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Achieve! The Campaign For NC State is an eight-year campaign designed to raise $1 billion for NC State. Thanks to the generosity of supporters, the campaign is well on the way to its goal. Here are profiles of donors who have given the largest gifts. All are gifts of $1 million or more:
Curtis and Jacqueline Dail of Raleigh have contributed significantly to the Wolfpack Club. Their gift was used for a variety of athletic projects and student-athlete scholarships. According to Bobby Purcell, executive director of the Wolfpack Club, their gift was the largest announced gift in the history of NC State athletics. The Dails are currently involved in commercial real estate in North and South Carolina, and are co-owners of four Batteries Plus stores.
Edward P. Fitts of Exton, Pa., is an active supporter of the Department of Industrial Engineering and serves on the NC State Engineering Foundation Board of Directors. In 1999, he endowed the Edward P. Fitts Scholarship, one of the largest scholarships in the department, and has endowed the Edward P. Fitts Industrial Engineering Professorship as well. Fitts has targeted his giving to help the Department of Industrial Engineering achieve a top-five ranking nationally. The Department of Industrial Engineering has been named in his honor. The chief executive officer of Dopaco, Inc., Fitts was named Distinguished Engineering Alumnus in 2001.
James H. and Ann B. Goodnight of Cary have provided strong support for NC State through their generous contributions. James Goodnight earned three degrees from NC State, and currently serves as chief executive officer of SAS, a company he developed into the world’s largest privately held software company. Under Goodnight’s leadership, SAS has provided the university with a software grant, as well as donations for professorships in the College of Engineering, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He was awarded the Watauga Medal, the highest nonacademic honor bestowed by the university, in 2002 for his distinguished service to NC State. Ann Goodnight serves as SAS’s director of community relations. She has supported NC State through her service on NC State’s Board of Trustees and currently serves as co-chair on the executive committee of “Achieve! The Campaign for NC State.”
Kay T. and Edward E. Hood Jr. of Banner Elk and North Palm Beach, Fla., have established the Edward E. and Kay T. Hood Scholarship Endowment, the John T. Caldwell/Edward E. and Kay T. Hood Endowed Scholarship and the Edward E. and Kay T. Hood Graduate Fellowship. The Hoods have also named the alumni boardroom in the new Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center. Edward Hood has served on the university’s Board of Trustees and as a co-chair of the campaign’s executive committee. Hood has received a Distinguished Engineering Alumni award, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and a Watauga Medal.
Members of the Jordan family – Robert B. Jordan III, Jack P. Jordan and Genie Jordan Ussery – have established two endowments, the Jordan Family Graduate Fellowship in Natural Resources Innovation and the Jordan Family Undergraduate Honors Program – in the North Carolina Forestry Foundation Inc., and also supported a professorship in Natural Resource Innovation. Robert B. Jordan III is the president of Jordan Lumber & Supply Company in Mt. Gilead. He also served as a member of the state Senate, as lieutenant governor, and on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. He has received an NC State Outstanding Young Alumnus award and a Watauga Medal. He serves as a co-chair of the campaign executive committee. Jack Jordan was also a Watauga Medal recipient.
Wendell H. Murphy of Rose Hill has provided support for scholarships, research and teaching laboratories in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. He also has supported NC State through his leadership on numerous boards and committees, including his current service as chair of the NC State Board of Trustees and co-chair of the campaign executive committee. Murphy, a 1960 graduate, joined his father in developing Murphy Farms Inc., which has become one of the world’s largest pork producers. Murphy currently serves as the chief executive officer of MurFAM Enterprises. Murphy has also been a member of the N.C. House of Representatives and the N.C. Senate. He was awarded the Watauga Medal in 1999.
Dorothy D. Park of Ithaca, N.Y., has provided substantial financial assistance to many universities around the country, including NC State. Park is the chair of the Park Foundation, which has funded more than 450 Park Scholarships at NC State. The Park Foundation was founded at the bequest of her late husband, Roy H. Park, one of NC State’s most illustrious alumni. Dorothy Park’s gifts to the NC State Alumni Association’s Campaign for Excellence helped construct a new alumni center on Centennial Campus, named for her and her husband.
Randall B. Terry Jr. made an eight-year pledge to the College of Veterinary Medicine prior to his death in May 2004. The Randall B. Terry Charitable Foundation challenge provides $1 for every $3 raised from private sources for a new veterinary medical center. The foundation continues to make contributions to the new Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center, scheduled to open in 2009. Terry, former owner of the High Point Enterprise newspaper, chaired the first campaign for the college as part of the Campaign for NC State Students, which resulted in $10 million in gifts and pledges to support scholarships. Terry served two terms as president of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation, a foundation that supports the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. He also pledged to endow the Randall B. Terry Jr. Leadership in Veterinary Medicine Scholarship.
C. Richard Vaughn of Mount Airy, has made an endowed gift to the Wolfpack Club to help fund the phase two expansion of Carter-Finley Stadium. Vaughn has been instrumental in the improvements to Carter-Finley Stadium through his leadership as president of the Wolfpack Club and a member of the NC State Board of Trustees. He is currently the chief executive officer of John S. Clark Co., which provides fully integrated general construction and other related services.
Edward I.Weisiger Sr. and Agnes Weisiger of Charlotte, have provided substantial funding to establish a scholarship in veterinary medicine in addition to longtime support of the Wolfpack Club. They also named the orthopedic surgery suite in the Randall B. Terry Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center. In 2002, the Weisigers pledged a gift to name the Great Reception Room Terrace in the new Park Alumni Center. Ed Weisiger served as president of Carolina Tractor and Equipment in Charlotte for 26 years and now serves as its chairman. He has contributed to the university through his involvement in numerous boards and committees, including the NC State Board of Trustees and the campaign executive committee. He has received the Watauga Medal and the College of Engineering’s Alumnus of the Year award. Agnes has been a longtime member of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation board.
Edgar and Peggy Woolard, of Wilmington, Del., and Jupiter, Fla., have made gifts to support the John T. Caldwell Alumni Scholarship program, the College of Engineering, and the Ed Woolard Shooting Guard Scholarship. Ed Woolard joined DuPont in 1957 as an industrial engineer and gradually rose through the company before retiring as chief executive officer in 1995. He has served on NC State’s Board of Trustees and as honorary chairman of NC State’s Century II Campaign, a comprehensive campaign that raised more than $230 million for the university from 1988 to 1993. He is a co-chair of the campaign executive committee. He is a recipient of the NC State Alumni Association’s Meritorious Service Award and the Watauga Medal.
Posted Sept. 23, 2005
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