Carolina Alumni Review - January/February 2012

Mary Tudor Hudson Harris (’ 41 AB), 91, of Elizabeth City; Aug. 20, 2011. Among her volunteer activities, Harris was active in her church and Arts of the Albemarle. ◆ Sarah Clapp Haworth (’ 49 MAEd), 91, of High Point; Aug. 5, 2011. Haworth retired from the High Point city schools as an elementary school teacher. In WWII, she served in the Women’s Army Air Corps. ◆ Joseph Leo Healy (’ 46 BSCOM), 87, of Wellesley, Mass.; Sept. 5, 2011. Healy retired as founder and president of Add-Men Services Inc. He was a Navy veteran of WWII, and in the Korean War he served on the psychological strategy board in Washington, D.C. He was a reservist in the Navy Supply Corps. ◆ Dr. Donald Lentz Henson (’ 45), 88, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 17, 2011. Henson was co-founder of the national corporation Affordable Dentures. He was a dentist in Kinston, specializing in pediatrics. He was Citizen of the Year in Kinston, co-chaired the committee that opened Lenoir County Community College and was appointed to the Murfreesboro Historical Commission. In WWII, he served shore duty in the Navy Reserve. He was president of the Educational Foundation (The Rams Club), served on the UNC Board of Visitors and the UNC School of Dentistry Bicentennial Campaign steering committee. As a student, he belonged to Order of the Grail and was captain of the freshman basketball team. ◆ Rufus McPhail “Mac” Herring Sr. (’ 43 BSPHR), 90, of Clinton; Aug. 10, 2011. Herring was a pharmacist and former owner and operator of a drugstore in Clinton. He was a charter member and president of the local Kiwanis Club. In

Dr. G. Walker Blair Jr. (’ 45, ’ 44 BSMED; ’ 45
CMED), 87, of Burlington; Sept. 4, 2011. Details,
’40s Class Notes. ◆ Walker Jameson Blakey, 71,
of Chapel Hill; Sept. 24, 2011. Blakey retired as a
law professor in 2010. ◆ Thelma Hicklin Boyd,
91, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 2, 2011. Boyd was a 50-
year volunteer at UNC Hospitals. She was active
in numerous civic groups, was first female elder in
her church and was past president of University
Woman’s Club. In WWII, she worked with the Red
Cross, attached to the Navy. She was married to
UNC professor of religion Bernard H. Boyd. ◆
Matthew Walter Byrd, 40, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 28,
2011. Byrd worked at Findlay Golf Course. ◆
Betty Pickell Cleaver (’ 69 MSLS), 88, of Durham;
Aug. 8, 2011. Details, ’ 69 Class Notes. ◆ Patrick
B. Collins, 81, of Haw River; Sept. 8, 2011. Collins
worked for HVACR in facilities operations. He was
a Navy veteran and belonged to the Submarine
Veterans’ Association. ◆ Benjamin Franklin
Cooper Jr. (’ 50 BSPHR; ’ 50, ’ 47 AB; ’ 51 MS; ’ 56
PhD), 86, of Rochester, N. Y.; Aug. 1, 2011.
Details, ’50s Class Notes. ◆ Pete Eugene Davis,
89, of Carrboro; July 28, 2011. Davis retired from
UNC after a 37-year career. ◆ Christine Ann
Egan, 59, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 16, 2011. Egan
retired from the UNC Press as manager for direct
marketing and advertising. Previously, she was
development manager for the UNC library system
and was an economist and journalist for the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, D.C. ◆
Virginia Grace Allen Hodson, 90, of Chapel Hill;
Aug. 22, 2011. Hodson retired from UNC Hospitals
as an administrative assistant in the department
of clinical psychology, where she had worked for
30 years. ◆ Laurel Brown Houser, 64, of
WWII, he served in the Army. At UNC, he belonged to
Rho Chi. ◆ Charles Edward Hussey (’ 42 BSCOM),
90, of Tarboro; Sept. 15, 2011. Hussey retired as
president of a wholesale automobile parts company.
In WWII, he served in Army Air Force intelligence. He
was on the board of directors of Rocky Mount
Academy and was active in his church. At UNC, he
was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Glee Club.
◆ F. Wayne Johnson (’ 48 BSCOM), 83, of High Point;
Sept. 10, 2011. Johnson retired as a group vice
president with Burlington Industries. In retirement,
he became manager of the aerospace fabric business
Highland Industries. He was a Navy pilot in WWII. At
UNC, he belonged to Sigma Chi and was on the
men’s soccer team. ◆ Dr. Albert McCray “Mac”
Jones Sr. (’ 44 AB), 88, of Washington, N.C.; June 13,
2011. Jones retired as a physician with the Jones-
Tayloe Clinic of Washington. He specialized in
obstetrics and gynecology. In WWII, he was in the
Marine Corps and received the Purple Heart. ◆ Eunice
Patten Jones (’ 41 AB), 90, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 10,
2011. Jones had been a medical secretary. At UNC,
she belonged to Pi Beta Phi. ◆ Dr. Raymond Henry
Kaufman (’ 44), 85, of Houston; Nov. 25, 2010.
Kaufman was professor emeritus in the department
of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of
Medicine, where he was chair of the department for
23 years, and professor at Weil Medical College of
Cornell University. He published numerous articles
and wrote a textbook on vulvar and vaginal dis-
eases. He served in the Air Force. ◆ Helen Parker
Kelman (’ 46 MA), 90, of Raleigh; Aug. 23, 2011.

Charlotte; Sept. 11, 2011. Houser was a grant manager for the UNC medical school. Most recently, she and her husband owned a real estate development company. ◆ Dorothy Purser Jenkins (’ 77 MSN), 67, of Greenville; Aug. 9, 2011. Details, ’ 77 Class Notes. ◆ Ben Fohl Loeb Jr., 79, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 11, 2011. Loeb was professor of public law and government and an assistant director of the Institute of Government (now the School of Government) for more than 35 years. In his career, he was counsel to committees of the N.C. General Assembly and published books and articles to assist N.C. lawyers. He was a member of the bars of Tennessee, North Carolina and the U.S. Supreme Court. In the Korean War, he was an Army intelligence officer. ◆ Dr. Ernest Benjamin Page Jr., 85, of Raleigh; Sept. 13, 2011. Page was a clinical professor of medicine at UNC medical school. His private practice of internal medicine was in Raleigh, where he had leadership positions in various medical organizations, including president of the Raleigh Society of Internal Medicine and of the Wake County Medical Society. Through his church, he went on 14 medical missions to Villahermosa, Mexico. In the early ’50s, he served in the Air Force. ◆ Lisa Katz Pagel, 46, of Fort Lewis, Wash.; Sept. 21, 2011. Pagel was director of news services at UNC. Previously, she was director of communications for what is now the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Earlier, she served as press secretary to the governor of Virginia. ◆ Alan Wade Pinkelton (’ 77), 55, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 28, 2011. Details, ’ 77 Class Notes. ◆ Carol Elizabeth “Divvie” Powell (’ 75 BSN, ’ 99 MSN), 59, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 2, 2011. Details, ’ 75 Class Notes. ◆ Dale T.

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Charles
Patrick
Murray Jr.
(’ 43, ’ 46
BSCOM),
89, of
Columbia,
S.C.; Aug.
12, 2011.
Murray, who
served in
the Army in
WWII and
the Korean
and
Vietnam wars, was believed to be the only
living UNC alumnus who has received the
Congressional Medal of Honor. It was awarded
in 1945 for his actions in France in which he
drove back a large force of German soldiers.
He received three Silver Stars and two Bronze
Stars, among many other awards. During his
career in the Army, he served with the 82nd
Airborne Division, was promoted to colonel and
commanded the regiment that guarded the
Tomb of the Unknowns. In retirement, he
worked for the S.C. Department of Corrections.
He was an Eagle Scout and received the
Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 1971. At
UNC, he belonged to Delta Sigma Pi.

Renguette, 76, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 23, 2011. Renguette was executive secretary of the Newman Catholic Student Center for 33 years. Previously, he taught English at the University. ◆ Catherine Diggs Staunton, 92, of Chapel Hill; Sept. 9, 2011. Staunton worked at UNC Hospitals. Earlier, she worked at the woolen mills in Carrboro. ◆ Gregory E. Steinkraus, 64, of Wilmington; Aug. 8, 2011. Steinkraus taught at UNC’s medical school. He worked in the pathology department at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. ◆ James Garfield Sullivan (’ 57 BSGEO, ’ 72 MS), 76, of Zebulon; Aug. 14, 2011. Details, ’50s Class Notes. ◆ Jamie Swain (’ 84), 49, of Raleigh; Aug. 15, 2011. Details, ’ 84 Class Notes. ◆ Dr. Andrew William Walker, 78, of Charlotte; Sept. 25, 2011. Walker retired from Charlotte Plastic Surgery, where he performed plastic and reconstructive surgery. He was a clinical professor at the UNC medical school. In addition to holding leadership positions in numerous medical organizations, he instituted a free skin clinic for the Charlotte community and volunteered with medical relief agencies in Jordan, China and Tibet, among other countries. ◆ Fay Coker Walker (’ 64 ABEd, ’ 67 MSW), 68, of Brevard; Sept. 14, 2011. Details, ’ 64 Class Notes. ◆ Dr. Maxine Dark Wallace (’ 44 MS, ’ 49 CMED), 90, of Oakland, Calif.; Sept. 6, 2011. Details, ’40s Class Notes. ◆ Dr. William Pharo “Wiltsee” Young, 79, of Chapel Hill; Aug. 26, 2011. Young was a physician at Student Health Services. Previously, he was in private practice in Roanoke, Va., and served in the Air Force.