16 • Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina People and Organizations February 1994 ARIS&CUtJURE Arts Council of the Lower Cope Fear, Wilmington. Announced area artists to receive 1993-94 Emerging Artists Program awards; Virginia Davis, playwright; Barbara Gallagher, composer; Sally Mason, visual artist; Sharon Patterson, writer; Martha Burdette Roberts, ceramic sculptor; Cynthia Tyson, jazz artist. Carl McIntosh, vice-presi dent of development at Discovery Place, Charlotte. Received the designation of Certified Fund Raising Executive. Kathleen Gray. Named grants officer. North Carolina Museum of History. BUSINESS Monica Doss, Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Research Triangle Park. Re cognized as one of three national finalists in the "Sup porter of Entrepreneurship" category at the Entrepreneur of the Year conference spon sored by Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young and Merrill Lynch. Rudolph Pate, Raleigh. Named consultant to presi dent of Kersey & Associates Inc. David J. Herrell, Research Triangle Park. Named direc tor of National AIDS hotline, operated by the American Social Health Association. , Tradestar Foundation, Raleigh. Contracted with The Roper Group for executive directors for both companies. Charlotte A. Ranz, will head nonprofit Tradestar Foundation. Hugh Sample, elected president of Western North Carolina chapter of National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, Susan Huitt, outgoing president for Hickory-based chapter. Nationwide Insurance, Raleigh. Received the 1993 Wake County United Way Bronze Eagle Award for Employee Education and Voluntarism. Winn-Dixie, Raleigh. Awarded the 1993 Good Citizenship Awards to: Meredith College, Peace College, St. Augustine's College, St. Mary's College, Shaw University, Methodist Home for Children, Camp Oak Hill & Retreat Center, N.C. Child Advocacy Institute, the Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Pines of Carolina Girl Scouts of America and the Raleigh Police Department Youth Program. Diane Morgan, Greenville. Received the Associate Good Citizenship Award from Winn-Dixie. EDUCATION North Carolina Humanities Council, Greensboro. New Council members: Darnell Arnoult, Georgann Eubanks, Arche L. McAdoo, Elizabeth K. Minnich, Nancy D. Rigby, William D. Thomson. New staff member, Nona Lee Hinson. Diane C. Dilley, Raleigh. Elected vice president of the Dental Foundation of North Carolina. Jane Robertson McNabb, Tallahassee, Fla. Joined UNC-Charlotte as associate vice chancellor and director of development. North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Announced new members to the Richard Stanhope Pullen Society, formed to honor per sons making deferred or planned gifts to NCSU. Steven and Gayle Adams, Valeria C. Adams, Charles and Sandy Moore, Angier; C.Y. Jordan, Apex; Bryan and Pat Perry, Garner; W.F. and Mozelle Parker, Gibson; William and Dorothy Burns, Hillsborough; E. Carroll Joyner, Miley and Nancy Perry, Col. W.W. Stevens, Raleigh. N.E. Edgerton, Raleigh, honorary member. FOUNDATIONS Larry M. Biggs, James A. Rousseau II, Winston- Salem. Named to the adviso ry board of the Poor and Needy Division of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. Mac Everett, Charlotte. Named president of the board, Charlotte-Mecklen- burg Education Foundation. Succeeded Richard B. Priory. HEALTH Rockett, Burkhead, Lewis & Winslow of Raleigh, appointed public relations counsel for American Heart Association, Wake County division. Vickey Powell Crim, Durham. Won the Tiffany Award from Central N.C. Chapter of American Red Cross recognizing superior job performance by employ ees. SOCIAL CHANGE Debbie Rosenstein, Durham. Joining staff of Student Action with Farmworkers as new coordi nator of Into the Fields pro gram. SOCIAL SERVICES North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, Raleigh. Presented the 1993 Excellence in Affordable Housing award to five hous ing developments in Asheville, Ahoskie, Greensboro and Henderson. OBITUARY David Witherspoon, a founding director of the National Opera Co. in Raleigh, died Dec. 2, 1993. Witherspoon, who was 75, had administrative responsi bility for the A.J. Fletcher Foundation from its formation in the early the 1960s until he retired in 1988. David Witherspoon PEOPLE ITEMS ate due the fifth woiking day of the month. The Journal will print OS many items as space permits. Call (919) 829-8988 fot forms. Foxformslo: (919) 829-8919. Grants and Gifts ARTS UNC-W, R.T.P. $50,000 pledges from the Philip L. Von Every Foun dation and the John Wesley and Anna Flodgin Hanes Foundation tor capital campaign; $7,000 from Durham Regional Hospital for sup port of two PBS shows. N.C. Arts Council, Raleigh. 59 grants totalling $2.39 million to counties for arts councils, operating expenses and specific arts programs: $23,000, Alamance; $48,000, Alexander; $4,250, Ashe; $9,300, Beaufort; $91,136, Buncombe; $13,340, Burke; $4,000, Caldwelll; $11,540, Carteret; $23,200, Catawba; $2,500, Cherokee; $11,000, Clay; $11,000, Cleveland; $10,500, Columbus; $14,420, Craven; $30,500, Cumberland; $23,000, Dare; $1,000, Davidson; $8,250, Davie;$258,380, Durham; $7,600, Edgecombe; $212,102, Forsyth; $2,000, Franklin; $5,000, Gaston; $182,937, Guilford; $9,000, Halifax; $8,000 Haywood; $28,500, Henderson; $31,500, Hertford; $6,680, Hyde; $3,706, Jacbon; $6,000, Lee; $22,000, Madison; $456,957, Mecklenburg; $74,500, Mitchell; $7,500, Nash; $61,005, New Hanover; $^735, Northampton; $64,555, Orange; $2,000, Pasquotank; $23,000, Pitt; $600, Polk; $8,000, Randolph; $4,170, Richmond; $10,000, Robeson; $2,500, Rockingham; $8,050, Rowan; $9,000, Sampson; $1,095, Stanly; $10,000, Surry; $55,000, Swain; $54,000 Transylvania; $2,578, Tyrrell; $162,668, Wake; $55,580, Watauga; $10,275, Wayne; $17,165, Wilson; $1,950, Yadkin; $4,290, Yancey. The council also awarded $147,275 to various organizations that have a statewide impact on the arts including $5,000 to the Association of Symphony Orchestras; $4,000 to the N.C. Alliance for Arts Education; $1,175 to the N.C. Art Education Association; $47,100 to the N.C. Association of Arts Councils; $5,500 to the N.C. Dance Alliance; $7,000 to the N.C. Folklore Society; $5,500 to the N.C. Jazz Network; $15,000 to the N.C. Theater Conference; $ 1,000 to the N.C. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; $22,000 to the N.C. Writers Network; $22,000 to the United Tribes of N.C.; $12,000 to the Western Arts Agencies of N.C. a BUSINESS Council for Entrepreneurial Development, R.T.P. $1,000 each from Kitty Hawk Capital, Glaxo, Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan, Wheat First Butcher & Singer, Petree Stockton and Deloitte & Touche. Hosiery Technology Center, Catawba Valley Community College, Hickory. $5,000 from Western N.C. Chapter, National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers in support of continuing education of the hosiery industry. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem. Established $5,000 scholarship fund in honor of the late Nick Jeralds, former member of the N.C. General Assembly. Rural Entrepreneurship Through Action Learning, Chapel Hill. $120,000 from Pew Charitable Trust to complete an evaluation of the pro gram. EDUCATION UNC-Chapel Hill. $100,000 from Norfolk Southern Corp. to establish the Joseph R. Neikirk Term Professorship at the School of Education; $67,000 from Pew Charitable Trust for two-year project on history of religion in America. Agricultural Resources Center, Carrboro and Raleigh. $10,000 challenge grant from Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Foundation for Pesticide Education Project. Guilford Technical Community College Foundation, Jonestown. $ 10,000 from the Wesley Long Community Hospital Auxiliary for nursing scholarship. PLAYSPACE, Raleigh. $500 from Mary Cates for general purposes; $1,000 from John William Pope Foundation for general purposes; $2,000 from First Union tor Nov. Free Family Day; $2,000 from Burroughs Wellcome for Dec. Free Family Day; $500 donation, Wachovia; $500, Deloitte & Touche for Polaroid camera and slide slow; $200, NationsBank; $100, Highsmith Insurance Associates; $100, Prudential Realty. Building Together, Inc,, Raleigh. $40,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for new computer center tor pre-school, school-age children; $29,000 from the Hillsdale Fund, also for the center. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. $35,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to support publication of books in the fields of women's stud ies and African American studies. North Carolina State University, Raleigh. $666,000 over five years from Nalco Chemical Co. to estab lish the Worley H. Clark Jr. Distinguished University Professorship in the College of Engineering. MBA Enterprise Corps of the Kenan Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill. $100,000 from Aon Corp of Illinois to assist countries that are converting to free-market economies, N.C. School of the Arts, Winston- Salem. $ 10,000 from The Academy Foundation to the School of Filmmaking for video software. Durham Day Care Council. $44,652 from the Division of Child Development to improve quality of care and to provide options to par ents that use unregulated day care. North Carolina Humanities Council, Greensboro. Eight grants: $9,972, Filmmakers' Collaborative in Watertown, Mass, for a film on George Wallace; $ 10,000, Mattye Reed African Heritage Center, N.C. A&T, Greensboro; $5,000, Political Science Dept., N.C. A&T; $2,368, N.C. Museum of Art; $5,000 to South Carolina Educational TV in Columbia; $3,574 to Winston-Salem State, Salem College for seminars; $7,772 to UNC-Greensboro's School of Nursing; $48,000 to Pembroke State University and the National Faculty in Atlanta, Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem. Five gifts totaling $142 mil lion; $150,000, Larry and Lynda Price, Charlotte, for School of Law; $350,000, late Roby Taylor for scholarships for accounting students; $ 100,000, Betty Davis Britt, Lumberton, and Jessie Leigh Davis Boney, Wilmington, for scholarships; $325,000, PhiTand Isabelle Sawyer, Elizabeth City, for scholarships; $125,000, Lance Foundation, Charlotte, for Jack Buchanan Scholarship Fund, Charles Heying, UNC-Chapel Hill. $13,988 from The Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector Research Fund for doctoral study on the role of civic nonprofit institutions in urban governance. Durham Public Education Net work. $20,000 gift of telecommuni cations from Northern Telecom, GTE and Central Carolina Bank, UNC-Chapel Hill. $10,000 from William W. and Elise P. Guthridge to purchase humanities material for undergraduate library. People for the American Way, Raleigh. $1,000 from the Paul Green Foundation to support North Carolina Students Teach and Reach peer education program. ENDOWMENTS The Duke Endowment: EDUCA TION: $2.9 million to Duke University; $725,000 to Davidson College; $750,000 to Furman University in Greenville, S.C.; $650,000 to Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte. HEALTH CARE: $250,000, AnMed Health Resources, Anderson, S.C., to estab lish a four-hospital network; $20,000, Ashe Memorial Hospital, Jefferson to support a fund develop ment department; $60,000, Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Lenoir, to establish a program to reduce infant mortality; $30,000, Charles A Cannon Jr. Memorial Hospital, Banner Elk, to establish a geriatric assessment program; $ 183,650, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, to fund a health outreach program to new mothers; $20,000, Chowan Hospital, Edenton, fora fund development program; $60,000, Community Based Alternatives, Rockingham, to build house for developmentally disabled children; $20,000, Community General Hospital, Thomasville, to establish a development department; $175,000, Duplin General Hospital, Kenansville, for an expansion/reno vation program; $45,000, Grace Hospital, Morgantan, for the AIDS Leadership Foothills Alliance; $685,000, Iredell Memorial Hospital, Statesville, for various pro grams; $60,350, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Greensboro, for wellness programs; $79,500, MUSC Medical Center, Charleston, S.C., to establish a post-graduate nutrition internship program; $25,000, Northern Hospital of Surry County, Mount Airy, to operate two rural health centers; $135,300, Oconee Memorial Hospital, Seneca, S.C., to form a community health-care net work with other hospitals; $ 100,000, Roper Health Services, Charleston, S.C., to fund a homeless shelter medical clinic; $50,000, South Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Columbia, S.C., to support a net work of counseling centers; $40,000, Wake County Alcoholism Treatment Center, Raleigh, to hire a pharmacist; $58,000, Williamsburg County Memorial Hospital, Kingstree, S.C., to renovate and equip the intensive care unit. CHIL DREN'S SERVICES: $10,592, Barium Springs Home for Children, to assist in cost of accreditation; $15,750, Cherokee Boys Club, for home- based instruction program; $50,000, The Children's Home Society of North Carolina, Greensboro, to assist with a merger with the Child Care Ministry; $35,000, Children Unlimited, Columbia, S.C., to estab lish a Post Placement/Post Legalization Support Services Program; $40,000, Eliada Home for Children, Asheville to renovate cot tages, purchase vehicles; $24,500, Methodist Home for Children, Raleigh to establish a Child Day Care Consultant Program; $138,000, North Carolina Child Care Association, Lexington, for training and scholarships; $51,500, South Carolina Association of Children's Homes and Family Services, Columbia, for training and scholarships for staff of children's homes; $4,000, Development Seminars For Individual Children's Agencies, to sponsor seminars for board members of children's homes. CHURCH PROGRAMS: $89,525, Duke University's Divinity School for various uses; $817,632, N.C. and W.N.C. Conferences of the United Methodist Church for pensions to ministers and energy efficiency in church buildings; $777,632 to N.C. Conference of United Methodist Church, for pensions; $246,000 to 13 Methodist churches for building Look for GRANTS, page 16 GRANTS, GIFTS AND DEAD- UNB or8 due the fifth wtlang doy of themoni. H» Jsumol vnl mits. Y'-' M (919) 829-8988 for forms, ffflcforrnsto: (919) 829-8919.

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