Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine / Winter 2012

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Charles H. Lanier ’42, of Leth-

Last August, Phil Milner ’73 and Jack Norberg ’79 won the Misquamicut Club Hemingway Bowl Invitational Golf Tournament in Watch Hill, R.I. They beat a field of 96 teams over four days. Also playing in the tournament field was Tom Wall ’80, a former captain of the W&L golf team and Hemingway Bowl Invitational Champion. Phil and Jack donned their W&L colors over the course of the tournament and even had a uniform change at the halfway point of their match. L. to r.: Phil’s wife, Pam; their daughter Jessica (the reigning woman’s club champion); Phil; Jack; and Jack’s wife, Mary.

bridge, Alberta, Canada, died July 17, 2011. He served with the Air Corps during World War II. As a pilot with the 316th Troop Carrier Group, he supported the 8th Army in Operation Market Garden and the invasion of Holland. He received his wings and the U.S. Air Medal. Following the war, Lanier returned to the family farm. He belonged to Beta Theta Pi.

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trist in the Atlanta area and served as president of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association. He belonged to Phi Epsilon Pi.

Giles C. McCrary ’42, of Post,

Texas, died Oct. 30, 2011. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He received a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Tech University Health Science Center. He was the mayor of Post, and the community honored him as Citizen of the Year in 1985. He belonged to Kappa Sigma.

Richard E. Cooke ’43, of Amberley Village, Ohio, died on July 13, 2011. A veteran of World War II, he was an associate professor of economics at University of Cincinnati.

William R. Cory ’43, of LouisA group of Pi Kappa Phi alumni gathered in September in Pinehurst, N.C., for the 3rd Annual Rho Golf Outing. From l. to r.: Andrew Hirsekorn ’03, Mark Reams ’03, Jeff Stein ’05, Lane Slabaugh ’04, Frank Bazzel ’02, Ben Jolly ’02, Claiborne Irby ’05, Tom Pignatelli ’09, Joseph Speight ’02, Matt Craycraft ’09, Fletcher McCraw ’09, Justin Mygatt ’05, Shef Richey ’11, Chris Smith ’04, Gaius “Whit” Whitfield ’04, Artie Esworthy ’03 and J.T. Rogers ’04.

Earl B. Morgan Jr. ’40, of Fairfield,

Conn., died Sept. 15, 2011. He served in the Navy during World War II and was captain of the submarine chasers USS SC-1013 and PC 1265—ships that guarded New York Harbor, patrolled the Northeast coast and convoyed troop and cargo ships in the North Atlantic. He spent his career in advertising, retiring from Architectural Digest.

Paul Baker Jr. ’42, of Midlothian,

Va., died on May 8, 2011. Baker earned a second B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Denver. He was a professor and chairman of the department of physics at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as an active U.S. Air Force pilot,

until retiring from service as a colonel. He served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

C. Thomas Fuller ’42 of Catasau-

qua, Pa., died Sept. 5, 2011. Fuller served in the Navy during World War II as an anti-submarine warfare officer on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic and as executive officer on a destroyer escort in the Pacific. He chaired the board of the Allentown Portland Cement Co. and then served as president of The Fuller Co. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and the National Reining Horse Hall of Fame. He belonged to Phi Kappa Psi.

Dr. Sidney Isenberg ’42, of Atlanta, died Aug. 15, 2011. He was a psychia

ville, Ky., died August 3, 2011. Cory joined the Maryland National Guard, and during World War II fought in Tunisia with the U.S. II Corps. He was captured in 1943 and spent two years as a POW in Poland before escaping by tunnel. He served in intelligence at Ft. Knox and at the Pentagon and as a military attache in New Zealand and Greece. Cory was vice president at Anaconda Aluminum, Stitzel-Weller Distillery and Fleming Potter Co. He was director of the Community Chest, the Family and Children’s Agency, the Metropolitan YMCA and the Norton Hospital Foundation. He was father to Ernest Neal Cory II ’77, grandfather to Stewart C. Cory ’15 and Katherine P. Cory ’15, and uncle to William A. Northcutt III ’63.

The Rev. Standrod T. Carmichael ’45, of Atlanta, died on Aug. 7, 2011. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church. In Chicago, he worked for Morgan Park Academy and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools before joining the Church of the Good Shepherd in Galax, Ga. The mayor of Winter

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