News Release

Local angles: Dare, Camden, Currituck, Hyde,
Pasquotank, Perquimans and Tyrrell counties

Need-based scholarship to UNC
established by Kitty Hawk couple

CHAPEL HILL - Joseph Thomas Lamb Jr. and his wife, Ann Rochelle Lamb, of Kitty Hawk have endowed a need-based scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Joe and Ann Lamb Scholarship will be awarded to students who have been accepted to the university, with preference going first to those from Dare County, then to students from Camden, Currituck, Hyde, Pasquotank, Perquimans and Terrell counties. The first award is expected to be made in fall 2007.

Joe Lamb, president of the real estate firm Joe Lamb Jr. & Associates in Nags Head, said they established the scholarship because they wanted to benefit students from the Outer Banks who had been accepted to UNC.

"We didn't want any kids to lose their opportunity to come to Carolina because they couldn't afford it," he said. "We think a lot of Chapel Hill and the program at the university."

Joe and Ann Lamb have lived in Kitty Hawk since 1968, and they both attended UNC. Their gift counts toward the university's Carolina First Campaign goal of $2 billion. Carolina First is a comprehensive, multi-year, private fund-raising campaign to support Carolina's vision of becoming the nation's leading public university.
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Development Communications contact: Scott Ragland, (919) 962-0027, scott_ragland@unc.edu