NCCBI News
Banks Pitch In to Help Membership Drive
Three
of North Carolina’s largest banks have volunteered to help
NCCBI with its annual membership campaign, pledging to deliver 165 new
members over the next few months. Wachovia, Bank of America and
BB&T are volunteering the work of several of their executives to
assist in the membership drive.
Will B. Spence of Charlotte, the CEO of Wachovia Bank North and
South Carolina, and a member of the NCCBI Executive Committee, has
committed to a goal of 50 new members.
Anthony T. Grant, senior vice president of Bank of
America in Charlotte and a member of the NCCBI Board of Directors, has
taken on the challenge of 75 new members. Kelly S. King,
president of BB&T Corp. and a member of the Executive Committee,
has pledged that his bank will bring in 40 new members.
BB&T is off to a great start with its efforts to recruit new
members. All three banks plan to wrap-up their campaigns by the end of
the year.
The overall membership campaign is being led by Second Vice Chair Sue
W. Cole of Greensboro, the U.S. Trust of North Carolina executive.
First Vice Chair Jim Hyler of Raleigh, the First Citizens Bank
executive, is leading the effort to retain members who joined the
association last year.
Meanwhile, NCCBI has nearly achieved a goal it set two years ago to
have at least one member in each of the state’s 100 counties. The
association reached 99 recently when
Albemarle Electric Membership Corp. in Hertford in Perquimans
County joined the association.
Graham County, located on the Tennessee border west of Asheville, is
now the only county in the state where NCCBI does not have a member.
But with Chairman Gordon Myers’ strong connection with Western North
Carolina, we anticipate that NCCBI will soon achieve its goal and will
be able to say that it truly represents all of North Carolina.
Board Plans Mid-Year Meeting: The
NCCBI Board of Directors will hold its first-ever mid-year meeting
this month, an assembly that also will mark the first time the full
board has met outside Raleigh. The meet is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov.
13, at 3 p.m. at the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce offices at 300
South Tryon Street.
Traditionally, the full board meets only once each year during the
NCCBI Annual Meeting in March. President Phil Kirk said this year’s
first-ever mid-year meeting is a reflection of the growing
participation by board members in association activities, particularly
membership recruitment.
“Many of NCCBI’s member forums, the Council of Local Chambers and
other groups already meet outside Raleigh once or twice each year,”
explained Kirk. “We have seen that moving these meetings around the
state helps boost attendance and increases participation by members
who get tired of driving to Raleigh all the time. We believe that
holding a second board meeting in a location outside Raleigh will have
the same positive impact.”
The meeting of the full board will coincide with two other important
events that day in Charlotte. The NCCBI Executive Committee
will hold its regular quarterly meeting in the First Union tower. The
meeting will begin with a 12:30 p.m. luncheon in the corporate dining
room on the 41st floor, following by a business meeting
from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
And that night, the annual Business Hall of Fame dinner and
induction ceremony will be held at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The
Business Hall of Fame, which NCCBI co-sponsors with Junior
Achievement, this year will induct Ed Crutchfield, former
chairman and CEO of First Union; C. Felix Harvey, chairman of
Harvey Enterprises; W. Duke Kimbrell, chairman and CEO of
Parkdale Mills; and the late Dalton McMichael, former chairman
of Mayo Yarns.
The event begins with a 6:15 p.m. reception, followed by a 7 p.m.
dinner. For reservations or for more infomation, call 704-536-9668 or
e-mail info@jacarolinas.org.
All NCCBI board members are urged to attend the Charlotte meeting.
Other association meetings scheduled in coming weeks include:
 The Environmental Concerns
Committee will meet on Friday, Nov. 2, from 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the
CP&L Building, Conference Room 1112B, in downtown Raleigh.
The Transportation
Committee will meet on Monday, Nov. 5, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. in the
NCCBI board room in Raleigh.
The Education Committee
will meet on Thursday, Nov, 8, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. in the NCCBI board
room in Raleigh.
Another in the occasional
series of Media Relations Seminars taught by Bill F. Hensley will be
offered on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Greater
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. The seminars have been very popular with
NCCBI members. The cost for members is $140 plus $125 for each
additional participant. The cost is $150 for non-members. For
additional information, call NCCBI’s Jennifer Nolan at 919-836-1405
or e-mail her at jnolan@nccbi.org.
The Council of Local
Chambers will meet Thursday, Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a
location in the Triangle yet to be determined.
The Young Executives Forum
will meet Friday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Adam’s Mark
Hotel in Charlotte.
The Small Business Advisory
Board will meet Wednesday, Dec. 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at
Bank of America in Charlotte.
UNCG Honors Kirk: NCCBI President
Phil Kirk received the Holderness/Weaver Award for Distinguished
Public Service from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The award, one of the highest bestowed by UNC-G, was established in
1998 to honor two loyal and dedicated supporters of the university, Adelaide Fortune Holderness and H. Michael
Weaver. It recognizes North Carolinians who have rendered unusually
distinguished public service to the community or state.
In his remarks accepting the award at the school’s Sept. 30 Founders
Day ceremony, Kirk said, “We can’t always give large amounts of
money to every worthy cause, but we can give of our most precious
resource, which is our time. We all have different talents and
abilities. We all look different and we have different IQs. But we all
have one thing in common. We all have 24 hours in a day. How we choose
to use our time is by and large left up to each of us. We can sit at
home, gripe and complain, or we can be active in helping others and
finding solutions.”
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