ESHELMAN SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
U N C E S H E L M A N S C H O O L O F P H A R M A C Y
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Table of Contents
Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.
Board of Directors
2
UNC Pharmacy Alumni Association Board of Directors
2
Welcome
3
Honor Roll of Giving
4
Why I Give
Cliff and Linda Butler [5]
Maurice Alexander [6]
George Abercrombie [9]
Milton Whaley [10]
Steve Buckley [13]
Michael Spivey [14]
Michael Jay [17]
Louis Newsome [18]
Blanche Burrus Clark [21]
Phi Delta Chi [22]
Distinguished Professorships
24
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UNC Pharmacy Alumni Association Board of Directors
Lori Setzer ’83
President
Lewisville, N.C.
Allen Munday ’80
President Elect
Cornelius, N.C.
Chad Terry ’99
Secretary/Treasurer
Kinston, N.C.
Kevin Almond ’83
Executive Director
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Buck Albright ’70
Cockeysville, Md.
Stephen Archbell ’80
Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Bryan Baines ’88
Durham, N.C.
Gary Bowman ’84
Oxford, N.C.
George Brookins ’76
Lincolnton, N.C.
Jerry Coln ’65
Raleigh, N.C.
Jamie Hale ’97
Kernersville, N.C.
Jaquelin Touloupas Harrell ’78
Burlington, N.C.
Pat Hester ’76
Greensboro, N.C.
Ruth Higgins ’79
Black Mountain, N.C.
Mark Holshouser ’76
Lake Zurich, Ill.
Woody King ’80
Warrenton, N.C.
Stephanie Kiser ’92
Candler, N.C.
Lori Kodikara ’92
Charlotte, N.C.
Sonya Lawson ’93
Whiteville, N.C.
Steve McCombs ’74
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Joe Minton ’70
Murfreesboro, N.C.
David Oakley ’77
Holly Springs, N.C.
Ken Phares ’91 ’93
Hillsborough, N.C.
Kristie Reeves-Cavaliero ’99
Austin, Tex.
Steady Steadman ’65
High Point, N.C.
Mary Teeter ’82
Sanford, N.C.
Andy Tennille ’67
Linville, N.C.
Andrew Trella ’99
Blue Bell, Penn.
Tab Waldrop ’84
Kernersville, N.C.
Vince Williams ’99
Midlothian, Va.
Jimmy Wilson ’04
Wilmington, N.C.
Pharmacy Foundation of NC, Inc. Board of Directors
Henry Smith ’72
Chair
Gary Yingling ’62
Vice Chair
Linda Butler ’68
Secretary
H. Gray Hutchinson, Jr.
Treasurer
Kevin L. Almond ’83
President
Eugene G. Anderson ’68
Gary Bowman ’84
Alan Boyd ’82
George Brookins ’76
Steve Buckley ‘83
Del Cranford ‘66
W. Keith Elmore ’72
Steve Evans
Jim Hall ’67
Dan Hardy ’82
Alan Knight ’81
Bill Mast ’57
Joey McLaughlin ’83
Sandy McNeill, Jr. ’72
Gene Minton ’75
Ann Nassif ’69
Ken Phares ’93
Lori Setzer ’83
Tab Waldrop ’84
Chris Woody
U N C E S H E L M A N S C H O O L O F P H A R M A C Y
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Welcome
Dear Friends:
Thank you for all of the support you have given this past year. In a tough economy, it’s been very
encouraging to all of us at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the Pharmacy Foundation
of North Carolina that so many of you have helped us stay on course through your donations. Total
donations and number of donors increased in a year where not many institutions can claim that.
It speaks strongly to the connection that our alumni and friends have to the School and their desire
to see us maintain our statewide and national reputation.
This issue of the Foundation report shows snippets of both the donors who have helped make things
happen here at the School as well as some of the people who have benefited from private giving. I wish
we could tell all of the stories but with more than 1,700 annual donors and all of people who benefit
from those gifts yearly, we would have to write a dissertation in order to cover it all. Every story is
important to us—the written ones and the unwritten ones. The impact
that private gifts have on faculty, staff, and students lasts for years beyond
their time at Carolina.
Beyond our donors and recipients, the other important facet of the
Foundation and the School is transparency—striving to earn and
maintain your trust with your valuable resources. We spend donations
in a way that is keeping with your intent and our strict policies and we
will also continue to invest them in a way that will maximize the benefit
to donor and recipient alike. We cannot be Carolina Pharmacy without
you and your loyalty is paramount to program success.
If you should ever have questions concerning how we use your resources,
please do not hesitate to contact us. When serving as preceptors to our
students, speaking in the classroom, giving financially, or volunteering
on our boards, you make it possible for us to be excellent. It is the
Carolina Way…you and us working together.
Best regards,
Kevin L. Almond, RPh.
President
Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.
DEAN’S INNER CIRCLE
$25,000 and above
Estate of Mary Lockwood Curry 3
Fred Eshelman 6
Donna Lee Gutterman 1
Dorothy Renfrow Kerr 9
Hugh Leon McColl Jr. 1
Ron and Nancy McFarlane 3
John Albert McNeill, Jr. 15
Dhiren R. Thakker 7
Chris and Debra Woody 7
Foundation for the Carolinas 1
Jewish Foundation of Greensboro 1
Pharmacy Network Foundation Inc. 18
Phi Delta Chi 1
MORTAR AND PESTLE
$10,000 to $24,999
ANONYMOUS 3
Ian J. Ginsberg 1
Anthony J. Hickey 3
Seymour and Rheta Holt 22
Henry and Tracey Smith 16
Mitchell Wayne Watts 1
Lloyd Milton Whaley 18
Ruth E. Wooten Charitable Trust 14
C.O. Bigelow Chemists, Inc. 1
CVS Corporation 7
Pharmacy Alumni Association 5
Walgreens 13
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc 4
SUSTAINER
$5,000 to $9,999
Anonymous 27
Bob and Maureen Blouin 3
Vaughn and Nancy Bryson 1
Stephen and Jill Buckley 6
Sadie Wolfe Byerly 6
James and Evelyn Fowler 8
Bernard and Nancy Gutterman 1
Jim Hall 7
Alan and Liz Knight 6
Ruth Kannon Nassif 5
Talbert L. Waldrop 17
Gary and Rachel Yingling 11
Eisai Inc. 2
Wal-Mart Foundation 2
ASSOCIATE
$2,000 to $4,999
Kevin L. Almond 20
Ralph and Daphne Ashworth 20
Bettye Davis Barto 3
Martha Williams Brookshire 9
H. Chapman Brown, III 25
Ronny and Barbara Buchanan 24
Terrence and Terri Burroughs 10
Cliff and Linda Lynch Butler 12
Josephine Eldridge Butler 1
Rowe Bogle Campbell, Jr. 24
Radu Ciocan and Meghan Peters 2
George and Erie Cocolas 20
Delbert Marvin Cranford 7
Thomas Peete Davis 12
W. Keith Elmore 5
Neal Franklin Fowler 1
Stephen W. Fuller 18
James Michael Fuller 7
Sara and Eugene Hackney 5
Sean Richard Hatfield 1
Clark Jefferies and Diana Otylia Perkins 1
Paul and Phebe Kirkman 1
Patricia Claytor Lee 11
Evelyn P. Lloyd 19
Lazelle and Judy Marks 1
Steven Kelly McCombs 14
Robert Joseph McLaughlin Jr. 3
Gene Winston Minton 3
Tom Saburo Miya 11
William Whitaker Moose, Sr. 24
Louis Alfred Newsome 2
C. Thomas Oakley, Jr 1
Shara and Richard Owensby 9
A. Wayne Pittman 18
Ralph H. Raasch 18
Albert Paul Rachide 18
Kader and Margaret Patterson Ramsey 1
Philip and Jo Ellen Rodgers 6
Ralph Peele Rogers, Jr. 4
John and Lori Setzer 8
John Wesley Sides, III 9
Thomas and Catherine Crompton Stokes 1
J. Robert and Linda Taylor 20
Tom and Kathryn Thutt 16
Anonymous 3
Cardinal Health Inc. 5
Kappa Epsilon 3
SUPPORTER
$1,000 to $1,999
George and Tessa Albright 15
Benjamin T. Alexander Jr. 1
Billy Thomas Allen 1
Marshall Bowden Jr. and Lynda Haberer 1
Gary Lynn Bowman 4
Alan Fenner Boyd 1
George William Brookins 7
W. Stanley Campbell 14
Stephen Ray Carswell 13
Shirley A. Clifton 4
Thomas Daniel Dillon 1
Fred M. Eckel 11
Johnny Warren Elkins 6
Sonja Perry Estes 1
Mary Elizabeth Fearing 2
Edie McHone 1
Elaine W. Fuller 4
Robert and Pamela Corrigan Guy 1
Joseph and Cindy Hamilton 26
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Blue names: Gave first gift more than 20 years ago.
Superscript: Consecutive years of giving. Honor Roll of Donors
North Carolina natives and Chapel Hill residents
Cliff and Linda Butler have much in common,
including their love for Carolina, their pursuits in
pharmacy, and their pride in the UNC Eshelman
School of Pharmacy.
“We give every year,” the Butlers said. “We love
the opportunity to make the School more
accessible, and we hope the recipients of our
scholarship will also give back when they are able.”
“These young folks at the School are so impressive
and work so hard,” Linda said. She is proud of the
high caliber pharmacists the School produces, as
they are, in her words, “much admired and suc-cessful,
both in the state and nationwide.”
The School’s graduates are, Cliff said, “the best
advertisement for the good job the school is doing.
They come out of school confident and skilled.”
He values the School for its excellence, and to
him, it shows dedication, accessibility, and reliabil-ity—
important ingredients for being the best.
The Butlers are bonded by a strong sense of
service and community. Many of their family
members are involved in pharmacy. “It has been
great sharing the pharmacy experience with family
and having a spouse to learn from that under-stands
what your life at work is like,” Cliff said.
Cliff began working in his father’s drug store as an
11-year-old boy. Daily, he witnessed his parents
befriend customers, making each one feel as if he
or she was just the person they wanted to see.
From this example, Cliff went on to pursue the
lifestyle he shares with his wife today.
“The girl of my dreams was the daughter of the
pharmacists that owned the drug store across the
street,” he said. “I followed her to UNC and then
to pharmacy school.”
After graduation, both Cliff and Linda enjoyed
extensive careers in retail pharmacy. Cliff spent
36 years as a pharmacist for Eckerd, where he
was dedicated to providing quality service to his
customers. Linda also devoted 25 years working
as a pharmacist for Eckerd. She then shifted into
drug information and continued serving the
profession as a valued friend in the pharmacy
community. Linda cherishes the lifelong
relationships, both personal and professional,
she has formed with colleagues in the field.
The couple embraces their deep ties to UNC and
to the School through continuous involvement
and consistent support. It is their familial legacy
and personal connection to the school that
prompted the Butlers to establish the Cliff and
Linda Butler Fund and the Herman and Ernestine
Lynch Scholarship. Cliff and Linda are proud, not
only for those funds they have created, but that
the School has so many scholarships to award.
For several years now, Cliff has helped the
admissions committee to select the best and
brightest candidates for its programs. Of this
experience, Cliff said, “I have loved helping pick
the pharmacists and researchers that will take us
into the future.”
U N C E S H E L M A N S C H O O L O F P H A R M A C Y
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Cliff Butler ’68 BSPharm and
Linda Lynch Butler ’68 BSPharm
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As a recent graduate of the UNC Eshelman
School of Pharmacy and a current first-year
pharmacy resident at UNC Hospitals, Maurice
Alexander recognizes the impact his mentors had
on his learning experience.
At the School, Alexander built lasting relationships
with the faculty. He recalled countless times he
went to them for professional advice and career
insights. Their commitment to his personal,
academic, and professional development was
memorable, and Alexander appreciates their
efforts and influence.
“I don’t forget the help they gave me along the
way,” he said. “A lot of my success I owe to them.”
Among other scholarships and distinctions,
Alexander was a Hollingsworth Scholar and
received the Howard and Mescal Ferguson Award
during his time at the School.
“We are fortunate that the School has so many
scholarships to offer,” Alexander acknowledged.
“The opportunities they provide are tremendous.”
Alexander’s involvement in various student organi-zations
and community outreach projects made
his experience at the School worthwhile. He
served as vice president of the Class of 2010, on
the Operation Diabetes team under the Carolina
Association of Pharmacy Students initiative, and
as treasurer of the Student National Pharmaceuti-cal
Association. For his dedicated participation,
character and academic achievement, Alexander
received the George H. Cocolas Student Body
Award in 2010.
Growing up in New Bern, Alexander remembers
having his heart and mind set on attending UNC.
Initially, he had medical school on his mind, as
well, because of an unshakable interest in health-care.
But after speaking with physicians in the field
and his aunt, who was a nurse at UNC Hospitals
at the time, Alexander learned early in his
academic career that pharmacy would be a better
fit for him. He decided it would be the best
way for him to advocate patient care as a medical
professional.
“By optimizing drug therapy for patients,
pharmacists play a unique role in patient care,”
Alexander explained. “Pharmacy has its own
niche in the healthcare field, and I have found
my niche in pharmacy.”
As a UNC Hospitals pharmacy resident,
Alexander spends time at the School as a teacher’s
assistant in the pharmacy skills lab. He said he
enjoys this element of his residency because it
allows him to give back
to the School and to pass
along the insights and
consideration that was
offered to him by his
mentors.
Of his education
and current path in
pharmacy, Alexander
said, “If I had to do
it again, I would.”
Maurice Alexander ’10 PharmD
“I don’t forget the help [the faculty] gave me along
the way. A lot of my success I owe to them.”
Hugh Dan Hardy, Jr. 4
Reginald Lee Hardy 1
Jennifer Hardy 1
L. William Harris 9
Caroline Phelps Holland-Wilson 11
Clifford Ervin Hemingway 5
Ryan Thomas Hoskins 3
Kenneth Look Hoy 1
Leaf Huang 5
Gray and Gail Henry Hutchison 1
Gordon Robert Ingle 11
Sarah Maner Lawrence 5
D. Michael Lindsay
Cat Frieden Lineberry 1
Philip Howard Logan 1
George Patrick Markham 6
William Herndon Mast 1
Robert Hammitt Matthews 1
Larry G. McLellan 22
David Solomon Moody, Jr. 3
Sara Ellen Randolph 1
James and Margaret Booth Powell 2
Richard Hiram Rains 10
Jennifer Crawley Richardson 1
Mary Jane Rivers 3
Josephe Rubin 1
Elizabeth Schifano Skirvin 9
W. Allen Smith 6
Edward L. Smithwick, Jr. 1
Susan Fowler Stafford 1
Paul Augustus Stevenson 8
D. Charles Thompson 1
John F Watts 14
H. Lee White 1
Romas Templeton White, III 4
Aaron and Lisa deBruyne Wright 1
Advanced Health Media 1
Epic Pharmacy Network 1
Kroger Company Fdn 3
Matrex Exhibits 1
National Association of Chain Drug Stores 15
NC Mutual Wholesale Drug Co 24
Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company 12
Supervalue 2
William and Gay Callaway Yelverton 1
Tessie Yiottis 8
PATRON
$500 to $999
Stephen and Susan Hulse Archbell 5
John Dean Badgett 9
Herman S. Barbrey, Jr. 1
Holly Elizabeth Barrier 2
J. Stephen and Deborah Bedford 4
Carl J. Bennett, Jr. 3
Ann Abbitt Bird 1
Saul and Yung Oh Borodkin 1
Frederick and Elizabeth Bowman 12
Douglas and Joyce Boyette 2
Timothy James Brennan 3
Thomas E. Brewington, Jr. 2
Ken and Kim Brouwer 1
Mr. James Bedford Bryant 2
William Henry Burch 3
Thomas Reeves Burgiss 10
Stephen Michael Caiola 14
Desiree A Carlson MD 12
Laura Banner Carringer 10
Carlisle Chenault 9
Dawn Williams Conti 5
Johnny Lynn Cox, II 7
Herbert Owen Davis, Sr. 1
Wiley and Mary Dawson 3
Charles Robert Deadwyler, Jr. 10
Steve and LaRue Draughon Dedrick 2
Betty Hill Dennis 14
Cynthia Knapp Dlugosz 13
Joseph and Kathryn Edwards 1
Deborah Moore Edwards 15
Mary Ledbetter Fischer 12
Marilyn C. Frazier 2
Robert J. Garmise 3
Ronald Michael Geer 2
F. Heidi Gierie 1
David and Trisha Goble 2
L. Irvin Graham24
Ronald Preston Greene 11
Joe David Greeson 2
Lauren Bunting Hardin 5
Ira and Mary Starling Hardy 1
Patricia Day Harris 14
Terry Walter Heatherington 6
James Donald Helms 13
Nelson and Ruth Hall Higgins 1
Johnny Lee Hogg 1
Beverly Jean Holcombe 8
W. Howard Holsenbeck 2
Betty and Brad Hussey 5
E. Maurice and Carol Jones 6
Dale Jordan 3
Pamela Upchurch Joyner 13
Earl Wendell Key, Jr. 9
Keith Eugene Kirby 16
David S. Lawrence 3
Margaret Gallagher Leyden 16
J. Franklin Lowder 24
U N C E S H E L M A N S C H O O L O F P H A R M A C Y
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Class year % who donated
1939 100.00
1942 66.67
1952 56.25
1960 50.00
1948 47.06
1968 44.26
1955 43.48
1967 43.14
1970 40.98
1949 40.91
CL ASSES WITH THE
GREATEST PARTICIPATION
Class year % of all giving Dollar amt
1979 13.10 $92,032
1998 12.44 $87,405
1972 11.53 $80,990
1983 4.30 $30,245
1974 3.19 $22,374
1963 2.85 $20,030
1977 2.72 $19,131
1960 2.47 $17,317
1984 2.27 $15,935
1970 2.17 $15,260
TOP DOLL ARS BY CL ASS
Macary Weck Marciniak 1
Franklin Alexander Measamer 8
Patricia K. Miller 1
John and Frances Morisey 1
Steven and Bettie Olson 7
Thomas Andrew Parmelee 1
Hina Navnit Patel 1
Kenneth and Teresa Phares 1
James Cornel Pinson 24
James Alston Pittman 12
William Gibbs Pittman, Jr. 3
Kenneth and Lorie Lewis Poole 1
Fred Rachide 16
Ann Finley Reynolds 1
Billy Gerald Roughton 3
Mark and Kay Rountree 7
Reid Stewart Saleeby 1
Owren Dale Sides 8
Thomas Gail Sinnett 16
William Denny Smith 5
P. David and Jennifer Canaday Smith 5
Jacob Douglas Spangler 2
James Carlton Stewart, Jr. 9
Deborah Ann Sturpe 1
Thomas Fain Taylor 13
Meredith Patton Tripp 10
Michael Robert Ujhelyi 1
Christopher Lee Waller 3
Kimberly Carroll Ward 2
Ronald Dean Watts 3
Joseph Robert Westmoreland II 1
Michael George Williams 1
Thomas Alton Williford 11
J. M. Smith Foundation 1
Adam and Jennifer Stegall Zanation 1
Laura Katherine Bayliss 2
CENTURY CLUB
$150 to $499
Tamara Watson Adams 8
Patty N. Albright 1
Glenda F. Alexander 10
David Kent Allen 1
Barbara Gilliam Alphin 4
Dallas L Ammons 3
Lauren Content Anderson 1
John Andrako 16
Marjorie Jordan Andrea 1
Jane Powers Archer 4
Wells Sanford Armstrong 4
Kimberly Clifton Ashley 7
Brandi Burkhart Averett 1
Susan Gretz Aycock 7
Maude Anne Babington 2
Amanda Ball 3
Scott and Jennifer Smith Ballenger 1
Sprite Barbee 6
J. Hilton Barrett, II 12
Jenna Christine Barringer 1
Mary Elizabeth Batten 1
David and Karen Beam 12
Charles H. Beddingfield 11
Karen Ammons Bencuya 1
Stephen Dodson Bennett, III 6
J. Warren and Becky Odham Berry 4
Martha Wyke Biggio 20
Angela Blake Biggs 4
Jeffrey Galen Blanchard 2
Charles Donald Blanton, Jr. 16
George William Bliss 3
Jean Winter Bliss 3
Martin and Mary Boney 1
John S. Boreyko 8
Mehdi Boroujerdi 8
Sara Ellen Boss-Isenhour 21
David L. Bourdet 2
Richard K. Bower 5
Shelton Bickett Boyd 20
V. Irving Boyles, Jr. 21
Ronney Gray Bradshaw 17
Benjamin W. Brady 26
Rae Bragg-Jones 20
William and Marsha Hood Brewer 3
Jan Ball Brickley 7
Betsy Queen Briley 2
Charles Arnold Britt 3
Harry and Diane Brogden 5
G. Jackson Brooks, Jr. 9
Charles Michael Brooks 10
Aaron W. and Pamela McDaniel Brothers 3
Henry Shelton Brown, Jr. 2
William Henry Brown, Jr. 3
Amy Newnam Brown 1
E. Clyde and Janet Buchanan 24
Larry D. Bullock 13
Michael Eugene Bunch 2
Stephen Donald Burch 3
Malachi and Jennifer Price Burgess 2
Stephen A. Burrus 12
Wesley and Marian White Byerly 2
Stephen Wayne Cagle 2
John Wilson Caldwell, III 7
Rebecca Hedrick Campbell 6
W. Bruce Cannon 1
Michael Capobianchi 1
Donald Kermit Carter 3
Matthew and Pamela Cartrette 1
Ronnie L. Chandler 1
Moo J. Cho 18
Blanche Burrus Clark 1
Rodney G. Cline 9
Jerrel and Sarah Cobb 11
James and Melissa Coleman 4
W. Bernard Collie 4
Ben and Doris Collins 1
Jerry and Anne Coln 12
Christopher and Julie Connelly 1
Rachel Leder Couchenour 11
Bruce and Carol Fleming Cox 1
Patrick Bryan Cox 6
Carole Winifred Cranor 2
Randy Gordon Crawford 1
Judith Baucom Crouch 4
Tommy Dagenhart 6
J. David Dalmas 9
Herman Hallet Daniels 17
Michael and Amy Young Darrow 1
Kevin and Yvonne Blackmon Daugherty 2
G. Ike Davis 3
Mark Davis 7
Gary Mark Davis 7
Christopher Day 8
Karin Lynn Dayer 1
Kimberly Hardison Deloatch 18
Robert Dewar 19
Bruce and Toni Dickerson 1
Constance Starnes Driskell 1
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U N C E S H E L M A N S C H O O L O F P H A R M A C Y
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As a student, George Abercrombie saw the
commitment that the School, University and its
faculty made not only to his academic growth
but also to his personal development. He has since
devoted much of himself to making sure the same
can be done for others.
Abercrombie recalls Boka Hadzija, who retired from
the School last year after 40 years as a researcher
and professor, as a teacher who gave counsel not just
regarding pharmaceutics but also about life.
“She was not just an excellent teacher but equally
impressive was her interest in her students and
their lives,” said Abercrombie, who has donated
to a fund named for Hadzija. “It’s not just me.
There are many, many students who benefited
from her advice. I was in no way singled out.”
Abercrombie has returned that support to the
School and the University in a variety of ways.
Several years ago, Abercrombie set up the George
B. Abercrombie Fund to benefit of the School.
The fund’s purpose, Abercrombie said, is “to
help the school in whatever way the dean and
the administration feel is necessary.”
Abercrombie says he did not stipulate any specific
uses for the fund, which in turn gives leaders
flexibility in fluid political and economic environ-ments.
“The University and the School need all
the help they can get,” Abercrombie said.
As well as providing financial support,
Abercrombie has also given his time and leader-ship.
Former Chancellor Michael Hooker asked
Abercrombie to serve on the University’s Board
of Visitors, which Abercrombie later chaired. The
board’s agenda includes public relations, govern-mental
relations, fund raising and serving as a
conduit between the university and the commu-nity.
Abercrombie recalls the board served as “the
eyes, ears and advisors to Chancellor Hooker.”
Abercrombie retired last year as the CEO and
president of pharmaceutical powerhouse Hoff-mann-
La Roche, Inc. Though retired from Roche,
Abercrombie remains on corporate and not-for-profit
boards and is also involved with a startup.
Abercrombie spent his career with three compa-nies
that made “life-saving and life-altering
medicines.” It is clear to him that his education
at UNC — and his time with mentors such as
Professor Hadzija — helped guide him through
his professional life.
“It’s the foundation provided by the School of
Pharmacy that allowed me to do that,” Abercrom-bie
said. “It was worn proudly on my sleeve my
entire career.”
George Abercrombie ’78 BSPharm
George Abercrombie at
his home in Chapel Hill
with Maggie and Emma.
“The University and the School need
all the help they can get.”
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Some of Milton Whaley’s experiences continue to
have an impact on his life — and on the lives of
others. As an eager young man of modest means
growing up in a turbulent economic climate,
Whaley took the opportunities given to him and
made the most of his own life while also providing
opportunities to those who came after him.
“I want my legacy to be that I have done some-thing
that is helpful to others,” Whaley said.
Whaley grew up during the Depression in
Beulaville with his primary prospects appearing to
be farming tobacco and corn. After serving two
years in the service in 1945 and 1946, he instead
used the G.I. Bill to enroll in the School in 1947.
Whaley is still grateful for that program. “I had
the opportunity to come to school because of the
G.I. Bill,” he says.
Whaley, who graduated from the School in 1951,
spent his career in a number of enterprises in
pharmacy profession, including many years in
retail pharmacy. Much of that retail experience
was in southeastern North Carolina, not far from
where he grew up.
Through the Lloyd Milton Whaley Trust,
Whaley provides to the School through the
Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina to
support the School’s programs and activities.
Whaley established the trust in the 1990s while
he served as president of the Foundation.
Right now, Whaley says, he wants to see the
principle in the trust to grow. The more principle
in the trust, the greater its power to benefit others
through the income it generates. “Right now
I’ve got [it] in a building mode,” Whaley says.
The ultimate goal,
though, is to provide
assistance to those
students who need it.
“There are people who
come to the School to
better themselves,”
Whaley says. “What I
want is if they want to
give the money to a
student, give it to a
student who deserves it. One, give it to a student
who will work hard in school and two, who
will work hard once they are out of school.”
Milton Whaley ’51 BSPharm
“I want my legacy to be that I have done
something that is helpful to others.”
Patrick Duffy 1
Everette Matthews Dunn 3
Stewart and Tammy Eckard 2
E. Stanley Edmundson, III 1
Charles Eubie Evans, Jr.
Elizabeth Anne Farrington 1
Anna F. Ferguson 9
Ginger Lee Loving Filpo 4
William C. Finch, Jr. 10
Christopher and Kelly Johnson Fleming 2
J. Hugh Fletcher 15
George Michael Fox
Carolyn Twiggs Fox 5
Stephen and Susan Benolken Frye 1
Elaine Teresa Fuller 5
Edwin Rudolph Fuller, Jr. 3
James and Mary G. Teague Fullwood 4
James Wade Fulton 25
William Randolph Futrell, Jr. 10
Jonathan and Allison Browning Gaddy 1
W. Michael Gallimore 1
Charise Gantt 1
Richard L. Garner 9
Donna Kay Gibson 16
Charles Byrd Gillespie, Jr. 1
Peter H. Gilligan 1
Robert L. Gordon 17
Richard Howard Gray 23
Richard Adrow Gray 10
Jennifer Smart Greene 4
Jennifer Smart Simmons 4
Sharon Halsey Greeson 3
Eleyse Harrell Griffin 16
William Crane Griffin 7
Bryan Austin Haas 3
Ray Gordon Hagwood, Sr. 5
Rebecca R. Hale 1
Tammy Coble Hall 20
W. Sidney and Anna Harmon 8
Jacquelin Touloupas Harrell 1
William Lee Harris, Jr. 10
Vicki Blackburn Harrison 20
William Heyward Harrison, Jr. 9
Gilbert Hartis 13
Margaret McCann Hartis 21
W. Hampton Hatcher 9
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While his classmates began their careers as
pharmacists in drug stores and medical centers,
Steve Buckley found his place and success as a
pharmacist in the pharmaceutical industry.
“My path has been unique, rewarding and
challenging,” he said. “The pharmaceutical
industry is a satisfying way to develop a career,
though not many are exposed to this aspect of
pharmaceuticals in school.” Buckley said he likes
to share his story to demonstrate the diversity
of the field and the spectrum of professional
opportunities available to pharmacists.
“I want to give back the same experience and
opportunities I was given,” Buckley said. “My
education, both as an undergraduate and as a
graduate student at the School, provided a
valuable foundation for my success in the industry
today.” Buckley established the Stephen Buckley
Fund, which provides a scholarship to a new
student each year. As director of Drug Safety
and Risk Management at GlaxoSmithKline,
he systematically leverages the employer match
function to maximize his support for the School.
“I am fortunate that my position allows me to
make the most of my contributions,” Buckley
said. He also makes donations to further support
scholarships for pharmacy students.
Buckley received both his bachelor’s degree and
PharmD from the School, choosing to return to
the university as a graduate student at School to
maintain the level of excellence and education he
received as an undergraduate. Between degrees,
he practiced pharmacy in a hospital setting.
To explore what more he could do with his
pharmacy knowledge, Buckley took a residency
at a drug company prior to going back for his
PharmD. He said the experience opened his
eyes as well as many doors to the pharmaceutical
industry. Buckley’s rotations exposed him to vast
opportunities and the wide number of career
paths a pharmacist could take.
Upon investigating further pharmaceuticals
positions, Buckley was introduced to drug safety
and risk management and fell into the industry.
At the forefront of the healthcare and regulatory
profession, he recognized its impact on overall
public health.
“Often, not much emphasis is placed on the
industry, however it performs an important
function,” Buckley said. “What we do is critical
to drug development process, and it’s a job
best done by pharmacists.” He is interested in
spreading this realization and his experiences to
pharmacy students and young pharmacists.
Giving back as much as possible, Buckley enjoys
being involved as an alumnus. He serves on
the Foundation Board of Directors, interviews
candidates for the PharmD program and speaks
to students about opportunities in the pharmaceu-tical
industry.
Steve Buckley ’83 BSPharm, ’88 PharmD
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When Michael Spivey made a gift recently to the
Steve Wyrick Fund honoring his former professor
and mentor, it was much more than a simple
financial contribution.
Wyrick (’74 BSPharm, ’77 PhD), a former
professor at the School, died in 2009 after a battle
with Parkinson’s disease. He was the recipient of
many teaching awards during his career, including
the School’s Best Professor award and the Nicolas
Slago Campus-Wide Distinguished Teaching
Award in Recognition of Excellence in Inspira-tional
Teaching of Undergraduate Students.
When Spivey learned of Wyrick’s passing, he
immediately thought back to the professor who
had been so giving of his time during Spivey’s
academic career.
“The two things that stood out to me about
Steve were his passion for discovery and science
and his passion for students,” Spivey said.
Spivey was a third-year pharmacy student when
he took one of Wyrick’s classes. He was interested
in a career in pharmaceutical research and
approached Wyrick after class one day about
helping out with any research projects.
“For Steve, I was probably more work than help,
to be honest,” Spivey said. “He was willing to do
that because of my interest. At the time I wasn’t
sure what I wanted to do and it gave me exposure
to that industry.”
While Spivey ultimately chose a different career
path, the time he spent with Wyrick left a mark.
“Not enough teachers have a full appreciation of
their impact on students. It’s a lasting impression,”
Spivey said.
Today, Spivey is the director of medical information
for psychiatry at Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Scientific
Affairs, part of Johnson & Johnson. It’s a route
he may not have taken if not for conversations
with Ralph Raasch, an associate professor in the
School’s Division of Pharmacy Practice and
Experiential Education.
“His discussions with me were very influential as
far as my career path,” Spivey said.
In addition to the Steve Wyrick Fund, Spivey has
also contributed to the Class of 2009 Ralph H.
Raasch Scholarship Fund.
“These two funds, I thought, were in memorial
as far as my appreciation of Ralph and Steve
and these two teachers who really influenced my
career,” Spivey said. “It’s that personal connection
I had with them that when I learned of the
opportunity to give, it really triggered pulling out
the wallet and writing that check.”
Michael Spivey ’84 BSPharm, ’89 PharmD
Michael Spivey with his wife Laura and daughter Sara.
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ADMINISTRATIVE
AND FUNDRAISING
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As a recent addition to the UNC Eshelman School
of Pharmacy family, Michael Jay has spent the
past couple of years tucked away in his lab space,
settling in and preparing for the upcoming ven-tures
to which his research will take him. Where
that might be, he is unsure. But being at the
interface between the pharmaceutical and nuclear
sciences, it will certainly be out of the ordinary.
“I have the resources to try wild, new things and
to fully explore the bounds of my ideas,” Jay said.
Research funds enable him to take on important
projects of national and international significance.
Driven by adventure, Jay has found many interest-ing
ways to combine his fascination with radioac-tivity,
passion for research, and knowledge of
pharmaceuticals.
A Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor,
Jay admits that he enjoys the perks of his job.
“I am honored, though, not only to hold the
distinguished professorship, but to be a part of
this faculty and a member of the greater university
community,” Jay said.
Jay’s research at UNC is supported with funds
that allow him to take chances and think out
of the box. He explains that grants given by the
National Institute of Health are competitive and
that the ideas most often need to be proved before
they are funded for research. In the position he is
in now, Jay is comfortable experimenting without
hesitation or great limitations.
Jay was first exposed to the excitement of nuclear
science as an undergraduate at the University
at Buffalo. While studying pharmacy there, he
said he had the opportunity to see and experience
things as a young student that most are not
afforded.
After receiving his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences
at the University of Kentucky, Jay spent more than
a year teaching at the University of Connecticut
in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, where
he was introduced to issues surrounding nuclear
medicine. He returned to Kentucky, remaining at
the College of Pharmacy for 27 years before it was
time for a new adventure.
When he decided to make a move, Jay chose
to come to North Carolina to get more into his
research. He joined the School as a professor in the
Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics in 2008.
“I selected UNC for its vibrancy and the quality
of its academic and cultural environment,”
Jay said. Jay wonders where his research in the
pharmaceutical and nuclear sciences will lead next.
Adventures in his research already have taken him
around the world and as far as China.
“When I was a kid growing up in Buffalo, NY,
I never dreamed that I would ever see the Great
Wall, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower,” Jay said.
“Now, I have been to all of these places because
of my career in pharmaceutical research.”
Michael Jay, Fred Eshelman
Distinguished Professor
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For Louis Newsome, inter-est
in providing opportu-nities
and community for
students is a family matter.
“I am a product of a fam-ily
whose legacy has been a
continual commitment to
the enhancement of higher
education institutions and
to the development of stu-dents
who attend them,”
said Newsome, who graduated from the School in
1977. “I’ve had the opportunity to observe from
both a professional and volunteer perspective
the satisfaction that can be achieved from active
participation in this important work. I continue
to be motivated by the quality of people these
institutions produce.”
Newsome has built on his time in the School
and his subsequent professional experience to
become the regional pharmacy executive for the
Mid-Atlantic region for United Healthcare.
While at the School, Newsome established UNC’s
chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical
Association, a service organization of pharmacy
students “who are concerned about pharmacy and
healthcare related issues, and the poor minority
representation in pharmacy and other health-related
professions.”
Newsome has continued that commitment to
institutional and student development continues
through his service on the School and University
boards of visitors, among other things. The
boards’ agendas include public relations, govern-mental
relations, fund raising and serving as a con-duit
between the university and the community.
“It is easy to advocate for the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I enjoy interacting
with people who, for the most part, have mutual
feelings about the University,” Newsome said.
“Our job is to ensure that these folks remain aware
of the tremendous resources needed to sustain and
enhance this institution.”
Another measure of his dedication is the Louis A.
Newsome Endowment Fund, which he established
in 2005.
“I was motivated to establish the fund by friends
and colleagues who took the step to give back to
the institution,” Newsome said. “I wanted to help
provide resources for students that would allow
them to participate in activities that contribute to
a memorable college experience. I benefited from
this kind of generosity, and it would be gratifying
if my actions inspired others to do likewise.”
Newsome has enjoyed his service to the School
and maintains high expectations for upcoming
opportunities.
“It has been extraordinarily gratifying to partici-pate
in the academic and physical growth of the
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy,” Newsome
said. “However, continued growth and excellence
can not be taken for granted. We must remain
confident in the power of the School’s past and
in the hope for its future.”
Louis Newsome ’77 BSPharm
“We must remain confident in the power of the
School’s past and in the hope for its future.”
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Franklin Scott Morgan 3
Pamela Jones Morin 1
Timothy Francis Morley 2
Royanna Sloan Morris 1
Edward Zebulon Morris, Jr. 7
Michael Monzo Morris 3
J. Christopher Morrison 4
Mary Mardre Moseley 3
Constance Hudson Motlow 4
Clarence Lynn Murchison 1
Susan Decker Murphy 9
Charles Earl Myers 3
Ronnie Dale Myers 1
Nancy Fitzgerald Myers 1
Dr. Christy Denise Nall 1
Thomas and Alisa Carrigan Nance 4
Bradley and Lisa Woolard Narron 2
Ellison and Mary Johnson Neal 23
Dieu-Ha Thi Nguyen 5
Larry Wayne Nichols 1
Joel Howard Noped 1
Gary Miller Oakley 2
William M. Oakley 11
Elizabeth Rodman Oden 3
Chijioke Amara Okehie 2
Elizabeth Carol Oldham 2
Julie Myers O’Malley 1
Carolyn F O’Tuel 1
Charles Fletcher Owen, III 1
Beverly Humphrey Owen 2
William and Cynthia Owens 10
Lindsay McCray Page 2
Kala Patel Pai 5
Gregory and Michelle Pait 9
Emily Adams Pare 11
William and Sara Trott Parham 1
James Edgar Parker 17
Cindy Ellen Parker 5
Minal Pravinch Patel 3
Forrest Tribble Patterson 1
Gary and Cynthia Patterson 4
Ruth Patterson Pecora 2
Herbert Ray Peedin 1
Ben Earl Pell 1
Grace Penny 1
W. Stephen Perrow 3
Matthew and Anne Peshel 1
Donald Vance Peterson 20
Melanie Raper Philips 2
Lisa Noblett Piercy 5
Mark and Christine Kurtz Pittman 1
Person Bennett Pittman 11
John David Pitts 5
Wendy S. Player 3
Molly Ingram Pliszka 7
Wallace Hinton Plyler, Jr. 3
Leann Trefz Poindexter 10
Anne Kane Pontiff 4
Larry Hicks Pope 2
Ernest Porter, Jr. 1
Barry and Elaine Porter 1
Paul and Sherlynn Dixon Powell 1
Gregory and Marcy Stephens Powell 3
Dwayne Clark Preast 1
Richard Philip Price 1
Amy Jennings Prichard 2
Downey and Carolyn Purcell 1
Raleigh Jackson Putnam, II 1
Robert and Melissa Hartis Putnam 2
Donald and Eileen Mitchell Rabil 2
Ray Harrell Raines 1
Sarah Anne Ralston 1
Matthew Joseph Ransom 1
Hallie Craven Reaves, Jr. 1
Tony Curtis Reynolds 3
Charles William Rhoden, Jr. 13
Alma Franklin Rhyne 1
William Warren Richards 7
Eric Dean Richards 2
Charity Ann Riddle-Chapman 3
Guy Lester Rippy 1
Orice and Mary MacKear Ritch 1
Robert and Nellie Paterson Rittase 1
Nellie Elizabeth Rittase 11
Melynn Benfield Roberts 1
Charles and Mary Williams Roederer 1
Alfred Ray Rogers 3
Karen Rolandelli 1
Elizabeth C. Rosenbaum 6
Marjorie Sue Rosenthal 1
Mary G. Rossiter 3
Philip N. Russ 3
Marlene E Ryno 2
Gary and Karen Sain 1
Ronald Paul Salem 1
Teresa Nixon Salit 1
Jonathan and Laurel Anderson Sargeant 1
Jonathan and Amy Sauls 5
Dabney Woodard Scaff 6
Donald James Schnoor 13
Robert Joseph Schollard 5
David and Regina Schomberg 3
David and Margaret Schultz 1
Richard and Marcia Coster-Schulz 2
J. Phillip Seats 1
Rebecca Tayloe Seegars 2
Lawrence and Elizabeth Seigler 1
Sherrie E. Settle 5
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U N C E S H E L M A N S C H O O L O F P H A R M A C Y
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For some students, the relationship with a school
lasts as long as they remain admitted. For others it
lasts a lifetime.
Count Blanche Burrus Clark in the second
category.
Clark graduated from the School in 1941 and
practiced pharmacy for seven years before devoting
herself to her family and helping her late husband,
Henry, advance in his career. Henry, who
graduated from the University in 1937, went on
to become its vice chancellor of health affairs.
While Clark’s generosity has touched nearly
every area of the University, the School remains
close to her heart.
“We both felt very strongly that we owed a
great debt of gratitude to the University for the
education it gave us and preparing us for our
careers,” Clark said.
Among her contributions to the School, she and
her family established the Samuel Burrus Award
for Community Service, which the UNC Phar-macy
Alumni Association gives to a student and
an alumnus each spring. The award is named for
Clark’s father, who was a community pharmacist
in western North Carolina.
Clark arrived at the School during the Depression.
“It was a struggle for many of us,” Clark said.
“It’s just very gratifying to know that I may be
helping some of these students now who may be
struggling.”
The School and University are very different now
than when Clark arrived in 1937. She recalled that
the University had 4,000 students, 300 of whom
were women. Her class in the School started with
60 students, including six women. Clark said that
at the time administrators deliberately limited the
number of spots open to women.
She points out that only 32 members of her class
in the School graduated — including all six
women. “I’m very proud of that fact,” Clark said.
There has been tremendous growth since Clark’s
time as a student. Today the University has nearly
29,000 students. The School now has about 550
professional students and about 100 graduate
students, in total more than 10 times as many
students as in Clark’s class.
Still, Clark sees the School as being similar now to
the institution she attended. “In a sense it is,” she
said. “But when I hear about students’ projects
and their extracurriculars, I wonder if I could have
gotten into the School of Pharmacy in the first
place. It’s gratifying and a little overwhelming.”
Relationships, particularly with the School’s
faculty and staff, continue to keep Clark
connected. “They’ve always made me feel very
welcome and a part of it,” Clark said. “In that
sense it’s the same school I went to. … That has
made me more interested in contributing to it.”
Clark is proud of the School’s progress, and
optimistic about its future, but feels efforts for
improvement should not wane. According to
2008 rankings from U.S. News & World Report,
the School ranks No. 2 among pharmacy graduate
programs in the country.
“I think we need to be the best and I think we’re
headed that way,” Clark said.
Blanche Burrus Clark ’41 BSPharm
Blanche Burrus Clark, center, with 2009 Burrus Award
winners Margaret Patterson Ramsey (’62 BSPharm) and
Kader Ramsey (’62 BSPharm).
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The gathering of members of Phi Delta Chi at the
2009 fall reunion was more than a chance to re-connect
with friends and classmates. For one
group, it was an opportunity to give back to the
School and generations of students to come.
A group of alumni and Phi Delta Chi members
presented Dean Bob Blouin with a check for
$50,000, to be used to establish a scholarship for
students at the School.
It was a gift years in the making.
During the 1970s when it had high membership
numbers, PDC built a house on Finley Golf
Course Road for its brothers.
Thirty years later, however, “It was hard to keep
enough people to stay in the house and maintain
it,” said Larry Irwin (’72 BSPharm). In 2005, the
PDC board voted to sell the house back to the
university.
“It hurt for it to disappear,” said Billy Price
(’79 BSPharm). “There are tons of us. Way back
when, we had 50 brothers. There were 36 of us
in the house.”
But members found a way to turn their experience
into a legacy.
“With that money we had, we decided it would be
a nice gift to give some of that money back to the
Foundation,” said Erwin.
Years after their graduation, the brothers of Phi
Delta Chi are glad to leave something behind to
be remembered by.
“In this situation with the PDCs it was really
just being able to have a lasting legacy for our
fraternity,” said Steve Archbell (’80 BSPharm).
“We all benefited from going to pharmacy school
so it was a nice way to leave something behind.”
Phi Delta Chi
“We all benefited from going to pharmacy
school, so [establishing a scholarship] was a
nice way to leave something behind.”
Patsy Kay Seymour 20
Kelly McKee Seymour 5
Laura Carpenter Sharpe 6
Robert H. Shearin 5
Ms. Sue Sheek Taylor 1
David Graham Sheffield 1
Nina Elizabeth Shehan 3
Larry and Lindsay Shelton 2
Fred Lee Sherrill, Jr. 21
Foy Vincent Shingleton 4
William Preston Shoemaker 1
W. Darle Shouse 8
Jacqueline Hurlbut Shumaker 1
Joseph Kent Sigmon 2
Russell Grady Sigmon, Jr 1
Michael and Janie Skertich 9
Richard and Billie Slade 7
Ronald and Pamela Small 5
J. Hubert Smith, Jr. 10
Russell Kevin Smith 1
Russell and Tyanne Whitcomb Smith 2
Pamela Singleton Snipes 4
Helen Easter Snow 8
Karen Cobb Snyder 2
Paul Sobel 1
Eric and Janis Kuran Sommer 1
Gregory and Deborah Southern 5
Barry William Southern 26
Gerald and Kathryn Speight 1
Doris Lester Stallings 1
Robert Kent Stamey 1
Richard Hiraiwa Stanford 1
Martha Jo Harrelson Stanley 4
Diana Lynn Stanton 7
Gregory Brent Starnes 2
Sharm Steadman 21
Timothy Shea Stevens 1
Nicholas Shawn Stevenson 7
Jeffrey Warren Stillwagon 11
Daniel Francis Stinehelfer 3
Elwood and Barbara Martin Stone 1
Kathleen McNeil Strausburg 14
William Kenneth Stroud 1
Wade Baker Styron 13
Kimberly Jarman Sullivan 1
Laura Brown Sutton 2
Ronnie Lee Swaim 1
James Swarbrick 1
Charles Frederick Swift 7
Ann Talton 1
Thomas George Taylor 2
Michael Ray Teague 1
Nancy Hardy Thigpen 23
Dr. Natasha Diandra McMillan 1
Monique Bembrey Thomas 10
Michael Edward Thompson 16
C. Stroud Tilley, III 24
C. Andrew and Rebecca Tingen 1
Marlena Schwarz Travers 5
Jim Noah Tripp 1
Kathryne Hamilton Troxler 3
Stanley Elbert Tunnell 3
Rebecca Sue Turlington 8
J. Kelly Turner, Jr. 4
L. Brent Tyndall 1
Allison Leigh Underwood 9
Hamilton Polk Underwood, Jr. 9
R. Kenneth Updegrave 2
Jack Herndon Upton 2
Harold G. Usher, Jr. 3
Harold Griffin Usher 18
Laura McLeod Vance 3
Kaye Eanes Vass 2
Jessica Lynn Visco 1
Athan Scott Vrettos 3
Lisa and Richard Wagoner 1
Arnold M. Walker 14
Jeffrey and Cramer Smith Walker 2
Ann Sweet Walker 3
Jialynn K. Wang 2
David and Jamie Durham Ward 1
Needham Eldon Ward 1
Phillip Thomas Ward 16
Ronald Thomas Wassel 15
Charles and Elizabeth Watson 3
Nyal Womble Watson 1
Valerie Hooper Watts 3
Kyle Weant 1
Melissa Tillman Weeks 3
John H. Welborn 1
Courtney Deadmon Weller 15
Olin H. Welsh, Sr. 2
Megan Dudley Wheatley 1
Robert Vernon Wheeler 6
Charles Craig White 1
Paul and Carol White 3
Marianne Kraycirik White 1
Mark and Jeanna White 1
Mavourneen Stallings Whitehead 9
R. Douglas Wilkerson 7
Ronnie Dale Willard 1
James and Lynn Williams 6
Michelle Bunce Williams 2
Doug Williams 3
William Thurston Williams 2
Alan and Kristi Krawietz Wilson 2
William Hooper Wilson 1
Charles Wilson 4
Heber and Gina Mangas Windley 3
John M. Wirka 1
Raymond O.T. Wong 1
Robert Michael Wood 2
James and Daria Wooten 3
Tammy E. Worden 5
Anne-Marie Wray 14
Walter and Katherine Wynne 1
Terry Eugene Yarborough 4
Charles and Linda Burris Yoder 4
George Chalmers Young, III 4
Melinda Pons Zimmerman 8
Christine Elizabeth Zone 3
Deborah A. Zurek 3
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For the past decade, the School has grown the number of
professorships exponentially.
Endowed professorships are used to help the School recruit
and retain its outstanding faculty. Income from endowments
may be used for salary or research support, including course
development, research costs, graduate assistants, equipment
and library resources.
To boost the value of private donations, the School takes
advantage of the State of North Carolina Distinguished
Professorships Matching Grant Program. The North Carolina
General Assembly has established a fund that provides a
two thirds match on gifts of $333,000 up to $2,333,000.
The School currently has 13 Distinguished Professorships.
Turn to page 17 to read about Michael Jay, a Fred Eshelman
Distinguished Professor, and how he has used his resources
to expand research in his lab.
Endowed professorships are used to
help the School recruit and retain its
outstanding faculty
Distinguished Professorships
Year Total
2001 $2,259,538
2002 $2,161,293
2003 $2,404,167
2004 $2,729,645
2005 $9,032,828
2006 $11,532,309
2007 $14,014,264
2008 $15,512,990
2009 $12,084,842
2010 $12,352,696
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DISTINGUISHED
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