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NCCBI
Chairman Gordon Myers has announced his appointments to
the association’s Executive Committee. Myers reappointed to
four-year terms Julianne Still Thrift of Winston-Salem,
the president of Salem College; Kelly S. King of
Winston-Salem, the president of BB&T Corp.; William
Cavanaugh III of Raleigh, the president, CEO and chairman
of Progress Energy; and Paul M. Wiles of Winston-Salem,
the president and CEO of Novant Health. Myers’ new
appointments to the Executive Committee are R.V. Owens
of Nags Head, the owner of RVS Restaurant (four-year term); Darleen
M. Johns of Raleigh, the president and CEO of Alphanumeric
Systems (two-year term); and David Huskins of Linville
Falls, the president and CEO of Ridgetop Associates (one-year
term).
  Bruce
Biggs (left), owner of Biggs Pontiac Inc. in Elizabeth
City, has been named by Chairman Gordon Myers to fill a
one-year unexpired term on the NCCBI Board of Directors. Biggs
succeeds J. Wilson Jones of J.W. Jones Lumber Co. in
Elizabeth City, who resigned from the board.
Mark Crawford of Black Mountain was sworn in Wednesday as
a member of the N.C. House of Representatives to replace former state Rep. Lanier
Cansler (R-Buncombe), who resigned from the House to
become deputy secretary of the state Department of Health and
Human Services. Crawford, who was nominated by
Buncombe County Republicans, is a real estate agent who twice ran
unsuccessfully for the House in the mid-1990s. A party
committee voted 30-24 for Crawford over former Asheville Mayor
Lou Bissette.
Tom Houlihan, executive director of the N.C. Partnership
for Excellence, was named executive director of the Council of
Chief State School Officers, the group in Washington, D.C., that
represents the nation’s 50 state school superintendents.
Houlihan said he will continue to live in North Carolina and
commute to his new job in Washington.
Linda Staunch of Linda Staunch and Associates hosted a
membership recruitment/retention coffee hour in New Bern on
April 6. NCCBI President Phil Kirk outlined the various
activities in which the organization is involved. NCCBI Board
member Joe Thomas and Craven Community College
President Steve Redd, along with Ms. Staunch, gave
glowing endorsements of NCCBI’s work. They cited NCCBI’s
lobbying successes, the superior quality of the North Carolina
magazine, support for education and leadership of successful
bond campaigns for k-12 schools, college and universities, and
highways.
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