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Vol. VIII, No. 2
OCTOBER, 1983
Wachovia Endows
Business School With
Fund for Excellence
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company has given
$100,000 to UNCW’s Cameron School of Business
Administration. The endowment, given in
September, will establish the Wachovia Fund for
Excellence.
"We are very pleased to be able to continue sup
porting the university,” said Wachovia Senior Vice
President William H. Joyner, Jr., "and we look for
ward to a close relationship in the years ahead.”
Joyner presented the check to UNCW Chancellor
William H. Wagoner.
Dr. Norman R. Kaylor, dean of the business
school, said, "We are very excited about
Wachovia’s gift. They have assisted us in many
ways in the past.” Kaylor continued: "The
Wachovia Fund for Excellence likely will be used
to recruit outstanding new faculty in specialties
not currently offered here, and for faculty
research.”
In accepting the gift for the university. Wagoner
said, "Over the years, Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company has supported the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington in many different ways.
This gift to the Cameron School of Business Ad
ministration,” continued the chancellor, "is a very
significant milestone in the development of ex
cellence for our business administration majors.”
According to Kaylor, this brings to $800,000 the
amount committed in endowments to the Cameron
School of Business Administration, working
tov.’ard a fund raising goal of $3 million for the
school.
The Cameron School of Business Administration
accounts for approximately 20 percent of the
students enrolled in UNCW’s undergraduate pro
grams, and close to 40 percent of graduate enroll
ment at the university. The business school cur
rently has 30 faculty members.
Last yeEir was the first year UNCW offered a
master of business administration degree program.
This fall, 85 are enrolled in the MBA program,
which is designed for individuals who wanted to
pursue a degree while continuing to work full-time.
On hand for the presentation of the Wachovia endow
ment to the Cameron School of Business Administra
tion were, from ieft, Eugene B. Hardin, Jr., regional vice
president for Wachovia’s central region; Dr. William H.
Wagoner, UNCW chancellor; and William H. Joyner, Jr.,
senior vice president and Wachovia’s Wilmington of
fice executive.
Toplin Receives Grant
To Produce TV Series
Dr. Robert B. Toplin, professor of history at
UNCW, is now working on the pilot program of a
13-part television course about American history
since the Civil War. The program is being funded
by a $400,000 Annenberg Project grant to UNCW
and the South Carolina educational TV network
from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Toplin is project director for the series, which is
titled USA. Programs will be broadcast on public
television, and will also be available on videotape
for classroom use.
See TOPLIN, next page
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TOP PHOTO: Jacksonville area alumni listen to repre
sentatives from UNCW at a rally/pig pickin’ held last
year. BOTTOM PHOTO: Alumni from all over had a
great time at the annual social held last March. A big
pig was cooked (and eaten), the Go-Forth Cloggers
entertained, and the tables were opened for an eve
ning of fun gambling.
More Programs, More Needs
As Numbers of Alumni Rise
The Alumni Association at the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington has grown tremen
dously in the past couple of years. The alumni are
becoming more interested in what their alma
mater is up to, and UNCW is also aware of what
its former students are doing.
One of the ways we’ve seen this increase in in
terest is participation in the alumni rallies that
have been held across the state in recent months.
These rallies began this time last year with one
in Jacksonville. It was so popular with the folks
who attended that another rally/pig pickin’ was
held September 24 for the Jacksonville Eirea alum
ni. Other rallies were held last year in Greensboro',
Raleigh and Charlotte.
And the plans for this year look even better! So
far, Frank Bowen, UNCW alumni affairs officer,
says that rallies are being planned around several
away basketball games, to give the local alumni
a chance to "meet and greet” and then go out and
support their Seahawks. As of September, plans
were being finalized for rallies in Fayetteville on
December 3 during the Tobacco Tournament with
Campbell, Monmouth and Towson State; in
Charlotte December 28 during the UNC-Charlotte
Tournament with the host team plus Appalachian
State and N.C. A&T; in Raleigh January 18 for the
N.C. State game; and in Winston-Salem February
11 for the Wake Forest game. For details of the
rallies, you’ll be receiving information from Frank
Bowen later.
If you don’t live in one of the areas mentioned
above but want to attend one of the rallies and
games, call or write Frank at the UNCW Alumni
Affairs Office, UNCW, 601 South College Road,
Wilmington, N.C. 28403 (919) 791-4330, ext. 2616.
He’ll be glad to tell you what’s going on!
Another big way we’ve seen an increase in in
terest in the Alumni Association is the near dou
bling of donations to the Annual Fund for 1982-83.
Total dollar amounts went from $5400 in 1981-82
to almost $9000 in 1982-83. That’s a big increase,
and we thank all of you who helped us in the fund
drive.
We’re also planning more pre-game socials for
plenty of socializing before six of the home basket
ball games. Please take a look at the calendar in
this issue for dates.
Since 1975, the Alumni Association has given a
Distinguished Alumnus/a Award to a UNCW
graduate nominated by his or her peers. (There is
a nomination form in this issue.) In 1975, James
R. Cook received this award. Recipients in follow
ing years were: Robert S. King, 1977; R. Terrell
Horton, 1978; Jerry D. Coleman, 1979; W. Albert
Corbett III, 1980; Estell Carter Lee, 1981. There
were no awards given in 1976, 1982 or 1983. So
it is very important for you to nominate someone
you think is deserving of such an award. It’s one
way the Alumni Association can honor an out
standing alumnus/a.
The Alumni Association each year gives an
Alumni Achievement Award to the graduating
senior with the highest grade point average. In
1983, we gave three awards! Three seniors—now
alumni—graduated from UNCW with a perfect 4.0
average. These three outstanding alumni are
Christi Lynn Dennis, Wanda Evans Bell and
William Thurman Batchelor III.
What this all adds up to is that your alumni
association is doing more than ever before for you
and for UNCW. As the university grows (and it’s
growing fast!), so does the association. And as we
grow we hope to continue to offer even more ser
vices to you and to the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington.
ALUMNI CALENDAR
Nov. 28: pre-game social before LSU game
Dec. 3: alumni rally in Charlotte during Tobacco
Tournament
Dec. 10: pre-game social before N.C. AiSiT game
Dec. 28: alumni rally in Charlotte during Charlotte
Tournament
Jan. 4: pre-game social before William & Mary game
Jan. 18: alumni rally in Raleigh before N.C. State
game
Feb. 6: pre-game social before George Mason game;
also, plane leaves for trip to Honolulu, San Fran
cisco and Las Vegas
Feb. 11: alumni rally in Winston-Salem before Wake
Forest game
Feb. 25: pre-game social before East Carolina game
(HOMECOMING)
Mar. 1: pre-game social before Youngstown State
game
Mar. 10: annual social (with TV for die-hard ACC
fans!)
June 17: plane leaves for trip to "Alpine Country”
Pre-game socials will be in room 100 of the Universi
ty Union. For more information about the socials, con
tact Frank Bowen at 791-4330, Ext. 2616.