Guilford College Magazine - April 2020

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IN MEMORIAM

REMEMBERING GUILFORDIANS These members of the Guilford College community have passed since mid-August 2019. A full list of obituaries is available on the Community Notes page at www.giving.guilford.edu.

George Troxler ’64 George celebrated his Golden Circle induction with Guilford College classmates in 2014, but was very proud of his

British Amateurs and 26 consecutive North & South Amateurs at Pinehurst #2. Pat Foy helped Guilford win its golf conference in 1956 and is a member of the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He died Nov. 24.

career at neighboring Elon University. A recipient of the Elon Medallion, the University’s highest honor, George taught History, served as University Historian, Director of Cultural Programs and Chief Graduation Marshal and wrote a book on Elon’s history. He died Oct. 27.

Jeaneane Williams Jeaneane’s many years as a writer and editor in corporate and higher education settings across the country included a term as Guilford’s Director of Public Relations and Publications. She was a writer or

Glenn “Buck” Campbell ’50

ghostwriter for numerous books on various subjects and a lifetime devotee

Buck, who died at 95 on Sept. 17, served

of music, including serving as organist

in the Marine Corps artillery in two

in an Alamance County Church at the

major World War II campaigns. He was

age of 13. She died Nov. 5.

one of North Carolina’s first Certified

Carl Scheer A lawyer by training, Carl broadcast

Life Underwriters and worked with

Pat Foy Brady ’58

MassMutual for more than 60 years.

At age 19 in 1955, Pat

1960s when the Quakers’ biggest star

Known as “Mr. Rotary,” he had 66

Foy was the youngest

was Bob Kauffman ’68. He became the

years of perfect attendance with

amateur to qualify for

General Manager of the Greensboro-

Summit Rotary and with Memorial

the U.S. Open, where he

based Carolina Cougars of the ABA,

Presbyterian Church in Greensboro,

was paired with Gene

invented the dunk contest for the ABA

which he helped organize.

Littler and Byron Nelson.

and later became GM of several NBA

He played in five U.S. Amateurs, two

teams, including the expansion of the

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Guilford men’s basketball games in the


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