January 1996
Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina • 1 7
People and Organizations
Chris McLeod
Lou Roye Nichol
ARTS & CUIfURi
Ruth Cook, former state legislator
and former member of state utilities
commission, named development
coordinator for Governor's
International Committee for the Arts
and the Israel/North Carolina
Cultural Exchange.
Shirley Robinson, former develop
ment director at WUNC-FM,
named first director of external
affairs, N.C. Museum of Natural
Sciences, Raleigh.
Martha Wilson Shannon, former
executive director of Chatham
County Arts Council, named execu
tive director of Raleigh Arts
Commission. She replaces Elaine
Lorber, who retired June 30.
Margaret Webb of Webb
Communications received Silver
Award, Triangle Chapter Public
Relations Society of America, for
Steve Neal
Ruth Cook
Shirley Robinson
promotional materials for Raleigh
Little Theatre fundraiser. Comedy
Under The Stars.
Lou Raye Nichol, formerly respon
sible for staff development at a
mental health nonprofit in Great
Britain, named executive director of
Leadership Triangle. Timothy
Tompkins named assistant director.
Anita Brown-Graham, assistant
professor of public law and govern
ment, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, named 1995-96
Floyd B. McKissick Resident Scholar
in Community Development, a
scholarship created by Charles and
Shirley Weiss Urban Livability
Program.
Alex F. Comfort, former vice presi
dent for development at Louisiana
State University Medical Center
Foundation, named assistant vice
chancellor for development at
University of North Carolina at
Asheville.
Douglas S. Dibbert, UNC General
Alumni Association president,
named chair, board of trustees.
Council for Advancement and
Support of Education.
Eugenia H. Leggett, former director
of development. Pines of Carolina
Girl Scout Council Inc., named
director of planned and annual giv
ing at Peace College, Raleigh.
Chris McLeod, former director.
Habitat for Humanity of the
Triangle, named director of corpo
rate and foundation development,
Kenan-Flagler Business School,
Alex Comfort
UNC-CH.
Steve Neal,
Winston-Salem
and McLean,
Va. , former U.S.
Representative,
named presi-
|dent, board of
trustees, Z.
Smith Reynolds
Foundation, Winston-Salem; Lloyd P
"Jock" Tate Jr., Apex, professor of
surgery. College of Veterinary
Medicine, N.C. State University,
named board vice president.
New distinguished undergraduate
teaching award, UNC-Chapel Hill,
named in honor of John L.
Sanders, former director of Institute
of Government.
POUNIIAilflNS
John G. Medlin Jr., chairman,
board of directors of Wachovia
Corp., named to Winston-Salem
Foundation Committee.
Named to board of directors,
Winston-Salem State University
Foundation:
Nigel D. Alston, asst, vice presi
dent, Integon Insurance; Libba
Evans, owner/manager. West Third
Street Management Inc.; John A.
Piazza, chairman/CEO, Sara Lee
Hosiery; Thomas R Trollinger, presi
dent, Contract Office Furnishings;
Walter S. Tucker, exec, vice presi
dent/city executive. Mechanics and
Farmers Bank; C. Edward Pleasants,
president/CEO, Pleasants Hardware
Co.; and Vivian Turner, manager
community programs/affairs, R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Named to board of directors,
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of
North Carolina (Kaiser Permanente):
Randal "Randy" Brame, vice presi
dent for sales at Brame Specialty
Co. in Durham; William Burkhardt,
president and CEO of Austin
Quality Foods Inc. in Cary; Sharon
Decker, vice president of communi
cations and community relations for
Duke Power Company in Charlotte;
and Waltye Rasulala, public affairs
director WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
ORIfUARIiS
Salvatore Aiello, artistic director of
the N.C. Dance Theater in
Charlotte, died in October of
pneumonia.
Margaret C. Evans, headmaster of
St. Timothy's Lower School in
Raleigh, died Dec. 9. A scholarship
fund has been created in her name
at St. Timothy's Middle-Hale High
School.
Locke to head
Duke Endowment
Elizabeth H. Locke, director of the
education division and communica
tions for the Duke
Endowment in
Charlotte, has
been named exec
utive director of
the $1.5 million-
asset foundation.
She starts her
new job April 1.
Locke will be
the first woman to
serve as execu
tive director of
the Duke Endowment, which is the
13th-lai^st U.S. foundation. She suc
ceeds Jere W Witherspoon, who is
retiring after 26 years with the foun
dation, the last three as executive
director.
Locke will continue to head the
education division. A new communi-
Elizabeth Locke
cations officer will be named.
The foundation is making three
other staff changes. Eugene W.
Cochrane Jr. will become associate
executive director and will continue
to head the foundation’s hospital divi
sion; Janice Walker will become chief
financial officer and will continue to
serve as the foundation’s treasurer;
and John G. Mebane Jr., the founda
tion’s senior investment officer, will
become chief investment officer.
Locke, who has bachelor’s and
doctoral degrees in En^h from Duke
University and a master’s in English
from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, has worked tor the
Duke Endowment since 1982. She pre
viously was corporate contributions
officer at Bethlehem Steel Corp., direc
tor of university pubhcations at Duke
University and an En^h instructor
at Duke and UNC-CH.
Scholarships Available
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the statewide conference for North Carolina’s nonprofit sector
sponsored by the Philanthrophy Journal of North Carolina
that will be held March 27, 1996, in Greensboro.
The scholarships are sponsored by several organizations, including:
• Duke University Certificate Program
in Nonprofit Management
• A. J. Fletcher Foundation
For information or to request a scholarship application,
call (919) 899-3742.
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