pipe, vessels and process equipment. Terry is president of Hollingsworth Funds Inc., a charitable foundation.
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Victor Craig Batts (’ 70, ’ 71 BSBA), 62, of Eatonton,
Ga.; Aug. 17, 2011. Batts was a technical representative for a scientific company. At UNC, he belonged
to Delta Sigma Pi. ◆ Russell Bradford Brock Sr.
(’ 70, ’ 71 BSBA), 63, of Mount Olive; Aug. 18,
2011. Brock was a faculty member at James Sprunt
Community College. A retired farmer, he served on
the Mount Olive planning board. ◆ Oren Alexander
Finlayson Jr. (’ 70, ’ 71 AB), 63, of San Pedro, Calif.;
Aug. 17, 2011. At UNC, Finlayson was in Marching
Band. ◆ Pamela Baldwin Gordon (’ 70 MEd), 66, of
Buxton, Maine; Aug. 30, 2011. Gordon worked for
more than 20 years at a school in Gorham, Maine,
where she was a classroom teacher, taught special
education and gifted education, and developed an
educational program for children with Asperger’s syndrome. ◆ Jane Forester Leong (’ 70), 64, of Kailua,
Hawaii; Aug. 7, 2011. Leong retired following a
career as executive director of the U.S. Tennis Association’s Hawaii Pacific Section; she was inducted
into its Hall of Fame. She was the volunteer founder
of the Hawaiian USTA. At UNC, she belonged to
Delta Delta Delta. ◆ George Anthony Reif (’ 70
MRP), 85, of Middletown, Conn.; July 27, 2011. Reif
retired as city planner of Middletown. In addition, he
was an architect. He served in the Navy in the
Korean War in photo intelligence and remained in
the Navy Reserve. He served on the board of the
Tibetan Terrier Club of America.
’ 71 Deborah Kay Barreau (’ 71 AB, ’ 73 MAT, ’ 86 MSLS) of Durham has been appointed Frances Carroll McColl
Term Professor at the UNC School of Information
and Library Science, where she has been on the faculty since 2002. ◆ Dr. Frank Hannon Moretz (’ 71
AB; ’ 75, ’ 74 MD) of Fairview has received the
Bertram Watts Coffer/NCSA Distinguished Service
Award from the N.C. Society of Anesthesiologists.
Moretz has been on the Mission Hospital medical
staff and a member of Asheville Anesthesia Associates since 1981. ◆ Benjamine Reid (’ 71 AB) of
Coral Gables, Fla., has been appointed co-chair of
the Legal Services Training Committee of the litigation section of the American Bar Association. Reid, a
trial lawyer with Carlton Fields, served on the GAA
Board of Directors (1998-2001).
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Donald Gordon Hammer (’ 71 BSMAT, ’ 74 JD), 61, of
Marion, Va.; Aug. 22, 2011. Hammer practiced law
in Marion as a partner in Burke, Graybeal & Hammer. At UNC, he belonged to Chi Phi. ◆ Charles
Everette Nixon (’ 71 BSZOO, ’ 74 BSPHR), 63, of
Baltimore; Aug. 30, 2011. Nixon was a pharmacist
and an associate professor of pharmacy practice
at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
He sang in his church choir. At UNC, he belonged
to Glee Club, Omega Psi Phi and Phi Mu Alpha. ◆
J. Jay Nomina (’ 71 MBA), 64, of Charlotte; Aug. 27,
2011. Nomina had a career in commercial finance.
◆ Gwendolyn Clarese Simpson (’ 71 MRP), 65, of
Wilmington; Sept. 22, 2011. Simpson held
degrees in architecture and regional planning. She
was active in her church. ◆ Harold Martin Wilson
(’ 71 PhD), 91, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Sept. 24, 2011.
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Wilson retired as a journalism instructor, teaching at
the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi University for Women. Previously, he was publisher and editor of four Louisiana newspapers. A
Navy veteran of WWII, he continued in the Navy
Reserve. ◆ Walter Keith Wyatt (’ 71 ABEd), 63, of
Waynesville; Aug. 10, 2011. A career educator with
Haywood County schools, Wyatt retired as principal
of an elementary school and oversaw planning and
building of a new elementary school. At his death,
he was in his second term on the local school
board. At UNC, he belonged to Pi Kappa Phi.
’ 72 David Whit Owens (’ 72 AB, ’ 74 MRP, ’ 75 JD) of Chapel Hill is the recipient of the first Edward Kidder Graham UNC
Faculty Service Award. Owens is the Gladys Hill
Coates Professor of public law and government and
a longtime member of the UNC Buildings and
Grounds Committee. Most recently he facilitated
the development agreement between UNC and the
Town of Chapel Hill for the planned Carolina North
research and mixed-use campus. ◆ T. Michael
Roberts (’ 72 ABEd, ’ 76 MAT) of Durham has been
named head of baseball development for Smart-Sports to oversee the launch of SmartKage, a proprietary, patented technology system that quantitatively measures athletic performance. Roberts
served as head coach of the UNC men’s baseball
team, led two Division I teams to the NCAA College
World Series and coached his son, Brian Michael
Roberts (’00), an All-Star second baseman for the
Baltimore Orioles.
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Daniel Joseph Gossert (’ 72 MSPH), 76, of Westminster, Colo.; Aug. 10, 2011. Gossert retired as director of family health services for the Colorado health
department. ◆ Stephen Bergfried Howell (’ 72
BSAMT), 61, of Indianapolis; Sept. 19, 2011. Howell was a computer programmer. At UNC, he belonged
to Phi Mu Alpha and Marching Band. ◆ Ben Earl
Pell (’ 72 BSPHR, ’ 95 MS), 62, of Four Oaks; Sept.
18, 2011. Pell retired as director of pharmacy at
Johnston Memorial Hospital. At UNC, he was in
Marching Band.
’ 73 Larry Paul Alford (’ 73 AB; ’ 78, ’ 77 MSLS) of Toronto, Canada, has been amed chief librarian at the University
of Toronto. ◆ David Augustus “Gus” Martin (’ 73
MEd; ’ 83, ’ 82 PhD) of Raleigh has received the
2011 Distinguished Leadership Award from the UNC
School of Education. Martin is a retired public
school administrator, president and founder of Martin Education Associates and a co-founder of The
Leadership Group for the Carolinas, an education-administration consulting group. Martin served on
the GAA Board of Directors (2005-07). ◆ Thomas
Hart Sayre (’ 73 AB) of Raleigh has received a 2011
Distinguished Alumnus Award from UNC. Sayre is a
sculptor and co-founder of the design firm
Clearscapes. His work includes commissions and
public projects at the Raleigh Convention Center,
Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington, D.C., the
N.C. Museum of Art and the Charlotte Arena. His latest commission is the design of a gateway sculpture
for Chapel Hill.
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Gerard Francis Carbone (’ 73), 59, of Jacksonville;
Aug. 24, 2011. Carbone was a high school mathematics and social studies teacher. Previously, he
was a crisis counselor with Onslow County Youth
Services. ◆ Anne Hanst Parker (’ 73 AB), 59, of
Newton Highlands, Mass.; Sept. 10, 2011. For
many years Parker was a children’s librarian at
branches of the Boston Public Library and Milton
Public Library. ◆ Joseph C. Robbins Jr. (’ 73 BSIR,
’ 75 MBA), 60, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 7, 2011. Robbins had a long career with the state, retiring as an
administrator with the Governor Morehead School
for the Blind. He was an Eagle Scout. At UNC, he
belonged to Society of Janus and Order of the Old
Well. ◆ James Robert Upson Jr. (’ 73 MS), 66, of
Savannah, Ga.; Sept. 27, 2011. Upson owned Four
Seasons Garden Center, which received an award
as outstanding gardening center. Previously, he was
president of the Leconte-Woodmanston Foundation,
a nonprofit to preserve the history and ecology of a
rice plantation. In the Air Force, he was an air traffic controller. He was an Eagle Scout and was
inducted into the Order of the Arrow.
’ 74 De Witt Frank “Mac” McCarley (’ 74 AB, ’ 77 JD) of Mount Gilead has received the Charles S. Rhyne Lifetime Achievement in Municipal Law Award from the International
Municipal Lawyers Association. McCarley has served
as city attorney for Charlotte since 1994 and served
as city attorney for Greenville (1981-94). ◆ H. King
McGlaughon Jr. (’ 74 AB, ’ 76 JD) of Winston-Salem
has been named CEO for Foundation Source, a
provider of back-office, online and advisory services
to private foundations.
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Selaura Joy Campbell (’ 74 MEd), 66, of Cleveland,
Texas; Nov. 16, 2010. ◆ Glenn Charles Garella
(’ 74 AB), 60, of Charlotte; Aug. 29, 2011. Garella
was an investment banker. At UNC, he was on the
varsity swim team. ◆ Robert William Parris (’ 74
BMUS), 59, of Macon, Ga.; Sept. 22, 2011. Parris
was the Charles B. Thompson Professor of music
and university organist at Mercer University. He was
choirmaster and organist of a Macon church. A
concert and recording artist, he most recently
recorded Land of Rest. At UNC, he belonged to
Glee Club and Lambda Chi Alpha. ◆ J. Wesley
Sillmon (’ 74), 60, of Kannapolis; Aug. 2, 2011.
Sillmon retired as a senior adjuster in the insurance
industry. At UNC, he belonged to Delta Sigma Pi and
Marching Band.
’ 75 Thomas Warren Ross Sr. (’ 75 JD) of Chapel Hill was the featured speaker for UNC’s University Day, Oct. 12. Ross
was inaugurated as the fifth president of the UNC
System on Oct. 6 at N.C. A&T University.
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James Harvey Johnson (’ 75 BSIR), 58, of Emerson,
Ga.; Aug. 24, 2011. Johnson was office manager of
a funeral home and an assistant manager for a grocery store. He was active in his church and sang in
the choir. At UNC, he was a Morehead (now Morehead-Cain) Scholar. ◆ Carol Elizabeth “Divvie”
Powell (’ 75 BSN, ’ 99 MSN), 59, of Chapel Hill;
Aug. 2, 2011. Powell worked at UNC with
researchers, coaching physicians on ways to
improve care for children in hospitals and outpatient
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