* Ed Crutchfield, chairman
and former CEO of First Union
Corp., received the Corporate Champion for
Children award presented by Smart Start, the
early childhood educational initiative. The award
was presented to Crutchfield Wednesday during a
Smart Start celebration attended by 1,500 people,
including Gov. and Mrs. Jim Hunt. Accepting for
Crutchfield, who couldn't attend, was Mac
Everett, president of First Union Mid-Atlantic
and this year's NCCBI chairman. He and others
noted that under Crutchfield's leadershop, First
Union has done much to improve the lives of young
children. The bank made one of the first $2
million contributions to Smart Start in 1996.
“Ed Crutchfield is a tremendous advocate and
supporter of public education and had led First
Union with a focus on education from both
contributions and employee involvements,”
said Everett. “He truly understands the
importance of early childhood literacy and has
made it a priority for everyone in our
company.”
* Sam Houston, vice president of
edgate.com, an Internet-based provider of
educational programming, was chosen
chairman-elect of the Public School Forum board
of directors. Houston will become the third
chairman in the forum's history next July. Tom
Bradshaw, a former Raleigh mayor and former state
transportation secretary, succeeded Hancock.
* Wall Street financier Julian Robertson
and his wife, Josie, announced a $24 million gift
to establish the first joint scholarship at UNC and Duke University.
The cash donation will fund an endowment that
will provide merit scholarships to 30 students a
year -- 15 at Duke and 15 at UNC -- starting in
2001. Robertson Scholars will take some courses
together, and each will live at the other campus
for one semester. The scholarship, worth an
estimated $100,000 over four years, includes a
laptop computer, paid summer internships and
transportation between Chapel Hill and Durham.
* Century Furniture
Industries has pledged $25,000 to the
capital campaign of the N.C. Community Colleges
Foundation. The gift was announced by Harley
Shuford Jr., board chairman of Hickory-based
Century Furniture and a member of the foundation
board. The foundation has raised more than $3
million in pledges and contributions toward its
goal of creating a $5 million endowment fund.
* Gov. Jim Hunt
received the Distinguished Alumnus Award
from Tar Heel Boys State for his dedication and
loyalty to the program and to the state. The
program is sponsored by the American Legion
Auxiliary and provides a week-long study of
government for rising high school seniors from
across N.C. Meanwhile, Hunt
was named chairman of the Platform Drafting
Committee for the Democratic National Convention,
the group responsible for preparing a draft for
the Platform Committee.
* William M. Dean,
president of !dealliance and director of the
Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem,
has been elected president of the Association of
University Related Research Parks (AURRP).
!dealliance formerly was known as the North Carolina Emerging
Technology Alliance, the developer of the Piedmont
Triad Research Park in downtown Winston-Salem.
Dean's election was announced at AURRP's national
convention in Boulder, Colo. AURRP is a
non-profit international organization
representing research, science and technology
parks designed to promote university-industry
relations, foster innovation, and facilitate the
transfer of technology from universities to the
private sector. The organization has 290 members
representing 75 percent of the research parks in
North America.
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