NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 21 number 1 - Fall 2000

By Mary Kate Keith, Friends of the Library

Carey H. Bostian, former NC State chancellor from 1953 to 1959, died on April 22, 2000. Before becoming the university's seventh chancellor, Bostian was a zoology and genetics professor and associate dean of the School of Agriculture. A dozen new buildings were constructed during his tenure as chancellor, including the D. H. Hill Library. Chancellor Bostian worked at NC State for forty-three years. His wife, Neita, and a son, Richard, preceded him in death. He is survived by two sons, Lloyd and Karl (both NC State graduates), as well as grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandchild. Memorial donations can be made to the Carey and Neita Bostian Library Endowment.

R. O. Everett (NC State Class of 1947), retired executive vice president with Wachovia, died on June 24, 2000, in Salisbury, N.C. Everett served during World War II and was a prisoner of war. He later joined Wachovia Bank and remained there until he retired in 1986. He is survived by his wife, Edith, and two children, Simon Justus and Susan (both NC State graduates). Everett and his wife made provision to establish the Susan Ellen Everett Library Internship Endowment through a planned gift.

Don W. Hayne, professor emeritus of statistics, died on May 18, 2000, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Hayne was considered a pioneer in devising quantitative measurements for ecology. He came to NC State in 1961 to direct the Southeastern Fish and Game Statistics Project and retired in 1981. His wife, Harriet Rheingold Hayne, preceded him in death.

Harriet Rheingold Hayne, a preeminent developmental psychologist, died on April 29, 2000, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Rheingold Hayne was a professor emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill, serving on the faculty of the Department of Psychology from 1964 to 1986. She was married to Don W. Hayne.

Z. Zimmerman (ZZ) Hugus, Jr., professor emeritus of chemistry, died on May 9, 2000, in Raleigh, N.C. Hugus was a professor of chemistry from 1967 until his retirement in 1992. His specialty was inorganic chemistry. His wife, Nancy, predeceased him.

George W. Poland, head of the Department of Modern Languages at NC State from 1956 until 1971, died on April 28, 2000, in Raleigh, N.C. Poland came to NC State in 1948 as an instructor and retired as a full professor in 1976. Memorial donations may be made to the library's Richard G. Walser Endowment.

Mary Frances Munch Rood, of Cary, N.C., died on October 13, 1998. Rood earned a B.A. and M.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill. She was a psychiatrist at Dorthea Dix Hospital in Raleigh until 1986. She was preceded in death by her husband, H. Waldo Rood, and is survived by daughters Margaret and Elizabeth and stepchildren Robert, Mary Ann, and Richard. The Hood Waldo and Mary Munch Rood Library Endowment was established through a bequest to benefit the NCSU Libraries.

Jean C. Speck, of Cary, N.C., died on July 13, 2000. Speck was married to Marvin L. Speck, NC State William Neal Reynolds professor emeritus of food science, for almost sixty years. Speck, a full-time homemaker, artist, and author, wrote a biography of state Senator Ralph Scott entitled The Gentleman from Haw River. Speck is survived by her husband, Marvin, and three daughters, Linda Jean Speck, Martha Speck Huggins, and Susan Speck Sexton. Memorial donations may be sent to the Marvin and Jean Speck Library Endowment or to the music fund of White Memorial Presbyterian Church.