Carolina Alumni Review - September/October 2010

president of the N.C. Pediatrics Society; its award for community service bears his name. He was the fourth Dr. David Tayloe in his family to practice medicine in Washington. He served in the Navy in WWII. He received the UNC medical school’s Distinguished Service Award and served on UNC’s Board of Trustees. At UNC, he belonged to Phi Gamma Delta. u Neil Howard Thompson (’ 43 AB), 90, of Cary; May 8, 2010. Thompson retired as associate minister at a Methodist church in Raleigh. Before training as a minister, he, along with his wife, owned a chain of hair salons. In WWII, he was in the Army and, at UNC, belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha. u Dr. Bate Carpenter Toms Jr. (’ 40, ’ 47 BSMED; ’ 48 CMED), 91, of Martinsville, Va.; June 4, 2010. Toms retired as a general practice surgeon. He served in the Navy in WWII. At UNC, he belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon. u Leo Henry Volker Jr. (’ 48), 83, of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; March 23, 2010. Volker was a data processing supervisor. At UNC, he belonged to Sigma Nu. u Mary Caudill “Peggy” Weiss (’ 44 AB), 87, of Austin, Texas; May 2, 2010. Weiss retired as a paraprofessional in the forensic laboratory at Alexandria Archaeology and volunteered with the New Mexico state archeology laboratory. She belonged to Chi Omega at UNC. u Katherine Coleman “Kit” Williams (’ 47 AB), 84, of Atlanta; May 11, 2010. Williams was an insurance and real estate agent for a time and was involved in a number of responsibilities in her church. At UNC, she belonged to Chi Omega and Valkyries and was a cheerleader.

’50s Douglas Warren Ayres (’ 53 AB) of Sedona, Ariz., has received an hon- orary doctor of laws degree from Roanoke College of Salem, Va. Ayres was cited for his role in aiding governments in the U.S. and beyond to improve operations while a consultant with the National Governmental Center subsidiary, PAS, at the University of Chicago. u James Tully Beatty (’ 57 AB) of Charlotte was the guest speaker at the spring meeting of the East Charlotte Rotary. Beatty ran the first indoor sub-four-minute mile, an event that has been named one of the top five most exciting moments in N.C. sports history. u Dr. E. Flynn Harris (’ 56 AB, ’ 60 DDS) of Charlotte has received the Distinguished Service Award from the UNC Dental Alumni Association. Harris is in private practice. u Paul Joseph Rizzo (’ 50 BSCOM) of Chapel Hill has received an honorary doctor of laws degree from UNC. Rizzo is chair emeritus of Franklin Street Partners and former dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School (1987-92) and served on the GAA Board of Directors (1992-95). u Eugene Leslie Roberts Jr. (’ 54 ABJO) of New York has received an honorary doctor of laws degree from UNC. Roberts is a former national editor of The New York Times, former executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, professor of journalism at the University of Maryland and co-author of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. u Fred Colson Robinson (’ 54 MA, ’ 61 PhD) of New Haven, Conn., has received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from UNC. Robinson is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University and a specialist in Old English language and literature. u James Edgar Shockley Jr. (’ 57 AB, ’ 59 MA, ’ 62 PhD) of Blacksburg, Va., has been named professor emeritus by Virginia Tech. Shockley, associate professor of

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mathematics, has been a member of the faculty of the Virginia Tech College of Science since 1966. ; obituaries T. Harold Adams (’ 50 BSCOM), 85, of Hickory; May 3, 2010. Adams was a chartered life underwriter and a 50-year member of the Catawba Valley Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. He served in the Navy in WWII. u John Wrey Aderholdt Jr. (’ 53), 79, of Columbia, S.C.; June 12, 2010. Aderholdt retired as executive director of a regional transportation authority. In the Korean War, he served in the Air Force as a senior air traffic controller and then as an instructor and instructor supervisor. He later continued his air traffic teaching with Civil Air Patrol cadets. Active in the Lions Club, he was district governor. u LeRoy Banks Attaway Jr. (’ 59), 72, of Shawnee Mission, Kan.; May 9, 2010. Attaway was producer, writer and director for The American Sportsman on ABC television. In addition, he was editor of boating magazines. His memoir, A Home in the Tall Marsh Grass, recalled his childhood in the South Carolina Low Country. As a photographer, he had his work shown in galleries in New York. After he moved to Kansas, he continued as a freelance writer and maintained a website of travel and photography. At UNC, he belonged to Chi Psi. u Robert Edward L. “Ted” Barnes (’ 50 AB), 82, of Winston-Salem; June 16, 2010. Barnes was an officer in the banking industry and was an insurance broker. At UNC, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. u Ann Trabue Bass (’ 52 AB, ’ 54 MA, ’ 62 PhD), 79, of Hopkinsville, Ky.; May 28, 2010. Bass retired as a psychology professor at Indiana State University. She also taught at Wesleyan College in Georgia and

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