Names in
the News
* Cong. Sue Myrick
(R-9th) was named a co-chair of the committee
that will draft the party platform at the
Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
* Duke basketball
coach Mike Krzyzewski and
Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson
headed a group of seven people inducted into the
N.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Others inducted into
the hall are George Williams,
athletic director at St. Augustine's College in
Raleigh, who coached the school's track teams to
18 NCAA national championships in Division II
since 1976; Henry Logan, who
became the first black to play basketball at
Western Carolina University in 1964; Carl
James, a former sports star and athletic
director at Duke who later became commissioner of
the Big Eight Conference; Connie Mack
Berry, a three-sport star at N.C. State
in the 1930s who played in the NBA, the NFL and
in baseball's minor leagues; and Floyd
"Pep" Young, who played major
league baseball in the 1930s.
* Leonard
Sossaman, a former Concord city manager,
was sworn in to a vacant House seat from Cabarrus
County. He was chosen by a Democratic Party
committee and appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt to
replace former Rep. Richard Moore,
D-Cabarrus, who resigned last week. Sossaman won
the May 2 Democratic primary for the seat. Moore,
who pleaded guilty last week to sexual misconduct
charges involving former students, did not seek
re-election.
* Gov. Jim
Hunt received the Columbia University
Teachers College Medal, the university's highest
means of honoring exceptional achievement in the
field of education.
* Rose
Vaughn Williams, was appointed by Gov.
Jim Hunt to a seat on the State Board of
Elections She practices law in Goldsboro with the
law firm of Dees, Smith, Powell, Jarrett, Dees
& Jones. Williams is the daughter of the late
Earl Vaughn, a former state House speaker and a
member of the state Court of Appeals. She
replaces Kathy Burnette, who resigned.
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