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Vol. VII, No. 4
FEBRUARY, 1983
School of Business Receives
$500,000 Endowment
UNCW’s School of Business Administration received
a half-million-dollar endowment from the families of
two prominent Wilmingtonians, Dan and Bruce
Gimeron. Dr. William H. Wagoner, UNCW chancellor,
made the announcement of the gift at a news
conference January 14. Wagoner also announced that
the university’s business school will be named for the
Camerons and will be known as the Cameron School of
Business Administration.
With an obvious show of emotion, Dr. Norman R.
Kaylor, dean of the school, said, “This is the greatest
milestone we have reached in the school. It has come
about because of a very good faculty,” he added, “a
group of people who have worked very diligently to
provide quality education for southeastern North
Carolina.”
Kaylor said that funds from the endowment made by
the Camerons will not be immediately available. The
endowment is actually a pledge of support: $100,000
was given in December, 1982, with the remainder to be
paid in two to three years. Only the interest from the
gift will be spent, according to Chancellor Wagoner. So
it will be three or four years, approximately, before
there is enough earned interest for the business school
to spend.
But when funds are available, Kaylor noted that,
“One of the first things we’ll do is increase the size of
our computer laboratories and recruit new faculty.”
The dean also wants to use some of the money to
increase current faculty salaries.
With the rapid growth of UNCW’s business school.
Bear Hall seems to be shrinking. Even though first
priority for UNCW for state-appropriated funds is an
expansion of Randall Library, Kaylor hopes that the
Cameron School of Business Administration will be
able to expand its base of operations as soon as funds
are available. For now, classrooms are being cut to make
more offices for faculty, and Kaylor hopes to move
some classes to other buildings.
With this endowment, though, Kaylor said, “We
will be able to provide research, service and quality
education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
We will be able to move forward in providing new
programs, programs that we have been unable to offer
with limited state resources.”
(Above, left to right) Dr. Charles Cahill, Dr. Norman
Kaylor and Dr. William Wagoner answer questions at
a news conference about the half-mllllon dollar gift to
the business school.
UNCW Foundation Board
Has New Members
William H. Joyner, Jr., senior vice president of
Wachovia Bank and Trust, has been elected chairman
of the board of directors of The Foundation of the
University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Five new
members of the Foundation board have also been named.
Serving three-year terms through 1985 will be William
H. Cameron, assistant to the president of Atlantic Tele
casting Corp.; Jane Lambeth; James A. Long, general
manager, General Electric; Hugh MacRae II, president
of the Oleander Company; and Wallace C. Murchison
of Murchison, Fox & Newton, attorneys at law.
The Foundation is a non-profit corporation established
for the sole purpose of supporting UNCW. Recent
activities include supporting the efforts to air condition
Trask Coliseum, and establishing and supporting the
UNCW Distinguished Visiting Foundation Chair and
annual Foundation scholarships.
Ralph Parker to Head
Office of Minority Affairs
UNCW has opened the doors to a new office of
minority affairs, with Ralph Parker, former dean of
admissions, at the helm. Parker said the new office,
which is designed to help black students with special
problems, may attract more blacks to UNCW. As dean
of admissions, Parker had been wrestling with the
problem of recruiting black students to UNCW. Now,
he says, he can help them once they are enrolled.
“I’m looking forward to it,” said Parker of the new
office. He said that now, when admissions recruiters
visit high schools across the state, they can mention his
office to blacks as one of the positive steps UNCW has
taken.
“We will try to meet some of the needs of black
students once they are enrolled,” Parker said. “We’ll
deal with the day-to-day problems.” He also mentioned
that he will set up workshops and coordinate activities
for black students.
“I’m glad UNCW’s taking this direction,” Parker
said.
Education Fraternity
Installs Cape Fear Chapter
The Cape Fear Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa inter
national professional education fraternity, officially
installed last October, includes among its 46 charter
members, alumni, faculty and staff of the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington. Members of the fraternity
are classroom teachers, school administrators, college
and university professors, and educational specialists
from Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and Pender
counties.
Dr. Calvin Doss, assistant to the dean of the school of
education at UNCW, is the group’s vice president for
membership. Rachel Keziah, a general supervisor on the
New Hanover County Board of Education and a 1979
UNCW alumna, is the official chapter delegate. Dr. Roy
Harkin, dean of UNCW’s school of education, is
faculty advisor for the fraternity.
Alumni of UNCW who became charter members of
the local fraternity arc Barbara Croom, Marietta
Johnson, Dana Adams, Nancy Brice, Larry Bray, Candy
Halecki, Barbara Bray, and Cynthia Henry. UNCW
faculty members who are charter members of the group
include Dr. Hathia Hayes, research representative. Dr.
Grace Burton, Dr. Marlene Rosenkoetter, Dr. Marcee
Meyers, Dr. Charles Lewis, and Rolla Nelson.
Members must be invited to join by the chapter,
must be college graduates, and must be involved in
education as teachers, administrators, or graduate
students.
Mark your calendar for
March 26 — University
Day at UNCW. For details,
see page 3.
Famous Lost Painting Found in Kenan House
A painting that has hung in the main entrance of
Kenan House since 1969 is now the main attraction in
an art exhibit scheduled from February through Oaober,
1983. The painting, by a 19th century French artist
named William Bouguereau, had been lost since 1880,
last seen in a Paris art museum called The Salon. Titled
“Jeune fille se defendant contre I’Amour” (“Girl
defending herself against Love”), the painting was,
according to Dr. Eric Zafran, curator of European art at
the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, probably the most
important work done by Bouguereau. And Bouguereau
himself was one of the most important artists in France
in the 19th century, said Dr. Zafran.
No one seems to know how the painting arrived in
Kenan House. But it was mostly through a bit of luck
and the good memory of the High Museum’s director,
Gudmund Vigtel, that it was found there. Vigtel had
visited Wilmington in 1969, when his friend James
Kenan gave the house to UNCW to be used as the
chancellor’s residence. When Dr. Zafran, in 1982, was
putting together an art show, Vigtel remembered
seeing the Bouguereau hanging in Kenan House. The
rest, as they say, is history.
“I was very surprised and pleased when the High
Museum contaaed me,” said Dr. William H. Wagoner,
UNCW chancellor. “I knew Bouguereau was a respeaed
artist, but I wasn’t aware of just how important this
particular painting was.”
Now the painting is featured by the High Museum in
an exhibition that will tour four cities. The show of
19th century French artists in Southern collections will
be in Atlanta at the High Museum until March 13.
Then it moves to the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va.,
April 4 - May 15; the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh,
N.C., June 24 - August 21; and finally the John and
Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Fla., September
15 - October 23. Next November it will return to its
place in Kenan House, where visitors there will know
they are seeing a piece of history.
The Bouguereau painting “discovered” in Kenan
House last year measures approximately 61 inches
tali and 43 inches wide, an overpowering, realistic
painting when seen in person, in photo below, it
hangs In the background of a 1980 reception for
Addison Hewlett.
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