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Chambers Named Chancellor of NCCU
Shortly before his election as chancellor ot North Carolina Central University, civil-rights attorney Julius
L. Chambers (center) shares his thoughts with NCCU Board ot Trustees Chairman Bert Collins (left) and
UNC President C. 0. Spangler, Jr. A NCCU alumnus, Chambers assumes his new post January 1.
Board Reelects Officers
By acclamation, the UNC Board of
Governors in July elected its top officers
to second two-year terms. Raleigh attor¬
ney Samuel H. Poole, 58, will remain
chairman. Durham attorney W. Travis
Porter and Forest City insurance execu¬
tive Charles Z. Flack, were re-elected vice
chairman and secretary, respectively.
Poole, administrative assistant to U.S.
Sen. Terry Sanford, is a graduate of the
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law. Elected
to the board in 1983, he served as its vice
chairman from 1988 to 1990. He has
chaired several board committees and in
1989 led a special commission appointed
by UNC President C. D. Spangler, Jr., to
investigate the NC State University ath¬
letics program.
Porter, 61, earned undergraduate and
law degrees from UNC and is former chair¬
man of the UNC-CH Board of Trustees.
Flack, 56, is a graduate of UNC-Chapel
Hill. He has served as chairman of West¬
ern North Carolina Tomorrow and as a
board member of the N.C. Center for Pub¬
lic Policy Research. □
Board of Governors
Approves Budgets
Following adjournment of the short ses¬
sion of the NC General Assembly, the
UNC Board of Governors in July approved
1992-93 operating budgets for the Uni¬
versity and a revised capital improvements
budget for the 1991-93 biennium.
Budget (continued on page 4)
Civil-rights attorney Julius L. Cham¬
bers has been elected chancellor of North
Carolina Central University by the UNC
Board of Governors. UNC President C. D.
Spangler, Jr., presented Chambers’s name
for approval at the board’s July meeting.
Chambers, a Mt. Gilead native who will
assume his new post January 1, will suc¬
ceed Donna J. Benson, interim chancellor
since the beginning of this year.
In recommending Chambers, Spangler
said: “Nothing pleases me more than
bringing home our most talented North
Carolinians.” Noting that he had known
Chambers for some 20 years, Spangler
described him as a “quiet, effective leader”
whose life “has been one of commitment
to equality for all Americans.”
“I believe North Carolina Central Uni¬
versity needs Julius Chambers,” Spangler
told the Board of Governors. “I believe
he and Mrs. Chambers have much to con¬
tribute not just to the university, but to the
Durham community and the state of North
Carolina.”
Since 1984, Chambers, 55, has been
director-counsel of the New York-based
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (LDF). Before accepting the top
Chambers (continued on page 3)
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