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UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees elect 46 new Board of Visitors members
(Chapel Hill, N.C. – May 20, 2016) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has appointed 46 alumni and friends to serve on the UNC Board of Visitors, one of the most active volunteer groups at Carolina. Appointees will begin their four-year term on July 1.
The new members are part of an approximately 175-member board that actively assists the Board of Trustees and Chancellor in a range of activities advancing UNC-Chapel Hill, including career services, marketing, honor student recruitment, public and government relations and fundraising. Members also serve as ambassadors, informing their communities about issues important to Carolina, and in turn, keep the Carolina administration abreast of feedback about Carolina in their communities.
The Board of Visitors selection process begins in January and continues through May. Each year, as fourth year members complete their terms, the Board of Trustees elects a class of members.
Jennifer Halsey of Atherton, California will serve as chair of the Board of Visitors and Doug Rothwell of Ann Arbor, Michigan was elected to serve as vice chair.
New members are listed below, alphabetically, by North Carolina county and then by state.
NORTH CAROLINA
Buncombe
- Alicia Rodriguez of Asheville
Cabarrus
- Mitchell (Mickey) Watts of Concord
Catawba
- William Long of Newton
Durham
- Thomas Wong of Durham
Forsyth
- Mary (Scottie) Neill of Winston-Salem
- Tanner G. Robinson of Winston-Salem
- Talbert Waldrop of Kernersville
Guilford
- Louise Brady of Greensboro
- Arthur (A.B.) Henley, III of High Point
- Freddy Robinson of Greensboro
Iredell
- John Fraley of Mooresville
Lincoln
- Veronica Mora Flaspoehler of Lincolnton
Mecklenburg
- Carl Belk of Charlotte
- Daniel (Dan) Bishop of Charlotte
- Allene Fuller Cooley of Charlotte
- Brian Craver of Charlotte
- Tom Reddin of Charlotte
- John (Will) Whitley of Charlotte
- Charlotte Wickham of Charlotte
- Margaret Williams of Charlotte
Orange
- Erik Lensch of Chapel Hill
Pitt
- Perrin Jones of Greenville
Union
- Jesse Cureton of Waxhaw
Wake
- Richard Brajer of Raleigh
- John Hood of Raleigh
- Shea Grisham Linden of Raleigh
- Matthew (Tommy) Malone of Raleigh
- Dan McLamb, Jr. of Raleigh
- Franklin Roberts of Raleigh
- Reyna Walters of Raleigh
- Robert Zaytoun of Raleigh
Warren
- Kara Henderson-Jeffries of Warrenton
OUT OF STATE
Florida
- Philip N. Edwards of Jupiter
Georgia
- Adrian Douglass of Duluth
- Leonard Wood, Jr. of Atlanta
Kansas
- Jeremy Fry of Olathe
Maryland
- Eric Becker of Baltimore
- Tom Cunningham of Gaithersburg
- Bruce McNair of Bethesda
New Jersey
- Kathleen Watson Van Saun of Ridgewood
New York
- Philip Charles-Pierre of Brooklyn
- Pamela Ferguson of New York
- Frederick (Rick) Finger of Rye
South Carolina
- Linda Dahlgren of Greenville
Texas
- Elliott Stephenson of Cedar Hill
Virginia
- Bobby Jenkins of Charlottesville
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About the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education. Now in its third century, the University offers 77 bachelor’s, 113 master’s, 68 doctorate and seven professional degree programs through 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences. Every day, faculty – including two Nobel laureates – staff and students shape their teaching, research and public service to meet North Carolina’s most pressing needs in every region and all 100 counties. Carolina’s more than 308,000 alumni live in all 50 states and 150 countries. More than 167,000 live in North Carolina.
Development contact: Linda Brown Douglas, (919)-843-9393, linda_douglas@unc.edu
Communications and Public Affairs contact: MC VanGraafeiland, (919) 962-7090, mc.vangraafeiland@unc.edu