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Community colleges
president Martin Lancaster, Jim Broyhill and community
colleges board president James Woody Jr. |
Woody Harlan Boyles,
Lancaster |
Lancaster, Mrs.Marcia
Grimsley, Woody |
Charles Royal of Wachovia,
which underwrites the President of the Year Award,
Cameron, Woody, Lancaster |
Broyhill,
Boyles, Grimsley and Cameron
receive top awards from community colleges
Long-time
state Treasurer Harlan Boyles; former U.S. Sen. James
T. Broyhill; and the late Joseph W. Grimsley, who
served as president of Richmond Community College for 16
years, are this year’s recipients of the I.E. Ready Awards,
the highest honors bestowed by the State Board of Community
Colleges. The awards luncheon was held Nov. 16 in Research
Triangle Park.
Boyles, who served as state Treasurer from 1976 until his
retirement earlier this year, was recognized as an extremely
effective advocate for the 2000 Higher Education Bond
Referendum. He was also instrumental in developing legislation
that provided millions in funding for technology and workforce
training for community colleges.
Broyhill, who represented North Carolina in Congress for 12
terms and in the U.S. Senate from 1986 to 1987, is a past
chairman of the State Economic Development Board, a former
N.C. Secretary of Commerce and former chairman of the NCCBI
Economic Development Committee. He was recognized for his
leadership role in the successful 1993 community college bond
referendum and as co-chairman of the statewide steering
committee for the 2000 Higher Education Bond Referendum.
Grimsley, who died in July, was an instrumental leader in
achieving passage of the 1993 statewide bond referendum for
community colleges and worked tirelessly for passage of the
2000 Higher Education Bond Referendum.
Also honored at the luncheon were Dr. Donald W. Cameron,
president of Guilford Technical Community College, as the
first recipient of the President of the Year Award; Sidney
R. "Reg" Boland III, associate vice president
for student services at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, as
the first recipient of the Staff Person of the Year Award; and
Daryl Mitchell, a recent graduate of Durham Technical
Community College who is now a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, as
the first recipient of the President's Leadership Award.
  
Cong. Eva Clayton (D-1st) (far left) announced
that she will not seek re-election at the end of her term in
2002. Clayton, one of the first two black representatives that
North Carolina sent to Congress since Reconstruction, was
first elected after the last congressional redistricting in
1992 when the legislature created two majority-minority
districts -- the 1st District and the 12th District. State
Sen. Frank Ballance (D-Warren) (left), an ally
and campaign manager for Cong. Clayton, announced that he will
run for the 1st District seat.
John McArthur,
a long-time aide to Gov. Mike Easley, has resigned to
become vice president of public affairs at Progress Energy.
McArthur's last day in the governor's office was Nov. 30.
McArthur directed Easley's transition office after the 2000
election, and then became Easley’s senior adviser for policy
and legal affairs. He first joined Easley's staff in 1993 as
chief counsel at the Department of Justice. He left in 1997 to
join General Electric as the government relations manager for
the Southeast Division. McArthur is a graduate of Davidson
College and the University of South Carolina Law School and a
former partner of the Hunton & Williams law firm. In his
new position, McArthur will manage the state and federal
public affairs for the company including North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, and Washington, D.C. For the immediate
future, McArthur's responsibilities in the governor’s office
will be divided between Susan Rabon, senior adviser for
administration, and Franklin Freeman, senior adviser
for governmental affairs.
Dan Gerlach,
director of the nonprofit N.C. Budget and Tax Center, will
join Gov. Mike Easley’s staff as a senior policy advisor for
Fiscal Affairs, mainly serving as a liaison between the State
Budget Office and the governor’s staff. Gerlach is a
graduate of Notre Dame who earned a master’s in public
administration from Syracuse University. He has headed the
Raleigh-based thinktank since 1995.
John Merritt, a business executive and veteran
Democratic activist from Wilmington, was appointed by Gov.
Mike Easley as senior adviser for policy and communications.
Merritt worked for several years as chief aide to former U.S.
Rep. Charlie Rose and is a former vice president for
Hardee's Food Systems. Recently he has been a restaurant owner
and business consultant. Easley said Merritt will focus on
economic development issues. Easley and Merritt, both Rocky
Mount natives, have known each other for 30 years, since their
undergraduate days at Carolina. Observers said the governor
needed Merritt to mend fences with Democratic Party activists
and others who have often complained that the governor’s
office doesn’t return phone calls or take their advice on
appointments.
Carolyn Cobb
of Raleigh was appointed by Gov. Mike Easley as director of
the governor’s new More at Four pre-kindergarten program.
She will be responsible for implementing and managing the
program, designed to prepare at-risk 4-year-olds to succeed in
school. The General Assembly provided $6.5 million for the
program this year. Cobb will set up the grant application and
selection process and help local grant recipients design and
implement their programs. Cobb most recently was a section
chief for the Department of Public Instruction in charge of
evaluating state and local programs, policies and initiatives.
State Sen. Charles
Carter (D-Buncombe) returned to his seat in the General
Assembly last month after recuperating from surgery to remove
his spleen. The 34-year-old high-school Spanish teacher was
injured in September when he fell from a tree after climbing
it to retrieve a soccer ball for some kids in the neighborhood
where he lives during legislative sessions. Surgeons removed
Carter's spleen, but for a few weeks his condition
deteriorated when several major organs failed.
Rep. Dewey
Hill (D-Columbus), chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee received the first N.C. Agricultural Foundation
award for his support of an agricultural research fund at N.C.
State. Hill was cited for his support of the Nickels for
Know-How Program at N.C. State's College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences.
Superior Court
Judge Robert Hobgood of Louisburg has resigned as chief
administrator of the state's courts following the death the
death of his mother, Margaret, 86. Hobgood has struggled with
operating the courts system within a pinched budget,
particularly after Gov. Easley’s latest directive that state
agencies must cut spending by another 4 percent. Hobgood
announced Oct. 30 that to save $2.3 million, he was
eliminating a popular program that develops punishments other
than prison for nonviolent criminals. The next day, supporters
of the Sentencing Services Program successfully pressured
Easley to save it.
Former Charlotte
Mayor Richard Vinroot has withdrawn from the GOP
primary race for Jesse Helms’ U.S. Senate seat and
endorsed Elizabeth Dole. His decision leaves Dole as
the only major candidate in the GOP field. Vinroot announced
his decision almost a year to the day that he lost the 2000
governor's race.
NCCBI President Phil Kirk, along with 14 retired school
administrators, received the Catawba College Medals of
Exemplary Life Service at the 10th annual Service of Praise
and Thanksgiving for Lives of Exemplary Service at Catawba on
Nov. 18. Catawba President Fred Corriher, in presenting
the citation, said the award was being given “for your
lifetime of effort on behalf of the school children and
college students of this state and for your outstanding public
service in many other areas.” Kirk also was chosen to give
the homily at the event. He used the theme “The Power of
One.” Also honored was NCCBI member Dr. Gene Causby
of Clayton, retired executive director of the North Carolina
School Boards Association.
Charlotte attorney Julius L. Chambers, who retired this
year as chancellor of North Carolina Central University, and Thomas
W. Lambeth of Winston-Salem, former executive director of
the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, are the 2001 recipients of
the University Award, the highest honor given by the Board of
Governors of the 16-campus University of North Carolina. UNC
President Molly Corbett Broad and awards committee
chairman Jim Phillips of Greensboro presented the
awards, which recognize illustrious service to higher
education in North Carolina, during a banquet on Nov. 8 at the
George Watts Hill Alumni Center on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Eric Smith, superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg
County schools, has been named the state's top superintendent
by the N.C. Association of School Administrators. Smith will
receive the award at the national meeting of the American
Association of School Administrators in February. Smith is
being recognized for boosting the quality of curriculum and
increasing access to college for poor and minority students,
according to the school district. Smith was named the nation's
top urban educator by the Council of the Great City Schools
last year.
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