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Homer Milton “Sonny” Templeton (BS ’52, MED ’60), 10-20-02. He coached high school football and baseball at Mount Vernon, Clarksville, Daingerfield and North Lamar ISD.
Emil Benjamin “Benny” Pierson (MED ’53), 9-24-02. During his career he served as a teacher, counselor, TEA consultant and sales rep for educational materials.
Peggy Scott (BA ’53), 10-16-02.
Edith Weddle (BS ’54, MED ’55, PHD ’71), 8-20-02. She taught in Commerce ISD for many years and in Literature and Languages of ETSU as a visiting lecturer.
Stanley Sebring (BS ’58), 10-16-02. He was an insurance salesman.
William “Bill” Conway Bunch (BS ’60), 9-1-02. He was retired from the Soil Conservation Service.
Howard Hodge (MED ’61), 10-20-02. He was employed by Whitewright ISD for 31 years as a teacher, coach & administrator.
Beulah Louise Hall Kay (MED ’63), 9-24-02. She taught school for Avinger ISD and retired from Marshall ISD.
Perry L. Trammell (BS ’64, MED ’76), 9-26-02. He was physical education teacher for many years with Terrell ISD and later became CVAE coordinator at Terrell High School until his retirement.Wilson Barry Vinson (BS ’65, MS ’69), 9-28-02. He was a resident of Richardson, TX.
Harold H. Hime (MED ’68), 2-6-02. In his career, he had been a teacher, coach, missionary and minister. At the time of his death, he was pastor of Hickory St. Baptist Church in Texarkana, AR.
Rev. Harold L. Bass (MS ’69), 11-4-02. He served as minister of education & music for churches in Wilmer, College Station, Houston, Terrell, Jackson, TN and Hampton Place Baptist in Dallas. He served the Mission Service Core as a volunteer missionary since 1984.
Joy Tilley Watson (BA ’69, MA ’70) – 10-27-02. She was an instructor at Tyler Junior College, Tyler, TX.
William Richard Coleman Sr. (BS ’70), 10-31-02. He was retired as an architect for Fox & Jacobs/Centex and was the owner of Del’s Charcoal Burgers of Richardson.
Frank Spindle (BBA ’71), 9-16-02. He had been the owner of LPL Financial Services in Greenville, TX since 1991 and had been involved in areas business, music and the civic scene for 30 years. He was a founder and former president of the Phoenix School, a past president of the Boys and Girls Club of Hunt County and was a regular participant in the Greenville Follies.
Mina Miller Lehr (BA ’72), 10-31-02. She taught school 18 years at Athens (TX) ISD before retiring.
Sherilynn “Sherry” Pridgeon Durrett (MED ’73), 11-5-02. She worked in Dallas ISD for 39 years, starting as a sixth-grade teacher at Casa View Elementary in 1963. She retired in May as librarian at H. Grady Spruce High School.
Harrell Tarrant (MS ’75), 10-16-02. He taught drafting in Dallas schools for 35 years. In the summers, he worked as a playground coordinator for the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department.
Harold “Stan” Stansel (BSW ’78), 8-25-02. He retired from the maintenance department with the City of Greenville.
Thomas Edgar Lancaster (BS ’81), 11-8-02. He worked as a flight instructor until hired as a corporate pilot, flying light twin-engine aircraft and Lear jets. He joined American Airlines in 1984 as a flight engineer and became a captain before age 30.
Margaret L. Powell (BS ’84), 8-20-02. She was a teacher and substitute teacher in many East Texas schools.
Richard Van Lewis (MS ’86), 8-26-02. He was employed with Arco Oil Corp. in Houston and then in 1989 with Radian Corp in Austin as an environmental chemist.

In Memory of Former Students

Mary Lucille Price Canton, 9-24-02. Her 30-year career as a teacher began in Newton schools and ended with her retirement from Mount Pleasant ISD.
Julie Jeannette Gough (Current Student), 9-23-02. She was a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and worked at Sands Hills Country Club in Commerce.
Jason Heatherly (Current Student), 10-13-02. He worked part-time at Southwest Spirit Supply in Commerce.
Reba Ray Bishop Lancaster (also Former Employee), 8-10-02. She worked for many years at Oak Manor Nursing Home in Commerce before accepting a position at the University, from which she retired in the late ‘80s.
Barbara Dean Martin, 9-15-02. She served as an assistant director of nurses for 14 years and was also employed for 18 years by Sherwood Medical in Commerce.
Gordy R. Sanders, 10-18-02. He was retired from Brown & Williamson Tobacco and was most recently self-employed.
Jerry “Bo” Sartain, 9-15-02. He spent most of his career working in the semiconductor industry, beginning with TI in the early 1960s, Moztek and finally 16 years of service with National Semiconductor in Arlington.

University loses number of leaders who left their mark on campus

Dr. Fred Boyd Anderson
Dr. Fred Boyd Anderson, 75, of Oklahoma City died May 9 there.
Born June 24, 1925, in Tulsa to John George and Ruth Rose Barron Anderson, he was a graduate of Delhi High School and served in the U.S. Army. He was a graduate of Oklahoma State University, a Farmhouse member and received post graduate degrees at the University of Missouri and the University of Florida. Dr. Anderson worked for the Corps of Engineers and taught at several universities, including ETSU. He was an associate professor of economics and finance from 1971 until he retired here in 1989.
After retiring, he sold real estate in Arizona, coached youth sports and became a master gardener.
Survivors include wife Melissia Ann Anderson; sisters Georgia Lucille Anderson and Freada Margaret Weil; daughters Linda Lou Horton, Karen Sue Anderson, Teresa Jo Lemons and husband Paul; and stepsons Johnny and Mark Blankenship.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mildred Lou Rose Anderson, sons Neil Wayne and Jeffrey Glen Anderson, one sister and three brothers.

Cam F. Dowell Jr.
University flags flew at half-staff Nov. 12 for one of the first members of the East Texas State University Board of Regents, Cam F. Dowell Jr.
Mr. Dowell, 90, was a longtime banker and rancher and was named an ETSU regent in 1969.
He died Nov. 7 of congestive heart failure at Baylor University Medical Center. Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery in Greenville, Texas.
Mr. Dowell started his banking career at Lone Oak State Bank in Lone Oak, Texas, in the early 1930s. He worked at several banks around North Texas over the years.
He became chairman of the board and president of Hillcrest State Bank in Dallas in the 1950s. That bank later became part of a network of eight Dallas-area banks that Mr. Dowell founded and managed.
“That was a major accomplishment, and probably one of his greatest,” his son, James Dowell, said. “It was his answer to having no branch banks in Texas at the time.”
Other business ventures included working for the General Motors Acceptance Corp. and owning insurance businesses and ranches. He also served as president of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Dowell served as an ETSU regent until 1979. During his tenure on the board, F.H. “Bub” McDowell was named president, the only Alumnus ever to serve in that position. The board also oversaw a major boon in campus construction during his term.

Dr. Edward Dean Lowman
Dr. Edward Dean Lowman, professor emeritus of music at A&M-Commerce, died Sept. 21 in Dallas after a long illness.
Dr. Lowman was born March 6, 1917, in Red Oak, Okla., to Edward and Flora Gill Lowman. He attended elementary and secondary schools in several central Oklahoma communities and graduated from Norfolk High School in Yale-Cushing in 1934. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in 1938, a master’s at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill, in 1942 and a doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York in 1953.
He married Evelyn Clara Kissner on Dec. 18, 1942, in St. Louis, Mo.
From 1942 to 1946, he served in the military, playing in Army Corps bands in Missouri and Illinois. He was also stationed in Nebraska and the Philippines.
In 1946, he joined the music faculty of East Texas State College, where he continued until his retirement in 1979. For many years he was the conductor of the ETSU Symphony Orchestra and professor of music education, teaching violin and other string instruments.
Dr. Lowman was a lay leader at First Christian Church in Commerce, where he twice served as board chairman and was honored as elder emeritus. He served two terms as president of the Commerce Kiwanis and was active in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1978 and one sister, Dorothy Sanders.
Survivors include one son, Robert Dean Lowman of Dallas; one brother, Donald L. Lowman, and his wife, Jane, of Ponca City, Okla.; and one brother-in-law, G.H. Sanders of Bixby, Okla.

Dr. L.D. McNew
Dr. Liester Doyne McNew, 86, of Commerce died Sept. 18. Funeral services were at First United Methodist Church with burial in Rosemound Cemetery.
Dr. McNew was an associate professor at Arkansas A&M University and joined the ETSU faculty in 1961. He served as professor and head of Educational Administration from 1965 until his retirement in 1981. He supervised the completion of the first doctoral dissertation and was major advisor for the first doctoral degree awarded at ETSU in 1964.
The son of Roland Huey and Stella Rosa Avery McNew, he was born Aug.30, 1916, in Centerville, Ark. He married Norma Griffin in DeQueen, Ark., on Jan. 12, 1942.
He served as a second lieutenant in the Army during World War II and trained infantry with Company D, 61st Battalion, 13th Regiment at Camp Fannin.
Dr. McNew earned a bachelor of science degree from Arkansas State University and his master of science and doctor of education degrees from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He was a high school principal and vocational agriculture teacher in Arkansas for 15 years.
He was a member of the Northeast Texas Educators Club, Phi Delta Kappa, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Masonic Lodge and numerous other state and national professional organizations.
He was a founding member of the Nickel Coffee Society and also was an active member of First United Methodist Church in Commerce where he served as a rotating teacher for the Dough Rollins Sunday school class.
Surviving are his wife, Norma; a son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Barry D. and Dinah McNew of Greenville; two daughters and sons-in-law, Dr. Martha M. and John Foote of Greenville and Rosalie M. and Ron Hill of Golden,