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Wake Law named a 'Best Value'
Wake Forest University School of Law is once
again among the nation's "Best Value" law schools,
according to the National Jurist and prel.aw maga
zines.
Wake Forest is among 60 law schools that made
me list 01 Best value taw
schools, preLaw magazine
announced this week. This is the
fifth time since 2(K>4 that the
magazine has honored law
schools for providing a good
value. The methodology was
modified this year to enhance
fairness.
The magazine's ranking takes
into account in-state tuition.
debt and the percent of graduates employed nine
months after graduation, in addition to bar passage.
The magazine will not a-lease the final ranking and
grades of the 60 honorees until the Fall issue, which
ships in early October.
The Wake Forest University School of I .aw offers
six degree programs: the JD. the JD/MDiv. the
JD/MA in Religion, the JD/MA in Bioethics. the
Master of Laws in American Law and the JD/MBA in
conjunction with the university's Schools of
Business.
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Fain joins Brady
Brady has hired David Fain as a service techni
cian for the Winston-Salem
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lation and air-conditioning
maintenance and repair.
Headquartered in
Greensboro. Brady has
offices in Raleigh.
Fayetteville. Wilmington
and Charlotte. The family
owned company employs
327 associates.
Brady provides high-effi
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tilation. and air conditioning) systems and com
prehensive building solutions tor commercial and
industrial facilities across the state.
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Deese elected A&T Board chair
Willie A. Deese, executive vice president and pres
ident of the Merck Manufacturing Division, has been
elected chairman of North
Carolina A&T Stale
University Board of Trustees.
Deese was elected at the
bo;ird's retreat in July. He
replaces Pamela McCorkle
Buncum .
Deese is responsible for
Merck's worldwide manufac
turing operations. He over
sees 85 manufacturing and dis
tribution sites in over 25
countries around the world
with 26,(XX) people reporting to him and with an
operating bucket of $9 billion. He is also responsi
ble for Merck's global procurement organization.
Deese serves as a member of Merck's Executive
Committee.
Deese earned his B.A. in business administration
at A&T in 1977. and his M.B.A. at Western New
England College in 1483. He and his wife. Carol,
live in Doylestown. Pa.
Patricia Miller Zollar has been elected vice chair
of the board. Albert (Al) Shuler Lineberry Jr. has
been elected secretary of the Board. Other members
serving on the Board are Stanley L. Allen. Spence
Broadiurst. Pamela McCorkle Buncum. Karen J.
Collins. Charles C. Comelio. Emerson U. Full wood.
Janice Bryant Howroyd, Christian Robinson. Bertram
Walls and Faye Tate Williams.
Deesr
Wake welcomes Turkheimer
Richard J. Turkheimer is the new assistant direc
tor of Development at Wake Forest University
School of Law .
turkneimer orings a
wealth of experience and
knowledge to Wake Forest.
He has more than 25 years of
national radio sales experi
ence. A few of his past posi
tions include General Sales
Manager and Director of Sales
with Cox Broadcasting;
Director of Sales and National
Sales Manager with Clear
Channel; Manager of
National Sales / Affiliations
with Associated Press Radio: and Affiliations
Manager (Western U.S.) with Trartle.com/Navteq.
He comes to the law school most recently from
Graylyn International Conference Center.
A New York native, Turkheimer is no stranger to
North Carolina. He lived in Chapel Hill for a num
ber of years and worked in sales at radio stations in
?Raleigh and Charlotte. He and his wife moved to
Winston-Salem after they were displaced from their
New Orleans home of 15 years by Hurricane
Katrina. His wife, Mary Ashley Manning, was born
and raised in Winston-Salem. Six years ago they
came to stay with her mother after the storm and
decided to make Winston-Salem home.
Among Turkheimer's goals for his new role is to
further engage alumni, faculty, the parents of stu
dents and friends of the school and advance Dean
Blake D. Morant's vision.
Turkheimer
Hispanic woman
named leader of
Girl Scouts USA
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Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has
announced that Anna Maria Chavez, who grew up
in a small town in southern Arizona and rose to
become deputy chief of staff to that state's then
Gov. Janet Napolitano. has been appointed to the
top post at the iconic organization.
Chavez is set to officially assume her new role
at the Girl Scouts National Council Session/52nd
Convention in November.
Chavez's appointment as the 19th chief execu
tive of Girl Scouts, among the largest and most
w idely recognized nonprofits in the country, comes
as the organization readies to launch a national cel
ebration as part of its 100th anniversary designed
to honor its
legacy anu
create urgency
around girls'
issues. She
will replace
K a t h y
C I o n i n g er ,
who is retir
ing after lead
ing the organ
ization for
eight years.
"Girl
Scouts is the
premier lead
ership organi
zation for
girls with a
t rai I b I azi ng
legacy that
stretches near
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said Chavez. Anna Maria Chavez
who currently
serves as chief
executive officer of Girl Scouts of Southwest
Texas. "The country has never needed Girl Scouts
more than it does today. What girls are accom
plishing in Girl Scouting is inspiring. 1 have seen
it firsthand in Texas, and I intend to tell that story
far and wide. I'm eager to work with our partners
across the country as the organization embarks on
a new century of empowering girls to take the lead
in their own lives and make a difference in their
communities and across the world."
Chavez was appointed chief executive of the
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas in 2009 after serv
ing as deputy chief of staff for urban relations and
community development for former Arizona gover
nor and current U.S. Secretary of Homeland
Security Janet Napolitano. As deputy chief of
staff, she promoted the governor's policies, pro
grams and initiatives through coordination and
partnership with city, county, and tribal govern
ments. federal agencies and community organiza
tions. In addition, she served as the governor's
policy advisor to the Arizona Department of
Housing and advised Napolitano on strategies for
coordinating housing and economic development.
Prior to being appointed as deputy chief of staff.
Chavez serv ed as Napolitano's director of intergov
ernmental affairs from 2003 to 2007. She also
served as in-house counsel and assistant director
for the Division of Aging & Community Services
(DACS) at the Arizona Department of Economic
Security. Chavez entered state government after
serving as senior policy advisor to U.S. Secretary
of Transportation Rodney E. Slater. Previously,
she had been chief of staff to the deputy adminis
trator at the U.S. Small Business Administration
(SBA) in Washington. D C. Chavez also served as
chief of staff for SBA's Office of Government
Contracting and Minority Enterprise
Development.
Chavez will take over as chief executive after a
dramatic period of change for the organization.
Cloninger has led Girl Scouts through a historic
transformation designed to ensure that the organi
zation delivers the best leadership experience for a
new generation of girls whose lives ? and the
opportunities they face? are ever changing.
LEADERSHIP
- WINSTON-SALEM
Igniting Community Leadership
Leadership Winston-Salem
Board has new leadership
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LcuuLTsnip winsion
Salem has announced the
addition of three new mem
bers of its Board of Directors
and the election of officers.
Chairing the Board of
Directors this year is Dr.
Shari B. Covitz of Forsyth
Technical Community
College. Other officers
include Vice Chair Cheryl D.
Joyner, BB&T: Secretary
Alison Y. Ashe-Card.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge &
Rice; Treasurer Benjamin
Rowe. City of Winston
Salem: and immediate past
Chair Pamela D. Corbett.
Spectrum Psychological
Services.
Newly appointed board
members include Jeffrey T.
Lindsay, horsyth Medical
Center; C. Edward Pleasants, co
founder of Leadership Winston-Salem
and community volunteer; and E.
Scott Seawell. Wells Fargo.
The Board of Directors
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tions of outgoing board mem
bers Mary L. Cameron,
Clemmons Village Council,
and Donna H. Hamilton,
Wake Forest University.
Cameron has served on the
Board for the past seven years
and will continue her
involvement as a planning
committee member.
With a mission of educat
ing, connecting and energiz
ing leaders to serve and
improve the community.
Leadership Winston-Salem, a
501(c)(3) tax-exempt charita
ble organization founded in
1984, offers a nine-month
program that challenges par
ticipants to increase their per
sonal and collective capacity
to transform the community
through civic engagement, servant
leadership and building social capital.
Covitz
Ashe-Card
Local CFOs honored
CHRONIC! L STAll REPORT
Winston-Salem State University Vice Chancellor for Finance
Administration Gerald Hunter and Denise C. Bell, the chief
financial officer for the City of Winston-Salem, were among the
18 financial executives honored recently by The Business
Journal.
The publication held its annual CFO of the Year Awaixk pro
gram on July 27 at High Point University. The program recog
nized CFOs from five different areas. Hunter was a finalist in
the Government Category, which was won by Bell.
Hunter was selected as a finalist because of his vision and
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gale the effects of state budget reductions on the campus. He
was also noted for lis grace and patience in dealing with the
budget uncertainty.
He was named WSSU's CFO on June 23. 2(H)8. Prior to
his appointment. Hunter held the position of chief financial offi
cer at Antioch University in Yellow Springs. Ohio.
"CFOs have long been key advisers wherever they work, but
it is evident that their stock is only going up." said Douglas W.
Copeland. Jr. president and publisher of The Business Journal of
the Triad. "Increasingly, CFOs are being called up by top exec
utives as strategic thinkers and problem solvers."
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Hunter
Proudly Serving Two Traditions
Submitted Photo
Retired Marine Major General Charles Bolden, the current NASA
Administrator, was among the droves in Washington, D.C. in July
to celebrate the centennial of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Here,
Bolden, an Omega Man, poses with other Marines who are also
members of the fraternity .
Persistent activist continues fight to be 'NJWeedman.com'
CHRONIC 1 I S I M l REPORT
Patent attorney Curtis
Edmondson of Beaverton. Ore.
has begun to argue a California
Appellate Court case on behalf
of activist Ed Forchion. who
wants the right to legally
change his name to
NJWeedman.com.
Edmondson is seeking to
bring closure to an effort that
has engaged Forchion in as far
back as 2001 . That's when Ed
Forchion. while in prison, first
approached the courts with a
request to change his legal
name to NJWeedman.com.
Should Forchion get his way.
he will be the first person to
ever legally change his name to
a dot.com."
Forchion has been an inter
nationally recognized advocate
in the battle to legalize mari
juana in the United States for
more than a decade.
NJWeedman.com is an actual
pro-marijuana legalization Web
Photo courtesy of H. Forchion
Ed Forchion
site that Forchion operates. It
features news items in favor of
his cause, promotions for pro
legalization events and an
option for visitors to the site
to donate to his legal fund.
Forchion's public displays
of civil disobedience have
included lighting up a joint in
front of the New Jersey State
Assembly and at the Liberty
Bell in Philadelphia.
Yet. nothing in the last
decade has deterred Forchion in
his determination to change his
name to NJWeedman.com.
"This battle started in New
Jersey back in 2001
when I wanted to
change my name to
NJWeedman.com."
Forchion said. "Now.
over 10 years later, the
internet has exploded
and the stakes are even
higher."
Edmonds on
adds. "In this age of
internet computing.
where people are judged more
by their computer profile on a
Facebook account than the grip
of their handshake, the desired
replacement of a person's
'actual name' with their
'domain name' is bound to
occur."
Over the last decade,
Forchion's case has been
argued and denied in several
courts, most recently in Los
Angeles last year. After relocat
ing from New Jersey to Los
Angeles. Forchion petitioned
the California Courts to legal
ly change his name to
N J Weedm an . com .
In one opinion, a
judge ruled that a
'.com' name would
be confusing to peo
ple. and the owner
ship of dot corns are
the property of
ICANN (Internet
Corporation for
Assigned Names and
Numbers*
Forchion disagreed with the
verdict and filed an appeal.
Forchion is the founder of
the Legalize Marijuana Party
of New Jersey and has run pre
vious politieal campaigns in
New Jersey for Governor. U.S.
Senate. Congress, the State
Legislature, and the Burlington
County (N.J.) Board of
Freeholders.
Edmondson