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W.R. "Tim" Timken Jr.
(right), chairman and CEO of The Timken Co., has been elected
chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers. NCCBI
is the state affiliate of NAM, and Timken Co. has a branch in
Randleman, N.C., that is a member of NCCBI. Timken said he
will urge manufacturers and their employees to get more
involved in the political process.
"We manufacturers don’t
deny there’s a new economy; we just deny there’s still an
old one. There is a new economy and there’s a new
manufacturing that is very much a part of it," Timken
said. "We wouldn’t be talking about a new economy at
all – with its durably high growth and low inflation – if
it weren’t for the new manufacturing’s products,
processes, people, and productivity. Walk through our plants;
you’ll see high technology in action."
Timken, who succeeds James H.
Keyes of Johnson Controls, will serve a one-year term as chief
spokesperson and leader of the nation’s largest and oldest
industrial trade group, founded in 1895. The NAM – 18
million people who make things in America -- represents 14,000
member companies (including 10,000 small and mid-sized
manufacturers) and 350 member associations serving
manufacturers and employees in every industrial sector and all
50 states.
Timken, who is the NAM’s most
politically engaged chairman in many years, also will spend
his year as chairman urging manufacturers – and their
employees – to play a more active role in the development of
public policy by becoming involved in the political process.
Based in Canton, Ohio, The
Timken Co. is a 100 year-old worldwide leader in the
manufacture and marketing of highly engineered bearings and
alloy steels. The company has facilities in 25 nations, 20,000
employees and $2.5 billion in sales.
Kellis
Parker, one of five black undergraduates who integrated
UNC in 1960 and went on to become the first black law
professor at Columbia University, died Oct. 10. He was
58. Parker's first involvement in civil rights came as
head of the band at Kinston High School. He asked the Chamber
of Commerce to change its rules about putting blacks at the
back of a parade, which the chamber agreed to do. At UNC, he
and fellow student Allard Lowenstein, who was later elected to
Congress, organized demonstrations that helped desegregate
campus facilities. After UNC, Parker graduated from Howard
University Law School and clerked for a judge of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit before going into
teaching. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1972 and in 1994
was named to an endowed professorship.
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Outgoing Lt. Gov. Dennis A. Wicker (left) and his chief
of staff and general counsel, Mack A. Paul, will join
the Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore law firm's Raleigh office,
where they will create and lead the firm's Government
Relations Practice. They will join the firm in January after
Wicker's term in office ends. "I considered several
options for returning to the private sector, but the
opportunity of creating and leading a Government Relations
Practice at Smith Helms was the most exciting for me,"
Wicker said.
UNC-Wilmington Chancellor Dr. James Leutze has been
tapped by Gov., Jim Hunt as chairman of the N.C. Rural
Internet Access Commission. The 21-member commission will make
recommendations to the governor, the General Assembly and the
N.C. Rural Redevelopment Authority on ways to provide rural
counties with high-speed broadband Internet access. The
commission was established in July when the General Assembly
passed legislation addressing the goals of the Rural
Prosperity Task Force.
John
Allison, chairman and CEO of BB&T Corp. in
Winston-Salem, was elected chairman of the Appalachian State
University Board of Trustees. His one-year term will begin
during the board's quarterly meeting in December. Allison also
chairs the ASU comprehensive campaign.
Jo
Anne Byerly has been named superintendent of the
Kannapolis city schools, effective next July. Byerly, the
associate superintendent, will replace Ed Tyson, who retires
next July 1.
Agriculture
Commissioner Jim Graham was presented with the Order of
the Long Leaf Pine in recognition of his service to the state.
The award was presented by Gov. Jim Hunt. Graham is retiring
in January after 36 years in office.
John
Belk (left), a former Charlotte mayor and chairman
of the Belk department store chain, announced a $28 million
gift to Davidson College to provide scholarships to 40
students. The gift makes Belk, a Davidson graduate, the
largest individual donor in the school's history.
Superior
Court Judge Tom Ross, director of the Administrative
Office of the Courts, received the William H. Rehnquist Award
for Judicial Excellence from the National Center for State
Courts. Ross will be honored at a Nov. 13 dinner in Washington
at the Great Hall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Ross is resigning
at the end of the year to become executive director of the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation.
Ashley
Thrift, chairman of the N.C. Partnership for Children,
received the Adelaide Holderness/Michael Weaver Award from UNC-Greensboro
for his work with the Smart Start program. Tom Lambeth,
executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and a
former partnership board member, also was honored by UNC-G
with the Charles Duncan McIver Award.
Gov.
Jim Hunt received the first Peabody Award from the UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Education Alumni during the Alumni Awards
breakfast.
NCCBI President Phil Kirk played a key role in honoring
retiring State Treasurer Harlan Boyles (left) at
Appalachian State University on Oct. 22-23. Kirk served as
master of ceremonies for an evening tribute to Boyles on Oct.
22 and gave a tribute on behalf of North Carolina business
leaders.
Kirk praised Boyles for his commitment to education through his
service on both the State Board of Education and the State
Board of Community Colleges. "Harlan Boyles is a strong
voice for high standards and high expectations for every
student and every educator . . . and he's not afraid to speak
his mind. When he speaks, everyone on the State Board of
Education listens intently," Kirk said. Kirk used the words "honest, trustworthy, capable,
reasonable, compassionate, and fair" to describe Boyles.
Other NCCBI members speaking included ASU Chancellor Francis
Borkowski, Hugh Morton and Senator Jim Broyhill,
who chaired the committee to recognize the state treasurer. Kirk also served as MC for the Harlan E. Boyles Distinguished
CEO Lecture Series' Executive Luncheon on Oct. 23.
Michael
R. Coltrane, president and CEO of CT Communications Inc.
in Concord, was named chairman of the United States Telecom
Association during the organization's annual convention in
Miami. The USTA is composed of more than 1,200
telecommunications companies and represents the nation's local
exchange carriers before the FCC and Congress. |
