’ 63 Woody L. Durham (’ 63 AB) of Chapel Hill has received the Chris Schenkel Award from the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame. Durham retired in
spring 2011 as the longtime radio voice of UNC
football, baseball and men’s basketball games.
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Ronald Lee Boger (’ 63 MBA), 71, of Winston-Salem;
Jan. 2, 2012. Boger was a professor at Winston-Salem State, Auburn and Troy universities, retiring
from Troy in 2005. He was on the board of directors
of AGAPE of N.C. He served in the Army. ◆ Robert
Luther Cheek (’ 63, ’ 70 AB), 70, of Durham; Dec. 12,
2011. Cheek worked for NationsBank (now Bank of
America) as its art and collections adviser and later
started Foxfire Gallery, where he bought, sold and
appraised art. ◆ Lawrence Jon Clipper (’ 63 PhD),
81, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; Jan. 22, 2012. Clipper
was professor emeritus of English literature at
Indiana University-South Bend, where he taught for
28 years. His scholarly research topics included the
Victorian Era and the writings of Thomas Hardy and
Charles Dickens, and he published several studies
on G.K. Chesterton. He served in the Navy during
the Korean War. ◆ Mary Brummitt Donavant (’ 63
MEd), 100, of Raleigh; Jan. 16, 2012. Donavant
taught anatomy and physiology at Broughton High
School in Raleigh and was head of the science
department when she retired in 1975. ◆ H. John
Ouderkirk (’ 63 AB), 70, of Marietta, Ga.; Jan. 11,
2012. Ouderkirk was owner-broker with Ouderkirk &
Associates of Atlanta and for 33 years was an airline pilot. He was founder and president of the
Northern New Jersey Alumni Chapter of Sigma Phi
Epsilon. He founded the Ouderkirk Family Genealogical
Association and published quarterly newsletters for
the group. He served as a Navy pilot during the
Vietnam War and received a number of commendations. At UNC, he belonged to Glee Club, Sigma Phi
Epsilon and NROTC. ◆ Tempe Ann Thomason (’ 63
MSW), 74, of Long Neck, Del.; Aug. 2, 2011.
Thomason retired as the director of the social work
department at Rosewood Center nursing home. ◆
E. John “Jack” Whitman Jr. (’ 63, ’ 66 BSMAT), 70,
of Charlotte; Dec. 20, 2011. Early in his career,
Whitman worked for N.C. National Bank in Charlotte
designing trust systems. In 1970, he co-founded
Trust Management Systems. After selling TMS, he
was president of Goldman Sachs Funds Group in
Chicago. He returned to Charlotte in 1992 and
founded Horizon Financial Advisors, which specialized in corporate retirement and individual account
management.
’ 64 Jim Wallace (’ 64 ABJO) of Falls Church, Va., has published Courage in the Moment: The Civil Rights Struggle,
1961-1964. The book is a selection of photographs
taken by Wallace while he was a reporter for The
Daily Tar Heel. The book includes text by the late
Paul Dickson III ’ 66, former student body president.
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Rachel Hall Allred (’ 64 BSPHN, ’ 72 MPH), 81, of
Siler City; Dec. 15, 2011. Allred taught nursing at
UNC-Greensboro and was an assistant professor
emerita. She graduated from Watts School of
Nursing and received a doctorate in 1991 from
Walden University. She received a number of nursing
recognitions, including the Nurse of the Year Award
from the N.C. Association of Occupational Health
Nurses in 1987. ◆ John Martin Hayes (’ 64 AB), 69,
of Denver, N.C.; Dec. 21, 2011. Hayes was a NASCAR
team owner and executive vice president of motor
sports for U.S. Tobacco Co., a position he held for
15 years. He was a commentator on TNT and ESPN
sports networks and hosted his own show on SPEED
Television. ◆ John Robert Hufstader (’ 64 AB, ’ 67
JD), 70, of Asheville; Jan. 21, 2012. Hufstader joined
the Buncombe County Public Defender’s Office in
1973 as an assistant attorney and retired as chief
public defender in 2007. At UNC, he belonged to
Delta Sigma Pi. ◆ Lawrence Russell Nolan (’ 64
MEd), 71, of Joplin, Mo.; Dec. 1, 2011. Nolan joined
the FBI in 1967 and moved to Joplin. He was a spe-
cial agent out of the Kansas City Division with the
Joplin Field Office for more than 30 years. He retired
in 1998 and took over as head of the Alternative
School for the Webb City (Mo.) school district. He
coached Little League, football and soccer. Before
joining the FBI, he taught social studies and coached
the baseball team at Herndon High School in Herndon,
Va., and won a regional championship. ◆ John Harris
Temple (’ 64 BSMAT), 71, of Ashland, Va.; Jan. 11,
2012. Temple was an insurance salesman in the
Tidewater area of Virginia. He retired from State Farm
after 31 years. He served in the Navy. ◆ Vivian
Cathey Wommack (’ 64 BSMTC), 69, of Belle Chasse,
La.; Dec. 5, 2011. Wommack was a medical technol-
ogist with Dorn’s Veterans Administration in Columbia,
S.C. A painter, she studied art and took classes at
the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
’ 65 Roxanne Kalb Livingston (’ 65 AB) of Salem, Ore., has published Chronically Hurtful People: How to Identify and Deal
With the Difficult, Destructive and Disconnected, a
practical guide for dealing with challenging people at
work and at home. Livingston is a licensed professional
counselor. ◆ Evelyn Pauline Lloyd (’ 65 BSPHR) of
Hillsborough has been elected to a sixth term on the
Hillsborough Town Board. Lloyd owns and operates
Lloyd’s Pharmacy.
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Mebane McDonald Archer (’ 65 AB), 68, of Charlotte;
Jan. 23, 2012. At UNC, Archer belonged to Chi
Omega. ◆ William A. Graham III (’ 65 AB, ’ 68 JD),
69, of Roaring Gap; Jan. 11, 2012. Graham practiced
law in Hillsborough, Durham and Sparta and taught
business law at N.C. State University as an adjunct
professor. He was chief assistant district attorney in
the 14th Judicial District in Durham and assistant
district solicitor for the 15th Judicial District, which
covers Chatham, Orange and Alamance counties. He
administered the Cameron Scholarships at UNC,
served on the Selective Service Board and was a
member of the Society of the Cincinnati. At UNC, he
belonged to men’s track and field and lettered as a
shot-putter. ◆ John Edgar Hart (’ 65, ’ 70 AB), 68, of
Hope Mills; Jan. 19, 2012. Hart was a writer, producer and film editor and worked for many years as
an audio-visual production specialist and base historian at Point Mugu, Calif., naval air station. He
served in the Air Force. ◆ John Alvin Hill (’ 65), 69,
of Marietta, Ga.; Dec. 28, 2011. Hill was a banker
in North Carolina and Georgia who retired from Bank
of North Georgia. His passion was youth baseball,
and he coached East Cobb Baseball in Marietta for
27 years. At UNC, he played on the football team,
including the 1963 team that went to the Gator Bowl.
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◆ Hugh Arthur Hodge (’ 65 MAT), 77, of Spring Mills,
Pa.; Jan. 9, 2012. Hodge taught advanced biology
for more than 20 years at State College Senior High
School. He was voted Teacher of the Year and mentored and employed many of his students at his
farm outside Spring Mills. ◆ Sim Owenbey Wilde Jr.
(’ 65 EdD), 83, of Rocky Mount; Jan. 28, 2012. Wilde
joined the faculty of N.C. Wesleyan College in 1966
and became professor of education and chair of the
Division of Education and Experimental Programs.
He also served as vice president for academic
affairs and academic dean. He retired in 1982. The
state named him a consultant to the Comprehensive
School Improvement Program for Halifax County in
1965. He wrote a novel, Snyder’s Letters; a collection of poetry, Riches; and a study of the American
educational system, Six Steps for Reforming America’s
Schools. He documented the excavation of the
Queen Anne’s Revenge wreckage off the N.C. coast.
’ 66 ■ obituaries William Edward Fesperman (’ 66 AB),
68, of China Grove; Dec. 8, 2011. Fesperman worked
for Rushco Stores in retail sales. He also completed
studies at the Chicago Theological Seminary. At UNC,
he belonged to Phi Mu Alpha and was a desk editor
with The Daily Tar Heel. ◆ Wade Harold Stevens
(’ 66 BSBA), 67, of Huntsville, Ala.; Dec. 10, 2011.
Stevens served in the Air Force for 26 years and
flew combat missions in Vietnam. His second career
was with the NASA space shuttle program at Marshall Space Flight Center.
’ 67 Erskine Boyce Bowles (’ 67 BSBA) of Charlotte has received the 2011 Uni- versity Award. Bowles retired in 2010
after five years as president of the UNC System. In
January, Bowles joined Chicago-based BDT Capital
Partners LLC as a senior adviser.
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Gloria H. Blanton (’ 67 PhD), 86, of Raleigh; June
17, 2011. Blanton was a practicing psychologist and
an associate professor of psychology at Meredith
College. She received the Distinguished Alumni
Award from Campbell University and was former
president of the N.C. American Association of
University Women. She worked as director of the
Baptist Student Union in Greenville and was associate dean of students at St. Andrews Presbyterian
College and executive director of the YWCA in
Raleigh. ◆ Miles Elliott Brown Sr. (’ 67), 67, of
Arden; Dec. 30, 2011. Brown grew up in Greensboro
and served in the Army. At UNC, he belonged to
Sigma Chi. ◆ Thomas Michael Cimino (’ 67 MAT, ’ 69
EdD), 73, of Green Tree, Pa.; Nov. 28, 2011. Cimino
was an educator and former superintendent of schools
in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In 1990, he
was chosen as Massachusetts Superintendent of the
Year. He also worked in South Carolina and Virginia
and testified before Congress in support of renewal
of Title I legislation to benefit disadvantaged children.
◆ Jasper Earl Cowan (’ 67 BSBA), 67, of Durham;
Jan. 8, 2012. Cowan was an accountant who
worked for Arthur Anderson in Charlotte and retired
from Kenan Advantage Group in Chapel Hill in
2010. He was a deacon at his church. He served in
the Army. ◆ Patricia Woodward Partin (’ 67 MEd),
73, of Shelby; Jan. 12, 2012. Partin was a teacher,
school counselor and college professor. She was
