the Navy in WWII and, at UNC, belonged to Alpha
Tau Omega and Gorgon’s Head Lodge. ◆ Andrew M.
Weiss (’ 43 AB), 90, of New York; July 9, 2011. Weiss
was a vice president and partner in an advertising
agency. In WWII, he served in the Marines and in the
Coast Guard Reserve. At UNC, he was on the men’s
swim team, and he continued to swim in races until
his late 80s. ◆ Alton Wright Wells (’ 41 BSCOM),
91, of Raleigh; June 4, 2011. Wells worked as a
statistician in state and federal government. In WWII,
he served in the Air Division of the Army Air Corps.
◆ Seymour Wilk (’ 40 AB), 92, of Boca Raton, Fla.;
July 7, 2011. Wilk retired as vice president and general manager of a paper company based in Stamford,
Conn. In WWII, he served in the Army. At UNC, he
belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi and was on the staff of
The Daily Tar Heel.
’50s H. Zane Robbins (’ 52 ABJO) of Evanston, Ill., has published his third book, Confessions of a Duffer:
A Golfing Memoir. The book tracks the humorous
side of Robbins’ experiences in golf and with his
more colorful friends and a few celebrities.
■ marriage
Leonard Robert Rosenbluth (’ 57 AB) and Dianne
Littlefield Stabler (’ 65 ABEd, ’ 69 MEd) of Chapel Hill.
■ obituaries
Numa Reid Baker Jr. (’ 50 BSCOM), 86, of Reidsville;
June 13, 2011. Baker retired as Reidsville’s city
manager and county manager of Rockingham County.
He was president of the N.C. City/County
Management Association and held leadership roles
in many community organizations. He was in the
Army Air Corps in WWII. ◆ Richard Brown Bell (’ 59
AB), 74, of Athens, Ga.; June 4, 2011. Bell owned
and operated an antiques store in Normaltown. He
also taught English at the University of Georgia and
Athens Technical College. ◆ Theodore Alexander
Bondi (’ 52 MEd), 81, of Geneseo, N. Y.; Sept. 11,
2010. Bondi retired as an athletics administrator at
Geneseo Central School. At UNC, he belonged to
Alpha Tau Omega. ◆ Dempsey Brown Clinard Jr.
(’ 52), 83, of Greensboro; March 30, 2011. Clinard
was an Air Force pilot. In the Vietnam War, he flew
refueling missions as commander of a refueling
squadron. ◆ William Hunter Collin (’ 53), 79, of
Asheville; June 24, 2010. Collin retired from CTS
Corp., an electronic components manufacturer, as
an accountant and also from Avis Car Rental. He
was an Army veteran. ◆ Dr. Roy Clinton Corderman
Jr. (’ 55, ’ 54 BSDEN; ’ 55 DDS), 87, of Charleston,
S.C.; May 31, 2011. Corderman retired from the
Navy Dental Corps, practicing endodontics and periodontics. He was in the Honor Guard at the last
inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was
an Eagle Scout and, at UNC, belonged to Order of
the Old Well. ◆ Patricia Brandt Crockett (’ 57, ’ 58
ABEd), 75, of Denver; May 30, 2011. Crockett retired
after a long career as a registered nurse in the
intensive care unit at Baptist Hospital in Jackson,
Miss. At UNC, she belonged to Delta Delta Delta. ◆
H. Richard Crouch Jr. (’ 56), 78, of Rockwell; June 9,
2011. Crouch worked for newspapers in several
Southern states, was a freelance writer and for many
years was a pastoral counselor. He worked in the
UNC News Bureau as a student. ◆ Ray Edward
Crouse (’ 57 BSBA), 81, of Jamestown; July 17, 2011.
Crouse, a CPA, retired from his position with a desk
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company. He was an Army veteran. ◆ George Harry
Daskal (’ 51), 83, of Fayetteville; May 13, 2011.
Daskal was a homicide detective for the Cumberland
County Sheriff’s Office. Previously, he ran the Royal
Palm restaurant. He was in the Navy in WWII. At
UNC, he played lacrosse. ◆ Clayton W. Davidson Jr.
(’ 57 BSBA), 75, of Mooresville; June 22, 2011.
Davidson retired as a partner with Deloitte &
Touche, in charge of the Lenoir office. ◆ W.
Magruder “Mac” Drake (’ 54 PhD), 96, of Lafayette,
La.; June 9, 2011. Drake was professor emeritus of
history at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, which
now is University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He was an
active duty Navy Reserve officer in WWII. ◆ Charles
William Dubs (’ 51 MS), 89, of Lexington, Mass.;
Oct. 31, 2010. Dubs retired as a physicist at
Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. At UNC,
he belonged to Glee Club. ◆ Lee Stoll Dukes (’ 51
MSPH), 91, of Charlotte; June 19, 2011. Dukes
retired as director of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities.
A water treatment plant was named for him in recog-
nition of his public service. In retirement, he found-
ed the Charlotte Woodcarvers Club. He served in
the Navy. ◆ Henry Hunter Dunlap Jr. (’ 55 BSPHR),
77, of Siler City; June 2, 2011. Dunlap, a retired
pharmacist and drugstore owner, served 24 years
on the Chatham County Board of Commissioners. A
government building in Pittsboro was named in his
honor. He served in the Army. At UNC, he belonged
to Phi Delta Chi. ◆ Henry Davies Farrior (’ 50
BSCOM), 85, of St. Pauls; Feb. 16, 2011. Farrior
was a retired businessman. In WWII, he served with
the Army Air Corps. ◆ Dr. Charles E. Fitzgerald Jr.
(’ 57 BSMED, ’ 60 MD), 76, of Farmville; July 15,
2011. Fitzgerald had an internal medicine practice
in Winter Park, Fla., for 40 years. He served in the
Army Medical Corps in the Vietnam War. At UNC, he
belonged to Chi Phi. ◆ David Stanley Flowers (’ 52
BSBA), 80, of Hickory; May 28, 2011. Flowers, a
CPA, retired from a long career with the Flowers Co.,
a wholesale auto parts business. At UNC, he
belonged to Kappa Alpha Order. ◆ William Charlton
Foil (’ 52 BSST, ’ 60 MEd, ’ 74 EdD), 82, of Mullins,
S.C.; June 15, 2011. Foil had a long career as
school district superintendent. He founded and was
director of Manna House, which provides services
for the needy. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Phi
Omega. ◆ Harry LeRoy Fremd (’ 51 AB), 82, of
Virginia Beach, Va.; July 5, 2011. Fremd, a retired
Navy commander, was a life member of the Coast
Guard Auxiliary and volunteered with the American
Red Cross. At UNC, he belonged to Kappa Alpha
Order and NROTC. ◆ Joseph L. Giles (’ 54 ABEd),
81, of Cockeysville, Md.; May 2, 2011. Giles was
pastor emeritus of University Baptist Church in
Baltimore. He served in the Air Force. ◆ John
Michael Hanna (’ 54 MSPH), 80, of Roxboro; June
24, 2011. Hanna owned and operated an Oriental
rug business in Baltimore. He served in the Army. ◆
Arlen Gwyn Harris (’ 54 BSBA), 78, of Winston-
Salem; July 8, 2011. Harris retired as owner of a
holiday store. Previously, he was an executive with a
burial vault manufacturing company. He sang with a
barbershop chorus and quartet and played tenor sax
in a swing band. At UNC, he belonged to Sigma Chi
and Marching Band. ◆ Harry Bunn Holding (’ 58
BSIR), 74, of Atlanta; June 29, 2011. Holding retired
as executive vice president of Kellwood Co., manu-
facturer and marketer of clothes, home fashions and
camping products. He served on the board of the
American Apparel Manufacturers Association. At
UNC, he was vice president of Sigma Phi Epsilon. ◆
Donald Bernard Horton (’ 55, ’ 65 MA), 82, of
Evanston, Ill.; May 20, 2011. Horton retired as pres-
ident of AirFinish Corp., which provided engineering
services. Active in Rotary International, he went on a
number of mission trips to Central America and
worked to provide assistance to children. He gave
English language lessons in orphanages and
received Rotary’s award for international service. At
UNC, he was an instructor of Romance languages.
In the Korean War, he served in the Army. ◆ Eliot
Marty Jacobs (’ 50), 88, of New York; May 8, 2011.
Jacobs was curator of the theater collection at the
Museum of the City of New York. In WWII, he was in
the Army Signal Corps. ◆ Nash LeGrand Jr. (’ 56
BSBA), 76, of Piedmont, Okla.; June 15, 2011. After
retiring from DuPont, LeGrand was a real estate bro-
ker in Edmond, Okla. At UNC, he was on the gym-
nastics team. ◆ Bettie Beard Linton (’ 52 CPHN),
91, of Overland, Kan.; June 11, 2011. ◆ Billy Wade
Lovingood (’ 59 MA, ’ 63 PhD), 79, of Chapel Hill; July
30, 2011. Lovingood retired from the faculty of the
physical education department. From the early 1960s
to the mid-1970s, he was assistant baseball coach
for the late Walter Rabb (’ 41 MAEd). In addition, he
coached in the town recreation department. He
served in the Navy on a minesweeper. ◆ Walter R.
Lynn (’ 54 MSSE), 82, of Ithaca, N. Y.; June 6, 2011.
Lynn was professor emeritus of civil and environ-
mental engineering at Cornell University and served
as dean of the faculty. In retirement, he became the
university’s ombudsman. He was founder and head
of Cornell University Center for Environmental Quality
Management and coined the term “sustainability” in
the environmental context when assembling a multi-
disciplinary research team. ◆ Patricia May Malloy
(’ 56 BSPHN), 83, of Milledgeville, Ga.; Sept. 22,
2010. ◆ Paul Gilbert McCauley Jr. (’ 57 AB), 77, of
North Hollywood, Calif.; Feb. 2, 2011. McCauley
worked in advertising as an account executive. He
also wrote for a variety of radio and TV shows and
performed in several plays. At UNC, he belonged to
Delta Upsilon, Glee Club and the staff of The Daily
Tar Heel. McCauley Street in Chapel Hill is named
for his direct ancestors, who donated land to UNC.
◆ John Selcer Miller (’ 51), 86, of Raleigh; June 2,
2011. Miller was an actor and director whose stage
name was Jack Sevier. In the ’70s, he directed and
acted in regional and dinner theater in the New York
area. He appeared on Broadway twice, once with UNC
alumnus Andy Griffith (’ 49 AB) in Destry Rides Again.
As a bass-baritone, he had eight roles with the New
York City Opera. In the late ’60s, he was director
and manager of Raleigh Little Theatre. He served in
the Marine Corps in WWII. At UNC, he appeared with
PlayMakers and then performed in the outdoor
drama Horn in the West. ◆ James Tex Millican (’ 59
BSBA), 77, of Birmingham, Ala.; June 18, 2011.
Millican was a claims manager for an insurance
company. He served in the Counterintelligence
Corps of the Army. ◆ William Doverspike Mullen
(’ 50 BSCOM), 84, of Palmetto, Fla.; Dec. 1, 2010.
Originally a CPA, Mullen retired as a Methodist min-
ister. He served churches in three Florida cities. He
was in the Navy in WWII. At UNC, he was in Marching
Band. ◆ Frances Swain “Fuzzy” Nichols (’ 50 AB),
81, of Greensboro; June 12, 2011. Nichols was a
marriage and family counselor in private practice in
Greensboro for many years. Among her volunteer
activities, she served on the boards of the Salvation
Army, Urban Ministry and Mental Health Association.
