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CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has appointed Barbara Rosser Hyde of Memphis, Tenn., to a four-year term on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees. Hyde begins her term July 1, filling a vacancy left by trustee Philip G. Carson of Asheville, who did not seek reappointment.

Hyde will be sworn in at the board’s July 27-28 meeting, as will three current trustees, whom the Board of Governors has reappointed to new four-year terms: Paul Fulton, Jr., of Winston-Salem, Karol V. Mason of Atlanta and Nelson Schwab III of Charlotte.

Hyde came to Carolina from Atlanta as a Morehead Scholar and earned undergraduate degrees in English and religion in 1983. She entered the Honors Program and was inducted into the Order of the Old Well, an honorary society that recognizes students of high character who demonstrate exemplary and generous humanitarian service.

Since 1993, Hyde has served as president of J. R. Hyde III Family Foundation and director of the J.R. Hyde Sr. Foundation. The foundations support education, civil rights and other worthy endeavors. Her civic involvement includes service on boards of directors for organizations that champion causes ranging from public education reform and cultural arts to riverfront development and economic self-sufficiency for women and children.

She also serves as founding board chair to the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP): Diamond Academy, part of a national network of free, open enrollment college-preparatory public schools that targets underserved students and features a nationally recognized academic program.

Hyde began her career as a development officer at Carolina and served as executive director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation from 1987 to 1992. During that time, she became closely involved with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and now chairs its external advisory board. Her early interest in the institute’s work focused on its role in the support and retention of top faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences.

As the institute thrived, Barbara saw the need for a larger facility and, along with her husband Pitt, a 1965 alumnus, made a generous lead gift for what is now Hyde Hall on McCorkle Place and home to the institute.

She has gone on to co-chair the Women’s Leadership Council, which, as part of the Carolina First Campaign, aims to enhance the role of women in the life of the University. She also serves on the Carolina First Campaign Steering Committee.

Fulton is co-chair of the University's Carolina First Campaign Steering Committee. He is a former dean of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and former president of the Sara Lee Corporation.

Mason is an attorney and partner in the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird. She earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Carolina in 1979.

Schwab, who now serves as vice chair of the trustees, is managing director of Carousel Capital Co., LLC in Charlotte. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from the Carolina in 1967.

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Fulton: http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/trustees/fulton_paul.jpg
Hyde: http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/trustees/hyde_barbara.jpg
Mason: http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/trustees/mason_karol.jpg
Schwab: http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/trustees/schwab_nelson.jpg

News Services contact: Lisa Katz, (919) 962-2093, lisa_katz@unc.edu