North Carolina awards

              The North Carolina Awards
2010The 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 AwardJack Cozort, Chairman
Raleigh, North Carolina
Selma E. Fox
Charlotte, North Carolina
Pamela L. Myers
Asheville, North Carolina
Charles A. Sanders
Durham, North Carolina
Marsha White Warren
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The NorthCarolina
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 2010 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 Governor47th North Carolina Awards
North Carolina Museum of History
Raleigh, North Carolina
October 7, 2010
Opening
“The North Carolina State Toast”
“Home”
Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick
of the Red Clay Ramblers
Remarks
Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Jack Cozort, Chairman
North Carolina Awards Committee
Governor Beverly Eaves Perdue
State of North Carolina
Presentation of the Awards
Governor Beverly Eaves Perdue
ProgramPast Recipients
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
Darrell 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
Science
2002
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 ServiceRoyce 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 Service
1990
Leon Rooke
Literature
H. Keith H. Brodie
Science
Bob Timberlake
Fine Arts
Dean Wallace Colvard
Public Service
Frank H. Kenan
Public Service1989
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. Davis, 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
Science
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 Arts2010
North Carolina
Award RecipientsScience
F. Ivy Carroll
F. Ivy Carroll, soon to celebrate fifty years as a research scientist at Research Triangle Institute, has dedicated his career to undoing the damage done by the spectre of addiction.
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung wrote, “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” Innovator and idealist, Carroll has made novel and significant contributions to basic scientific research. For his pioneering work in understanding the biochemical mechanisms of cocaine and for developing pharmacotherapies that have lead to the treatment of devastating conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, F. Ivy Carroll receives the 2010
North Carolina Award for Science.
Born in Norcross, Georgia, in 1935, Carroll studied at Auburn University, where he graduated in 1957, and was awarded a doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of North Carolina in 1961. In December 1960 he began his long association with the nonprofit Research Triangle Institute, at the heart of the newly-established Research Triangle Park. There he rose steadily to become Director of the Center for Organic and Medicinal Chemistry. Today he is a Distinguished Fellow for Medicinal Chemistry.
Carroll’s discoveries have been fundamental to advances in the treatment of substance abuse. In particular, his synthesis of 3-phenyltropane analogs has opened the opportunity to treat cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin addicts more effectively. Products based on his advances are marketed and used in treatment centers all over the world. The availability of therapies to counteract the effects of addiction clearly alleviates human suffering, both that of the patient and the family members. The treatments hold the promise of reducing the financial burden on society. Carroll’s work also has led to the development of therapies for nicotine addiction (smoking cessation) and treatments for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease. His discoveries have made significant contributions to research in the areas of cancer, radiation, and malaria.
The author or co-author of 392 publications and 32 book chapters, Carroll holds 36 patents. He is active in the American Chemical Society and is a contributor to the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Development Research, and other scholarly publications. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2006 Carroll received the Nathan B. Eddy Award from the College on Problems on Drug Dependence, one among many professional honors to come his way in recent years. In his five decades at Research Triangle Institute, he has trained over 100 postdoctoral fellows.
Ivy Carroll, a widower and father of a daughter and son, lives in Durham.Fine Arts
Robert W. Ebendorf
Master metalsmith, jewelry designer, and one of the leaders in the burgeoning crafts field, Bob Ebendorf brings distinction to North Carolina through his creative combination of traditional materials and found objects. Walt Whitman in “Song of Myself” wrote of “adorning” himself using “what is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest.” Ebendorf fashions his widely collected works from broken bits of Formica, crab claws, lost keys, and rusted bits of metal. For his work as innovator, teacher, and iconoclast, Robert W. Ebendorf receives the 2010 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.
Born in Kansas in 1938, Ebendorf recalls that his mother took him to weekly arts and crafts sessions in Topeka where he glued together shells and wrapped string around wine bottles. His father took him to visit his grandparents, laboring away in their tailors shop, setting for him examples of craftspeople doing precision work that would adorn the body. His formal education came at the University of Kansas where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and in Norway as a Fulbright Fellow and where for a year he studied jewelry design courtesy of a grant from the Tiffany Foundation. In 1969 he was a co-founder of the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
Ebendorf is an artist who works intuitively, learning in a primarily visual way when he turned his dyslexia, which remained undiagnosed until college, to advantage. His work has taken him to teaching posts at Stetson University, the University of Georgia, SUNY-New Platz, Guest Professor at the University of West England, UK, and since 1999, at East Carolina University, where he is the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art. He suggests to his students, whom he views as collaborators, that they enlarge their view of art. Ebendorf has created necklaces, brooches, and even chairs, but considers his collection of crosses, using secular materials such as broken glass to create Christian symbols, to be among his strongest pieces.
Of North Carolina, where he has taught at Penland School of Crafts since 1962, Ebendorf says, “What a wonderful state that seems to thrive in the old and the new, and the exchanging of ideas.” His work is recognized well beyond the state’s boundaries and can be found in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Montreal, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It was been the subject of a retrospective at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian and he has been honored by the 92nd Street Y Arts Center in Manhattan.
Bob Ebendorf and his wife, Aleta Braun, a painter and mixed media artist, live in Greenville.Public Service
R. Michael Leonard
Hikers and picnickers at Grandfather Mountain and Chimney Rock state parks have reason to thank R. Michael Leonard. A key participant in the dealings resulting in the recent addition of these two iconic places to North Carolina’s public spaces, Leonard has dedicated three decades to land preservation. “The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem,” wrote Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, adding that “unless we solve that problem, it will avail us little to solve all others.” North Carolina has no greater conservation hero than R. Michael Leonard, who receives the 2010 North Carolina Award for Public Service.
Professionally, Mike Leonard is an attorney in Winston-Salem at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, and his work on behalf of the environment has been entirely without fee. The interest began early. Young Leonard, raised in suburban Charlotte, once built a boat in his backyard and floated it miles downstream to the Catawba River. By age sixteen he was hiking the Appalachian Trail and, while in high school, he won an essay award from the North Carolina Wildlife Federation.
After completion of undergraduate studies in 1975 and graduation from the University of North Carolina School of Law, Order of the Coif, three years later at Chapel Hill, Leonard took a job with a law firm in Birmingham. There he commenced work on land conservation. His dream of connecting Alabama with the Appalachian Trail came true after twenty-two years of work, long after his return to North Carolina in 1986. In time Leonard took on a national leadership position as a board member with The Conservation Fund. His work has benefitted from the fact that the Tar Heel State has one of the nation’s strongest networks of regional land trusts.
Leonard specializes in mass tort litigation and has been recognized as a leader in the field. The skill set involved in organizing attorneys and paralegals and in complex document production also applies to land conservation. Conservation colleagues praise Leonard for his ability to think strategically and his “completely selfless” devotion to his goals. His method is to work behind the scenes to raise the dollars and political support necessary to leverage major land deals to benefit all North Carolinians.
The cumulative impact of Leonard’s work to preserve the state’s natural heritage is astounding, resulting in the protection of over 125,000 acres in twenty-two counties. In Asheville he recently facilitated development of the state’s first municipal watershed. He helped raise money to protect lands around the Cowee Mound in Macon County and to permit the state to acquire the William R. Davie House in Halifax.
The father of two daughters, Mike Leonard and his wife Michelle live in the 1770 “Cornwallis House” in Bethania, where he heads the historical association and has facilitated local land preservation.Public Service
Margaret S. “Tog” Newman
Tog Newman is a visionary leader who has been at the helm of countless arts, education, and non-profit organizations at the state and national levels for more than forty years. She is vital to Winston-Salem’s reputation as a cultural center. She has been described as “a leader, a lover of the arts, an advocate for equality, fairness and justice, and a very able administrator with a passionate and generous soul.” For her lasting contributions to the citizens of North Carolina and beyond, Margaret S. “Tog” Newman is awarded the 2010 North Carolina Award for Public Service.
Newman was born and raised in Charlotte, where she was educated in the public schools. She attended Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia, for two years and earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1958. After graduation she worked in New York City until moving to Winston-Salem, where she has lived since 1962. She began her lifelong involvement with arts organizations in 1964 when she managed the Winston-Salem Gallery of the Arts (now the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art). While serving on the Winston-Salem Symphony Board, Newman helped establish the Association of Symphony Orchestras of North Carolina. With enthusiasm for arts advocacy she has led the state and the nation in organizations such as Arts North Carolina, the North Carolina Arts Council, the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, the Southern Arts Federation (now South Arts), and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. She has served the state broadly in many capacities including the Heritage and Cultural Tourism Board, the North Carolina Center for International Understanding, the North Carolina Conference for Women, and the Board of Trustees at Winston-Salem State University.
Strategic and energetic, Newman is the quintessential volunteer. During the opening of the Roger L. Stevens Center for the Performing Arts, she took on what she called “a full-time volunteer job” overseeing 240 committee members. She is a team builder as well as a team player. She motivates people to achieve their goals and to seek new challenges. As a leader she builds partnerships and inspires creative thinking as she helps committees and boards to realize the possibilities of progress and the opportunities for service. When Winston Churchill said “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give,” he could have been speaking of Newman, who in so many venues has done so much for the public good in North Carolina.
Tog Newman lives in Winston-Salem with her husband Michael, an architect. They have two adult children and three grandchildren.Fine Arts
Donald Sultan
Since the 1980s Donald Sultan has been at the forefront of contemporary art, producing singular, visceral paintings and sculptures with tools that are more common in the construction industry than in the art world. Creating paintings that include the use of tar, spackle, and vinyl floor tiles, his technique alone is extraordinary. His iconic abstract still lifes have an industrial feel and a three dimensional presence that both echoes classic artists and evokes modern milieus. For his innovative and inspired art, Donald Sultan receives the 2010 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts.
Sultan was born in Asheville in 1951. His father, a successful tire merchant, painted recreationally, not believing he could earn a living as an artist. The younger Sultan, determined to find an outlet for creative expression, initially studied drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gravitated to filmmaking before settling on painting, which offered what he considered “complete control” of his artistic vision. He graduated with a B.F.A. in 1973 and continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, completing an M.F.A. two years later.
Moving to New York in 1975, Sultan built artists’ lofts until landing a job as a handyman at an art gallery. Riding the elevator in the gallery one day, he struck up a conversation with men who were laying linoleum tiles around a key hole in the floor. Sultan asked the men for some of their tiles and has never looked back. The vinyl floor tiles and other construction materials became the foundation on which he built a remarkable career. Of his success he merely comments, “I met a lot of interesting people and a lot of artists in construction. I thought I’d just give it a shot.” With a diverse art history background, Sultan draws upon traditional themes and images to paint abstract still life representations that he describes as “heavy structure, holding fragile meaning.”
Sultan’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions around the world and is held in numerous public collections including the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Tate Gallery in London.
Father of two, Donald Sultan lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.
Photo by Chris FelverLiterature
Carole Boston Weatherford
Frederick Douglass, the subject of one of Carole Boston Weatherford’s many books, could have been describing her work when he wrote, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for juvenile audiences, she has published 40 books since 1995. With the goal of sparking children’s imaginations, Weatherford frequently performs readings at schools. Fostering adults’ imaginations, she conducts educational workshops and teaches literature at Fayetteville State University. Her celebrated writing career has always been tightly focused on mining the past for “family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles.” For her steadfast production of educational and inspirational poetry and prose, Carole Boston Weatherford is awarded the 2010 North Carolina Award for Literature.
Weatherford was born in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, a hometown she shares with Harriett Tubman, about whom she would later write. She composed her first poem when she was in the first grade on her way home from school—her mother pulled the car off the road to write down the words. Weatherford’s father, a printing teacher at the local high school, later surprised her by printing her work on index cards. She went on to receive her B.A. from American University, an M.A. from the University of Baltimore, and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Weatherford worked for twenty years in the field of public relations, publishing occasional poems on the side, before she made the transition into writing children’s books. Having honed her writing skills in the realm of concise and effective public relations copy, she notes that “quality children’s literature compresses language, distills feeling, evokes scenes, and can be experienced on multiple levels.”
Weatherford certainly found her niche with children’s literature. Her books have garnered wide acclaim, including the Golden Kite Honor for Picture Book Text, the NAACP Image Award, Caldecott Honor, the Jane Addams Children’s Literature Honor, and several “Best Book of the Year” awards and lists. Weatherford promotes books and literacy in the schools through lively teacher workshops that focus on historical literature and poetry. Her comprehensive reading and discussion guides support teachers’ use of her books in the classroom. Weatherford often emphasizes North Carolina history with subjects such as the Pea Island Lifesavers, John Coltrane, and the Greensboro Sit-Ins. With her courses in children’s and adolescent literature, which are designed to introduce students to writing from different genres and ethnic origins, Weatherford shares her extensive experiences with the next generation of writers and educators.
Carole Boston Weatherford lives in High Point with her husband Ronald. They have two children.2010 Sponsors
Entertainment
John Brown Quartet
Chuck Davis’ African American Dance Ensemble
Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lost Colony, Roanoke Island Historical Association
No state monies were used for this event.
Supported by the N.C. Literary and Historical Association
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
Thomas S. Kenan, III
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation