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News
UNC Benefactor 'Left No Clues'
Details about the man who
gave $28.6 million to UNC
are scarce, but his sister
says he had many interests.
Bv Jennifer Heffernan
and Derick Mattern
Staff Writers
Among other passions, UNC alum
nus David Clayton loved dancing.
Now, thanks to him and the life he
led, University officials and students can
dance to the tune of his will’s $28.6 mil
lion bequest to the University.
The money Clayton gave to the
University was not his first philanthrop
ic effort. He donated to the Lutheran
denomination and established the
Mamie C. Clayton Eye Fund.
Bom to Morris and Mamie Clayton
in Asheville on February 19, 1922,
David Benjamin Clayton grew up as the
youngest of three children.
Rosellen Clayton Gyland, his sister
and also a UNC graduate, remembers
his interests in Spanish, Doberman pin-
Man Given Death for Grisly Racial Murder
Associated Press
BRYAN, Texas - A jury decided
Thursday that racist ex-convict
Lawrence Russell Brewer should pay
with his life for the dragging death of a
black man, sending him to death row to
join a buddy who also took part in the
crime.
After 14 hours of deliberations over
two days, the jury rejected arguments
that a life sentence would be adequate
punishment for Brewer, 32.
“I’m not a death penalty fan, but this
is a situation where if you don’t give the
death penalty to this man, he’ll hurt and
BEQUEST
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Bill McCoy said. “I think of it as an
important focal point for all students.”
Twelve million dollars, the largest
allocation from the Clayton gift, will be
used to create 400 National Merit
Scholarships. Jerome Lucido, director of
admissions, said $600,000 would be
used yearly to create scholarship allot
ments of SI,OOO to $2,000 each. “This
will enable us to attract extraordinary
students from North Carolina and from
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schers and golf. “He played a beautiful
piano,” she said.
Gyland called him a brilliant man
and a hardworker. “He got up at 5 a.m.
every morning and made lists of tasks
for the day,” she said.
Clayton owned H&R Block franchis
es, agencies that help customers prepare
their taxes, in several states. He also
owned a printing business and Coosa
Island in Alabama, Gyland said.
According to alumni records,
Clayton attended Lee H. Edwards High
School in Asheville, Biltmore College
and did post-graduate work at Michigan
State University.
He studied Spanish in Mexico and
graduated from die University in 1949
with a degree in commerce.
Clayton also served at Fort Bragg
during World War II as a sergeant,
Gyland said. Confusion surrounded the
fire that caused his death on April 2,
1978, at Coosa Island. While the
Asheville Citizen-Times reported that
he died in a fire, Gyland said Clayton’s
house was firebombed by a disgrunded
employee.
Speed Hallman, director of the office
kill again,” said Jasper County District
Attorney Guy James Gray.
Brewer’s former prison buddy, John
William King, 24, is already on death
row, convicted in February in the mur
der ofjames Byrd Jr.
Byrd, 49, was chained at the ankles to
a pickup truck and dragged to pieces in
the East Texas town ofjasper last year in
one of the nation’s grisliest crimes since
the civil rights era.
A third man, Shawn Allen Berry, 24,
goes on trial next month. Prosecutors
will seek the death penalty in that case,
too. Prosecutors said Brewer and King
were organizing a white supremacist
around the country,” Lucido said.
The undergraduate advising program
will receive $5 million from the dona
tion, which will be divided into
$250,000 annual installments.
Risa Palm, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, said the money
would aid the newly restructured pro
gram. This system, implemented this
semester, has added seven full-time
advisers and has placed students on
advising teams.
“I think it’s going to have a major
impact on advising in the future,” Palm
said. “Students will have access to advis-
Qtyr Satig sar Hrri
David Benjamin Clayton
bequeathed UNC $28.6 million.
of development, said, “He left us no
clues.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
organization and wanted to do some :
thing dramatic to give their group pub
licity. Brewer later bragged about the
crime in jailhouse letters.
Brewer showed little reaction to the
verdict, pursing his lips slightly. His
mother, Helen, who along with her hus
band had pleaded with the jury to spare
his life, dabbed her face with a hand
kerchief.
Brewer testified that he only tried to
kick Byrd as Byrd and King fought. He
said Berry slit the man’s throat with a
knife and he didn’t realize Berry had
chained Byrd to the bumper until they
began driving away.
ers for longer periods of time and the
new teams mean that the student does
n’t have to go to one particular individ
ual.”
Lee Conner, Graduate and
Professional Student Federation presi
dent, said the gift and its initiatives
would improve the intellectual life for
everyone involved with the University.
“In terms of a one-time bombshell
type of thing, this is it,” Conner said.
“This is an amazing amount of money.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
BCC
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In addition to continuing such pro
grams, completion of the 40,000-square
foot building will allow the BCC to offer
a library and media center, an art
gallery and space for classrooms, meet
ing rooms and performances.
The University's Upward Bound
Program and the Institute of African-
American Research will also be located
in the new building.
The project’s anticipated cost is
about $9 million, $3.5 million of which
has already been raised by the BCC.
The rest of the money will come from
anew Chancellor’s Discretionary Fund,
established by the Clayton bequest.
BCC Director Gerald Home was in
Hong Kong, where he is spending the
year, when the funding was announced.
“Obviously I feel gratified by the
action,” he stated in an e-mail Thursday.
“I, along with many others, have
worked hard to make this happen.”
Interim Director Harry Amana said
the funding showed the University’s
recognition of the BCC’s importance.
“It’s happened on my watch,”
Amana said. “But obviously the people
who worked on this preceded me -
Gerald (Home), Michael Hooker. ...
This is attributable to their efforts.”
Amana said BCC supporters had
sought complete funding for the free
standing building for a number of years.
“We’ve had this dream for a long time,”.
he said. “Since (Sonja Haynes Stone)
passed in 1991, it’s been intensified.”
Associate Vice Chancellor Marjorie
Crowell, who has been active in the
development of the BCC, also said the
funding was overdue.
“In general, bricks and mortar are
more difficult to raise money for than
scholarships or professorships,” Crowell
said. “People had to be educated about
the center to understand the signifi
cance of what the center is and does.”
The BCC, established in 1988, was a
priority for late Chancellor Michael
Hooker. It was named for the late Sonja
Haynes Stone, a University professor
who originally advocated the center.
“The BCC is a great place for all stu
dents to participate in educational pro
grams,” said African-American studies
Professor Tim McMillan. “It’s very
important that the black community on
campus be visible.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.