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June 28, 2007
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Note: New members are listed below by hometown.
40 new members named to UNC Board of Visitors
CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has elected 40 new members to the UNC Board of Visitors.
The Board of Visitors is an active group of 160 volunteers who help the trustees and the chancellor in a range of activities designed to advance the university.
Members’ main focus is to serve as ambassadors, informing members of their communities about what’s going on at Carolina and, in turn, keeping the university administration informed about what they’re hearing about Carolina in their communities. Their efforts may include public relations, government relations and fund raising.
Ed Fritsch of Raleigh chairs the board; Jeffrey Allred of Atlanta is vice chair.
Each board member serves for four years. Each year, as members rotate off, the Board of Trustees elects new members. This year’s new members, listed alphabetically by North Carolina county and then by state, are:
North Carolina members:
Alamance
- Don Caudle of Swepsonville, proprietor, Cedar Forest Realty
- Anne Powell of Burlington, sales representative, Procter & Gamble
Buncombe
- Jane Whilden of Asheville, director, Western Office of Government, N.C. Governor’s Office
Durham
- James Mason of Durham, managing director, Parish Capital
- Gwendolyn Waddell-Schultz of Durham, registered nurse and associate chief, Veterans Administration Medical Center
Edgecombe
- Douglas Anderson of Rocky Mount, executive vice president, Boddie Noell Enterprises Inc.
- J. Gregory Nelson of Rocky Mount, orthopedic surgeon, Rocky Mount Orthopedic
Forsyth
- David Broughton of Winston-Salem, attorney, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
- Moyer Smith of Winston-Salem, general manager and partner, Flow BMW/MINI
Guilford
- Jan Capps of Greensboro, vice president of human resources and public affairs, Syngenta
Jackson
- State Rep. Phillip Haire (D-Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain) of Sylva
Mecklenburg
- Chris Avery of Charlotte, strategic planning, Lowe’s Companies Inc.
- William Farmer of Charlotte, vice president of corporate development, Time Warner Cable
- Bill Fuller of Charlotte, attorney, Moore & Van Allen
- William Hawkins of Charlotte, manager, Accenture
Moore
- Elizabeth Saye of Pinehurst
New Hanover
- Fred Davenport of Wilmington, president, PPD Pharmco
Orange
- Pamela Heavner of Chapel Hill, owner and interior designer, Homeward Bound
- Edith Wiggins of Chapel Hill, retired interim vice chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill
Wake
- Mary Lou Booth of Apex, retired business owner
- Ronald Day of Raleigh, chief operational owner and president, RBC Centura Bank Inc.
- Kenneth Howard of Raleigh, president, the Howard Foundation
- Michael Painter of Raleigh, partner, Plexus Capital
- State Rep. (D-Wake) Deborah Ross of Raleigh
- Peter Scott III of Raleigh, chief financial officer, Progress Energy
Watauga
- Joseph Jenkins of Blowing Rock, president, Mad Dash
Wilkes County
- Jeffrey Gray of North Wilkesboro, senior corporate counsel, Lowe’s Companies
Out-of-state members:
Connecticut
- Jill Olson of Greenwich, global economics teacher, Teak Fellowship
Georgia
- Amy Conlee of Atlanta, CGR Advisors
- Tony Cummings of Grayson, administrative judge, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
- Michael Kennedy of Atlanta, senior client partner, Korn/Ferry International
- Carter Pope of Atlanta, chief executive officer, Synqsolutions
Illinois
- Courtney Cavatoni of Chicago, managing director, JP Morgan Private Bank
New Jersey
- Neal Fowler of Basking Ridge, president, Centocor/Johnson & Johnson
New York
- Howard Godwin of New York City, attorney and corporate law partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
- Jean Grainger of New York City, wardrobe consultant
Tennessee
- Charles Brindell of Memphis, managing director, Crow Holdings
- Ann Sullivan of Nashville
Texas
- Hugh McAllister of Houston, retired physician
Virginia
- Alfred Randolph of Virginia Beach, attorney, Kaufman & Canoles
Board of Visitors contact: Linda Douglas, (919) 843-9393 or linda_douglas@unc.edu
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8589 or susan_houston@unc.edu