North Carolina awards

              The North Carolina Awards were instituted in 1961
by the North Carolina General Assembly. The awards
have been given annually since 1964 to citizens who
have distinguished themselves and obtained notable
accomplishments in the fields of fine arts, literature,
public service, and science. It is the highest honor the
Governor and the State of North Carolina can bestow.
The Award
Jack Cozort, Chairman
Raleigh
Shirley T. Frye
Greensboro
Charles E. Hamner
Chapel Hill
Pamela L. Myers
Asheville
Marsha White Warren
Chapel Hill
The North Carolina
Awards CommitteeNorth Carolina’s history is replete with shining contributions to the strength and spirit of our nation,
and the six distinguished North Carolinians who
will receive the 2012 North Carolina Award embody
that tradition. They are the latest in a long list of luminaries to receive this honor, whose ranks include: visionary leaders, statesmen and stateswomen, Nobel laureates, renowned artists and trailblazers of the business world. They exemplify our state’s motto: “To Be Rather Than To Seem.”
It is my high honor and privilege to bestow upon them the North Carolina Award, our highest civilian tribute. We thank them for sharing their great talents, leadership and service with us.
Message from the Governor49th North Carolina Awards
North Carolina Museum of History
Raleigh, North Carolina
October 30, 2012
“America the Beautiful”
Tina Morris-Anderson, soloist
Diane Petteway, pianist
Remarks
Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Jack Cozort, Chairman
North Carolina Awards Committee
Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor
State of North Carolina
Presentation of the Awards
Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor
State of North Carolina
Thanks to our other performers tonight – violinists Ted Ehrhard and Mara Shea,
the John Brown Quintet, and the Beethoven All Stars from Durham’s KidZNotes.
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parking locations on East Jones Street and North Blount Street from 9:15 - 10:15 p.m.
ProgramNorth Carolina
Award Recipients
•Science
B. Jayant Baliga
The far-reaching contributions of North Carolina State University professor Jayant Baliga touch the lives of people around the world, raising their quality of life, increasing their level of comfort, and curbing the effects of pollution. On NCSU’s campus in Raleigh, administrators four times have illuminated the Bell Tower in his honor and have declared him the man with “the smallest carbon footprint in the world.” For his pioneering work in semiconductors, Jayant Baliga is the recipient of the 2012 North Carolina Award for Science.
Born in 1948 in India, young Baliga moved with his family to the small village of Jalahali where his father B. Vittal Baliga headed a major electronics manufacturing facility. The rural setting, and the poisonous snakes, remain vivid in Baliga’s mind even after all these years. Baliga’s upbringing set within him an innate curiosity about how things work. His studies, and his father’s example, led him to the Indian Institute of Technologies and in 1969 to the Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in New York where he completed a doctorate.
Employed by the research and development department at General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y., Baliga at age 35 invented the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), which garnered him GE’s prestigious Coolidge Fellowship. The miniaturization of electronics, so important to computers, made possible this super-small but vital high voltage on/off switch operable at 100,000 times per second. The applications of the IGBT are legion, most notably in compact fluorescent lights and hybrid cars but extending to refrigerators, air conditioners, defibrillators, bullet trains, oil wells, and weapons systems. Energy cost savings attributable to this technological advance are astounding, estimated at $15 trillion with comparable reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 78 trillion pounds.
In 1988 Baliga took a teaching post at NCSU. In 1991 he founded the Power Semiconductor Research Center, today the gold standard for institutes engaged in partnering with startups and venture capitalists. He has written 18 books, published over 500 articles, and holds more than 120 U.S. patents. A colleague commends his “meticulous, detailed, and thoroughly documented” research. He has advised 27 dissertations, and regularly teaches undergraduate courses. Current projects include the development of a “smart” national power grid, an initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
For his work Jayant Baliga received in 2011 a National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama – the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. Past honors include the 1998 O. Max Gardner Award presented annually to the faculty member at a University of North Carolina system school for the “greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.”Literature
Gary Neil Carden
It is the truism most associated with Thomas Wolfe: “You can’t go home again.” But, in 1972 Gary Carden returned to his alma mater, Western Carolina University, to attend a reading by Jim Wayne Miller. He heard the Appalachian poet exhort the audience like an old-time preacher, repeating phrases, one of them being “come home.” Carden took the words to heart, moved back to his native Jackson County, and reset his course from teacher to storyteller and playwright. For his skill at capturing the authentic voice of mountain people with sensitivity, honesty, and compassion, Gary Neil Carden receives the 2012 North Carolina Award for Literature.
When Carden was two years old, his father, a musician, was murdered and his mother left him with his grandparents in Rhodes Cove. The youngster found solace in books, radio dramas, comics, and movies. At age six, Carden’s first storytelling was done to the family’s 150 leghorn chickens.
Carden attended college in nearby Cullowhee on a vocational rehabilitation scholarship after bouts with polio and sclerosis. For five years he taught high school and then taught at Gaston College, Brevard College, and Lee-McRae College. His return home was to the house where he was raised. In recent years he moved to a modern apartment but beat a path back to “the cold house with a leaky roof where I can watch the Balsam Mountains fade in the twilight.”
To pay the bills Carden worked for fifteen years as a grants application writer for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, keeping a hand in as a teacher for Elderhostel. Carden also has penned newspaper columns and a script for a television film. He was the principal inspiration for a public television documentary, “Mountain Talk.” But it is for his plays that he has earned praise from fellow writers Lee Smith, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Ron Rash, and Fred Chappell. These include
The Raindrop Waltz, which is autobiographical; Nance Dude, about a murder case; The Ultrena, based on Cherokee myths; The Prince of Dark Corners, about moonshine; and, most recently, Outlander, about writer Horace Kephart. In 2006 Carden received the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award and in 2008 an honorary doctorate from Western Carolina University.
In the title story of his 2000 collection Mason Jars in the Flood, Carden’s alter ego places notes in jars and sends them down a swollen stream: “Hello! My name is Harley Teester. I am nine years old and live in Rhodes Cove, North Carolina. School is out and I don’t have anybody to play with. Why don’t you come and see me? I like Lash LaRue, the Squeaking Door, Captain Marvel and Pepsi Cola. Your friend, Harley Teester.” Over a lifetime of singular work, Carden has cast a similar message to the world, inviting others to the play. Fine Arts
Lou Donaldson
From Badin to the Bronx, from Blue Note to Birdland, the path trod by veteran alto saxophonist “Sweet Poppa Lou” Donaldson parallels that of modern jazz. Esteemed internationally as an exponent of bebop, hard bop, and soul-jazz, Donaldson is hailed for his distinctive sound, one rooted in the blues and in the interplay between saxophone and organ. For his soulful, thoroughly swinging sound, and for a groundbreaking career now entering its seventh decade, Lou Donaldson receives the 2012 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.
Like his contemporaries (and collaborators) Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson left the South to follow his muse. Born in the Stanly County town of Badin in 1926, Donaldson was the second of four children born to Andrew and Lucy Donaldson. When he was nine, his mother got him a clarinet from the local Alcoa plant band. He attended North Carolina A. & T. State University from age fifteen, joined the service in 1945, and played in the Great Lakes Navy Band. After the war he saw Charlie Parker play in Chicago and dedicated himself to the saxophone.
In late 1949 Donaldson moved to New York, attended Darrow Institute of Music, and eventually settled in the Bronx with his wife, Maker. Alfred Lion, the German-born proprietor of Blue Note Records, saw him in a club and offered him a contract. A series of classic recordings was the result, including collaborations with Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Donald Byrd, Milt Jackson, and Art Blakey. The sound most identified with Donaldson was the result of his collaboration with Jimmy Smith on the Hammond organ. His best known recording is “Alligator Boogaloo” (1968). Another of his signature tunes is “Blues Walk” (1958). In the 1960s he set up an itinerary for his touring musicians, playing two-week stands in clubs through the Midwest and West Coast, a profitable initiative soon copied by his peers.
Honors have come Donaldson’s way throughout his career. In 1984 his alma mater in Greensboro presented him with an honorary doctorate and created a named scholarship. In 1996 he was elected to the International Jazz Hall of Fame. Most recently, he was named to the N.C. Music Hall of Fame, and was declared a 2013 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s highest honor in jazz. He still regularly plays the Village Vanguard in New York and is the senior player on the Blue Note roster.Public Service
Janice H. Faulkner
Janice Faulkner did not come by the nickname
“Ms. Fix-It” by wearing a toolbelt. Instead, she fixed North Carolina state agencies. On three separate occasions, then-Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., tapped Faulkner to troubleshoot and lead the agencies to recovery. Each time, she rose to the challenge and transformed the workplaces. For her creative leadership in state government, in her role as an educator and administrator at East Carolina University, and for her dynamic efforts on boards and foundations in eastern North Carolina, Janice Hardison Faulkner receives the 2012 North Carolina Award for Public Service.
Janice Faulkner was born to Ben and Martha Peele Hardison. She and her younger brother were raised in the Martin County town of Farm Life, appropriately enough on a farm. She credits her father for her early interest in current events and politics. Active in the Democratic Party in North Carolina, Faulkner was named its first female Executive Director in 1981. She served in that capacity while on leave from her post at East Carolina University (ECU). Faulkner spent 38 years at ECU as an English professor, director of alumni affairs, chairman of the board of the ECU Credit Union, director of the Regional Development Institute, and associate vice chancellor for Regional Development.
A mentor to countless people, Faulkner is a model for intelligent, meaningful, purposeful, and accomplished service. She assumed leadership of the Department of Revenue in 1993, the Office of the Secretary of State in 1996, and the Division of Motor Vehicles in 1997. Incidentally, when she was appointed Secretary of State, Faulkner became the first woman to serve on the Council of State.
Among the honors bestowed on Faulkner are the Thomas Jordan Jarvis Award, ECU’s highest award, in 2009 and the Legends Award from the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce in 2011. In 2007 she was named as a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scout Council of Coastal Carolina.
In an essay titled, “What It Means to be a North Carolinian,” Faulkner wrote about the strength of the past, but also the hope of the future. “As good as the North Carolina of my childhood was, this one is better. It is not better because we are putting aside the old ways in deference to the new. It is better because the complexities of these times have stretched our minds and our imaginations to the outer limits of our capacity to cope with them. This North Carolina has called forth all of the collective good that is the essence of the people.”Public Service
Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter often recounts the story of a seminal moment in her life: When she was nine years old, her mother took young Bonnie and her siblings into the back yard of their Louisiana home. They were told to write the word “can’t” on a sheet of paper. Her mother took the pieces of paper, put them in a box, and buried it. “Can’t” no longer exists for McElveen-Hunter—quite simply, she can, and she does. For her leadership and for her service to her community and nation, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter receives the 2012 North Carolina Award for Public Service.
The daughter of an Air Force pilot, McElveen-Hunter grew up living in eight states and Germany. She graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. In 1973 she joined a small company in Greensboro and launched an in-flight magazine for Piedmont Airlines. The small printing operation has burgeoned into the largest custom publishing company in the country, Pace Communications, now owned by McElveen-Hunter.
From her tenure as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Finland, to her work as Chairman of the American Red Cross, McElveen-Hunter is known for her initiative, strategic vision, and incredible energy. The long-time philanthropist and charitable-cause activist has served as a member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, chaired the Alexis de Tocqueville Society, served on the United Way of America Board as a member of its National Leadership Council, and founded the United Way Billion Dollar National Women’s Leadership Initiative, which to date has raised more than $600 million dollars. Appointed Chairman of the American Red Cross in 2004, she is the first woman to hold the office.
McElveen-Hunter currently serves on numerous boards, including Malaria No More, the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington National Opera, Elon University School of Law Board of Advisors, the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication, and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the "Woman Entrepreneur of the Year" Award from the National Foundation for Women Legislatures, National Athena Award for business and civic contributions from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and "Trailblazer of the Year" Award from the Women Leaders Forum. She received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Appeal of Conscience Public Service Award. In recognition of her exceptional service, the President of Finland awarded her one of that country’s highest honors—the Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion.
“I’ve been called the quintessential optimist,” she recalls. “I also believe that with the help of a lot of other people, we can change the world. Nothing ever gets done by one person. It’s always people willing to put their efforts together to make it happen.”Fine Arts
Thomas H. Sayre
In the world of art, there are many landscape artists. However, Thomas Sayre does not depict landscapes—he changes them. His work helps to define the architecture and public spaces of communities and his installations take on iconic status, shaping each community’s conversations and aspirations. For his transformational public art, Thomas Sayre receives the 2012 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.
A native of Washington, D.C., Sayre attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar from 1969 to 1973. He received a three-year Ford Foundation grant for sculpture at the University of Michigan and then studied for a year in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Sayre returned to North Carolina in 1977, where his creation of a therapeutic play unit for disabled children spurred the founding of P.U.S.H. (now Push America), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting people with physical disabilities.
In 1981 Sayre co-founded Clearscapes, a multi-disciplinary design firm that facilitated the merger of his interests in large-scale sculpture and public art with architecture and urban revitalization.
He works freely in these realms, creating visual solutions that are specific to the sites that inspire him. The Shimmer Wall at the Raleigh Convention Center, Citizen in the public square in Nashville, Tennessee, Curveball at the Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington, D. C., and the iconic rings in the N.C. Museum of Art park called Gyre, are among his many notable public projects that make bold statements about the spaces for which they were designed. He creates public art that is embraced by the community for whom it is intended as well as a greater national and international audience.
Sayre has been recognized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with its Distinguished Alumnus Award and by the North Carolina State University College of Design with its Design Guild Award.
Sayre lends his diverse experience to a number of boards and initiatives, including the North Carolina Arts Council, the SmART Cities and SmART Towns Task Force, and the creation for the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s policy allowing public art in the DOT right-of-way. His visionary perspective is appreciated by those who work with him on boards and committees. His understanding of public policy and the creative economy makes him one of the state’s foremost advocates for public funding for the arts.
Past Recipients
2011
Charles E. Hamner
Public Service
H.Martin Lancaster
Public Service
Trudy F. C. Mackay
Science
Branford Marsalis
Fine Arts
Ron Rash
Literature
Vollis Simpson
Fine Arts
2010
F. Ivy Carroll
Science
Robert W. Ebendorf
Fine Arts
R. Michael Leonard
Public Service
Margaret S. “Tog” Newman
Public Service
Donald Sultan
Fine Arts
Carole Boston Weatherford
Literature
2009
Gerald W. Barrax
Literature
Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone
Science
Betty Ray McCain
Public Service
Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
Public Service
Mark Peiser
Fine Arts
Bo Thorp
Fine Arts
2008
Maurice S. Brookhart
Science
Charles Frazier
Literature
Gerald Freedman
Fine Arts
Ann Goodnight
Public Service
Margaret Maron
Literature
James G. Martin
Public Service
Alexander M. Rivera, Jr.
Fine Arts
Dean Smith
Public Service
Fred and Alice Stanback
Public Service
2007
Viney P. Aneja
Science
Jerry C. Cashion
Public Service
Jan Davidson
Fine Arts
Rosemary Harris Ehle
Fine Arts
Henry E. Frye
Public Service
William E. Leuchtenburg
Literature
Burley B. Mitchell, Jr.
Public Service
Charlie Rose
Public Service
Darrel W. Stafford
Science
2006
Thomas K. Hearn, Jr.
Public Service
James E. Holshouser, Jr.
Public Service
Michael Fleming Parker
Literature
Roy Parker, Jr.
Public Service
Charles A. Sanders
Science
William T. Williams
Fine Arts
Emily Herring Wilson
Literature
2005
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
Public Service
Betty Debnam Hunt
Public Service
Randall Kenan
Literature
Thomas Willis Lambeth
Public Service
Bland Simpson
Fine Arts
Mansukh C. Wani
Science
2004
Voit Gilmore
Public Service
Walter J. Harrelson
Literature
William Ivey long
Fine Arts
Elizabeth Matheson
Fine Arts
Penelope Niven
Literature
LeRoy T. Walker
Public Service
Annie Louise Wilkerson
Science
2003
Etta Baker
Fine Arts
Jaki Shelton Green
Literature
Frank Borden Hanes
Public Service
James Baxter Hunt, Jr.
Public Service
Mary Ann Scherr
Fine Arts
William Thornton
Science2002
William G. Anlyan
Science
Cynthia Bringle
Fine Arts
Julius L. Chambers
Public Service
Martha Nell Hardy
Fine Arts
H.G. Jones
Public Service
Romulus Linney
Literature
Edwin Graves Wilson
Public Service
2001
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Literature
W.W. Finlator
Public Service
Robert B. Jordan, III
Public Service
Royce W. Murray
Science
Arthur Smith
Fine Arts
Shelby Stephenson
Literature
2000
Henry Bowers
Public Service
Harlan E. Boyles
Public Service
S. Tucker Cooke
Fine Arts
William T. Fletcher
Science
James F. Goodmon
Public Service
William S. Powell
Literature
1999
Frank Arthur Daniels, Jr.
Public Service
Julia Jones Daniels
Public Service
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Science
Robert G. Parr
Science
Allan Gurganus
Literature
Jill McCorkle
Literature
Frank L. Horton
Fine Arts
Herb Jackson
Fine Arts
Henry H. Shelton
Public Service
1998
L. Richardson Preyer
Public Service
Emily Harris Preyer
Public Service
Kaye Gibbons
Literature
Robert W. Gray
Fine Arts
Martin Rodbell
Science
Marvin Saltzman
Fine Arts
James V. Taylor
Fine Arts
1997
Thomas S. Kenan, III
Public Service
M. Mellanay Delhom
Fine Arts
Robert Ian Bruck
Science
Elna B. Spaulding
Public Service
Clyde Edgerton
Literature
1996
Robert W. Scott
Public Service
Martha Clampitt McKay
Public Service
John L. Sanders
Public Service
Betty Adcock
Literature
Joseph S. Pagano
Science
Joanne M. Bath
Fine Arts
1995
Banks C. Talley, Jr.
Public Service
John S. Mayo
Science
John Biggers
Fine Arts
Clyde Hutchison, III
Science
James Applewhite
Literature
Kenneth Noland
Fine Arts
1994
Sarah Blakeslee
Fine Arts
Richard Jenrette
Public Service
Elizabeth Spencer
Literature
Marshall Edgell
Science
Freda Nicholson
Public Service
1993
John Hope Franklin
Literature
Oliver Smithies
Science
Joe Cox
Fine Arts
Eric Schopler
Public Service
Billy Taylor
Fine Arts
1992
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Literature
John M.J. Madey
Science
William McWhorter Cochrane
Public Service
Maxwell R. Thurman
Public Service
Charles R. “Chuck” Davis
Fine Arts
1991
William J. Brown
Fine Arts
Mary Ellen Jones
Science
Robert R. Morgan
Literature
Jesse H. Meredith
Public Service
Elizabeth H. Dole
Public Service1990
Leon Rooke
Literature
H. Keith H. Brodie
Science
Bob Timberlake
Fine Arts
Dean Wallace Colvard
Public Service
Frank H. Kenan
Public Service
1989
Loonis McGlohon
Fine Arts
Gertrude B. Elion
Science
Ronald Bayes
Literature
Maxine M. Swalin
Public Service
Roy Park
Public Service
1988
Edith London
Fine Arts
Pedro Cuatrecasas
Science
Charles Edward Eaton
Literature
William S. Lee
Public Service
David Brinkley
Public Service
1987
John T. Caldwell
Public Service
Charles Kuralt
Public Service
Maya Angelou
Literature
Robert J. Lefkowitz
Science
Harvey K. Littleton
Fine Arts
1986
Joseph M. Bryan
Public Service
Billy Graham
Public Service
A.R. Ammons
Literature
Ernest L. Eliel
Science
Arthel “Doc” Watson
Fine Arts
1985
J. Gordon Hanes, Jr.
Public Service
Wilma Dykeman
Literature
Irwin Fridovich
Science
Claude F. Howell
Fine Arts
1984
George Watts Hill
Public Service
Robert L. Hill
Science
Maud Gatewood
Fine Arts
Lee Smith
Literature
Joseph Mitchell
Literature
Andy Griffith
Fine Arts
1983
Heather Ross Miller
Literature
Frank Guthrie
Science
Mary Dalton
Fine Arts
Harry Dalton
Fine Arts
Hugh Morton
Public Service
1982
Selma Hortense Burke
Fine Arts
Nancy Winbon Chase
Public Service
Floyd W. Denny, Jr.
Science
Willie Snow Ethridge
Literature
R. Phillip Hanes, Jr.
Fine Arts
1981
Adeline McCall
Fine Arts
Glen Rounds
Literature
Ralph H. Scott
Public Service
Vivian T. Stannett
Science
Tom Wicker
Literature
1980
Fred Chappell
Literature
George H. Hitchings
Science
Robert Lindgren
Fine Arts
Dan K. Moore
Public Service
Jeanelle C. Moore
Public Service
1979
Archie K. Davis
Public Service
John D. deButts
Public Service
Harry Golden
Literature
Walter Gordy
Science
Sam Ragan
Fine Arts
1978
Robert Robey Garvey, Jr.
Public Service
Henry L. Kamphoefner
Fine Arts
David Coston Sabiston, Jr.
Science
Harriet L. Tynes
Public Service
Manly Wade Wellman
Literature
1977
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
Public Service
Reginald Glennis Mitchiner
Science
Reynolds Price
Literature
Joseph Curtis Sloane
Fine Arts
Jonathan Williams
Fine Arts1976
Romare Bearden
Fine Arts
C. Clark Cockerham
Science
Foster Fitz-Simons
Fine Arts
Juanita M. Kreps
Public Service
Richard Walser
Literature
1975
Doris W. Betts
Literature
John L. Etchells
Science
William C. Friday
Public Service
Robert Ward
Fine Arts
1974
William C. Fields
Fine Arts
Thad G. Stem, Jr.
Literature
Ellen Black Winston
Public Service
James B. Wyngaarden
Science
1973
Helen Smith Bevington
Literature
Ellis Brevier Cowling
Science
Burke Davis
Literature
Sam J. Ervin
Public Service
Kenneth Ness
Fine Arts
1972
Sidney Alderman Blackmer
Fine Arts
Edward E. David, Jr.
Science
John Ehle
Literature
William Dallas Herring
Public Service
Harold Hotelling
Science
1971
Guy Owen
Literature
James H. Semans
Fine Arts
Mary Duke Biddle
Trent Semans
Fine Arts
Capus Waynick
Public Service
James Edwin Webb
Public Service
1970
Phillip Handler
Science
Frances Gray Patton
Literature
Henry C. Pearson
Fine Arts
Terry Sanford
Public Service
1969
Kenneth M. Brinkhous
Science
May Gordon Latham
Kellenberger
Public Service
Ovid Williams Pierce
Literature
Charles W. Stanford, Jr.
Fine Arts
1968
Robert Lee Humber
Public Service
Hobson Pittman
Fine Arts
Vermont C. Royster
Literature
Charles Phillips Russell
Literature
Stanley G. Stephens
Science
1967
Albert Coates
Public Service
Jonathan Daniels
Literature
Carl W. Gottschalk
Science
Benjamin F. Swalin
Fine Arts
Hiram Houston Merritt
Science
1966
Bernice Kelly Harris
Literature
Luther H. Hodges
Public Service
A.G. Odell, Jr.
Fine Arts
Oscar K. Rice
Science
1965
Frank P. Graham
Public Service
Paul Green
Literature
Gerald W. Johnson
Literature
Hunter Johnson
Fine Arts
Frederick A. Wolf
Science
1964
John N. Couch
Science
Inglis Fletcher
Literature
John Motley Morehead
Public Service
Clarence Poe
Public Service
Francis Speight
Fine ArtsThe Department of Cultural Resources is grateful to the
following corporations, foundations, and individuals
who have generously underwritten all
expenses involved with the North Carolina Awards.
2012 GALA SPONSORS
Previous N.C. Awards SPONSORS
Biltmore Estate Wine Company
Clear Defense
Duke Energy Carolinas
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
Pfizer Inc.
Thomas S. Kenan, III
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The N.C. Literary and Historical Association
No state monies were used for this event.
Mike Leonard