Carolina Alumni Review - November/December 2011

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Bess Petty “Felix” Ware (’ 70 AB), 98, of Chapel Hill; June 12, 2011. Ware enrolled at UNC after she and her husband retired to Chapel Hill. She received local press coverage upon earning her bachelor’s degree.

law firm Poyner, Geraghty, Hartsfield & Townsend and was trained as a certified mediator. He had been an operating room technician in the Army Reserve. At UNC, he belonged to Zeta Psi and Gorgon’s Head Lodge. ◆ Thomas Cox Owens (’ 70 BSPHR), 64, of Leland; June 20, 2011. Owens retired as a pharmacist with Coastal Drug in Shal-lotte. Previously, he owned two pharmacies, in Southport and Oak Island. He was a founding member and president of the Southport-Oak Island Chamber of Commerce and served on a committee to establish a library in Oak Island. At UNC, he belonged to Kappa Psi. ◆ Mabel Marrow Walker (’ 70 MEd), 93, of Enfield; June 18, 2011. Walker was a speech pathologist and elementary school teacher in Halifax County. She also worked for the Halifax County Missionary Union. She was active in her church, where she organized clubs and taught Sunday school.

’ 71 Peter Thomas Kissinger (’ 71 PhD) of West Lafayette, Ind., has been appointed to the board of directors for Chembio Diagnostics Inc., which creates, markets and licenses point-of-care diagnostic tests. Kissinger is founder and chairman emeritus of Bio-analytical Systems Inc. and a professor of chemistry and associate department head at Purdue University. ■ obituaries Daryl Everett Coleman (’ 71 MAT), 70, of Hotchkiss, Colo.; June 10, 2011. Coleman retired as a teacher after 34 years, teaching in Colorado, Oregon and Misawa Air Base in Japan. He was president of the local teachers’ union several times. He served in the Navy as an aviation electronics technician. ◆ W. Michael Griffin (’ 71 BSBA), 69, of Birmingham, Ala.; June 22, 2011. Griffin retired after a 30-year career with General Electric. He served in the Navy before attending UNC. ◆ Daniel Henry Hill (’ 71 AB), 63, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; July 10, 2011. Hill retired as a research scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Survey Research. He was in the Army in the Vietnam War. At UNC, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. ◆ Pamela Elton Jenks (’ 71, ’ 75 AB), 62, of Raleigh; June 21, 2011. Jenks was active in her church in Raleigh. ◆ Douglas Lee Peeler (’ 71 AB), 62, of Austin, Texas; June 18, 2011. Peeler was self-employed as a fundraiser. At UNC, he belonged to Sigma Nu.

’ 72 Kenneth Burdette Lee (’ 72 MBA) of Durham has been elected to the board of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. Lee is a general partner with Hatteras Venture Partners LLC, a venture capital fund focusing on life science companies. ◆ Christopher Glenn Sawyer (’ 72 AB) of Atlanta has been named chair of the board of visitors for the UNC Institute for the Environment. Sawyer is a partner at Alston & Bird, where he specializes in working with boards, CEOs and senior management on issues relating to corporate governance, strategic and business planning, finance, the environment and real estate. ■ obituaries Helen Leppard Callison (’ 72, ’ 71 MSLS), 83, of Eugene, Ore., July 9, 2011. Callison was a teacher and librarian in elementary and high schools in South Carolina. She was an organizer and charter member of the S.C. Library Association and held numerous offices in the organization. She also taught continuing education courses for school librarians. ◆ Arthur Leonard “Skip” Lefler Jr. (’ 72), 60, of Tallahassee, Fla.; July 9, 2011. Lefler was an ordained minister for the United Pentecostal Church. He retired as a state operations management consultant manager for Florida.

’ 73 Max Oliver Cogburn Jr. (’ 73 AB) of Asheville has been named a judge for the U.S. District Court, Western District of N.C. Cogburn succeeds Lacy Herman Thornburg (’ 52 AB, ’ 54 LLB), who retired in 2009. ◆ Richard Reardon (’ 73 AB) of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has completed his term as associate vice president and center executive officer at the University of Idaho-Coeur d’Alene, where he is an associate dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences and professor of psychology. ■ obituaries Joseph Frederick Bennes (’ 73 BSPHR), 60, of Appleton, N. Y.; Aug. 4, 2010. Bennes was a pharmacy faculty member at the State University of New York-Buffalo. At UNC, he belonged to Rho Chi. ◆ Floyd Henry Edwards (’ 73, ’ 72 EdD), 83, of Johnson City, Tenn.; July 15, 2011. Edwards was professor emeritus in the College of Education at East Tennessee State University, where he also served as associate and acting dean of the college. As well as heading special education programs, he was the higher education consultant for the Tennessee school superintendent’s advisory board. He was president of the Tennessee Retired Teachers Association. ◆ W. Randall Hobbs Jr. (’ 73 BSBA), 59, of Siler City; July 9, 2011. Hobbs was a magistrate for Chatham County and owned a self-storage business. At UNC, he belonged to Alpha Kappa Psi. ◆ Dr. Donald Munro McIntosh II (’ 73 AB), 60, of Gaffney, S.C.; July 11, 2011. McIntosh was an internist, most recently with the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. Previously, he was with Upstate Carolina Medical Center. He served on a number of community boards, including Options Medical/Cherokee Pregnancy Center. At UNC, he belonged to Sigma Phi Epsilon. ◆ James Pierce Murray (’ 73 AB, ’ 81 JD), 60, of Miami; June 2, 2011. Murray was a partner in the law firm Fowler White Burnett. In addition to his numerous professional affiliations, he had been president of the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club. He served in the Navy. At UNC, he belonged to Order

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of the Coif and NROTC. ◆ Dr. Mark Pomerans (’ 73 MPH), 79, of Raleigh; June 27, 2011. Pomerans was a general practitioner in Warrenton. He served in the Peace Corps in South America. ◆ Thurman Buie “Butch” Stone Jr. (’ 73), 62, of Charlotte; June 9, 2011. Stone, a real estate appraiser, was a vocalist with The Poor Souls, a musical group inducted into the Beach Music Hall of Fame. The group had recently released a new CD, Try to Remember.

’ 74 ■ obituaries Margot Ellen Corrigan (’ 74, ’ 75 BFA), 58, of Raleigh; March 9, 2011. Corrigan was a public health nurse consultant with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources. For many years, she sang with the Oakwood Waits. At UNC, she was a member of Valkyries. ◆ Martha Boone McGarry (’ 74 AB), 59, of Chevy Chase, Md.; May 30, 2011. McGarry was a lawyer who practiced with Shaw Pittman in the Washington, D.C., area, until she relocated to Winchester, Mass. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UNC. ◆ Samuel Horace Rhodes Jr. (’ 74), 62, of Eden; July 26, 2011. Rhodes had been a salesman for a car dealership in Martinsville, Va.

’ 75 Henry Guy Hagan (’ 75 AB) of Lutherville, Md., has been appointed to the board of directors for First Command Financial Services Inc. Hagan is chairman of Red Oaks Resources LLC, a strategic consulting and CEO advisory service. ◆ Fairfax Crow Reynolds (’ 75 AB) of Burlington has joined Vantage-South Bank as Alamance County market president.