Bess Powell Autry, MSW ’77, of Chapel Hill and Wrightsville Beach, died September 4, 2012, at age 73. After receiving her MSW, she began a career as a clinical social worker. She worked at the Durham Child Guidance Center with a faculty appointment from Duke’s Department of Psychiatry, and in 1987 founded Forest Associates, a psychiatric social work practice, with her colleague, Robert Laws. Obituary