Carolina Alumni Review - November/December 2011

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Doris Ellen Baer Garb (’ 64 AB), 87, of Allentown, Pa.; July 8, 2011. Garb was a German instructor at several universities in the Allentown area. She was a cellist with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra for many years. ◆ E. Philip Howrey (’ 64 PhD), 73, of Boulder, Colo.; June 17, 2011. Howrey was professor emeritus of economics and statistics at the University of Michigan. He was president of the Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society. In retirement, he led bicycle tours of France and Italy. ◆ Gerald Graham McLeod Sr. (’ 64 BSBA), 68, of Sanford; Oct. 14, 2010. McLeod retired as an engineering manager with an automotive company. ◆ Harold Eugene Warren (’ 64), 69, of Mount Airy; March 31, 2011. Warren, who was retired, worked in the insurance industry. He belonged to Glee Club at UNC.

’ 65 James Toole Fain III (’ 65, ’ 72 AB; ’ 75 MBA) of Raleigh has been named pres- ident of the Global TransPark, a 2,500- acre industrial/airport site in eastern North Carolina. Fain, a former N.C. secretary of commerce, is a past member of the GAA Board of Directors (1981-82). ■ marriage Dianne Littlefield Stabler (’ 65 ABEd, ’ 69 MEd) and Leonard Robert Rosenbluth (’ 57 AB) of Chapel Hill. ■ obituaries William Henry Burbage Jr. (’ 65 AB), 68, of Albemarle; July 20, 2011. Burbage retired as a real estate sales executive. At UNC, he belonged to Kappa Alpha Order. ◆ Artheneus Dew (’ 65 MEd), 80, of Fayetteville; July 3, 2011. Dew was an elementary school teacher and principal in the Fayetteville/ Cumberland County school system. He taught at UNC-Pembroke. ◆ John Ira Moore Jr. (’ 65 AB, ’ 67 MSW), 68, of Raleigh; July 1, 2011. Moore, a social worker, was with the N.C. Division of Facilities Services, responsible for checking the quality of nursing home care. He served in the Army Reserve.

has been sworn in as president of the Chattanooga Downtown Rotary Club. Thomas is a judge presiding over the 4th Division Circuit Court, Hamilton County, and an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. ■ obituaries Grover Curtis Farmer (’ 66 AB), 81, of Hartsel, Colo.; March 24, 2011. Farmer had a 22-year career with the Air Force. In retirement, he became chief of police in Belleair, Fla., before becoming a private GAA FILES

investigator. ◆ Walter Lee Lackey Jr. (’ 66 AB; ’ 69 MACT; ’ 79, ’ 78 PhD), 67, of Raleigh; June 23, 2010. Lackey was associate professor of political science at Frostburg State College, where he received the Outstanding Teacher Award. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

’ 67 Dr. Carol Ann Gilbertson (’ 67 MA) of Decorah, Iowa, has retired as profes- sor of English at Luther College. Since joining the faculty in 1968, Gilbertson has held positions as head of the English department, co-director of the Paideia core curriculum program, director of the Luther Festival of Writing and the Luther Poetry Project, and the Dennis M. Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. ◆ Lucy Ann Whedbee Hancock (’ 67 MEd) of Newport News, Va., has retired after 44 years with the Newport News public schools, a career that included serving as principal in eight elementary schools over 33 years. ■ obituaries Margaret Burnett Benbow (’ 67 MAT), 81, of Belleair Bluffs, Fla.; June 14, 2011. Benbow retired as a junior high and high school teacher in the Winston-Salem public schools. ◆ Heinz U. Huper (’ 67 MSPH), 72, of Pratteln, Switzerland; May 16, 2011. Huper’s career was in environmental technology. ◆ Elgiva Dundas Watson (’ 67 MA; ’ 73, ’ 72 PhD), 82, of Raleigh; June 24, 2011. Watson retired from St. Mary’s College, where she was a professor and academic dean, and taught in Elderhostel and in N.C. State University’s Encore program, specializing in detailing the lives of well-known historic figures.

’ 66 Robert R. Bonczek (’ 66 AB, ’ 69 JD) of Chapel Hill has been elected to the board of directors for NeurOp, an Atlanta-based biopharmaceutical company develop-ing medicines for central nervous system disorders. Bonczek is president, CFO and general counsel at b3bio Inc., a biotechnology company, and founding partner and president of Aspen Tree Capital. ◆ W. Neil Thomas III (’ 66 AB) of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., GAA FILES

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