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 Phillips
named ambassador to Caribbbean island
Earl N. “Phil” Phillips of High Point (left), the chairman and
CEO of Phillips Interests and a chairman emeritus of NCCBI,
has been nominated by President George Bush to be the next
U.S. ambassador to Barbados.
Phillips is a former trustee at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Phillips, a
North Carolina native, graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and has
a business degree from Harvard University. If confirmed by the
Senate, Phillips would be the second North Carolinian in
recent times to serve in the post. Jeanette Hyde of Raleigh
served as ambassador to the island nation during the Clinton
administration.
Phillips, who worked hard for Bush during the
campaign, is the second person from Guilford County to be
named as an ambassador in the Bush administration. Bonnie
McElveen-Hunter of Greensboro, the founder of Pace
Communications and also an NCCBI member, was appointed by Bush
in April to serve as ambassador to Finland.
Phillips, who
founded as the chairman and CEO for many years of GE Capital
First Factors Corp., was North Carolina campaign chairman for
President George W. H. Bush in 1996 and held the same post for
the younger Bush in 2000.
Phillips would be ambassador to
Barbados as well as four smaller Caribbean islands, the
Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines. Barbados is 166 square miles and had a population
of about 260,000.
 
Dalton Larkin McMichael Sr.,
87, of Madison (left), a pioneer in the textured yarn business who
was to be inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of
Fame in November, died July 27 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical
Center. He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame
posthumously. During a career that spanned more than 60 years,
McMichael had a hand in creating four successful textile
companies: Madison Throwing Co., Macfield Texturing, Vintage
Yarns and Mayo Yarns.
James J. Woody of Roxboro was elected the new chairman of
the State Board of Community Colleges at its July 20 meeting,
succeeding Dr. G. Herman Porter of Goldsboro. Woody, who has
served on the board since 1989, is the human resources and
safety environment manager for Chandler Concrete Co. in
Burlington and a former member of the Person County Board of
Education. Hilda Pinnix-Ragland of Cary, vice president of
economic development for Progress Energy, the parent company
of CP&L, was elected vice chair. Six new members and one
reappointed member of the board took office at the meeting.
They are the Hon. W.W. “Dub” Dickson of Gastonia, a
retired veterinarian who represented Gaston County in the
state House for 10 years; Dr. Stuart N. Fountain, a retired
dentist from Greensboro; Ms. Norma Bulluck Turnage of Rocky
Mount, the president of Josh Bulluck’s BBQ; G. Gordon
“Buddy” Greenwood of Asheville, the president and CEO of
the Bank of Asheville; Thomas “Tommy” Norman of Charlotte,
the president of NORCOM Development Inc.; Ms. Sharon Wright
Watson of Roxboro, the president of the N.C. Community College
Comprehensive Student Government Association who is a student
at Piedmont Community College; Ms. Sandra Hayes of
Waynesville, who was appointed to a second term on the board,
has worked as a print production consultant since 1995 and was
previously the director of printing services for UNC-Asheville.
Mary E. Euler has joined the McGuire, Wood & Bissette
law firm in Asheville and will concentrate on civil
litigation. She received an undergraduate degree from the
University of Alabama and a law degree from Washington and Lee
University. Euler has practiced law in North Carolina since
1994 and most recently practiced with the firm of Cloninger,
Lindsay, Hensley, Searson & Arcuri. She is married to
Curtis W. Euler who is employed as assistant city attorney
with the city of Asheville.
East Carolina University has
received the largest gift outside its medical school, an $8
million bequest from Fred and Verona Joyner Langford, who were
high school teachers in the area. A 1935 graduate of East
Carolina Teachers College, Verona Langford left the bulk of
her estate to ECU's library for an endowment that will buy
books, journals and other materials. The endowment will
generate about $500,000 a year to supplement the library's $3
million acquisitions budget. Earlier this year, ECU named its
clock tower after Fred and Verona Langford and the library's
North Carolina Collection after Mrs. Langford.
UNC Wilmington has received a three-year matching grant
totaling more than $2 million to train its students, faculty
and area high school teachers to assess student achievement
using the latest handheld computer technology. The U.S.
Department
of Education is putting up $968,815, with the remaining funds
being supplied by the university's Watson School of Education
and other partners in the project.
At the recommendation of Sen. Jesse
Helms, President Bush
has nominated District Court Judge Anna Mills Wagoner as the
U.S. attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Wagoner has served as a judge at the Rowan County District
Court since 1990 and is currently the chief judge. She
graduated from Wake Forest University law school. Wagoner will
be the chief prosecutor for the district, which stretches from
Durham to Winston-Salem and to Rockingham to the south. She
replaced Walter Holton Jr., a Clinton appointee who resigned
in April to enter private practice.
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