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.

Glenn "Buck" Campbell '50

Glenn “Buck” Campbell ’50

Buck, who died at 95 on Sept. 17, served in the Marine Corps artillery in two major World War II campaigns. He was one of North Carolina’s first Certified Life Underwriters and worked with MassMutual for more than 60 years. Known as “Mr. Rotary,” he had 66 years of perfect attendance with Summit Rotary and with Memorial Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, which he helped organize.

George Troxler '64

George Troxler ’64

George celebrated his Golden Circle induction with Guilford College classmates in 2014, but was very proud of his 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 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 ghostwriter for numerous books on various subjects and a lifetime devotee of music, including serving as organist in an Alamance County Church at the age of 13. She died Nov. 5.

Pat Foy Brady '58

Pat Foy Brady ’58

At age 19 in 1955, Pat Foy was the youngest amateur to qualify for the U.S. Open, where he was paired with Gene Littler and Byron Nelson. He played in five U.S. Amateurs, two 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.

Carl Scheer

Carl Scheer

A lawyer by training, Carl broadcast Guilford men’s basketball games in the 1960s when the Quakers’ biggest star was Bob Kauffman ’68. He became the General Manager of the Greensborobased Carolina Cougars of the ABA, invented the dunk contest for the ABA and later became GM of several NBA teams, including the expansion of the Charlotte Hornets in the late 1980s. He died Dec. 13.

Joyce P. Clark

Joyce P. Clark

Joyce, who died Nov. 30, was a pioneer in women’s sports and longtime Professor of Sport Studies at Guilford College. She taught for 43 years and served as Chairperson of the Physical Education Department. In the 1960s she was in charge of intramurals and a women’s extramural teams coach, predating the intercollegiate program. She is in the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Joanne Bluethenthal

Joanne Bluethenthal

A noted community leader, Guilford College benefactor and Board of Visitors member, Joanne was instrumental in advancing lasting social change. After moving to Greensboro in 1950, she became deeply involved in civic life, including underground interracial groups as well as Jewish and other religious institutions, colleges and universities and the arts. She died Dec. 6.

Rudy Behar

Rudy Behar Taught Me to “See” Differently

By Martha Wence Summerville '76

As an English and Religious Studies major, I took a number of courses from Rudy Behar between 1972 and 1976. He was masterful at challenging his students to connect ideas and images — always holding up a self-reflection mirror so we saw how we were making meaning out of what we were reading, writing about and talking about. I came out of each course with a wider lens through which to view the world and the multiple languages of creativity.

My favorite was his Comparative Arts course, for which he used E.H. Gombrich’s work Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation as a primary text. The course wove together the connections between poetry, art and music. Rudy deftly created the path and space for us to “see” for ourselves the vibrant connections he pointed out. Quiet spoken, his passion for the quest to expand our vision of the world (and his) carried through every class.

Rudy taught me to “see” differently. I am deeply grateful to him as a person and teacher, and for the gifts of insight he gave me.

Rudy taught English at Guilford from 1968–97. He died Jan. 17.