Carolina Alumni Review - July/August 2010

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He served in the Army in the Korean War. At UNC, he
was on the football team. u Frank Edie Curran Jr.
(’ 49 BSCOM), 82, of Towson, Md.; March 30, 2010.
Curran retired as a salesman of refrigerated truck
bodies. The catboat he restored is now in the perma-
nent collection of the Philadelphia Maritime
Museum. At UNC, he was a member of the football
team, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Order of Gimghoul. u
Betty Strickland Eagles (’ 46 AB), 85, of Tarboro;
March 7, 2010. Eagles, who had lived in Wilson,
served on the Wilson zoning board and the board of
the Barton-Wilson Symphony. u Albert William
Ebelein (’ 48 BSCOM), 85, of Greenville, S.C.; March
27, 2010. Ebelein retired as a marketing representa-
tive for an overnight transportation company. He was
president of the transportation fraternity of the
Piedmont area. At UNC, he belonged to Kappa
Sigma. u Wiley Jackson Faircloth Sr. (’ 43), 89, of
Greer, S.C.; March 7, 2010. Faircloth retired as a dis-
trict sales manager for Ralston Purina Co. He was on
the board of directors of the Southern Seniors Golf
Association. In WWII, he served in the Marines. u
Robert Lee Fenn (’ 44, ’ 43 AB), 87, of Weston, Mass.;
March 26, 2010. Fenn retired as an executive with a
shoe company and began volunteer work. For 25
years, he was on the board of directors of a nonprofit
school for children with learning and behavioral prob-
lems and helped expand its facilities and enrollment.
He received a Volunteer of the Year award for Ethos,
a program that helps senior citizens and the dis-
abled live in their own homes. He served in the Navy
in WWII and, after the war, served on Gen. Douglas
MacArthur’s staff in Japan. He was on the men’s ten-
nis team and in NROTC at UNC. u Carmer Tayloe
“Tom” Gore (’ 48 BSCOM), 91, of Greensboro; March
23, 2010. Gore retired as an Army lieutenant colonel,
serving in WWII and the Vietnam War. u Dr. George
E. Gutmann (’ 41 CMED), 91, of Janesville, Wis.; April
10, 2010. Gutmann retired from a 40-year career as
an internist with the Riverview Clinic. He performed
with the Janesville Little Theater, taught free art
classes and helped organize the Visiting Nurses
Association, among other activities. He continued to
volunteer with hospice after his retirement and was
named Physician-Citizen of the Year by the State
Medical Society of Wisconsin. u George Pickard
Hogan (’ 47 AB), 88, of Chapel Hill; May 2, 2010.
Hogan retired as a commercial real estate developer.
For 10 years he was executive secretary of the
Educational Foundation (Rams Club) and, during col-
lege, worked for football coach Carl Snavely as a
manager. In retirement, he was a volunteer starter
and player assistant at UNC Finley Golf Course and
endowed the 16th hole when the course was
redesigned. In WWII, he was in the Army Air Forces.
At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Tau Omega and was
on the men’s football team. He donated the burial
plot in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery for Charles
Kuralt ’ 55. u Sol Arthur Jaffa (’ 48 BSCOM, ’ 50 LLB),
82, of Charlotte; April 8, 2010. Jaffa was one of the
founding members of Graham Investment Co. and
Jay Realty Corp. He was honorary life president of
Temple Israel and worked with a number of groups
for young people. He served in the Army. His UNC
activities included Phi Mu Alpha, Marching Band, Tau
Epsilon Phi and Hillel Foundation. u Harry Thomas
“Chuck” Johnson (’ 49), 84, of Harrodsburg, Ky.; April
5, 2010. Johnson retired as a traffic controller for a
West Virginia coal mining company. In WWII, he was
in the Marine Corps. u Richard Fletcher Kemp (’ 44

BSCOM), 87, of Cottage Grove, Ore.; Sept. 27, 2009. Kemp was involved in sales during his career. He served in the Navy in WWII. At UNC, he belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon and NROTC. u John Rockwell Kenyon Jr. (’ 45), 89, of Blairsville, Ga.; April 11, 2010. Kenyon’s professional career was with International Harvester. He was a WWII Navy veteran and piloted the Grumman F6F Hellcat. His awards included the Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals. u Ann Martin Kinsey (’ 47 BSLS), 85, of Alexandria, Va.; Feb. 20, 2010. Kinsey retired as library director of the Cumberland County Public Library. She was involved in seeing the library grow from the back of the county courthouse to its own building. u Lucille Lopp (’ 47 BSPHN), 94, of Lexington; March 2, 2010. Lopp retired as a nursing supervisor in public health for Guilford County. Active

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John Stuart Williams (’ 42 BSGEO), 91, of Grand Junction, Colo.; Nov. 11, 2009. Williams was a petroleum geologist, often working in Latin America and the Middle East. In WWII he was in the Army Air Forces, in aerial photo intelligence.