009. Johansson was nursing
director of the Palm Beach County Department of
Health for more than 25 years. She was president of
the School of Public Health Alumni Association and
received its Distinguished Service Award. She repre-
sented the school on the GAA Board of Directors
(1975-76). u Robert Lee Sessoms III (’ 61, ’ 63 AB),
74, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Nov. 6, 2009. Sessoms was a
minister in several churches in the Southern Baptist
Convention, using sports as a way to reach people.
His final position was recreation and senior adult
minister at First Baptist Concord. He wrote 18 books
on recreation, received the Church Recreation
Lifetime Achievement Award and was the first chair
of the Christian Sports Recreation Minister
Association. He was a chaplain’s assistant in the Air
Force. u George Stevenson Jr. (’ 61), 72, of Raleigh;
Sept. 23, 2009. Stevenson retired after 37 years as
an archivist with the N.C. State Archives. He began
his career in UNC’s North Carolina Collection, where
he helped William S. Powell (’ 40 AB, ’ 47 MA, ’ 47
BSLS), professor emeritus of history at UNC, compile
The North Carolina Gazetteer.
’ 62 Ray Simpson Farris Jr. (’ 62 AB, ’ 67 JD) of Charlotte has received the Ayscue Award for Professionalism from the
Mecklenburg County Bar. Farris, a partner in Johnston,
Allison & Hord, served on the GAA Board of Directors
as a member (1969-72 and 1989-91), vice president
(1972-73) and president (1981-82). u Bruce
Blakely Stewart (’ 62 MEd) of Washington, D.C., has
retired as head of the Sidwell Friends School, where
his students included Chelsea Clinton and Sasha
and Malia Obama. Stewart is dedicating his retirement years to speaking about the virtues of Quaker-style education and the need for America to reinvent
its educational system. In November, Stewart spoke
at the Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte.
’ 63 ; obituaries Dr. Eugene Wesley Pate Jr. (’ 63 MD),
74, of Kinston; Dec. 22, 2009. Pate retired as an
orthopedic surgeon. He served in the Army. u Carol
M. Schiller (’ 63 MAT, ’ 84 JD), 68, of Raleigh; Dec. 5,
2009. Schiller retired from the Raleigh law firm of
Schiller & Schiller PLLC, specializing in environmental law and chemical cases. Prior to her law career,
Schiller was a scientist, working at the UNC School of
Medicine and the National Institute of Environmental
Sciences in Research Triangle Park. Her research
focused on dioxin, the toxic contaminant in Agent
Orange. u Clyde Neil Upchurch (’ 63), 74, of Reno,
Nev.; March 28, 2009. Upchurch managed an
asbestos lab and previously was a geologist.
’ 64 G. Rowland Carey (’ 64 AB) of Houston has published It All Makes Sense – Now, a book that outlines a 10-step
Christian salvation process. Carey is president and
CEO of USA Superior Energy Holdings Inc. u
William Gordon Seymour (’ 64 BSBA) of Charlotte
has received a BSBA Alumni Merit Award from the
Kenan-Flagler Business School Alumni Association.
Seymour is the founder, chair and CEO of Primax
Properties LLC and its supporting arm, Primax Construction Inc. Previously, Seymour co-founded the
software firm Broadway & Seymour Inc., which went
public in 1992. u Charles Milton Shaffer Jr. (’ 64
AB, ’ 67 JD) of Atlanta represented UNC at the
investiture of G.P. Peterson as president of the
Georgia Institute of Technology in September. Shaffer, vice president for institutional advancement at
Westminster Schools, served on the GAA Board of
Directors (1974-75).
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Thomas Jeffrey Cartier (’ 64, ’ 67 BSMAT), 67, of
Chapel Hill; Dec. 2, 2009. Cartier retired as senior
software developer for SAS Institute. He was a Silver
Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League.
u L. Wayne Keith (’ 64 BSPHR), 75, of Lexington;
Dec. 22, 2009. A pharmacist, Keith retired from
Revco Drug Stores. He wrote numerous articles
