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Rep. Ruth Easterling (D-Mecklenburg) was resting
comfortably at home Thursday after undergoing a heart
catheterization at Carolinas Medical Center on Tuesday. The
13-term House member, at 90 the General Assembly's oldest
member, underwent a procedure to remove an arterial blockage.
Easterling (left), who co-chairs the House
Appropriations Committee, says she expects to return to
Raleigh for Monday's session.
Ed Crutchfield, the former chairman of First Union
Corp. in Charlotte, C. Felix Harvey, chairman of Harvey
Enterprises in Kinston; W. Duke Kimbrell, chairman and
CEO of Parkdale Mills in Gastonia; and Dalton McMichael,
former chairman of Mayo Yarns in Madison, will be inducted
into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame during a Nov. 13
dinner in Charlotte. The event will again be held at the Adams
Mark Hotel in downtown Charlotte. The Business Hall of Fame is
co-sponsored by Junior Achievement and NCCBI. For tickets,
call 704-536-9668.
Dr. Tony G. Waldrop, a Morehead Scholar and track star
at the UNC-Chapel Hill in the 1970s, was named vice chancellor
for research and graduate studies for the UNC System. The
appointment was made by the UNC Board of Governors.
The BellSouth Foundation announced that it will
provide financial support to the Public School Forum of
N.C.’s Institute for Educational Policymakers for the
next two years. The institute will begin its fourth year this
fall, providing seminars and information on issues important
to statewide education policymakers—members of the State
Board of Education and the Education Committees of the state
House and Senate. It is the only program if its kind in the
country. The new grant marks the fourth time the BellSouth
Foundation has funded a Forum program.
Charlotte lawyer Russell Robinson was named chairman of
the Duke Endowment, the largest foundation in North Carolina
and one of the largest in the country. Robinson replaces Mary
D.B.T. Semans of Durham, great-niece of James Buchanan Duke,
the founder of the endowment. Robinson has been a trustee of
the endowment since 1987 and was its legal counsel before
then. In its 77-year history, the endowment has given away
almost $1.6 billion, including $99 million last year. Over the
years, it has given $641 million to Duke University, $65
million to Davidson University and $55 million to Johnson C.
Smith University, as well as $557 million to health care and
$77 million to children’s programs.
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