70s
; obituaries
Ronald O’Neil George (’ 75 AB), 57, of Winston-Salem; April 30, 2010. George was branch manager
of the Allegacy Federal Credit Union. u Helen Sprott
(’ 75 MPH), 78, of Sumter, S.C.; June 5, 2010. Sprott
retired as director of public health nursing in the
Wateree District of the S.C. Department of Health
and Environmental Control. She received a nursing
award from the state’s public health nursing association and was Outstanding State Retiree in 2000.
’ 76 Charles William Bennett (’ 76 JD) of Matthews has been elected vice chair- man of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Com-
mission. Bennett, a partner with Weaver, Bennett &
Bland PA, has served on the commission since
1999. He chairs the non-game, habitat and endan-
gered species committee and serves as vice chair of
the cold-water fisheries committee. u T. Spence
Chubb (’ 76 AB) of Falls Church, Va., has been named
special counsel in the litigation department and intel-
lectual property litigation group at WilmerHale LLP. u
H. Glenn Dunn (’ 76 MRP, ’ 76 JD) of Raleigh has been
honored by Chambers USA with a Tier 3 ranking in
environmental law. Dunn is a partner in the Raleigh
office of Poyner Spruill LLP. u Dr. W. Eugene
Egerton III (’ 76 AB, ’ 80 MD) of Bel Air, Md., has been
named chief medical officer at Maryland General
Hospital. u Chancy McLean Kapp (’ 76 AB) of
Raleigh has returned to the board of the Moravian
Music Foundation. Kapp, a freelance media consult-
ant, helped her mother, Mary Jo Cain McLean (’ 47
AB, ’ 49 MA), open a gallery space at Artworks Gallery
on Perdido Key, Fla. u J. Anthony Penry (’ 76 AB) of
Raleigh has been elected to the board of trustees of
the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,
an organization formed in 1963 to involve the private
bar in providing legal services to address racial dis-
crimination. Penry is a founding partner of Penry Rie-
mann PLLC. u Edward Farrior Sykes Jr. (’ 76 AB) and
his wife, Anne Marshall Sykes (’81 BSBA), of Char-
lotte have been named 2010-11 national chairs of
the Carolina Parents Council, the leadership arm of
the Carolina Parents Association. Edward Sykes is
senior vice president, corporate sales, for Bank of
America Merchant Services. u Patricia Timmons-
Goodson (’ 76 AB, ’ 79 JD) of Fayetteville has received
an honorary doctor of laws degree from UNC. Tim-
mons-Goodson is an associate justice of the N.C.
Supreme Court. She is the first African-American
woman to serve as a judge in her home county of
Cumberland, to be elected to any state Appellate
Court and to serve on the N.C. Supreme Court. Tim-
mons-Goodson served on the GAA Board of Directors
(1994-97). u Mary Beth Brown Wafer (’ 76 AB) of
Atlanta has been named managing director and
branch complex manager at Scott & Stringfellow, an
investment adviser corporation. u William Henley
Watson Jr. (’ 76 BSBA) of Greenville has been named
CFO for Sidus Financial LLC.
; obituaries
Brenda Lancaster Armstrong (’ 76 BSBA), 54, of
Cary; July 29, 2009. Armstrong was a CPA. At UNC,
she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was a Johnston
Scholar and belonged to Beta Gamma Sigma. u
Margo Woods Compton (’ 76 BSN), 67, of Blanch;
May 11, 2010. Compton was director of nursing at
Piedmont Community College. She was certified as a
diabetic nurse specialist and as a legal nurse con-
sultant. A commissioned officer in the Army, she was
first chief nurse with the N.C. National Guard. She
was a Johnston Scholar at UNC. u Robert Kent
Hudson (’ 76 AB), 56, of Raleigh; June 25, 2010.
Hudson was a chemistry technician with the agro-
nomic services division of the N.C. Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services. At UNC, he
belonged to Sigma Nu. u Susan Ball Rees (’ 76 LSRA),
57, of Harkers Island; April 26, 2010. Rees was a
mental health counselor, working primarily with the
physically disabled and mentally challenged. Early in
her career, she worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
’ 77 Bradley Christopher Bauler (’ 77 ABJO) of Framingham, Mass., has been named irector of development at New England
Law | Boston. u W. Sanford Godwin (’ 77 BSBA, ’ 82
MBA) of Decatur, Ga., has been named a managing
director in the Atlanta office of Pearl Meyer & Partners,
an independent executive-compensation consultant.
Godwin advises compensation committees and top
management on all aspects of executive compensation, outside-director compensation and related corporate governance issues. u Rick Hendricks (’ 77
AB) of Las Cruces, N.M., has been named New Mexico’s state historian based in Santa Fe. u Robert
Neal Rodriguez (’ 77, ’ 76 MS; ’ 78, ’ 77 PhD) of Chapel
Hill has been elected future president by the American Statistical Association. Rodriguez, senior director
of research and development for SAS, will begin his
term on Jan. 1, 2012.
; obituaries
Lee Grant Allison (’ 77 CGREd), 85, of Peachland;
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