professor emerita of psychology and education at
Gardner-Webb University and managed the graduate counselor’s education program. She won awards
for her work in government relations and counselor
licensure on state and national levels. ◆ Robert
Gene Shackelford (’ 67), 66, of Richardson, Texas;
Oct. 26, 2011. Shackelford retired as chief forensic engineer for Aid Consulting Engineers. ◆
Robert Barkley Thomas (’ 67), 66, of Prices Fork,
Va.; Dec. 3, 2011. Thomas was a piano technician
and a musician who played bass with No Strings
Attached, Mood Swing and most recently with
Triple Bs.
’ 68 John Monie “Jack” Betts Jr. (’ 68 ABJO) received the Robert Morgan Service Award, named for the former
U.S. senator, in February from the N.C. Center for
Voter Education at its annual Spectrum of Democracy
awards banquet. The center said Betts’ “thoughtful,
fair and in-depth coverage of public policy, government and elections provided refreshing insight into
the workings of democracy for citizens across the
state” during his nearly 40 years in Tar Heel journalism. Betts, who recently retired as associate editor
of The Charlotte Observer, is a member of the GAA
Board of Directors; he also served on the board
from 1995 to 1998. ◆ Larry William Jenkins (’ 68
AB) of Chapel Hill has been elected speaker of the
faculty senate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide. Jenkins is the program chair for the
bachelor’s degree in transportation.
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Lloyd Jones Bray Jr. (’ 68 MA), 75, of Tampa, Fla.;
Jan. 16, 2012. Bray worked for 25 years in the
University of South Florida School of Fine Arts. ◆
Ruth Wood “Bonnie” Jack (’ 68 BSN), 65, of
Pfafftown; Jan. 23, 2012. Jack retired as a nurse
case manager with Moses Cone Health System.
Previously, she worked for Forsyth Novant and
Wesley Long Hospital and was on the staff of N.C.
Baptist Hospital, now part of Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Center. She served as chair of the nursing
committee of the Forsyth County Unit of the
American Cancer Society and was president of
District 3 of the N.C. Nurses Association. ◆ William
Franklin Jarman Jr. (’ 68 AB), 67, of Washington,
N.C.; Jan. 8, 2012. Jarman owned and was president of Concepts Inc., an advertising specialty distributor. He was president of the Carolinas
Association of Advertising Specialists and was
inducted into the CAAS Hall of Fame in 2005. He
served in the Army as well as the Army Reserve and
National Guard. At UNC, he belonged to Chi Phi. ◆
William Lupo King (’ 68 PhD), 82, of Lisbon,
Portugal; Nov. 28, 2011. King was a professor of
French who taught at Vassar College, The College of
Charleston, Furman University and St. John’s
University.
’ 69 Katherine Vansant Bates (’ 69 AB) of Charleston, S.C., was profiled in the March 2012 issue of American Art Collector. The issue, devoted to floral and botanical artwork, featured a watercolor by Bates. ◆ John
William Becton (’ 69 AB) of Chapel Hill, is retired
and serving as treasurer for Project Ubuntu, a campaign to promote volunteerism and community service. Project Ubuntu was organized by Becton’s son,
Daniel Ethan Becton (’08 AB) who will travel the
U.S. working with a different service organization in
each state and Washington, D.C., accompanied by a
documentary filmmaker. Project Ubuntu’s website is
maintained by Becton’s daughter, Amie Becton Ray
(’97 ABJM). ◆ James Marion Parrott Jr. (’ 69 AB) of
Raleigh has been elected to the statewide board of
the N.C. Community Foundation. A former banker
and business leader, Parrott is the president of Parrott Farms in Kinston.
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Patricia Anne Bartell (’ 69 MSW), 81, of Chapel Hill;
Jan. 26, 2012. Bartell was a consultant to UNC in
group child care services and a lecturer in UNC’s
School of Social Work. She was coordinator of the
Foster Training Project in Chapel Hill and director of
the Family Training Project in the Department of
Human Services. She started her career in social
work at the N.C. Correctional Center for Women and
was coordinator for special projects at the N.C.
Department of Human Services. She served as
director of social services and volunteer services for
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Head Start Program. In
1993, Gov. Jim Hunt appointed her to the state
Social Services Commission. She was on the board
of directors for Planned Parenthood of the Triangle
and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Day Care Service
Agency. ◆ William Marshall Cole (’ 69 JD), 66, of
Norman, Okla.; Feb. 3, 2011. Cole had his own law
practice, specializing in environmental and tax law.
◆ Frank John Griffith Jr. (’ 69 AB), 64, of Titusville,
Fla.; Jan. 18, 2012. Griffith, a partner in a law firm,
specialized in family law, land use and zoning, and
municipal law. He served as the county attorney for
Brevard County and the city attorney for Rockledge.
He was president of the Brevard County Bar
Association in 1984. At UNC, he belonged to
Gorgon’s Head Lodge and Alpha Tau Omega. ◆
Samuel Franklin Hauser (’ 69 BSPHR), 65, of
Fayetteville; Jan. 8, 2012. Hauser was a pharmacist
and active in various pharmaceutical associations.
At UNC, he belonged to Kappa Psi. ◆ Dr. Donald
Clarence Hartig Jr. (’ 69 AB, ’ 73 DDS), 64, of High
Point; Jan. 28, 2012. Hartig practiced pediatric
dentistry in High Point for 40 years. At UNC, he
belonged to Alpha Epsilon Delta and was co-captain
of the football team. A place-kicker, he held the
record for the most field goals kicked over 40 yards
in one game. ◆ Byron Frank Jewell (’ 69 MA, ’ 75
PhD), 65, of Tappahannock, Va.; Jan. 17, 2012.
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Jewell was a history and library consultant and former president, CEO and executive director of the
Valentine Richmond History Center. Previously, he
was first vice president and dean of the State
Historical Society of Colorado. He served as president of the Northern Neck Audubon Society from
2009 to 2011 and was a curator at the Chicago
Historical Society. ◆ Henry Northington McKellar
(’ 69 BSZOO; ’ 72, ’ 71 MS), 64, of Rowland; Dec. 3,
2011. McKellar was a professor and researcher in
the department of environmental health sciences
and marine science at the University of South
Carolina. He studied applied aquatic sciences,
ecosystem modeling and environmental planning.
He served as a visiting scientist at the Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center in Maryland and did
research with the S.C. Department of Natural
Resources. After retiring to the family farm near
Rowland, he taught biology part time at Robeson
Community College. ◆ H. Taft Snowdon Jr. (’ 69 AB),
64, of Washington, D.C.; Nov. 16, 2011. Snowdon
was senior supervisory attorney in the media
bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.
For more than 30 years, he specialized in radio
transfers and assignments. He spent many vacations in Kenya. At UNC, he belonged to Zeta Psi. ◆
Richard Hoyle Underwood (’ 69 AB), 64, of Clinton;
Jan. 7, 2012. Underwood worked for Matthews
Drugs of Clinton and was former operator of H.J.
Underwood Milling Co. He studied the connection
between soy and its curative effects on cancer and
became a member of the Chicago Commodities
Exchange. With his brother, he established the
Mary and H.J. Underwood Athletic Scholarship
Program at UNC.
’ 70 William C. Hammond III (’ 70 AB) of Golden Valley, Minn., has published The Power and the Glory, the third
novel in a projected seven-volume nautical fiction
series set in the late 1790s during a quasi-war
between the U.S. and France. Hammond received
the 2011 Gold Medal for Historical Fiction Protagonist, awarded by the Military Writers Society of
America for his novel For Love of Country. ◆ John
Schuyler Herrick (’ 70) of Chapel Hill joined fellow
members of his 40-year-old band, The Red Clay
Ramblers, to receive the PlayMakers Distinguished
Achievement Award at the annual PlayMakers Ball in
February. ◆ Helen Heusner Lojek (’ 70 MA) of Boise,
Idaho, has published The Spaces of Irish Drama:
Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays. Lojek, professor emeritus of English at Boise State University,
writes about the geographical places in which the
plays are set and about the ways stage space is
used in the plays. ◆ Bland Simpson (’ 70, ’ 73 AB) of
Chapel Hill joined fellow members of his 40-year-old
band, The Red Clay Ramblers, to receive the PlayMakers Distinguished Achievement Award at the
annual PlayMakers Ball in February. Simpson, the
Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing in the UNC English department, currently serves as the faculty representative on the
GAA Board of Directors.
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James M. Wallace Jr. (’ 70 AB), 63, of Gastonia; Jan.
11, 2012. Wallace was N.C. deputy attorney general
for legal affairs and, before that, was a lawyer
assigned to the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control
Commission.
