He was an incoming freshman who had dreamed of attending UNT since he was 8 years old.

Holden Gassaway Stucky, Denton :: He was a junior studying philosophy and had graduated from the Selwyn School, where he was an AP Scholar. He enjoyed cooking, was a craft beer connoisseur, loved cats and was known for traveling the campus on his longboard. As a youth, he sang with the Amarillo Boy Choir, participated in Boy Scouts and performed in Denton Community Theatre and Selwyn School productions.

Christian Scherff, Colleyville :: He was enrolled as a freshman biology major with dreams of becoming a doctor. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing baseball and working on sports cars, even building an award-winning diesel truck for his father.

Melvin Howard Moffitt Jr. (’92 M.S.), Double Oak :: He served in the U.S. Army where he received the Army Commendation Medal, the Purple Heart for wounds received in action and the Bronze Star. He was a member of the President’s Council at UNT and established the Dr. Jon Young Endowed Fund to support graduate students in educational psychology at the College of Education.

Alois Frank Kubica, Kerrville :: He worked as a CPA and retired as the CFO of Pioneer Resources in Midland. He was a member of UNT’s Kendall Society and donated to the accounting department in the College of Business. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Vivian Castleberry, 95, who broke barriers for women in journalism and supported UNT by founding the Castleberry Peace Institute, died Oct. 4 in Dallas. She began her career as a child by interviewing her neighbors in Larue for her own newspaper she wrote by hand. She wrote for the student newspapers in high school and at Southern Methodist University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree.

After graduation, she worked for a publishing company until she got an offer in 1956 to work for the Dallas Times Herald. She worked there on and off, between pregnancies, as home furnishings editor, women’s news editor and section editor. During her 28 years at the Times Herald, she tackled subjects that hadn’t been covered before — such as breast cancer, domestic abuse and disabilities — leading to numerous awards and honors. She later was the first woman named to the newspaper’s editorial board.

After retiring from the Times Herald in 1984, she was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame. Three years later, she founded the nonprofit organization Peacemakers Inc. She had been a pacifist since she was a child, when her father had to cope with an injury sustained during World War I. As part of Peacemakers, she traveled to Russia several times as a “grassroots citizen diplomat” to attend conferences and interview Russians on their efforts to bring democracy to their country. She also chaired the Peacemakers’ First International Women’s Peace Conference in 1988.

Her activism led to the 2010 founding of the Castleberry Peace Institute, a collaboration between Peacemakers and UNT’s peace studies program. The institute sponsors cutting-edge research and educational programs on the causes of war and peace and is the only peace science research institute in the southern U.S. She was awarded the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism’s most prestigious honor, the C.E. Shuford Hall of Honor Award. She also was the subject of a 2009 KERA documentary in the Texas Trailblazer series and was the author of several books.

Lawrence Montaigne (’84, ’85 M.A.), 86, died March 17 in Henderson, Nev. He worked as an associate professor of film at UNT in the 1980s. He spent the majority of his life working as an actor, dancer and stuntman. He appeared in such movies as The Great Escape and Escape to Witch Mountain and is best known for his appearances on the original Star Trek TV series – including roles as the first Romulan on the show in the “Balance of Terror” episode and as a Vulcan in the “Amok Time” episode and the “Of Gods and Men” mini-series. He wrote for Walt Disney Productions and penned his own autobiography, A Vulcan Odyssey. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Ronda Janeene Johnson, 53, died Jan. 23 in Denton. She was born in Fort Myers, Florida. For 13 years, she was a manager for classroom support services at UNT, an area that designs, repairs and re-designs classroom technology. She retired in 2016.

Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey, 95, died June 27 in Denton. She served as a faculty member in the UNT government department from 1947 to 1971. She then moved on to become dean of the graduate school at Texas Woman’s University in 1971 and was TWU president from 1976 to 1986 – the first woman and only TWU alum to serve in that position. She was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Blagg-Huey Library at TWU is named in her honor.

She earned her bachelor's degree in English and music and a master's degree in English literature from what was then Texas State College for Women, now TWU. She taught English at the college from 1943 to 1945 and was assistant director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Mississippi from 1946 to 1947. She also earned a master's degree in public administration from the University of Kentucky and took a leave of absence from the North Texas faculty from 1951 to 1954 to earn a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University.

She and her husband, the late Griffin B. Huey (’42), were members of the UNT President’s Council and supported the College of Arts and Sciences. At UNT, she established the Griffin Burns Huey Honors Scholarship in honor of her husband and the Henry G. Huey Honors Scholarship in honor of her son.

Services are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 1, at First Presbyterian Church in Denton, 1114 W. University Drive.

Alice Tatom Hanselman, 78, of Denton died Feb. 28 in Denton. She worked as an administrative assistant for UNT’s Texas Center for Educational Technology from 1986 until her retirement in 2005. She was a native of Indiana and a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.