Carolina Alumni Review - July/August 2010

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week trip or just overnight for your daughter’s graduation!”

Jerri Smith ’ 92

Mooresville

“Dr. Francis Collins ’ 77 (MD) gave an amazing speech, which included his help in a sweet proposal. If the class of ’ 94 was a bit underwhelmed when he was announced as the speaker, we certainly left the stadium that day holding him in very high esteem. I’ll never forget the glorious sea of Carolina blue ... or the heat!”

Jennifer Fahnestock Jordan Engel ’ 94

Charlotte

“In ’ 95 all I remember is, ‘We have reports that severe weather is in Durham and headed this way.’ No speaker, no ‘you are now graduates,’ just a torrential downpour about 10 minutes after we made it to our seats in Kenan, followed by mass exodus.”

Jennifer Mason Hardin ’ 95

Hendersonville

sports, where he was named Volunteer of the Year
and later Coach of the Year. He played church league
softball for 25 years and was chosen an All Star at
51. Before his service in the Navy in WWII, Carraway
played professional baseball. At UNC, he was on the
baseball and track teams. u Glen Reid Cheek (’ 51
ABEd), 85, of Merritt Island, Fla.; March 18, 2010.
Cheek was a retired Navy captain who served in
WWII and the Korean and Vietnam wars. He retired
as commander of the Naval Training Center in
Orlando, Fla. During his career of more than 30
years, he was awarded 23 decorations and cam-
paign ribbons. In retirement, he was port manager
for the Canaveral Port Authority. u H. Manly Clark Jr.
(’ 51), 82, of Elizabethtown; March 5, 2010. Clark and
his brothers owned several businesses, including an
automobile dealership. He served in the volunteer
fire department and as chair of the Elizabethtown
planning and zoning committee. He received the Boy
Scout’s Silver Beaver Award and was an Eagle Class
Honoree. In WWII, he served in the Navy. u Wilbert
Earl Cooper (’ 50 BSCOM), 87, of Buena Park, Calif.;
March 4, 2010. Cooper’s career was in the airplane
and aerospace industries. He retired from North
American Aviation. He was an Army veteran of WWII
and, at UNC, belonged to Alpha Kappa Psi. u
William Reid Cooper Jr. (’ 59), 72, of West End; Feb.
23, 2010. u Barbara Wooten Davenport (’ 52
BSBA), 79, of Winston-Salem; March 19, 2010.
Davenport was active in her Pi Beta Phi alumnae
chapter and PEO. At UNC, she belonged to Valkyries
and Pi Beta Phi. u Virginia Dortch Dorazio (’ 51 MA),
85, of New York; April 11, 2010. Dorazio was a pho-
tographer and writer who divided her time between
Europe and New York. She wrote two books, one
about Balla, an Italian futurist painter, and the other,
Peggy Guggenheim and Her Friends. Early in her
career, she received first prize in a national sculpture
contest; a miniature of her work was displayed at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York. u Marian
Barber Duggins (’ 50 CPHN), 85, of Candor; April 4,
2010. Duggins retired as nursing director of the New
Hanover County Public Health Department. She
received an award for distinguished service to nurs-
ing in North Carolina. In retirement, she worked with
Elder Care and was on the board of directors of the
YWCA. u Dr. Gerald Wallace Fernald (’ 57 BSMED,
’ 60 MD), 76, of Chapel Hill; March 1, 2010. Fernald
retired from the department of pediatrics at UNC
Hospitals, where he established the cystic fibrosis
program and was its director from the ’70s to late
’90s. He also specialized in infectious disease. He
was active in the Carolina Blue barbershop quartet
made up of four UNC faculty members. In retirement,
he was active in pediatric resident recruitment and
selection and was on the board of the Piedmont
Youth Orchestra. u Charles Zorah Flack Jr. (’ 58
BSBA), 73, of Forest City; April 28, 2010. Flack
retired as an insurance and real estate agent. Among
his civic commitments, he was vice chair of the char-
itable McNair Foundation of North Carolina, served
on the Forest City Board of Commissioners and as
chair of the Forest City Zoning Board. He served sev-
eral terms on the executive council of Kappa Alpha
Order, was on the UNC Board of Governors for 16
years and was president of the Rutherford-Polk coun-
ties UNC alumni club. He was an Eagle Scout with a
Silver Palm. At UNC, he was president of Kappa
Alpha Order and belonged to Order of the Old Well. u
W. Dwight Galloway (’ 56 BSCH), 87, of Chapel Hill;
March 9, 2010. Galloway was co-owner of the former
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Farm House restaurant in Chapel Hill and an owner
of Occoneechee Steak House in Hillsborough. u
Thomas Beam Gardner (’ 55), 76, of Faison; March
30, 2010. Gardner spent his career years in Chapel
Hill, where he was owner of Insurance and Business
Associates. He served on the Chapel Hill Town
Council and was a charter member of the local
Jaycees, for which he also was state vice president.
In the Korean War, he served in the Army and, at
UNC, belonged to Pi Kappa Phi. u Dr. Charles Lee
Griffith (’ 53 BSST), 78, of Forest City; April 19, 2010.
Griffith was a dentist in Forest City for 30 years. He
was a founder of the Rutherford Vocational
Workshop and received an award for his work from
the N.C. Rehabilitation Association. An Army veteran
of the Korean War, he was the first Eagle Scout in his
Boy Scout troop. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Phi
Omega. u Robert H. Gurganus (’ 56), 77, of Ocean
Isle Beach; March 25, 2010. Gurganus was owner
and operator of a packaging company for almost 40
years. He served in the Korean War and received the
National Defense Service Medal. u Loula Daniel
Guthrie (’ 51 ABJO), 79, of Orangeburg, S.C.; April 13,
2010. Guthrie was an officer and longtime supervi-
sor for Superior Motors Inc. At UNC, she was on The
Daily Tar Heel staff and belonged to Alpha Delta Pi.
u Patricia Chandler Hannah (’ 50 AB), 80, of Albany,
Ga.; March 17, 2010. Hannah was an elementary
school teacher and librarian. She was librarian for

“I was right there with you, Jennifer. 1995 was horrible. Basically no graduation. Downpour soaked us all and cut the ceremony down to nothing. Probably one of the most disappointing days of my life. Just soaking wet while going to Hanes to get my diploma. They should have moved it indoors.”

Jamie Coll ’ 95

Greensboro

“1996 had Seamus Heaney as the speaker. Don’t remember the speech. This was the graduation that was tough because of the tragic fire the night before at the Phi Gamma Delta house. Happy to be graduating, but sad to hear of the tragedy and loss of life.”

Neal Powell ’96

Salisbury

“Graduation 2001 — our speaker was [TV sportscaster] Stuart Scott ’ 87, known for coining such phrases as, ‘You must be butter, ’cause you’re on a roll.’Awe inspiring indeed.”

Tanya Szulak Creech ’01

Fuquay-Varina

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Robert Gray Byrd (’ 53 BSBA, ’ 56 JD), 79, of Chapel Hill; April 5, 2010. Byrd was dean of the UNC School of Law from 1974 to 1979, then continued teaching torts, remedies and evidence as the Burton Craige Professor of law until retirement. He received numerous awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Law Alumni and Order of the Long Leaf Pine twice. He was in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the Army and remained in the National Guard. In law school, Carolina Club.