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Mariam Cannon Hayes of Concord has donated $10 million
to support the school of music at Appalachian State
University, the largest gift in ASU's 101-year history. In
announcing the gift, ASU Chancellor Francis Borkowski
said the university’s board of trustees has renamed the
school the Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music. Hayes,
president and director of the Cannon Foundation and a trustee
of the Charles A. Cannon Charitable Trusts, made the gift in
honor of her parents and her late husband, Robert G. Hayes.
She also is the mother of Cong. Robin Hayes (R-8th).
Robin Pendergraft, who has headed the agency on a
temporary basis since January, has been appointed the new
director of the State Bureau of Investigation. She is the
first woman to lead the agency. In announcing the appointment,
Attorney General Roy Cooper said the SBI needed a
director who would push new technology, work with businesses
to get agents computer training and more up-to-date equipment.
Pendergraft was an assistant district attorney in Durham
County and joined the state Justice Department as an assistant
attorney general in 1987. She was promoted to special deputy
attorney general in 1992 and headed the law enforcement
liaison section until this year.
NCCBI President Phil Kirk has been elected a member of
the East Carolina University Board of Visitors.
Inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday night
were former UNC basketball star Brad Daugherty, former
Chowan College football coach Jim Garrison, former
major league pitcher Max Lanier, former UNC
All-American golfer Page Marsh Lea; former N.C. State
basketball star Vic Molodet, and former Wake Forest
baseball coach Jack Stallings.
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