June 1994
Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina • 1 7
People and Organizations
ARTS & CULTURE
Noel Lee "Skip" Dunn, Winston-
Salem. Received Leadership in the
Arts Award, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem.
Katey Boerner, Raleigh. Named
executive director for Artsplosure.
Katey Boerner
Linda Tall Sigmon, Oxford.
Named director of development at
the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Mary B. Regan, Raleigh.
Received Career Service Award for
her work with the North Carolina Arts
Council.
Governor James B. Hunt recog
nized twelve businesses and non
profit organizations for their contribu
tions to North Carolina's cultural cli
mate. Hiddenite Center, Inc.,
Hiddenite; Union County
Community Arts Council, Monroe;
Greater Winston-Salem Chamber
of Commerce, Winston -Salem;
Wilkes Chamber of Commerce,
North Wilksboro; Alvaro
Coronado, Wilson; Cedar Creek
Gallery and Pottery, Creedmoor;
Herman Construction Company,
Jefferson; Bank of Granite, Hickory;
El Mex Restaurant, New Bern;
Southern Webbing Mills Inc.,
Greensboro; Northern Telecom,
Inc., Research Triangle Park;
Southern Bell, Charlotte.
John G. Medlin Jr., Winston-
Salem. Named chairman of the
board of the Thomas S. Kenan
Institute for the Arts.
David Ballesteros, Cary.
Honored by Glaxo, Inc. for donating
more than 124 hours to Artspace in
Chapel Hill.
W. B. "Bill" Austin, Jr., Winston-
Salem. Named food solicitor of the
Food Bank of Northwest North
Carolina.
Monica Doss, Research Triangle
Park. Awarded 1994 Leadership
Award for entrepreneurial leadership
and for promoting the interests of
women managers in North Carolina.
Steve Denning, Cary. Elected
governor of Rotary International
District 7710.
Stan Ingram, Middlesex.
Honored by Glaxo, Inc. for donating
more than 1,100 hours to the Tar
River Composite Squadron Civic Air
Patrol.
EDUCATION
Phi Kappa Phi honor society,
UNC-Wilmington. Inducted ninety-
six students and four faculty mem
bers. Dr. William Dallas Herring was
guest speaker at the ceremony.
Thomas C. Shandley, Davidson
College. Appointed vice president
for Student Life and Dean of
Students.
Dr. Beth Wilson, Raleigh.
Appointed Alumni Distinguished
Professor, North Carolina State
University.
Dr. Louis Adcock, Wilmington.
Selected for the North Carolina
Distinguished Senrice to the
Profession of Chemistry Award 1994.
Mike C. Coffey,Greensboro.
Appointed manager of employment
and salary administration for the
Center for Creative Leadership.
Sylvester Taylor, Greensboro.
Promoted to director of the
Computer Senrices Group of the
Center for Creative Leadership.
Jeanne H. Kerstiens, Rocky
Mount. Named director of founda
tion and alumni relations for North
Carolina Wesleyan College.
Frederick V. Moore, Rocky
Mount. Promoted to vice president of
development and general counsel for
North Carolina Wesleyan College.
Cindy Hope, Rocky Mount.
Promoted to assistant to the president
for North Carolina Wesleyan
College.
Marion Jones, Durham.
Honored by Glaxo, Inc. for donating
more than 500 hours to Sherwood
Githens School in Durham.
Brenda Penney, Winston-Salem.
Appointed director of Donor Services
for the Winston-Salem Foundation.
Steve Johnson, Grace Vineyard,
Hendersonville. Appointed to the
board of directors Community
Foundation of Henderson County.
Mary Wheless, Raleigh. Named
volunteer chairperson for the 1995
"A Toast to the Triangle" fundraising
event for the Tammy Lynn Center.
O. Morton Congleton, Raleigh.
Appointed Capital Campaign chair
man for Project Gaddy, Raleigh.
Helmer N. Ekstrom, New York,
N.Y. Appointed president of the
American Association of Fund-
Raising Counsel, Inc. and the AAFRC
Trust for Philanthropy.
Gene Whitmire and John
Heath, Raleigh. Named co-chair
men, The Charlie Gaddy Invitational
Golf Tournament to benefit United
Cerebral Palsy of North Carolina.
HEALTH
Linda Castleberry, Tom
Maskornick, Charles Benz, Donald
Woodin, Lynne Spiller and Robb
Myer, named partners at First
Counsel, Inc. Charlotte.
Jim Graeber, Concord, Linda
Jones, Kinston. Appointed members
of North Carolina Senior Games,
Inc. Board of Directors.
Alice Keene, Greenville.
Received Robert L. Mason
Distinguished Service Award for her
work as president of the North
Carolina Senior Games, Inc. Board
of Directors.
Frank Charlotte, Charlotte,
Named division director of the
American Heart Association, North
Carolina.
James Barry, Chapel Hill.
Named deputy executive vice presi
dent of the American Heart
Association, North Carolina.
Ann H. Stephens, Winston-
Salem. Appointed area executive
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Grants and Gifts
Center for Public Television.
$1,000 grant from Berina World of
Sewing and New Bern Fabric
Center to support broadcast of the
new PBS series "Sewing Today;"
$100,000 grant from State Farm
Insurance Companies to support
broadcast of the series "The
Woodwright's Shop;" $12,000
grant from The Intimate Bookshop
to support the "Reading Rainbow
Book Club;" $ 18,000 grant from
Carolina Power & Light Company to
support broadcast of the series
"Hometime."
The Women's Center
Raleigh. $10,000 grant from
Glaxo
in support of the Center's Tenth
Annual Art Show.
Museum of Life and Science
Durham. $30,000 grant from The
A. J. Fletcher Foundation for the
exhibit "What Makes Music?" on
display from May 28 - Sept. 5,
1994.
Greater Durham Chamber of
Commerce. Chamber members
Bob and Susan Scott-Hopkins have
committed their Company, Impact
Commercial Photography Studios,
to the "Education; Top Priority" pro
gram to promote education.
Council for Entrepreneurial
Development. $1,000 grants from
Alex Brown & Sons and Apex
Bioscience, Inc. for the encourage
ment and support of entrepreneur-
ship through education, mentoring,
capital formation and networking.
NationsBank. Statewide
founding sponsor for support of
Senior Games programs statewide.
Appalachian State University
$50,000 endowed scholarship from
Dr. Elbert V. Bowden, professor of
banking in Appalachian State
University's Walker College of
Business.
Belmont Abbey College.
$45,000 from Fulbright-Hayes for
Project Abroad Program to send 12
Gaston and Mecklenburg public
and private educators to the Middle
East for a 5-week seminar.
North Carolina Alliance of
Community Financial Institutions.
$16,000 in scholarships for four
high school seniors.
Shaw University. $200,000
grant from the United Negro
College Fund and the Ford
Foundation to help ward off acts of
violence within Wake Public
Schools.
UNC-Chapel Hill $250,000
gift from Frank and Carol Stout
toward a new building at the School
of Dentistry; $15,000 gift from
Sprint/Carolina Telephone to
underwrite a year-long fellowship
for a female or minority doctoral
candidate's first year of study.
. UNC- Wilmington. $50,000 gift
from Landmark Homes, Inc. to
establish the Landmark Homes
Merit Endowment Scholarship;
$200,000 from NationsBank to
establish the NationsBank growing
Scholars Program; $240,000-
$400,000 Principle Fellows
Program , funded by the North
Carolina General Assembly for
scholarships for people seeking a
master's degree in educational
administration; $21,000 from
Sphinx Pharmaceuticals awarded to
Dr. Joseph Pawlik for a collabora
tive project investigating pharmaco
logical activities of extracts of
marine organisms; a summer
stipend by the National Endowment
for the Humanities awarded to Dr.
Keith Newlin, assistant professor of
English for research; $8,000
awarded to Dr. David Webster for
his research at Elbow Lakes Estates,
Chesapeake, Virginia by Langley
and McDonald Company.
Brevard College. $ 10,000 gift
from a trust set up by Clyde R.
Hoey, Jr. for his wife, Ruth M. Hoey.
North Carolina Wesleyan
College.$24,000 grant from the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc, in
support of the College's radio sta
tion; $15,000 from ITG Companies
for renovation of the Pearsall Fine
Arts Center; $ 11,500 from the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan
Foundation for scholarships.
For construction of new perform
ing arts complex; $ 12,500 from
Southern Bank, $25,000 from the
Rocky Mount Merchants
Association, $30,000 from First
Citizens Bank, $15,000 from
Standard Products, $10,000 each
from D. J. Rose & Son and Carolina
Power and Light Company, and
$100,000 from Centura Bank and
Boddie-Noell Enterprises.
ENVIRONMENT
The Eureka Vacuum Cleaner
Company.
Award of recognition to Brendle's
for its participation in the "World
Vac Helping Our World Program,"
under which a portion of the pur
chase price of World Vac vacuum
cleaners sold by Brendle's is donat
ed to the National Parks
Foundation and the American Heart
Association.'
FOUNDATIONS
Community Foundation of
Henderson County. $3,000,
American Red Cross; $ 1,000, Blue
Ridge Prison Ministry; $4,000, The
Diocese of WNC; $2,000, The
Healing Place; $1,000, Human
Services Institute; $1,000, Hunger
Coalition; $1,000, Interfaith
Assistance Ministry; $2,500, United
Way; $1,000, Environmental
Conservation Org.; $2,800,
Charles Richard Hedge, aged 5;
$500, Hospice; $1,000, Trend
Mental Health; $1,000, United
Way; $300, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Foundation; $500, Washington
State University; $1,000, Blue Ridge
Community College; $500,
Henderson County Public Schools;
$3,000 Henderson Symphony;
$800, Four Seasons Arts Council;
$6,000, Pardee Hospital; $1,613,
Interfaith Assistance Ministry;
$5,000, Absolute Theatre; $8,000,
Blue Ridge Community Health
Services; $2,600, Children's
Christmas; $3,000, Dispute
Settlement Center; $200,
Downtown Hendersonville; $1,000,
First United Methodist Church-
Preschool scholarships; $2,500,
The Healing Place; $2,000 H.C. 4-
H & Youth Development; $1,200,
H.C. Solid Waste Management;
$450, Henderson County Public
Schools; $4,000 Housing
Assistance Corporation; $1,500,
Interfaith Assistance Ministry;
$3,300, Mainstay; $5,000, Parent
Assistance League.
Community Foundation of
Western North Carolina. Twenty-
seven new grants, $91,753.60:
$7,500, Affordable Housing
Coalition of Asheville and
Buncombe County, for creation of
affordable housing; $3,000,
AWAKE, to train local professionals
in how to work on child abuse and
neglect cases; $5,000, Blue Ridge
Community Action, to provide train
ing for developing home day care;
$1,000, Cherokee County Arts
Council ,to help support a part-time
executive director; $3,000, Eliada
Homes, to expand the Alternatives
for Families Program; $905, Family
Services Center, for a new council-
ing program in Buncombe County;
$2,000, A Father's Place, for devel
opment of a center to serve the
needs of fathers in Buncombe
County; $500, Historic Resources
Commission for Asheville and
Buncombe County, to develop a
retrospective exhibit on architect
Richard Sharp Smith; $5,000,
Hospitality House of Asheville, to
operate loan pool Jo help homeless
people pay initial expenses for inde
pendent living accommodations;
$3,500, Intermountain Children's
Services, to provide swimming
lessons for low income pre-school
ers; $2,000, Lewis Rathbun
Wellness Center, to purchase play
ground equipment.; $2,000,
Macon Citizens Enterprises, to mod
ify work stations at the sheltered
workshop and settings in the com
munity to provide for disabled
employees; $3,000, Macon
Program for Progress, to open an
office to be used by multiple social
service agencies; $1,500, Magnolia
House, to help start a Mobile Crew
at this day program for mentally ill
adults in Rutherford County;
$2,000, Mountain Housing oppor
tunities, to purchase play equipment
for affordable housing in East
Asheville; $2,500, New
Beginnings/Office of Rural
Education at Western North
Carolina University, toward work
shops and individual follow-up for
low-income parents; $4,5O0, Pack
Place Education, Arts and Science
Center, to help launch an annual
Summer Shakespeare Festival;
$1,000, Penland School of Crafts,
provide scholarships for needy chil
dren to attend Art and Nature Day
Camps in Mitchell and Yancey
Counties; $10,000, Pisgah Legal
Services, to launch Children's Law
Project, in Buncombe, Rutherford,
Polk, Transylvania, Madison and
Henderson Counties; $7,500,
Riverlink, for development of public
greenways; $7,500, Southern
Environmental Law Center, for poli
cy work on the Southern
Appalachian Mountain Initiative;
$2,500 Southern Reconciliation
Ministries, to renovate this agency
that provides food/clothing/emer
gency assistance to needy citizens in
Yancey County; $1,000,
Transylvania Literacy Council, for
new workplace-oriented tutoring to
help unemployed and under
employed residents of Transylvania
County; $5,000, WNC Community
Health Services, to support a startup
for day health care program in
Asheville for low-income adults with
the HIV virus or AIDS; $6,000,
WNC Habitat for Humdnity, to sup
port renovations of Habitat's Home
Store in downtown Asheville;
$848.60, WNC Regional Child
Abuse Center, to purchase books
and videos for the Center's library;
$1,500, Yancey County 4-H, for
three-day environmental camp ses
sions for youths from Avery,
Mitchell, Yancey and Madison
Counties.
Fund for Southern Communities
Awarded $64,500 in grants. N.C.
recipients were: $1,500 to
Grassroots Leadership, Charlottte;
$2,000 Hobgood Citizens Group,
Hobgood; $3,000 West End
Community Center, Durham;
$1,000 Robeson Defense
Committee, Robeson; $4,500
Alamance Gay and Lesbian
Alliance, Haw River; $3,140 Gay
and Straight Alliance, Chapel Hill;
$1,000 North Carolina Lesbian and
Gay Pride, Charlotte; $ 1,200
Religion and Diversity Project,
Asheville; $2,000 North
Carolinians Against Racist and
Religious Violence, Durham;
$1,000 PRIDE, Asheville; $3,000,
Center for Women's Economic
Alternatives, Ahoskie; $2,500,
North Carolina Worthy Wage
Campaign; $4,000, UNC
Housekeepers Association, Chapel
Hill.
Foundation For The Carolinas,
Charlotte. Awarded $36,000 in
grants: $5,000 to the Carolina
Foundation for Oral health, to hire
a clinic coordinator for a new den
tal clinic for the Uptown
Center/George Shinn Center in
Charlotte.; $5,000 to Charlotte
Emergency Housing, to hire part-
time research assistant for housing
program for women and families;
$3,000 to Crisis Assistance Ministry,
to develop a children's educational
play center at their facility; $5,000
to the Plaza Adult Living Service , to
open a new site for the adult care/
health care center in the Memorial
Baptist Church; $5,000 to
Shepherd's Center, to hire part-time
executive director to coordinate
activities for senior citizens in east
Charlotte; $5,000 to Turning Point
of Union County, to implement a
transitional housing program for
women and children; $8,000 to the
Foundation for The Carolines, in
summer campership grants.
First Gaston Foundation
$ 150,000 to Belmont Abbey
.College, to expand and enhance
business programs; $30,000 to The
Leadership Triangle Program, to
educate the next generation of local
leaders on the issues facing the
Triangle as a region.
The Pew Charitable Trusts.
$300,000, to MDC, Inc., Chapel
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