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’ 68 ■ obituary Dr. John Michael Sowell (’ 68 MPH),
80, of San Antonio; July 3, 2011. Sowell was a
physician in the Army Medical Corps, serving as a
flight surgeon and as commander of a preventive
medical unit. He served in Vietnam and Germany, as
well as at posts in the U.S. He received the Bronze
Star and Legion of Merit awards. After his military
retirement, he was a physician at the state hospital
in San Antonio.
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1 Ms. McEntire
5 Beginning
10 Phony
14 Dinghy devices
15 Nebraska city
16 Tomb-raider Croft
17 Cam-controlled tool
19 Pupil environs
20 Chummy
21 Over in Ulm
22 Hey, you!
23 Pablo’s hand
25 Restless desires
27 Flourish of trumpets
31 Big sandwich
32 “__ Eleven”
33 Inspire
37 Spoken
38 Budgetary excess
39 Author Bagnold
40 Poe story, “The __ Heart”
43 Worked for
45 Fizzy drink
46 Perceptual
47 Goddess of wisdom
50 Attenuated
51 Sect of Islam
52 Jack Horner’s find
54 Jargon
59 Primitive dwellings
60 Windborne vegetation
62 Ticklish doll
63 Roeper’s partner
64 Florence’s river
65 Spotted
66 Try to prevent
67 Skyrocket
The DTH Crossword Edited by Wayne Robert Williams
’ 69 Charles Henry Mercer Jr. (’ 69 AB) of Raleigh has received the Citizen Lawyer Award from the N.C. Bar Association. Mercer, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough LLP, was honored for his public service, including membership in the UNC System
Board of Governors since 2001 and serving as
chair of the BOG’s budget and finance, university
governance, and personnel and tenure committees.
■ obituaries
Catherine Boyer (’ 69 AB), 64, of Los Angeles; June
12, 2011. Boyer worked in the entertainment industry as a development executive and script reader.
She worked for publisher Katharine Graham in the
early ’80s, setting up galas throughout the U.S. to
celebrate Newsweek magazine’s 50th anniversary. ◆
Dr. Don Nelson Gregson (’ 69 AB, ’ 74 DDS), 64, of
Laurinburg; June 30, 2011. Gregson was a dentist
in Laurinburg. He served on the Scotland County
Health Department board. ◆ J. Wright Holman III
(’ 69 AB), 64, of Wrightsville Beach; June 3, 2011.
Holman, who owned a construction company,
helped establish the Wrightsville Beach Museum. At
UNC, he was active in Campus Y. ◆ Robert Austin
Lassiter Jr. (’ 69 PhD), 85, of Radford, Va.; June 19,
2011. Lassiter was professor emeritus at Virginia
Commonwealth University. Earlier in his career, he
had been an associate professor at UNC’s School
of Education, where he created UNC’s first master’s
degree curriculum in vocational rehabilitation and
was the program’s first director; was state director
of the N.C. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation;
and was president of the National Rehabilitation
Counseling Association. In WWII, he was a radio
operator in the Navy. ◆ Judith Dembo “Jinger” Lyon
(’ 69 MEd), 65, of Wilmington; July 15, 2011. Lyon, a
real estate broker, served on the board of visitors of
UNC-Wilmington, N.C. Museum of Art trustees
council and the board of St. John’s Museum of Art
in Wilmington. ◆ Robert Thomas Veasey (’ 69), 63,
of Durham; June 4, 2011. Veasey was a farmer,
maintaining the family’s farming tradition. In the
Vietnam War, he was in the Marine Corps, from
which he received numerous awards, including the
Vietnam Service Medal and the Navy Commendation
Medal with Combat Valor. Later, he served with the
National Guard.
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1 Campus mil. org.
2 Jimmy Carter’s middle name
3 Panache
4 Horned vipers
5 Constricting snake
6 Unaffected
7 Stallone role
8 Quaker pronoun
9 Ozzie’s wife
10 Davenport wrappers
11 Severe
12 Ascend
13 Marina poles
18 Macho one
24 “__ Poetica”
26 Prefix with dent or corn
27 Part of a yard
28 Land measure
29 Actress Patricia
30 Time for TV line-ups
31 Spicy
33 West of Hollywood
34 __ Domini
35 Stadium level
36 Swirl of water
38 Part of UF
41 Heavy weight
42 Altered to suit
43 Poetic contraction
44 Viewpoint
46 Gloomy in Gloucester
47 Hearth residue
48 Greenland town
49 Blackjack request
50 “Prince of the City” director
53 Service station job?
55 Briefest of epitaphs?
56 Pianist Peter
57 Actress Rowlands
58 Smell
61 PO box item
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’ 70 ■ obituaries Charles Howard Fox (’ 70 MSLS), 71, of
Cary; June 18, 2011. Fox was section chief of the
N.C. Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. In the Air Force, he was a Russian voice
intercept specialist. ◆ John McIntosh Geil (’ 70 AB,
’ 73 JD), 62, of Raleigh; July 27, 2011. Geil was a
lawyer in private practice after being a partner in the
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