Philip G. Winsor, Denton, professor of music and co-founder and director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, died Jan. 24. Winsor, who worked at UNT from 1982 to 2010, earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and a master’s from San Francisco State University. He completed postgraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, Milan Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois. He also taught at DePaul University and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.His musical compositions were performed at Carnegie Hall, Radio Cologne, Radio Tel Aviv, Warsaw's Poland Conservatory, the Korea National Institute of the Arts in Seoul and Korea National Education University in Cheong-ju. Other works were commissioned by experimental cinematographers and modern dance companies, and he also exhibited traditional and experimental photographic prints. He held many guest composer residencies, including at the University of Michigan, Amherst University and Electronic Music Plus Festival in Nashville. His honors and grants included the Prix de Rome, a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Composition Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center Artist Residency and a Ford Foundation for Electronic Music Fellowship. Memorials may be made to the Phil Winsor Scholarship Fund in the College of Music.

Robert Sexton Adams (’58, ’61 M.B.A.), Georgetown, professor of management who taught at UNT from 1968 to 2001, died Oct. 11. After earning his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from North Texas, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in business administration from Louisiana State University in 1965. Prior to joining the North Texas faculty, he taught as an associate professor in the Department of Management at Texas Tech University. His academic specialization was strategic management and policy. During his teaching career, he published a number of books and articles on business management and conducted numerous management development programs and workshops.

Fred H. Bleil, Houston, former assistant football coach for the Mean Green, died Sept. 26. Bleil was defensive coordinator at UNT in 1997 and 1998 and returned in 2006 as defensive coordinator and secondary coach. He was head coach at New Mexico Highlands University from 1979 to 1982, where he was named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and AFCA College Division Coach of the Year. He spent eight years as secondary and special teams coach at San Diego State and coached at New Mexico, Utah State, Tulane and Texas State. Former UNT standout Brian Waters, now playing with the NFL’s New England Patriots, was an all-conference selection while playing for Bleil. Bleil played football at Northern Iowa, earned a bachelor’s degree from Westmar College and a master’s degree from Eastern New Mexico University.

Bruce Parks Foster, Denton, Professor Emeritus of physics who worked at UNT from 1953 to 1990, died Sept. 21. After earning master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University, Foster started the astronomy program at North Texas. He also was an avid fan of UNT athletics, taking his children to basketball and football games in the 1960s and ’70s, and, when they were grown, having them take him to the games. In 1960, Foster was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which enabled him to lecture in physics at the University of Peshawar in Pakistan. He also taught and coached basketball at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan. He was a member of the American Physical Society, American Association of University Professors, Sigma Xi and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He was born in Mussoorie, India, where his parents were missionaries. Foster was an Army veteran who was stationed throughout Europe during World War II.

William T. Hagan, Bedford, professor of history at North Texas from 1950 to 1965, died Aug. 5. He also was a distinguished professor and acting vice president for academics at the State University of New York at Fredonia. After retirement from the SUNY System in 1989, he joined the history faculty of the University of Oklahoma and retired in 1995. Hagan’s research specialty was American Indian history. He served as president of both the American Society for Ethnohistory and the Western History Association, and received the Western History Association Prize in 1989 for scholarly contributions to the field of American Indian history. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Hall of Fame in 2003. He joined the U.S. Army in 1942, serving as an anti-aircraft officer in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. He earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin

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.).

Ishmael ‘Ish’ Bustinza, Denton, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, 1965-2006, died June 15. He taught Spanish, was a member of the Faculty Senate and served on mentoring committees with the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships, helping students prepare for the interview process for Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships and Rhodes Scholarships, among others. He was born in Brownsville and earned degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Juneau.

Denis Anthony Conrady, Terre Haute, Ind., associate professor of computer sciences, 1974-1998, died June 13. He received a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master’s from MIT and a doctorate from Case Institute of Technology. He served in the U.S. Air Force in Mississippi, Alaska, Florida and Massachusetts and at Colorado’s U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was the first to teach computer science. He was a member of what is now the Barbershop Harmony Society for 58 years. He sang with many quartets and choruses and won 10 international gold medals with one of his favorites, Dallas’ Vocal Majority.

D. Barry Lumsden, Raleigh, N.C., Professor Emeritus of higher education, 1978-2006, died June 14. He taught for 36 years in higher education. At UNT, he served as director of the Center for Higher Education from 1994 to 1996 and was an interest group coordinator for the National Academy for Teaching and Learning About Aging. His research interests included assessment of Christian higher education, adult development and the correlates of teaching effectiveness. He taught a course on scholarly writing and publishing that was popular with doctoral students and he was named a UNT Student Association Honor Professor. Other honors included being named Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Educator of the Year USA and an award for Outstanding Service from the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.Lumsden founded and was editor of three peer reviewed journals, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Educational Gerontology and Christian Higher Education. In 1999, he wrote the proposal, funded for $1 million, to establish the Don Buchholz Endowed Chair in Community College Education and planned and initiated the Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education, dedicated to the preparation of community college administrators. He had been a visiting professor at Baylor University, Harding University and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and a senior research fellow at the University of Alabama and Texas A&M. He received a diploma from Emmaus Bible College, an associate of arts from Louisburg College, and bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from North Carolina State University.

J. Roy Moses Jr., Kerrville, assistant professor of journalism, 1966-1968 and 1972-1997, died May 5. He was named to the C.E. Shuford Hall of Honor in UNT’s journalism department in 1996. Moses was the director of information and publications and on the journalism faculty at North Texas from 1966 to 1968, then returned to the faculty in 1972. He spent several years as an advisor for the college newspaper. He was an editor and reporter for a number of Texas newspapers and served as the director of journalism for the University Interscholastic League at the University of Texas. He received the Order of the Golden Quill from the Interscholastic League Press Conference in 1977, cited for his service and contributions to journalism education in Texas. He also had worked at Schreiner Institute, Southwest Texas State University, the University of Texas at Arlington and Michigan Technological University. He won awards in sports and feature photography from the American College Public Relations Association. Moses served in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1952. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University and a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin.