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There’s no such thing as excessive
celebration when you return to campus
for Carolina Homecoming 2011
OCT. 28–29
Join us for these exciting events:
Alumni Milestone Mixer
Bell Tower Tailgate
Post-Game Party
Register today at
alumni.unc.edu/homecoming
General Alumni
Association
Progress Energy, was active in Civitan Club and
received its highest honor, the District and
International Honor Keys. He served in the Navy in
WWII. ◆ William James Chance (’ 54 AB), 82, of
Newport News, Va.; April 17, 2011. Chance was a
minister of music in several Baptist churches. At
UNC, he was president of Glee Club. ◆ Clovis Gene
Chappelear (’ 58 MPH), 89, of Denton, Texas; April
21, 2011. Chappelear retired as a sanitation inspec-
tor with the Environmental Protection Agency. In
WWII, he served in the military on PT boats. ◆
Robert Donald Charlton (’ 57 MSPH), 82, of
Lynchburg, Va.; May 23, 2011. Charlton was director
of public health in several N.C. counties. He served
in the Army in the Korean War. At UNC, he belonged
to Pi Lambda Phi. ◆ C. Edward Clark (’ 50 BSCOM),
91, of Raleigh; April 12, 2011. Clark was an
accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell and the
Golden Corral Corp. In the Army in WWII, he was a
prisoner of war in Germany. He graduated Phi Beta
Kappa. ◆ Raymond Kenneth Copley (’ 54), 80, of
Sanford; April 18, 2011. Copley, who retired from
the N.C. Parole and Probation Commission, was a
charter member and president of the Craven County
Law Enforcement Officers Association and a mem-
ber of the New Bern Recreation Commission. He
served in the Navy in the Korean War. ◆ Vernon F.
Daughtridge Jr. (’ 50 BSCOM, ’ 52 LLBJD), 84, of
Wilson; May 6, 2011. Daughtridge, who retired from
the practice of law in Wilson after 50 years, was
past president of the Wilson County Bar Association
and the 7th Judicial District. He was past director of
the Boy Scouts, captain of the Sudan Horse Patrol
and president of the South Atlantic Horse Patrols.
He was in the Naval Air Corps in WWII. ◆ Robert
Howard Dillard (’ 57 AB), 74, of Carlsbad, N.M.; April
7, 2011. Dillard retired from the Loving school dis-
trict as a teacher. While a UNC graduate student, he
taught Russian history. As a UNC student, he was
on the football team and The Daily Tar Heel staff. ◆
Joan Schneider Douglas (’ 59 MPH), 88, of Spokane,
Wash.; April 12, 2011. Douglas, a retired public
health administrator, was director of personal health
services with the Spokane Regional Health District
and an assistant professor at the Intercollegiate
Center for Nursing in Spokane. ◆ Dr. A. Hamilton
“Al” Duncan (’ 58, ’ 59 BSDEN; ’ 62 DDS), 82, of
Elkin; April 6, 2011. Duncan, an Eagle Scout, prac-
ticed dentistry in Elkin for 35 years. He served in
the Navy in WWII. At UNC, he belonged to Delta
Sigma Delta. ◆ Dr. Robert Archie Farmer (’ 53
BSMED, ’ 56 MD), 79, of Vacaville, Calif.; March 31,
2011. Farmer, an Eagle Scout who retired from the
practice of psychiatry, served 22 years in the Air
Force as a flight surgeon. He was a soloist in church
choirs and sang grand opera, and he was a volun-
teer literacy tutor, helping adults learn English as a
second language. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and
was a member of Glee Club at UNC. ◆ Evelyn
Oettinger Faulkner (’ 53 AB), 79, of Kinston; May
28, 2011. Faulkner was a founder of the Eastern
N.C. Ladies of Golf Association and a founding
board member of the N.C. State Veterinary School.
At UNC, she lettered in sports that were available to
female students and belonged to Chi Omega. ◆
William Donald Fisher (’ 52), 82, of Matthews; May
13, 2011. Fisher, a chemist for Burlington
Industries, served in the Marines. He belonged to
Theta Chi at UNC. ◆ Charles Taylor Foley (’ 50
BSCOM), 84, of Stuart, Fla.; April 21, 2011. Foley, a
Navy veteran of WWII, was a businessman who sold
his final business, Foley’s Energy Shop near
Cincinnati. His UNC activities included Glee Club
and Order of the Old Well, and he was president of
Campus Y and Sigma Phi Epsilon. ◆ John Burton
Frierson III (’ 57), 76, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; April 3,
2011. Frierson was a quarter horse breeder in
Tennessee. In a previous career, he was captain of a
charter boat in the Florida Keys. ◆ Robert Anthony
Furtado (’ 59 AB), 73, of Chapel Hill; May 6, 2011.
Furtado served in the Marine Corps for 25 years,
including during the Vietnam War, for which he
earned the Purple Heart and a Commendation
Medal for Meritorious Service. He later worked in
the Durham area for computer-related companies. At
UNC, he was in Glee Club, NROTC, Phi Delta
Gamma and student government. ◆ James Watts
Gardner Jr. (’ 58 MA), 80, of Albuquerque, N.M.;
March 27, 2011. Gardner taught at New England
colleges and worked for the World Council of
Churches after WWII, helping displaced people.
While in Chapel Hill, he was active in the Civil Rights
movement and in Connecticut with the antiwar
movement. He taught literature courses at UNC’s
Evening College. ◆ G. Ivey Giles (’ 51), 82, of
Lilburn, Ga.; May 30, 2011. Giles and his wife
founded an accounting and tax service that they
operated for more than 20 years. ◆ Robert Edward
Goodman (’ 52 BSBA), 80, of San Mateo, Calif.;
April 22, 2011. Goodman practiced law for more
than 50 years, first in El Paso, Texas, and then in
San Mateo. He was active in the Lions Club, hold-
ing chapter and district offices, and he served in the
Air Force. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and
belonged to Order of the Old Well, Zeta Beta Tau
and AFROTC. He had been president of the GAA’s El
Paso Carolina Club. ◆ Elizabeth Farmer Graves
(’ 52 BSMTC), 80, of Wilson; April 11, 2011. Early
in her career, Graves was a medical technician in
Boston and then in Durham. She was a member of
Chi Omega at UNC. ◆ Robert Miller Groome (’ 51
BSBA), 82, of Sanford; March 18, 2011. Groome
retired from Carolina Power and Light, where he
worked in customer service. He served in the Army.
◆ James Houghton Holmes (’ 58 AB), 74, of
Pleasantville, N. Y.; May 16, 2011. Holmes was pro-
fessor emeritus of history at Pace University, where
he had been chairman of the department of history,
economics and political science, receiving an
Excellence in Teaching Award, and he was chairman
of the faculty council. He served 20 years in the
Coast Guard Reserve. At UNC, he belonged to
Dialectic Society and Order of the Old Well and was
on the staff of The Daily Tar Heel. ◆ Edgar Wright
Hooks Jr. (’ 53 ABEd, ’ 54 MEd), 79, of Greenville;
April 16, 2011. Hooks retired as professor of
health and physical education at East Carolina
University, where he served as department chair-
man for 10 years. He was the first director of
institutional research at ECU, and he helped estab-
lish regional drug programs and after-school pro-
grams in local schools, receiving his department’s
Outstanding Service Award and being named its
Outstanding Faculty Member. He served in the Army
Medical Services in Germany. At UNC, he was on
the baseball team and turned down an offer to play
professionally with the Washington Senators. ◆
Hugh Glenn Horton Jr. (’ 51, ’ 59 AB; ’ 62 LLB), 81,
of Hamilton; Jan. 3, 2011. Horton’s career includ-
ed the practice of law and positions with the state
revenue department and state labor department.
He served in the Army in the Korean War. At UNC,
