Joseph Michael Weldon, Flower Mound :: He was a military veteran who served in Afghanistan and was a freshman pre-engineering student at UNT.

William Earl Amos, Dallas, Professor Emeritus of criminal justice who worked at UNT from 1980 to 1995, died Aug. 6. He joined North Texas as the director of the Criminal Justice Institute and taught classes, counseled students and directed the student internship program with area police departments. He researched and wrote about juvenile delinquency, community counseling and criminality and also taught at Georgetown University and American University. He was a past president of the American Society of Criminology and of the Western Society of Criminology, and received service awards from both.

Amos was a U.S. Army veteran, serving as a military police officer during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps and recalled to active duty during the Korean War. He became a Secret Service agent in 1956, assigned to presidential protection. Amos also served as superintendent of schools for juvenile delinquents in the Washington, D.C., area, and was assistant director of the President’s Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was appointed to the U.S. Parole Commission in Washington, D.C. In 1974, he established the U.S. Parole and Probation regional office in Dallas. He earned a doctorate from the University of Maryland.

Jack D. Wheeler (’61, ’61 M.B.A.), Salado, former vice president for public affairs who worked at North Texas from 1965 to 1976, died Sept. 25. Wheeler was president of the student body at North Texas in 1960 and active in Sigma Phi Epsilon, which he ultimately served as national grand president. During his junior year, he was president of seven campus organizations. He returned to North Texas in 1965 as director of student personnel and also served as associate vice president for student affairs and special assistant to the president before he was named vice president for university relations. He worked for the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas and then moved into government relations for the private sector. Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Kate Blair Wheeler (’62, ’65 M.Ed.).

Martha Miller Daniel (’54), Lubbock :: She taught briefly in Fort Worth, Houston and Fort Smith, Ark. She was an elder in the Presbyterian church and served on the boards of the West Texas Museum at Texas Tech University, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, the Lubbock Women’s Club, LakeRidge Country Club and Sherick Memorial Home. She was a member of the Covenant Hospital Auxiliary, the HOST education program and Westminster Presbyterian choir and was president of DP PEO. She was married to Clayton Daniel (’54) for 57 years.

Merle Inman Tolbert (’32), Southlake :: After graduating, she began her teaching career in Leonard, then married and moved to Fort Worth. She taught second- and third-grade students at W.J. Turner Elementary School for 28 years before retirement. She was 99.

Marvin Guy Ramey (’34), Denton :: He earned his business degree and worked for insurance agencies in Houston and Denton before serving in the Army during World War II. After the war, he bought his father’s half of Ramey and Ivey Insurance Agency in Denton and eventually formed Ramey and King Insurance. As president of the Denton Chamber of Commerce, he led fundraising efforts to establish the Denton State School. He received UNT’s Outstanding Service Award in 1987.

Martha Jo Godwin Aldridge (’40), Whitesboro :: She was a Yucca favorite and active in the Gammadion Society, Sigma Tau Delta, the Mary Ardens and Kappa Theta Pi. After graduating, she taught in the Saint Jo and Gainesville public schools.

Leslie ‘Les’ Bullock (’40), Laurinburg, N.C. :: He earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Union Theological Seminary of Richmond in Virginia and later studied at Cambridge University. He organized the Church of the Covenant for Brazos Presbytery in Houston and in 1948 joined Flora McDonald College in Red Springs as a professor of religion. When the college merged with another to form St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, he began work on a new general education program called “Christianity and Culture,” which was ready when the new college opened in 1961. It was recognized by the Danforth Foundation as one of the two most outstanding general education programs in the U.S.

John Berkeley Knapp (’41), Garland :: He retired as manager of the casualty property claim department for The Travelers Insurance Co. in Dallas after 37 years of service. He also had worked for The Travelers in Wichita Falls and in Wichita, Kan. He served with the 13th Armored Division of the U.S. Army during World War II. At North Texas, he was a member of Alpha Chi Honor Society.

J. Ray Martin (’42), Denton :: He was a county court at law judge in Denton County from 1970 to 1986. He served as a meteorologist with the Army Air Forces during World War II and graduated from Columbia Law School. He served as county judge in Snyder from 1959 to 1962.