David Purpel Professor Emeritus in the Educational Foundations program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has passed away on April 19th, 2010 at 1 AM.  The following note was sent to me by Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak.
David  "was embraced and surrounded by his family as he passed. There is a web site that is a good means of communicating with the family
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/davidpurpel."