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MARCH 30, 2001
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Names in the News
 Wyche
promoted to vice president at NCCBI
Rosemary Wyche (left), who has been
instrumental in the association's recent growth in membership,
has been promoted from director to
vice president of development within NCCBI. According to NCCBI
President Phil Kirk, who made the announcement, the promotion
reflects the association's greater commitment to membership
services.
"Rosemary's leadership on membership and fundraising
activities has taken NCCBI to the next level in our growth
and influence," Kirk said. "We have just concluded
our most successful membership drive in history, record
fundraising through special drives and the successful addition
of a publishing program involving the sale of books through
the Kiplinger organization and the South Carolina Chamber of
Commerce. Those are some of the reasons we have promoted
Rosemary. We expect ever greater progress in these and other
areas in the future."
Wyche, a resident of Raleigh and Halifax County, has enjoyed a
varied career in government and business. She came to NCCBI
in October 1998 from the N.C. Department of Commerce, where
she was responsible for planning and raising funds for the
governor's economic development missions to Israel, Mexico,
Great Britain, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, China and Hong Kong.
She currently is a member of a number of culture-related
boards, including the board of trustees of the N.C. Museum of
Art and the Governor's Business Council for the Arts and
Humanities. She is a graduate of the Washington School of
Protocol. Wyche and her husband, Vince, have a 13-year-old
son, Vincent.
Banking
Hall of Fame to induct five
Five
individuals long associated with the banking
industry in North Carolina are to be inducted
into the North Carolina Banking Hall of Fame.
They are: Cliff Cameron of First Union National
Bank; Archie K. Davis of Wachovia Bank; John A.
Forlines Jr. of Bank of Granite, who was NCBA
chairman from 1977-78; U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms,
whio was NCBA executive officer from 1953-60; and
Robert Powell Holding Sr. of First Citizens Bank,
who was NCBA chairman from 1964-65. The induction
ceremony will be at a dinner on Sunday, Oct. 14,
in Pinehurst.
 House Speaker Jim Black has appointed the
following persons to state boards and
commissions: former Wake County Commissioner Betty
Ann Knudsen to fill a term expiring June 30,
2003, on the Disciplinary Hearing Commission of
the N.C. State Bar; Neil Ross McIntyre Jr.
of Durham County and Floyd Alexander Boyer
of Sampson County to terms expiring Oct. 31,
2003, on the N.C. Respiratory Care Board; Daisy
Millett of Yadkin County to a term expiring
June 30, 2003 on the N.C. Board of Massage and
Bodywork Therapy; Margaret Markey of
Mecklenburg County to a term expiring Dec. 31,
2004, on the Clean Water Management Trust Fund
board of trustees; and Sharon Elliott-Bynum
of Durham County to the N.C. Center for Nursing.
Gov. Mike Easley announced
his appointments to the Health and Wellness Trust Fund
Commission, which will oversee distribution of one-fourth of
the state's tobacco settlement, an estimated $1.15 billion
over 25 years. The fund currently has more than $60 million.
Easley's appointments are: Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue; Daniel
Gottovi of Wilmington, a doctor specializing in internal
medicine and pulmonary medicine; Donald Ensley of
Raleigh, chairman of the Department of Community Health at
East Carolina University; Leigh Harvey McNairy of
Kinston; Raleigh lawyer Robert Zaytoun; and Duke
University Health Affairs Chancellor Ralph Snyderman.
Easley's appointments complete the 18-member commission.
Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight and House Speaker Jim
Blackmade their appointments earlier.
Gwendolyn
Burrell was appointed by Attorney General Roy Cooper as
inspector general for the state Justice Department. She will
lead efforts to detect, prosecute and prevent fraud in
public-assistance programs. Burrell has been an assistant
attorney general and before that worked in private practice
and for the state Department of Transportation. She succeeds
McKinley Wooten Jr., who recently joined the Department of
Administration.
Clark Plexico, president of law and
government affairs for AT&T in the Carolinas and the
chairman of NCCBI’s Education Committee, was named an
International Business Fellow by the Society of International
Business Fellows, an organization that helps promote the
Southern United States. As a fellow, Plexico was one of 30
business leaders who have spent the last two weeks in Asia.
The trip included education sessions in New York, Singapore,
Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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