Six employees have been selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp to receive 2011 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gives faculty and staff.
Six employees have been selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp to receive 2011 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gives faculty and staff.
The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards in 1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University employees. In 1984, he joined the families of his son, Knox Massey Jr., and daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, in creating the Massey-Weatherspoon fund. Income from the fund supports the Massey Awards and Carolina Seminars.
Thorp will honor the recipients, who were chosen from nominations from the campus community, at an awards luncheon on April 9. Each will receive a $6,000 stipend and an award citation.
The recipients are:
- Jane D. Brown, James L. Knight Distinguished Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, of Chapel Hill;
- Ruben Gonzalez-Crespo, interpreter in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, of Mebane;
- Helen M. Marsh, environmental technician in Housekeeping Services, of Siler City;
- Mark Meares, director of corporate and foundation relations in the Office of University Development, of Chapel Hill;
- Karen Shelton, head coach, women’s field hockey, in the athletics department, of Chapel Hill; and
- Tom Sudderth, landscape installation supervisor in Grounds Services, of Pittsboro.
To learn more about each winner, read this story in the University Gazette: http://gazette.unc.edu/archives2/11feb23/file.2.html
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Development Communications contact: Scott Ragland, (919) 962-0027, scott_ragland@unc.edu
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu