October 1994
Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina • 1 7
People and Organizations
ARTS & CULTURE
N.C. Arts Council awards
to: Carol Childs, Durhann,
and Rick McCullough,
Winston-Salem, $8,000
choreographer fellowships;
Kathleen Hannon and
Alex Weiss, Durham,
$8,000 song composers' fel-
Jowships; Paul Dawson, La
Grange, $8,000 playwright
fellowship; Alyson Colwell-
Waber, Cary, and Medina
Keita, Durham, project
grants totaling $9,000 from
the council's Dance
Choreographers Fellowship
Program.
N.C. Arts Council Visual
Artist Project Grants: $5,000
to Cedric Chatterley,
Durham; $4,600 to Terri
Dowell-Dennis, Winston-
Salem; $5,000 to Donald
Furst, Wilmington; $5,000
to Raymond Grubb,
Charlotte; $4,500 to Robert
Johnson, Durham; $5,000
to Jeff Leighton, Raleigh;
$5,000 to Kim DeCoste,
Raleigh; $3,840 to Ruth
Lyons, Charlotte; $2,060 to
Alice Sebrell, Charlotte;
$5,000 to Billie Ruth
Sudduth, Spruce Pine;
$5,000 to Rosie
Thompson, Hillsborough;
$5,000 to Louanne
Watley, Chapel Hill.
The City Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Raleigh,
awarded $10,000 fellowships
to Martin Johnson, Virginia
Beach, Va.; Lynn Marshall-
Linnemeier, Atlanta, Ga.;
and David Szafranski,
Dallas, Tx.
BUSINESS
Center for Creative
Leadership, Greensboro, staff
changes: Robert J. Lee, co-
chairman of Lee Hecht
Harrison consulting firm in
New York, named president
and CEO; Robert M.
Burnside, named senior
research and applications
associate in the Research
Group; Maxine A. Dalton,
promoted to research scientist
with the Product Development
Research Group; Lynn M.
Flick, promoted to marketing
associate in the Client
Relations/Marketing area;
Ann M. Fitzmaurice, pro
moted to publication business
development manager;
Robert A. Goldberg, joined
^he center as a program asso
ciate in Team Leadership
Development theme group;
Katherine B. Knott, pro
moted to program associate
in the Center's Educational
and Nonprofit area, Davida
Jones Sharp, joined the
Center as program assistant
in the Individual Leadership
Development theme group,
Frances M. Ward, promot
ed to marketing assistant for
public relations.
North Carolina Assistive
Technology Project,
Rafeigh, awarded 1994
Assistive Technology
Leadership Awards to: The
News & Observer, BTI
Telecommunications and
NationsBank.
Shelley S. Semmler,
named senior associate in
Durham office of Carol
O'Brien Associates fundrais
ing consulting firm.
Partnerships in Assistive
Technology named its first
Board of Directors: Judy
Burke, The ARC of North
Carolina; Barbara
Caldwell, Cued Speech
Center; Ricki Cook, N.C.
Div. of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services;
Jeannie Darquenne, Cary
resident; Michael Durfee,
Wake Teen Medical Services;
Marie Franks, Wachovia
Bank and Trust; Ned
Glascock, The News &
Observer; Paul Harrison,
Blue Cross Blue Shield; Mike
Michael, Digital Equipment
Corp.; Pat Porter, N.C. Div.
of Mental Health; Steven
Rubin, IBM Corp.; Alan
Silver, Rehab Therapy/Rehab
Home Care; and David
Yoder, UNC-CH. Elected
officers are: David Yoder,
president; Ricki Cook, vice
president; Alan Silver, trea
surer; and Barbara
Caldwell, secretary.
EDUCATION
Leslie Jill Atkins and
Sara Catherine Atkins,
Apex, received $1,000 grants
from the National Business
Technology Association for
educational expenses.
Susan D. Bourner named
director of Institutional
Advancement for Salem
Academy and College,
Winston-Salem ; Annette P.
Lynch, named director of
Development for the acade
my and college.
UNC-Wilmington awarded
Champion McDowell Davis
Scholarships to: Timothy E.
Ellis, Raeford; Shelley D.
Lancaster, Shallotte; and
Paul Cairney, Scotland. The
Sylvia & B.D. Schwartz
Graduate Fellowship was
awarded to Cindy Heffern.
Durham Public Education
Network appointed four new
board members: Leonard C.
Beckum, vice president and
vice provost of Duke
University; Richard Furr,
executive vice president for
Central Carolina Bank;
Ronald Swain, senior vice
president for Institutional
Advancement at Shaw
University; and Kay
Wellemeyer, treasurer for
Durham Public School's
Council of PTAs.
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Grants and Gifts
ARTS & CULTURE
The ArtsCenter, Raleigh, $1,000
from the Burroughs Wellcome Co.
Community Service Program to sup
port The ArtsCenter's Jazz Series and
its affiliated service organization. The
North Carolina Jazz Network. The
grant will be used to sponsor a free
worbhop for guitarists on October
23.
Greater Raleigh Community
Music School, $2,500 from the
United Arts Council and $2,000
from the R.P. Holding Foundation,
both of which will be used to match a
$5,000 challenge grant from the
National Guild of Community
Schools of the Arts. The grants will
help subsidize private music lessons
for economically disadvantaged chil
dren in the Raleigh area.
The Lost Colony, Manteo
America's longest-running outdoor
drama, $50,000 pledge from
Centura Bank of Manteo for an
Endowment Fund. Also, from
Sprint/Carolina Telephone and
Sprint/Centel Co., $370,000 for Lost
Colony publicity in the 1995 tele
phone directory, printing of 80,000
tickets and 750,000 playbills for the
1995 season.
Mint Museum of Art, $40,000
Museum Leadership Initiative grant
from the Institute of Museum Services
for Deciphering and Investigating
Great Societies, an in-school and in
museum program on Latin America
in collaboration with the Charlotte
Mecklenburg Schools.
From The North Carolina
Department of Cultural Resources
and the National Endowment for
the Arts: Alamance County:
Alamance County Arts Council,
$5,280 for 11 -week dance residen-
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cy; Alexander County:-Hiddenite
Center, $3,000 for two week visiting
artist residency; county rural school
system, $6,500 for two month the
ater residency; county Head Start,
$14,000; Buncombe County:
Southern Highland Craft Guild,
$2,500; Burke County: North
Carolina School for the Deaf,
$7,560 for one semester visual resi
dency; Caldwell County: Caldwell
Arts Council, $5,000 for artists in
schools residency program; KEY
players, $ 10,000 for three week resi
dency program in Catawba County;
Cherokee County: John C. Campbell
Folk School, $ 11,020 for folk dance
program; Columbus County: county
schools, $3,000 for one month
dance residency; Craven County:
Craven Arts Council and Gallery,
$4,700 for "A Day at the Improv;"
Cumberland County: Fayetteville
Museum of Art, $8,000 for restruc
turing tour for 4th grade students;
Currituck County: College of the
Albemarle, $4,500 for discipline-
based arts education; Durham
County: Brightleaf Music Workshop,
$2,500 for motivational sessions with
music educator and residency by
gospel singer/educator, $ 12,000 for
scholarship for teachers from low-
wealth communities; Edgemont
Community Center, $4,500 for after
school arts program; American
Dance Festival, $ 13,500 for multi
cultural awareness project; Center for
Documentary Studies, $9,000 for
photography and literacy program;
Duke University, $10,000 for dance
project with N.C. Dance Alliance;
Edgecombe County: Rocky
Mount/Edgecombe Community
Development Center, $2,500;
Forsyth County: Mount Tabor High
School, $300 for one-week mime
residency; Sawtooth Center for Visual
Art, $3,000 for visual arts education
for middle schools, workshops for
rural teachers, presentation to art
education association conference
and $19,980 for rural education
outreach project; Children's Theater
Board, $10,000 for storytelling festi
val in schools; Winston-Salem
Piedrriont Triad Symphony, $10,000
for year long string ensemble resi
dencies; Hyde County: Ocracoke
School, $2,350 for theater work
shops; McDowell County: McDowell
Arts and Crafts Association, $5,000
for arts residencies; Mecklenburg
County: Afro-American Cultural
Center, $3,000 for community arts
program; Children's Theater of
Charlotte, $2,500 for playwright in
the schools program and $5,000 for
violence prevention theater project;
Charlotte Repertory Theatre, $8,000
for theater outreach; Plaza Road
Preschool, $ 1,500 to develop plan
for arts education; Mitchell County:
Toe River Arts Council, $4,120 for
project on Latino culture in Mitchell
County Schools; New Hanover
County: Family Services of the Lower
Cape Fear, $3,950 for music enrich
ment program; New Horizons
Elementary School, $ 1,000 for music
residency; Arts Council of the Lower
Cape Fear, $25,000 for "At-"
School program; Orange County:
Blue Marble/Triangle Children's
Museum, $2,000 for teacher training
workshop on design and problem
solving and $3,600 for therapeutic
design project; Triangle Asian
American International Film Festival,
$4,000 for in-school film activities;
Pasquotank County: Pasquotank Arts
Council, $15,000 for arts program
for elementary students; Robeson
County: county schools, $3,295 for
music residency; Foothills Arts
Council, $7,000 for planning of arts
education program for elementary
and middle school students; Wake
County: Raleigh Little Theater,
$2,495 for outreach theater;
Artspace, $4,000 for summer arts
program for youth of color; City
Gallery of Contemporary Art, $8,000
to develop visual component of
Wake County public school curricu
lum; Latin America Resource Center,
$15,000 for multicultural program ;
Public School Forum of North
Carolina, $2,040 for N.C. Teaching
Fellows Junior conference on cultural
diversity; United Arts Council of
Raleigh and Wake County, $5,000
for teacher education program;
Yancey County: Toe River Arts
Council, $ 16,500 to develop pro
gram on Latin America for county
schools; Statewide: N.C. Art
Education Association, $1,735 for
staff development weekend; ARTS
North Carolina, $2,000 for mini-
conference; North Carolina Theater
Conference, $2,000 for workshops
on theatrical technologies and devel
opment of lesson plans; N.C.
Alliance for Arts Education, $21,000
for planning of alternative delivery
system for revised Standard Course
of Study.
BUSINESS
Council for Entrepreneurial
Development, Research Triangle
Park, grants of $1,000 from DaVinci
Systems Corp.; Bowne of Charlotte;
Massey Burch Investment Group;
Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson; Carolina
Power and Light; Cherokee Sanford
Group; Smith Anderson Blount
Dorsett Mitchell & Jemigan;
Associated Insurers Inc.; Moore &
Van Allen; and The North Carolina
Enterprise Corporation to support
entrepreneurship through education,
mentoring, capital formation and
networking.
EDUCATION
Appalachian State University,
John A. Walker College of Business,
Boone, $26,000 from the North
Carolina Association of Insurance
Women for an endowment to fund
scholarships for students plonning
careers in the insurance industry;
$9,600 from the Gatorade Sports
Science Institute for a study on the
effect of high carbohydrate bever
ages on the immune system.
Belmont Abbey College, Belmont,
$35,000 from the William Randolph
Hearst Foundation for scholarship
fund for disadvantaged students from
Gaston County.
Catawba College, Salisbury,
$77,500 from anonymous donor for
computer enhancement, environ
mental microbiology and biotechnol
ogy laboratory equipment, an aquat
ic testing device, and humidity con
trol renovations on the science build
ing; $817,000 charitable remainder
annuity trust from Glenn and Muriel
Kiser to provide scholarships to
accounting students in the Ketner
School of Business who are studying
to become certified public accoun
tants.
Charlotte Latin School, Charlotte,
$10,000 from The Benedict
Foundation of Independent Schools
to help fund the school's new Media
Center.
Elon College, $1 million from
Robert Model, owner of Mooncrest
Ranch in Cody, Wyo., for the capital
campaign.
Fuqua School of Business at Duke
University, Durham, $150,000,
three-year grant from Allied Signal
Foundation for "Competitive Business
Strategy," experiential learning pro
gram.
Greensboro College, yearly gifts
of $ 100,000 from Jane and Royce
Reynolds for development and
expansion of the Chaplaincy and
Campus Ministry program and the
establishment of a comprehensive
ethics program for all majors.
Johnson C. Smith University.,
Charlotte, $30,000 from the William
Randolph Hearst Foundation for
scholarship funds.
Junior Achievement, Raleigh,
$2,500 from Sprint Cellular for
hands-on, economic education pro
grams to students in kindergarten
through 12th grade.
Lenoir-Rhyne College, $789,000
from the estate of Donald W.
Bumgarner, Hickory, for unrestricted
National Humanities Center,
Research Triangle Park, $30,000
from the William Randolph Hearst
Foundation for scholarship fund for
secondary-school teachers attending
summer institutes.
Peace College, Raleigh,
$ 100,000 from the estate of Mary C.
Howard Leggett to renovate the Little
Theatre; $11,803 from the North
Carolina Humanities Council to
underwrite the costs of "Southern
Women's Voices"; $50,000 from
Josephine Beatty for the George H.
Chadwick Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Fund and for college capital cam
paign $25,000 from Betsy Bunting
Boddie for capital campaign.
Shaw University, Raleigh, $500
from the Capital City Sertoma Club
for the University's speech and hear
ing clinic.
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, $1.5 million from the
Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust for
program on molecular therapy for
human diseases; $275,000 in
research grants to 13 UNC-CH sci
entists from Hoechst Celanese Corp.;
$21,500 to the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication from the
Reader's Digest Foundation for
scholarships, final installment of a
$54,500 gift made by the foundation
over three year; $ 100,000 from the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation to reorient
public-health-professions education
toward community based health ser-
University of North Carolina
Center for Public Television,
Research Triangle Park, $31,500
from Interstate/Johnson Lone to sup
port broadcast of Wall Street Week,
an economic and financial news pro
gram; $5,000, from the
Tannenbaum-Stemberger
Foundation and $2,500 from the
Florence Rogers Charitable Trust to
support MATHLINE, an effort that
uses technology to improve mathe
matics education in middle schools.
University of North Carolina's
Kenan-Flagler Business School,
$ 17,000 worth of executive office
furniture from Burroughs Wellcome
Co. and artwork from the Ackland
Art Museum for the school's MBA
admissions office.
Wake Forest University, $5 million
pledge from Cliff Clarke, San
Francisco-based international busi
ness consultant, to expand interna
tional study opportunities through
facirlty chairs and professorships,
scholarships, and curriculum devel
opment.
ENVIRONMENT
Student Environmental Action
Coalition, Chapel Hill, $25,000 from
the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation to
organize and train college and high
school students to be environmental
activists on their campuses and in their
communities.
Clean Water Fund of North
Carolina, Raleigh, $15,000 from the
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation to pro
tect ground water in North Carolina
by organizing and assisting citizens
groups and by developing state policy
initiatives and advocating their adop
tion.