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Vol. VII, No. 6
JUNE, 1983
$100,000 Gift Creates UCB
Chair of Banking & Finance
UNCW will use a gift of $100,000 from the United
Carolina Bank to create the United Carolina Bank Chair
of Banking and Finance within the Cameron School of
Business Administration. William H. Wagoner, chancellor
of UNCW, made the announcement at a quarterly
meeting of the board of trustees in April. Wagoner
explained that the earnings from the UCB endowment
will be used to provide the services of an outstanding
teacher and scholar in the field of banking and finance.
‘ ‘Currently appropriated state funds normally permit
the recruitment of faculty recently entering the profes
sion,” Wagoner told the trustees. “The supplement
provided by this endowment, expected to be in the
neighborhood of $10,000, will furnish funds to recruit
and employ an individual with the credentials and
reputation to hold a senior faculty appointment.”
Dr. Norman Kaylor, dean of the Cameron school at
UNCW, said that the holder of the UCB Chair will teach
graduate and undergraduate finance courses, “directed
particularly towards commercial bank management
operations.” Kaylor noted that the position is expected
to be filled once earnings from the endowment have
accrued sufficiently, probably in 1986.
Rhone Sasser, president and chief executive officer of
the Whiteville-based banking corporation, presented
the gift to the university, along with Pete Davenport,
senior vice president and city executive of UCB’s
Wilmington operations, and members of the UCB
Wilmington board.
In making the presentation, Sasser noted that the
primary service areas of UCB and UNCW are very similar.
“United Carolina Bank has 89 branches in 15 North
Carolina counties, predominantly in southern and
southeastern North Carolina,” Sasser said. “Over two-
thirds of UNCW’s in-state enrollment comes from UCB’s
primary service area.”
“UCB employs approximately 1,300 people and has
over 6,000 shareholders, again mostly from this area,”
Sasser continued. “It seemed appropriate for us to support
educational efforts at UNCW in the area of banking
and finance. We have hired several outstanding
graduates of UNCW in the last several years, and
currently we are looking for five graduates to join our
management training program this year. ’ ’
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1983 Commencement Speaker Stephen J. Wright
714 Seniors Graduate, Become Alumni at the Drop of a Hat
714 happy UNCW seniors became alumni as they
were graduated from the university in commencement
exercises held May 14 in Trask Coliseum. The biggest
difference between this graduation and all the others
held at UNCW was the weather inside the coliseum —
it was coo/. The new air-conditioning system installed
with funds raised by the university over the past two
years was working just fine.
Speaker for the 34th commencement program was
distinguished educator Dr. Stephen J. Wright, former
president of Fisk University and president of the United
Negro College Fund from 1966-69. Wright is the first
black commencement speaker at UNCW. He currently
serves as senior advisor to the president of the College
Entrance Examination Board, the organization which
UNCW Chancellor William H. Wagoner (left) helps
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Charles L.
Cahill prepare for commencement exercises (May 14.
administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to high
school juniors and seniors.
Nationally known artist Claude F. Howell, founder
and chairman of UNCW’s art department until his
retirement in 1980, received the honorary doctor of
letters degree. Howell is a native Wilmingtonian. He
began teaching at Wilmington College in 1953 and
served Lliaiiiiiiiii of die aii dcpaiuiicm foi 25 years.
UNCW and the Alumni Association honored three
graduating seniors with the Alumni Award, given to
any graduate who finishes his or her work at the university
with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. John P. Monroe
III, chairman of the board of directors of the Alumni
Association, presented the awards to Christi Lynn
Dennis, Wanda Evans Bell and William Thurman
Batchelor.
Dr. William A. Bryan, vice chancellor for student
affairs, presented the Hoggard Medal to Sherrill Grady
McCarley. McCarley received the medal for the most
improvement and progress in the time she has spent
attending UNCW.
During commencement. Dr. E. Walton Jones, vice
president for research and public service for the UNC
system, greeted the graduates for UNC President
William Friday and the Board of Governors. He said he
was glad to be in Wilmington, home of UNCW —
“the flagship university of the North Carolina system,”
in Jones’ words.
Dr. Hubert A. Eaton, Sr., chairman of the board of
trustees of UNCW, told the graduates to “dare to
learn” and to follow the motto of the state of North
Carolina — “to be rather than to seem.”
Commencement speaker Stephen Wright said that
the world into which graduates of 1983 are going is
changing “in mega ways and at mega speeds.” He
said, “I urge you to live your life as a gift of time,
because there are no reruns of real life.”
Joseph Dale Fish was commissioned in ROTC
ceremonies after commencement. Above, his parents
pin on his second lieutenant bars.
ROTC Commissions 12 Cadets
UNCW commissioned 12 ROTC cadets as second
lieutenants Saturday, May 14, 1983, following com
mencement cxcercises at the university. This is the first
commissioning ceremony at UNCW since the ROTC
program began in May 1981. Captain Gordon S.
MacRae, assistant professor of military science and
director of the ROTC program at UNCW, said he was
very proud to be a part of this “first” at UNCW.
Lt. Col. Herbert Kerner, professor of military science
at Campbell University, was present at the exercises. He
told the newly-commissioned officers that, even if they
felt some trepidation about their new positions, they
were fully qualified and tough enough to meet the
demands of any job given to them.
UNCW’s first second lieutenants arc: Edward J.
Brock, Franklin D. Clark, James G. Currie, Joseph D.
Fish, Arthur E. Hohnsbehn, Thomas A. Hyde, Philip
G. Page, Scott B. Price, Joseph Register, Jerry M.
Swanner, Edward Timmons, and Fred D. Webb.
Three other cadets — Darren C. Wardwell, Douglas
R. Oswald, and Daniel F. Owen — will be corrunissioned
in July 1983.
Janet Johnson, who has been a member of this first
group, will stay at UNCW for another year and will be
commissioned in May 1984.
UNCW Graduates 29 Nurses
Nursing graduates completing the James Walker
Memorial Associate Degree Program in Nursing at
UNCW were pinned Saturday evening. May 14, 1983,
in ceremonies held in the University Union.
Twenty-nine graduates were pinned by the nursing
faculty after a talk by Mrs. Gene Eakes, faculty member
of the school of nursing at East Carolina University. The
pin is a badge or outward symbol of successful completion
of the nursing education program. It is held by many to
be even more significant to nursing graduates than the
cap, the traditional symbol, because the cap is earned
early in the program, while the pin represents the
culmination of work.
Are these three UNCW graduates really looking into the future, or is it our imagination? At left is Wanda Evans
Bell, one of a trio who received the Alumni Award. In the center is Sherry IMcCarley, who received the Hoggard
Medal. The 1983 graduate/alumnus on the right was not identified.