69, of San Antonio; Feb. 12, 2011. Patterson retired
from the Air Force as a pharmacy officer with the
rank of colonel. At UNC, he belonged to Kappa Psi
and Rho Chi.
’ 64 Thomas Joseph Harrelson (’ 64 AB) of Southport has been elected by the N.C. Senate to serve on the UNC System
Board of Governors. Harrelson is vice president of
AECOM.
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Anne Turner Hensley (’ 64 MAT), 72, of Byron Center,
Mich.; Feb. 27, 2011. Hensley retired as a high
school and community college science teacher. ◆
James Paul Tyndall Jr. (’ 64 AB), 72, of Jacksonville;
March 13, 2011. Tyndall had been co-owner of a
flower shop in Jacksonville. He served in the Air
Force.
’ 65 ■ obituaries Diana Worth Foster (’ 65 AB), 67, of
New York; Feb. 20, 2011. Foster became director of
development at St. Vincent’s Hospital after working
in development for the Japan Society. For many years,
she was a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. She belonged to Pi Beta Phi at UNC. ◆ Dr. W.
Thomas Rowe (’ 65 AB, ’ 69 MD), 67, of Greensboro;
March 10, 2011. Rowe was a rheumatologist and
internist with Greensboro Medical Associates. He
served in the Army as a medical officer. He graduated
Phi Beta Kappa from UNC, where he was a Morehead
Scholar. ◆ Pamela Coleman Sheer (’ 65 AB), 67, of
Mechanicsville, Va.; Feb. 2, 2011. Sheer retired
from the Virginia Department of Social Services.
’ 66 E. Erwin Maddrey II (’ 66 MBA) of Greenville, S.C., has been named to the board of trustees for Furman University. Maddrey is president of Maddrey & Associates, an investment management firm. ◆ Joanna
Allred McKethan (’ 66 AB) of Dunn has published
Lady in White as an e-book. Her Gothic romance is
set in Estonia with a visual artist as its heroine. ◆
William Edwin McMahan (’ 66, ’ 67 BSIR) of Charlotte has been elected by the N.C. House to serve
on the UNC System Board of Governors. McMahan,
president and CEO of the Little-McMahan Group, is a
former legislator, serving in the N.C. House (1997-
2007), and is a former member of the GAA Board of
Directors (1998-2001). ◆ Susan Lane Perry (’ 66
MSLS) of South Hadley, Mass., has received the
Donna Shavlik Award from the American Council on
Education in recognition of her commitment to
advancing women’s issues in higher education and
her role as a pioneer in the integration of computing
and library services. Perry is a consultant to the
American University of Paris, where she is helping to
build a faculty, a library and an IT consortium for the
21 American liberal arts colleges abroad.
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Dennis Luther Bruce (’ 66, ’ 70 MSLS), 67, of Spartanburg, S.C.; Feb. 22, 2011. In his long career as
head of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries,
Bruce oversaw the opening of six library branches
and a headquarters building. His numerous awards
included the Order of the Palmetto. He also was a
military historian in the N.C. National Guard. As an
alumnus, he was a founding member of the UNC
Educational Foundation chapter for the Spartanburg
area. ◆ Blonnie Lou Carlisle (’ 66 BSN, ’ 83 MPH), 82,
of Danville, Va.; Feb. 27, 2011. Carlisle, who retired
as director of nursing with a county health department
in Virginia, volunteered with the Danville Reading
Center and as a camp nurse. ◆ David A. Edwards
(’ 66 MRP), 73, of Reston, Va.; Feb. 17, 2011.
Edwards, who worked in economic development
before retiring from Washington Gas, volunteered in
numerous community organizations focused on community betterment. He served in the Navy. ◆ Edgar
Franklin Fincher Jr. (’ 66 MBA), 69, of Atlanta; Feb.
22, 2011. Fincher retired from the Coca-Cola Co. ◆
Robert Shannon Houser (’ 66 MSW), 69, of North
Canton, Ohio; March 11, 2011. A social worker,
Houser retired as a nursing home administrator. ◆
Jack Edward Saunders III (’ 66 BSBA), 66, of Tampa,
Fla.; Dec. 10, 2010. Saunders, who had a long career
with GTE Data Service/Verizon, was active in Boy
Scouts. He was on the staff of the 100th anniversary
of Scouting in Chelmsford, England, and received the
Silver Beaver Award. He served in the Army, including in the Vietnam War. At UNC, he was on the men’s
wrestling team and was named Outstanding Senior
Wrestler. ◆ Steven Foley Sensenig (’ 66 AB), 67, of
Lawrenceburg, Ky.; Jan. 21, 2011. Sensenig, a draftsman for an engineering firm in Lexington, was treasurer of the Kentucky Native Plant Society. He was in
the Army in the Vietnam War. ◆ W. Kenneth Simons
Jr. (’ 66 AB), 67, of Indianapolis; Feb. 22, 2011.
Simons worked for Charles Schwab Investment Services. At UNC, he was captain of the fencing team. ◆
Geoffrey William Sloan (’ 66 AB), 66, of Santa Fe,
N.M.; Dec. 4, 2010. Sloan, a lawyer, retired as general
counsel to New Mexico Public Health, specializing in
the environment, energy and minerals. He had served
in the Peace Corps in Colombia and worked for the
DNA People’s Legal Services of the Navajo Nation.
’ 67 Russell Earl Banks (’ 67 AB) of Keene, N. Y., has received a Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service for Literature from the Ralph Hayes Common Wealth Trust.
Banks, a noted author and the Howard G.B. Clark
University Professor Emeritus in the humanities at
Princeton University, has published 17 works of fiction
and two nonfiction books. ◆ Erskine Boyce Bowles
(’ 67 BSBA) of Charlotte has received a Distinguished
Service Medal for 2011 from the GAA. (Story, page
49.) Most recently, Bowles was co-chair of President
Barack Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on
Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, charged with identifying policies to cut the federal debt. Bowles also
has been appointed to the board of directors of Norfolk Southern Corp. He is senior adviser to Carousel
Capital and a director of Morgan Stanley and Cousins
Properties Inc. ◆ Thomas Norman Chewning (’ 67
AB) of Richmond, Va., represented UNC at the inauguration of Teresa A. Sullivan as president of the
University of Virginia. Chewning, a retired executive
with Dominion Resources Inc., is a past member of
the GAA Board of Directors (2006-10). ◆ Barbara
Bonomo Newnam (’ 67 MSLS) of Wake Forest has
retired after 25 years as librarian of the N.C. School
of Science and Mathematics. ◆ Eric Harland Ostrow
(’ 67) of Far Hills, N.J., has been inducted into the
National Confectionary Sales Association’s Candy
Hall of Fame. Ostrow is vice president, sales and
marketing, for Smarties Candy Co., a division of the
family-owned candy business Ce De Candy Inc.
Story, page 66.
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Sarah Ivey “Sally” DeRamus (’ 67 ABEd, ’ 69 MAT), 64,
of Winston-Salem; Feb. 9, 2011. DeRamus taught
English communications and technical report writing
at Forsyth Technical Community College in the early
’70s. Later, she was a bridge teacher and substitute
teacher. She held numerous leadership roles in her
church. At UNC, she was a member of Chi Omega.
◆ Carol Burleson Wells (’ 67 AB), 65, of New Orleans;
March 13, 2011. After teaching French at the University of New Orleans, Wells worked in city government, including serving as personnel director for the
New Orleans Public Library.
’ 68 W. Louis Bissette Jr. (’ 68 JD) of Asheville has been elected by the N.C. Senate to serve on the UNC System
Board of Governors. Bissette is a retired partner at
McGuire Wood & Bissette PA and a former mayor of
Asheville. ◆ J. Robinson West (’ 68 AB) of Washington, D.C., has been appointed to the board of
Stewart & Stevenson LLC, which makes specialized
equipment for the oil and gas industry. West is the
chairman and CEO of PFC Energy, a director of Key
Energy Services and Magellan Petroleum Corp.,
and chairman of the U.S. Institute of Peace. ◆ T.
Douglas Wilson Jr. (’ 68 AB, ’ 73 JD) of Asheville has
received the Board Emeritus Award from Pisgah
Legal Services, presented in honor of Karl H. Straus
at the Jazz for Justice event in March. Wilson, a
lawyer with McGuire, Wood & Bissette PA, was recognized for his work on the Pisgah Legal Services’ capital campaign.
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John Linder Barber (’ 68 AB), 64, of Winston-Salem;
March 13, 2011. Barber, who was a partner in the
Robinson & Lawing law firm, was active in his church.
His many volunteer activities included Forsyth Prison
and Jail Ministries and Samaritan Ministries. At
UNC, he belonged to Phi Delta Theta and Alpha
Kappa Psi. ◆ Brantley Claris (’ 68 AB), 63, of Wayne,
Pa.; March 26, 2011. Claris worked in advertising,
most recently as an independent consultant, primarily
for private hospitals. She previously had been creative director for Elkman Advertising and Public
Relations in Philadelphia. ◆ Edward C. Dreyer (’ 68
PhD), 73, of Tulsa, Okla.; Feb. 8, 2011. Dreyer, a
professor emeritus of political science at the University of Tulsa, had been an exchange professor at
universities in England and Ireland, with the U.S.
Information Agency sponsoring him to tour and lecture. ◆ Murray Furman (’ 68), 89, of Chapel Hill;
March 1, 2011. After a 24-year career in the Army,
serving in WWII and the Korean War, Furman retired
as an administrator with UNC. ◆ George Allen
Rogers (’ 68, ’ 69 BSBA), 64, of Decatur, Ga.; Feb. 1,
2011. After retiring from the federal government and
the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, Rogers was
president of the Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition.
◆ Phyllis Thomas Simmons (’ 68 ABEd, ’ 69 MEd),
82, of Daleville, Va.; March 12, 2011. Simmons
retired as county supervisor of special education.
’ 69 James Arthur Garriss (’ 69 AB) of Raleigh has joined Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston as a sales
associate in its Strickland Road office. ◆ Robert
Oliver Griffin (’ 69 BMUS) of Carrboro joined fellow
UNC alumni and local friends in the production of
