were named Gale Houses in his honor. In WWII, he
was in the Marine Corps. At UNC, he belonged to
Phi Kappa Sigma and was active in student govern-
ment. ◆ Robert Strudwick Glenn (’ 43 AB), 89, of
Savannah, Ga.; June 2, 2011. Glenn retired from
Savannah Foods and Industries Inc. Among many
community activities, he was on the historic dis-
trict’s review board and the boards of the Georgia
Historical Society and Telfair Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences. He was a Navy gunfire spotter on Guam and
Iwo Jima in the Marine Corps in WWII, serving again
in the Korean War. He received the Navy Cross. At
UNC, he belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
Order of Gimghoul. ◆ Phyllis Claster Goldstan (’ 44
AB), 89, of Exeter Township, Pa.; July 6, 2011.
Goldstan was a retired yoga teacher for a commu-
nity college and a senior citizens center. She was
active in numerous community activities. ◆ Eloise
Hayes Grcich (’ 48), 84, of Valparaiso, Ind.; July 19,
2011. Grcich had worked as a Tupperware sales-
woman and a steel plant worker and had been a
community volunteer. ◆ Dr. Robert Ashley Griffin
(’ 47 AB, ’ 49 CMED), 87, of Asheville; May 31, 2011.
Griffin practiced at Appalachian Hall, a psychiatric
hospital, along with his father, a brother, an uncle and
a cousin. In retirement, he was a volunteer coun-
selor at a hospital and delivered Meals on Wheels
for many years. In WWII, he served in the Army. ◆
David Griffith (’ 49), 84, of Charlotte; June 14,
2011. Griffith was an executive in a real estate busi-
ness. He was in the Navy in WWII, played on the
senior amateur golf tours and, at UNC, belonged to
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ◆ Lewis Spencer Harris (’ 40),
91, of Milford, Conn.; July 1, 2011. Harris was a life
insurance broker for many years. In WWII, he was a
navigator for the Army Air Corps. ◆ James Eugene
Holmes Jr. (’ 43, ’ 46 BSCOM), 89, of Winston-Salem;
July 12, 2011. Holmes was a partner in the securi-
ties firm Alex Brown & Sons. He was president of
the Securities Dealers of the Carolinas. Among his
many civic activities, he was a trustee of the Chil-
dren’s Home, where he started a community garden
that produced food for Second Harvest food bank.
He was named National Volunteer of the Year by
Second Harvest. In WWII, he served in the Army
Finance Division. As a UNC alumnus, he had an
eight-year term on the UNC System Board of Gover-
nors and served on the board of directors of UNC
Hospitals. At UNC, he belonged to Beta Theta Pi
and was active in student government. ◆ Harvey
Ralph Honig (’ 49 AB), 85, of New York; July 1,
2011. Honig retired as a manufacturer of children’s
clothing. He served in the Army and in the Foreign
Service and was a mentor to students in New York
public schools and Big Brothers & Big Sisters. A
documentary was done on his solution to feeding
the hungry and homeless in the city. ◆ Elizabeth
McConnell Jarratt (’ 47 MA), 97, of Black Moun-
tain; July 12, 2011. Jarratt was a high school Eng-
lish teacher and the first guidance counselor at
Lenoir High School. She was recognized for having
organized Lenoir’s first Girl Scout troop and helped
start several programs to aid the elderly in Cald-
well County. ◆ Dr. Weldon Huske Jordan (’ 45, ’ 44
BSMED; ’ 45 CMED), 87, of Fayetteville; July 13,
2011. Jordan, a retired physician, practiced inter-
nal medicine in Fayetteville and was a visiting clini-
cal professor of medicine at UNC for 30 years. In
the Korean War, he served in the Army. The N.C.
Medical Society honored him as a Hero in Medi-
cine in 1999. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and belonged to Alpha Tau Omega and Gorgon’s
Head Lodge. ◆ Frederick Blount Joyner (’ 43 BSCH,
’ 56 PhD), 89, of Kingsport, Tenn.; June 30, 2011.
Joyner retired from Tennessee Eastman as a senior
research chemist. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Chi
Sigma and boxed as a featherweight. ◆ Delphina
Roberts Kappes (’ 45 BSMTC), 88, of Murphy,
Texas; June 17, 2011. Kappes was a retired med-
ical technician. ◆ Billy Otto Killian (’ 49 AB), 83, of
Raleigh; July 6, 2011. Killian retired as a senior vice
president with Belk Services. He served with the
Marine Corps in WWII and the Korean War. ◆ Vir-
ginia Gary Kirkpatrick (’ 45 AB), 86, of Littleton,
Colo.; Aug. 6, 2010. Kirkpatrick was a teacher for
special needs children. ◆ Donald Ellis LaRue (’ 49),
86, of Columbus, Ohio; July 18, 2011. At one time,
LaRue was director of personnel for an engineering
company. An Army veteran of WWII, he was part of
the Blackhawk Division and also sang in an inter-
national military male chorus. ◆ Joseph Henry
Mickey (’ 45), 87, of Winston-Salem; June 23,
2011. Mickey was a life insurance agent for many
years and was founding principal in a financial serv-
ices firm. In WWII, he served in the Army Parachute
Infantry. He received the Soldier’s Medal. ◆ Mary
Hanford Miller (’ 44 ABJO), 88, of Gainesville, Ga.;
July 5, 2011. Miller developed a mini mall in
Dahlonega, Ga., where she owned an antiques
store. In WWII, she served in the Women’s Army
Corps in Europe. ◆ Sara Foutz Mitchell (’ 40 AB),
91, of Graham; July 19, 2011. Mitchell was a social
worker, truant officer and substitute teacher. She
was active in her church and the PTA and received
the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. ◆ Mary Dryden
Nichols (’ 47 BSMTC), 84, of Vienna, Va.; May 5,
2011. Nichols had been assistant laboratory direc-
tor with the Fairfax County health department. ◆
Barrett G. Payne Jr. (’ 49), 85, of Charlottesville, Va.;
May 23, 2011. Payne had a long career as a licensed
optician, and he played flute and piccolo in the Char-
lottesville Municipal Band. In WWII, he was in the
Marine Corps and remained in the Reserve and
played in the Marine Corps Band. ◆ Eleanor Israel
Ponder (’ 47 ABJO), 85, of Asheville; July 7, 2011.
Ponder was an English and dramatic arts teacher
at T.C. Roberson High School. Her students won
numerous acting awards at the regional and state
levels. She performed with the Asheville Community
Theatre and served on its board of directors. ◆
Marjorie Henderson Roe (’ 44 BSCOM), 88, of Winter
Haven, Fla.; June 23, 2011. Roe, recognized as
being the first woman CPA in North Carolina,
returned to her native Florida to work in the family’s
gift fruit business. An advocate for children, she
was active in her church’s children’s programs, was
instrumental in starting the Winter Haven Youth
Orchestra and founded a summer youth music
camp. ◆ A.A. Sakhnovsky (’ 49 AB, ’ 50 MA), 84, of
Miami Springs, Fla.; June 19, 2011. Sakhnovsky
was president of Construction Research Lab, a
building projects testing lab. He served in the Navy.
At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a
member of Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Chi Sigma and
NROTC. ◆ Roy Young Schellenger (’ 48 AB), 88, of
Richmond, Va.; July 18, 2011. Schellenger worked
in the oil industry, retiring as an area manager. He
served two terms as president of the Virginia Petro-
leum, Convenience and Grocery Association. He
was an Army veteran of WWII. ◆ Dorothy Cutting
Schroeder (’ 42 AB), 89, of Basking Ridge, N.J.;
April 26, 2011. Schroeder retired as a junior high
school teacher, librarian and media specialist with
the Bernards Township Board of Education. At
UNC, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was secretary
of the Woman’s Student Senate and was an officer
of Independent Co-eds. ◆ Robert Park Sherman
(’ 42), 91, of Nashville, Tenn.; May 6, 2011. Sher-
man had been a businessman in Murfreesboro,
Tenn. He was the skipper of a PT boat in WWII. ◆ H.
Milton Short Jr. (’ 41 AB, ’ 43 LLBJD), 92, of Char-
lotte; July 14, 2011. Short was a lawyer and was
active with his family furniture company for many
years. He served six terms on the Charlotte city
council. By bringing together two interested
churches, he was instrumental in establishing a con-
tinuing care retirement community. In WWII, he was
in a fighter group of the Army Air Corps. In UNC law
school, he was associate editor-in-chief of Law
Review. ◆ Dr. Hugh Percival Smith Jr. (’ 40 AB, ’ 42
CMED), 90, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; March 5, 2011.
Smith retired as a radiologist. In retirement, he pho-
tographed birds, and his work was displayed at the
Roger Tory Peterson Institute Museum in New York.
In WWII, he was a Navy physician. At UNC, he
belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ◆ Emily Cotting-
ham Stuart (’ 42), 90, of Blacksburg, Va.; June 14,
2011. Stuart, who retired as director of the Virginia
Tech YMCA, was co-founder of a housing project and
started what became the city’s community garden.
She had been a leader in racial integration efforts.
◆ Elinor Henderson Swaim (’ 43), 92, of Salisbury;
June 14, 2011. Swaim, a community activist in Sal-
isbury and beyond, had a particular interest in
libraries. She chaired the N.C. State Library Com-
mission, was a presidential appointee to the U.S.
National Commission on Libraries and Information
Science, organized the Rowan Community of Read-
ers ( 30 agencies working for literacy), helped start
the Rowan County Public Library Foundation and led
the city’s bond effort to build a new main library.
She received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine twice.
She was one of the state’s first health educators
and a member of what is now UNC’s Gillings School
of Global Public Health’s first graduate class in
health education. ◆ Jane Curtis Texter (’ 47 AB),
83, of Little Rock, Ark.; June 2, 2011. Texter, an
active hospital volunteer for more than 60 years,
served in several positions with the state board of
directors of the Arkansas Hospital Association. She
was honored for her volunteerism by the American
Red Cross. At UNC, she belonged to Chi Omega. ◆
M. Jackson Trotman (’ 43, ’ 45 BSCOM), 89, of Win-
ston-Salem; Dec. 19, 2010. Trotman retired as an
executive with Wachovia Bank, where he had a long
career. His college years were interrupted while he
served in WWII in the Air Force Air Transport Com-
mand. At UNC, he belonged to Zeta Psi and Order of
Gimghoul. ◆ Claus Victorius (’ 46 MA), 87, of Ken-
nett Square, Pa.; Aug. 31, 2010. Victorius retired
from DuPont. ◆ Martha Whitaker Weatherford (’ 48
AB), 83, of Olathe, Kan.; April 14, 2011. Shortly
after graduation, Weatherford worked for Eastern Air
Lines. At UNC, she belonged to Alpha Delta Pi. ◆
Frances Brice Webb (’ 45 AB), 86, of Montgomery,
Ala.; July 25, 2011. Webb was active in her commu-
nity, serving as president of several organizations,
including the Alpha Delta Pi Alumnae Association,
was involved in her church and was a Girl Scout and
Cub Scout leader. At UNC, she belonged to Alpha
Delta Pi. ◆ John Benton Webb Jr. (’ 46), 86, of
Olney, Md.; June 20, 2011. Webb was president and
chairman of a photoengraving company. He was in
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