| * Billie Ray,
president of BellSouth in North Carolina, will
retire June 1 after 22 years with the company.
Ray, 53, was a corporate attorney during the
breakup of AT&T in the 1980s. He presided
over the company's response to the development of
local competition in the 1990s. * Richard W. Whiting
of Edenton, a former managing director of Merrill
Lynch Capital Markets before retiring in 1990,
was elected chairman of the board of Gateway Bank
& Trust Co. in Elizabeth City.
* Calvin B.
Wells, president and CEO of North Carolina
Natural Gas Co., will retire in June as head of
the Fayetteville-based subsidiary of CP&L.
Wells, who will turn 65 later this year, was
headed NCNG since 1989. Separately, CP&L
announced the appointment of Don K. Davis,
the chairman, president and CEO of Yankee Atomic
Power Co. and Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co.
since 1997, as executive vice president of its
newly created Gas & Energy Services business
unit. Davis will serve as president and CEO of
NCNG. Meanwhile, CP&L announced the
appointment of Peter M. Scott III as
executive vice president and CFO of the utility.
Scott, 50 has been president of Scott, Madden
& Associates in Raleigh since 1983.
* Judge Thomas
W. Ross of Greensboro, a Superior Court judge
who now serves as director of the N.C.
Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh,
was named executive director of the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation. Ross has served 16 years in
the state judicial system.
* Cong. Cass
Ballenger of Hickory (R-10th), the founder
and chairman of Plastic Packaging Inc., was
honored by BIPAC, the Business-Industry Political
Action Committee, with its Adam Smith Award as
the federal elected official who best represents
the ideals of free enterprise. The award was to
be presented at BIPAC's annual awards dinner on
May 10 in Washington. BIPAC works to elect
candidates to Congress who strongly support
policies that will strengthen the free-enterprise
system, create jobs, and promote economic growth
and opportunity.
* Robert J.
Greczyn, a 20-year health care leader in
North Carolina, took over April 24 as CEO of Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. He
succeeds the retiring Kenneth C. Otis II.
Greczyn joined BCBSNC in August 1998 as executive
vice president and COO. Before joining the
company, he was president and CEO of Healthsouth
Health Plans for nearly eight years.
* Dr. James
Moeser, chancellor of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln since 1996, was elected
chancellor of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He will assume his duties on Aug.
15.
* Jay Garner,
president and CEO of the Asheville Area Chamber
of Commerce since August 1994, is resigning
effective May 12 to lead the Greater Tampa (Fla.)
Chamber of Commerce. Karen Turney, VP of
finance and administration, will serve as interim
CEO of the chamber.
* William A.
“Bill” Shore, former executive
director of economic development at Guilford
Technical Community College, was named the new
economic developer in the state Commerce
Department's Piedmont Triad Regional Office in
Greensboro. He succeeds Gene Byrd, who
left to become director of Housing and Business
Redevelopment responsible for assisting North
Carolinians affected by Hurricane Floyd.
* Kevin
Brafford has joined the NCCBI staff as senior
editor of the North Carolina magazine, succeeding
Suzanne Fischer, who left to take a position with
the Triangle Transit Authority. Brafford, 39, is
a graduate of UNC-Charlotte who previously was
managing editor of Coman Publishing in Durham, a
company that produces sports magazines for
several universities, including N.C. State.
Before joining Coman in 1998, Brafford was a
reporter and editor at the Daily Press in Newport
News, Va. He also spent five years as editor of
the daily paper in Clovis, New Mexico.
* Sharon J.
Willard has joined the NCCBI staff as
administrative assistant to President Phil Kirk,
succeeding the retiring Lou Woods. Willard
previously was executive secretary to the
president of PCS Phosphate, a company where she
had worked in various capacities since 1985.
Trained at Hardbarger's Business School,
Willard's early career included jobs at the
Department of Transportation in Raleigh and four
years at the state Department of Public
Instruction.
* Dr. Richard
T. “Dick” Heckman, currently vice
president of instruction at Montcalm Community
College in Sidney, Mich., was named president of
Randolph Community College in Asheboro. He
succeeds the retiring Dr. Larry K. Linker.
* Charles Glassick, a
former president at Gettysburg College, was named
interim president of N.C. Wesleyan College. He
will replace John White, who said last
month he would step down for personal reasons.
Glassick is a senior associate of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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