Championship and the Carolinas Interscholastic
Championship. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta
Kappa, was on the men’s golf team and belonged to
Sigma Chi and Beta Gamma Sigma. u Warren
Woodlief Smith Sr. (’ 55 MEd), 86, of Louisburg;
March 13, 2010. Smith retired as superintendent of
schools of Franklin County. The Franklin County
school board honored him by naming a classroom
building in his honor. In retirement, he taught mathematics at Louisburg College. In WWII, he served in
the Army Air Corps, then played on a semi-pro baseball team for several years. u O. Kenneth Spainhour
(’ 56 BSBA), 82, of Winston-Salem; March 1, 2010.
Spainhour retired as a partner in a CPA firm and was
a member of professional organizations. He served
in the Navy in WWII and the Korean War. u Howard
Henry Thomas (’ 52 MEd), 80, of Pamplico, S.C.;
April 14, 2010. Thomas was a partner in a tobacco
warehouse and other small businesses. He served
on the Pamplico Town Council and was in the Army
in the Korean War. u Robert Gordon Thomas Jr.
(’ 53, ’ 59 BSIR), 78, of Coinjock; March 28, 2010.
Thomas, a real estate broker, was former owner of
Banjo Real Estate and Marketing. He was a veteran
of the Coast Guard. u James Howard Thompson
(’ 57 MA, ’ 61 PhD), 75, of Durham; April 13, 2010.
Thompson retired as director of libraries and professor of history at UNC-Greensboro. Previously, he was
undergraduate library director and professor of history at UNC for two years. u Frank Ward (’ 51), 81, of
Durham; April 27, 2010. Ward owned and operated
Frank Ward Realtors. He served in the Navy. u
James Thomas West (’ 52 MA), 84, of St. Petersburg,
Fla.; March 13, 2010. West was a founding faculty
member at Eckerd College, teaching psychology. He
served in a variety of positions at Eckerd during his
50-year tenure and in retirement became its director
of the Program for Experienced Learners. Among
awards he received were an outstanding teaching
award and an honorary doctorate. He served in the
Army Air Corps in WWII. u Dr. David Armon Williams
(’ 57 MD), 79, of Laurinburg; April 8, 2010. Williams
was in private practice in Laurinburg. For 50 years,
he was associated with the Scotland County Health
Department. He was the first volunteer medical
director of Hospice of Scotland County. u
Woodward White Williams Jr. (’ 52 BSBA), 79, of
Columbia, S.C.; Feb. 28, 2010. Williams was president of a food brokerage. He served in the Navy and,
at UNC, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and belonged to
Pi Kappa Alpha and Beta Gamma Sigma. u Betsy
Jones Willis (’ 51 ABEd), 79, of Raleigh; April 1, 2010.
Willis was an educator. At UNC, she belonged to Pi
Beta Phi. u George Lewis Willis (’ 50 MA), 86, of
Naples, Fla.; March 6, 2010. Willis was professor
emeritus of political science at the University of
Toledo in Ohio, where he developed a graduate program in public administration. He served in the Army
Air Corps in WWII as a flight instructor and bomber
pilot. In 2007, France presented him the Legion of
Honor in appreciation of his war service. u Doyce
Farrell Wise (’ 57), 74, of Palm Harbor, Fla.; March
31, 2010. Wise was chaplain for Suncoast Hospice
Foundation. Previously, he served churches in several states. At UNC, he was on the men’s soccer team
and a member of Glee Club. u Burrell Lusha Wood
Jr. (’ 52 PhD), 90, of Laurens, S.C.; April 7, 2010.
Wood had been chair of the chemistry department
at Furman University. He managed the Atomic
Energy Commission’s educational exhibits program
and was a deputy director for the U.S. Department of
Energy.
60s
’ 60 Dr. A. Everette James Jr. (’ 60, ’ 59 AB) and his wife, Nancy Jane Farmer (’ 69 ABEd, ’ 70 MEd, ’ 82 EdD), of Chapel Hill
have donated two paintings to the Art in the
Embassies program. The works, Breakers Along the
Coast by William Trost Richards and Coast Near Newport by Dey de Ribcowsky, have been displayed
abroad regularly in U.S. embassies. u Margaret
Brown Maron (’ 60) of Willow Spring delivered the
Commencement address at UNC-Greensboro in May.
Maron, a mystery writer, has written 26 novels and
two collections of short stories.
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Robert Alexander Barnwell (’ 60, ’ 86 AB), 72, of
Graham; March 29, 2010. Barnwell was a restoration
architect. u Richard Irvin Calvert (’ 60), 70, of
Gastonia; March 20, 2009. Calvert was a life member
of Sertoma and belonged to the Jaycees of Fountain
Inn, S.C. u Douglas McDermott (’ 60 MA), 73, of
Turlock, Calif.; Feb. 19, 2010. McDermott was professor emeritus of theater at California State University-Stanislaus. He was one of the founding members of
the theater program and director of the university’s
first honors program. He wrote a number of articles
on the history of the American theater. u Emma
Shepherd Peebles (’ 60 PhD), 79, of Crawfordsville,
Ind.; Dec. 21, 2009. Peebles was an English professor at DePauw University early in her career. u
Dr. William Danford Wilson (’ 60 DDS), 81, of Gastonia;
April 10, 2010. Wilson practiced general dentistry
in Gastonia for 38 years. He was active in numerous
professional organizations and was president of the
Gaston County Dental Society and the First District
Dental Society. In the community, he was active
with a number of youth organizations. He served in
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