Helen Milam
Given (’ 42
AB), 90, of
Birmingham,
Ala.; May 20,
2011. Given,
a community
volunteer,
was president
of the Junior
League of
Birmingham,
of her
church’s
women’s
organization
and was a founder of the Mountain Brook
school system. In WWII, she was in the
Navy WAVES, trained in the first class of
women midshipmen. At UNC, she belonged
to Alpha Delta Pi and lettered in badminton.
Center and received awards from the Guggenheim
Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
and the Andrew W. Melon Foundation. His book,
Alexander Hamilton: a Biography, was nominated for
a National Book Award. He served in the Army Air
Forces in WWII. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa. ◆ Dr.
I. Gordon Early Sr. (’ 46), 86, of Winston-Salem; April
4, 2011. Early, a retired physician, was president of
the medical-dental staff of Forsyth Memorial Hospi-
Anna Withers Bair, 95, of Winston-Salem; May 6,
2011. Bair was a visiting scholar in history at
UNC. She was a founding board member of the
Winston-Salem Arts Council and on the organizing
committee of the American Guild of Organists. She
founded a boys’ choir camp at Laurel Ridge. ◆
Claire Suzanne-Marie Barbier (’ 93 PhD), 52, of
Chapel Hill; May 9, 2011. Details, ’ 93 Class Notes.
◆ Emily Stacy Barrow (’ 52 MA, ’ 63 PhD), 83, of
Chapel Hill; Dec. 2, 2010. Details, ’50s Class
Notes. ◆ Mary Lawson Braxton, 62, of Graham;
April 20, 2011. Braxton retired from the UNC
School of Dentistry. ◆ Lawrence Burnette, 94, of
Pittsboro; April 27, 2011. Burnette retired from
campus police. ◆ Dr. Jack Cely Childers Jr., 72,
of Baltimore; April 29, 2011. Childers, who prac-
ticed orthopedic surgery in Baltimore, worked at
UNC Hospitals early in his medical career. In
retirement, he was book and publications editor
for the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons. ◆ Richard Morgan Cloney (’ 66), 69, of
Keysville, Va.; April 30, 2011. Details, ’ 66 Class
Notes. ◆ Robert Howard Dillard (’ 57 AB), 74, of
Carlsbad, N.M.; April 7, 2011. Details, ’50s Class
Notes. ◆ Gladys Lunsford Dimmick, 87, of Chapel
Hill; May 5, 2011. Dimmick was a secretary at the
UNC School of Law for Dean Dickson Phillips. After
Phillips was appointed to the 4th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., Dimmick con-
tinued to work for him until she retired. After high
school, she joined the Woman’s Auxiliary Navy Air
Corps and was an air traffic controller who trained
Navy pilots to take off and land on aircraft carri-
ers. ◆ Maria Carvajal Sabourin Farnham, 88, of
Inverness, Fla.; April 1, 2011. Farnham worked in
tal. In WWII, he was in the Army and, in the Korean
War, was an Air Force medical officer in Alaska. He
was in Marching Band at UNC. ◆ Jean Roddey Early
(’ 47 AB), 84, of Fayetteville; April 14, 2011. While at
UNC, Early belonged to Chi Omega. ◆ Robert Weir
Elliot (’ 48 BSCOM), 86, of Charlotte; April 22, 2011.
Elliot retired as a partner in an accounting firm. He
was a Navy communications officer in WWII and
served again in the Korean War. At UNC, he was on
the football team. ◆ Glen Harry Fisher (’ 49 MA, ’ 52
PhD), 88, of Monterey, Calif.; April 9, 2011. Fisher, a
Foreign Service officer, most recently was an adjunct
professor at the Monterey Institute of International
Studies. He served in embassies and consulates in
Venezuela, the Philippines and Bolivia, as well as at
the State Department. ◆ Dr. Mary Alice Vann Fox
(’ 46 CMED), 87, of Mount Desert, Maine; April 25,
2011. Fox, a physician, had a private practice in
Bethesda, Md. In addition, she worked with the
county and state departments of health in Maryland.
◆ Lila Hermann Freedman (’ 45 MA), 86, of Ham-
den, Conn.; April 6, 2011. Freedman, who retired as
Yale College director of publications, published archi-
tecture articles about the gargoyles of Yale. ◆
Harold Garfinkel (’ 42 MA), 93, of Pacific Palisades,
Calif.; April 21, 2011. Garfinkel was professor emeri-
tus of sociology at the University of California-Los
Angeles. His seminal study was Garfinkel and Eth-
nomethodology, in which he illustrated his belief that
members of a society collaborate in creating and
shaping social order by sharing knowledge and rea-
soning in responding to circumstances in which they
find themselves. In WWII, he was in the Army as a
the cardiac laboratory at UNC. Later, she was an
administrator for an organization involved with aid
to South America. ◆ James Watts Gardner Jr.
(’ 58 MA), 80, of Albuquerque, N.M.; March 27,
2011. Details, ’50s Class Notes. ◆ Edward
Lawrence Harper, 67, of Cary; April 12, 2011.
Harper retired after a 33-year career in the UNC
School of Dentistry. He was an Air Force veteran.
◆ Joan Hennigar Hill (’ 78 ABJO), 81, of Santa
Monica, Calif.; March 23, 2011. Details, ’ 78 Class
Notes. ◆ James Carlton Ingram, 89, of Chapel
Hill; May 8, 2011. Ingram was professor emeritus
of economics at UNC. He served as dean of the
graduate school in the late ’60s. His book on eco-
nomic change in Thailand has been translated
into many languages. In WWII, he served in the
Army. ◆ Melody van Lidth de Jeude, 58, of
Carrboro; May 27, 2011.Van Lidth de Jeude was a
communications coach in the evening and week-
end MBA programs at Kenan-Flagler Business
School. The last four years she was an instructor
in Elon University’s School of Communications.
She was a doctoral student in the communica-
tions department at UNC. ◆ Joyce Wilson Lewis,
85, of Morehead City; April 14, 2011. Lewis
retired as an executive secretary for the UNC
Institute of Marine Sciences. She was a guardian
ad litem and was active in community theater. ◆
Annah Agnes Flynn Mackin, 95, of Greenfield,
Mass.; May 6, 2011. Mackin taught at UNC in the
1940s. She retired as an elementary school
teacher. ◆ Dr. Elisha Thomas Marshburn Jr., 86,
of Wilmington; April 28, 2011. Marshburn, a clini-
cal professor of internal medicine at UNC School
of Medicine, practiced internal medicine in
40s
noncombatant. ◆ Daniel Geller (’ 40 AB), 91, of
Chapel Hill; April 18, 2011. Geller’s career was in
New York as part of Andrew Geller Shoes, a retail
and manufacturing business. In WWII, he served in
the Army. ◆ Paul Columbus Greene (’ 47 MAEd), 93,
of Carthage; April 17, 2011. Greene retired from the
U.S. Postal Service as a clerk and mail carrier. In
WWII, he served in the Army Air Corps. ◆ Thomas S.
Greyard Jr. (’ 43, ’ 44 AB), 89, of McDonald; May 29,
2011. Greyard, who managed his family farm and
was an accountant, was mayor, alderman or clerk
for McDonald for more than 30 years. He was an
Army veteran of WWII and received two Bronze
Stars. At UNC, he belonged to Lambda Chi Alpha. ◆
Constance Morris “Nonnie” Haltom (’ 47 AB), 85, of
Florence, Ala.; May 20, 2011. Haltom served on the
board of directors of the American Red Cross and
the Council of the Girl Scouts of America. At UNC,
she belonged to Chi Omega and Order of Valkyries.
◆ Clara Ellison Hinnant (’ 43 CPHN), 99, of Sumter,
S.C.; May 7, 2011. Hinnant retired from a career as
a registered nurse, most recently as a school nurse.
◆ B. Rex Hobgood (’ 49), 86, of Pamplico, S.C.;
May 6, 2011. Hobgood retired as branch manager
of Unijax, now UniSource, in Savannah. In WWII, he
was in the Army Air Corps with a fighter-bomber
squadron called The Invaders. ◆ Earl Baynes
Horner Jr. (’ 49 BSCOM), 85, of Cary; May 21, 2011.
Horner was a CPA until his retirement. In WWII, he
served in the Navy. ◆ Nancy Carter Hoyt (’ 48), 83,
of Jacksonville, Fla.; April 12, 2011. Hoyt was a volunteer in Jacksonville with the Junior League, the
children’s museum and her church, among other
Wilmington for almost 40
years. He served in the Navy
and received the
Distinguished Physician
Award from the New Hanover
Regional Medical Center. ◆
Earl Nelson Mitchell, 84, of
Durham; May 1, 2011. Mitchell retired from the
faculty of the physics department at UNC. He
wrote the textbook Photographic Science. He
taught classes in photography and winemaking
and was instrumental in founding the N.C.
Winegrowers Association. He served in the Navy
as a radio technologist. ◆ Geneverette Stone
Oldham, 80, of Chapel Hill; May 27, 2011.
Oldham, a registered nurse, retired from UNC
Hospitals. ◆ Parker Cramer Reist, 78, of Chapel
Hill; April 20, 2011. Reist retired as a professor in
UNC’s School of Public Health (now the Gillings
School of Global Public Health) after 30 years.
During his tenure, he was a program area director
and wrote three books in his field. He received a
Kenan research leave and a Fulbright Scholarship
to the University College Galway and was made an
honorary life member of the Irish Society
Occupational Health Physicians. ◆ Curtis William
Rogers Sr., 76, of Mebane; May 7, 2011. Rogers
retired from UNC. He was active in his church. ◆
Mary Ruth Hayes Smith, 81, of Durham; April 3,
2011. Smith, a leader of the 1969 food workers’
strike, retired as a supervisor in Lenoir Hall after a
43-year career at UNC. ◆ Florine Sidwell Cooper
Watkins, 92, of Henderson; April 9, 2011. Watkins
was the house mother for Delta Delta Delta sorority in the 1970s.
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