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General Assembly gives Bowles a warm welcome
Erskine Bowles, UNC systemReport blasts UNC's 'speech codes'
Erskine Bowles, UNC systemReport says state universities illegally limit free speechh
UNC system, free speech violationsFormer chairman of UNC board
Death of former UNC BOG member, William A. Dees Jr.Princeton board OKs park construction bid
Park designed by NSCUDistinctive women to speak at MLK events
NCSU Women's and Gender Studies, MLK eventsPecan growers meet set
Cooperative Extension
Peach
Growers to Meet Jan. 24
Activities/events
Obit.:
WILLIAM ARCHIE DEES JR.
former Board of Governors' member
Jan. 11, 2006
Elizabethtown Bladen Journal
By staff report
© Copyright 2006
The N.C. Pecan Growers Association will host its annual meeting, educational workshop and orchard tour February 11 at the Agri-Expo Center in Clinton.
The workshop features presentations by North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension specialists on insect and disease management in pecan trees and a panel discussion on marketing pecans to maximize returns.
The workshop will conclude with a tour of a nearby orchard, which will provide hands-on opportunities related to the program presentations.
Both new and established pecan oprchard owners and agribusinessmen associated with pecans are wlecome to participate in this informative meeting.
The event is open to the public. Cost is $15 and includes lunch. Registration begins at 8 a.m. at the Clinton-Sampson Agri-Civic Center.
For more information contact Laurie Wood, N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ marketing specialist, at (910) 532-4208 or e-mail laurie.wood@ncmail.net
Prospective attendees may also contact Bill Bunn, NCPGA president, at (919) 815-5764 or e-mail at carya@intrex.net.
Jan. 11, 2006
Southern Pines Pilot
By staff report
© Copyright 2006
The N.C. Peach Growers Association will hold its annual meeting Jan. 24 at the Days Inn in Southern Pines.
The event features presentations by N.C. State University researchers on the latest in disease and insect management, a grower’s panel focused on peach varieties and a presentation on crop insurance.
Program topics include orchard establishment, maximizing tree survival, marketing tips, refined oils and an introduction of the 2006 N.C. Peach and Nectarine Disease and Pest Management Guide.
The meeting runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cost is $20 and includes lunch.
For more information or to register, contact Roger Galloway at (910) 576-6011.
General Assembly gives Bowles a warm welcome
Jan. 11, 2006
Winston-Salem Journal
By David Ingram
© Copyright 2006
Erskine Bowles went to the General Assembly yesterday for the first time as president of the UNC system.
As it turned out, legislators were happy to go to him.
Bowles walked into a committee room and was quickly met by a line of legislators wanting to wish him well, shake his hand or even give him a bear hug. Unlike in Bowles' hard-fought, partisan battles for statewide office in recent years, these supporters were of all political stripes.
"I'm sure you'll do a great job and make the university system move forward," said a conservative well-wisher, Rep. Louis Pate, R-Wayne.
Bowles spoke for 20 minutes to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee, to which school administrators give updates to legislators who are generally friendly to their plans. Bowles did little to upset that, presenting two goals that were met with widespread approval: better management of the UNC system and more cooperation among the universities and community colleges.
"I know your budgets are under enormous pressure," he said. "I've got to take the limited resources that you are able to provide, and I've got to infuse them to bring more education dollars to our kids."
Bowles, who crisscrossed the state as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2004, also spoke about the UNC system's role in developing a work force that is attractive to employers. He referred to plant closings, telling legislators, "You all see it in your home communities."
The support of legislative leaders can make or break the plans of UNC officials. Legislators control $2 billion of the system's budget, and they appoint all voting members of the UNC board of governors, who are Bowles' immediate bosses.
Bowles - whose father served in the legislature - is already on a first-name basis with many Democratic leaders through his political activities. He is now getting to know other legislators.
"Everybody gets a honeymoon. He's on his now," said Rep. Doug Yongue, D-Scotland, who often works on education issues.
Sen. Fletcher Hartsell, R-Cabarrus, is known for working across partisan lines, but he said he had never met Bowles before last week, when they attended a men's basketball game in Chapel Hill. They then huddled for 15 minutes in a legislative hallway yesterday.
Hartsell and others are counting on Bowles' support for the $1 billion biotechnology center planned for Kannapolis. The project is largely a partnership between Dole Foods Inc. and the UNC system.
"Frankly, I think he's the ideal person for this situation at this point in time," Hartsell said. "How do you properly marry education and commerce? I think he's attuned to that."
Bowles ended his speech with a request to legislators.
"Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, I want your ideas. I want your help," Bowles said. "I want your ideas on how to make this university system more effective and efficient."
In an interview afterward, Bowles said he hopes to continue working closely with legislators, even when they discuss more controversial issues, such as greater autonomy for UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. State University.
"I want to have a relationship with the General Assembly," Bowles said. "When I make a decision that they won't like, I want to inform them. I don't want to surprise them."
• David Ingram can be reached in Raleigh at (919) 833-9916 or at dingram@wsjournal.com
Princeton board OKs park construction bid
Jan. 11, 2006
Goldsboro News Argus
By Jack Stephens
© Copyright 2006
PRINCETON -- A town park in Princeton became a step closer to reality Monday night. During its monthly meeting the town board approved a low bid from Lumina Builders of Wrightsville Beach to build much of the park.
"We can make the Ray M. Floors Memorial Park operational by the summer," Mayor Don Rains said in his opening comments. "...I'm excited about the opportunity to move forward with the park."
The town board had earmarked $240,000 for project but may take another $16,000 from its fund balance to complete it.
The town's engineer, Cyrus Clayton of New Bern, said only two bids had been received for the project. It was rebid, and again only two bids were received. Both were more than the town's budget.
Clayton said Lumina Builders agreed to scale back the project, removing gardens, a gazebo, an amphitheater and brick pavement. But the park will include playgrounds, a walking trail, a paved parking lot and a downsized picnic shelter.
Clayton said the landscaping will be done by the Boy Scouts and a sign will be funded by other donations.
Town Clerk Marla Ashworth said the concept for the park was designed by N.C. State University and will include everything the town wanted, except a pond.
Another major project, a new town hall, was a step closer. Clayton said the U.S. Department of Agriculture still had to approve the contract, but he added that it was just a formality. He said he will meet with the contractor in about a week. When construction starts in the near future, Clayton expects it to take nine or 10 months.
Mike Starling, the master of the Princeton Masonic Lodge, where the board met, asked the town to allow the lodge to lay a Masonic cornerstone. The board will study the request.
The town board agreed to apply for a $200,000 grant from the N.C. Rural Center for downtown revitalization and possible economic development. Mayor Rains said the grant can be used for new sidewalks, lights, drainage and building fronts.
In other business, the board scheduled a board retreat for Feb. 18.
Report blasts UNC's 'speech codes'
Jan. 11, 2006
News & Observer
By Jane Stancill
© Copyright 2006
Most University of North Carolina campuses have policies that restrict free speech and violate the Constitution, according to a report Tuesday by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The analysis was commissioned by the Pope Center, a Raleigh organization that often champions conservative causes, and was conducted by FIRE, a national group that takes on free speech issues on both ends of the political spectrum.
The report suggested UNC campuses are vulnerable to lawsuits unless they change their so-called "speech codes."
"Hopefully they can bring themselves in line with the First Amendment and the marketplace of ideas they claim they are," said Greg Lukianoff, interim president of FIRE.The analysis found that 13 of 16 campuses have at least one policy that clearly and substantially restricts free speech. "This is pretty stunning," Lukianoff said, calling the offenders "red light" campuses. Only one campus -- Elizabeth City State University -- has no rules that limit free expression, the report said.
Lukianoff said universities across the country have trampled students' and professors' free speech rights in the name of civility and anti-harassment rules. Furthermore, he added, anti-discrimination policies have infringed on students' First Amendment right to free association.
UNC policies that regulate speech are both unconstitutionally vague and broad in many cases, Lukianoff said.
Among the examples cited Tuesday:
* Appalachian State University prohibits "abusive language, insults, taunts" directed at another person.
* Fayetteville State University prohibits "vulgar language."
* N.C. Central University bans "statements of intolerance."
* East Carolina prohibits "obscene, vulgar, loud or disruptive language" and offensive conduct.
* UNC-Chapel Hill's sexual harassment policy provides examples of harassment that include "sexually explicit jokes or anecdotes."
Lukianoff said the message to UNC campuses is: "We're telling you, you could get sued and you will lose."
UNC President Erskine Bowles, who took office Jan. 1, said he had not seen the report yet.
"I'm going to read it," Bowles said Tuesday after his first formal appearance at the legislature. "If we have a problem, then we're going to address it."
Both the Pope Center and FIRE have been frequent critics of UNC campuses. The Pope Center has blasted UNC for a lack of political balance and "dumbed down" courses. It has issued critical reports on higher education spending, affirmative action and faculty pay.
FIRE has backed students who stood up to policies at UNC campuses, including protesters at UNC-Greensboro and a religious fraternity that sued UNC-CH. In the UNC-CH case, a federal judge last year ordered the university not to enforce its anti-discrimination policy on the fraternity, after members refused to sign the policy.
George Leef, executive director of the Pope Center, said the UNC system should pay attention to the report and drop unconstitutional policies.
"This is good free advice to the university and Erskine Bowles," Leef said at a news conference at the legislative building in Raleigh.
The report drew attention from state Sen. Andrew Brock, a Republican from Mocksville. "It's not a good idea if you don't allow different views and different opinions to come up," he said.
If university leaders don't take action, Brock said, he would support legislation to change UNC policies in the next session.
Staff writer Jane Stancill can be reached at 956-2464 or janes@newsobserver.com.
Jan. 11, 2006
Charlotte Observer, Herald-Sun
By Associated Press
© Copyright 2006
GOLDSBORO - William Archie Dees Jr., the first elected chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, died Monday at Wayne Memorial Hospital. He was 85.
A cause of death was not immediately available.
The state legislature named Dees to the Board of Trustees of UNC and he served in that capacity until the formation of the UNC Board of Governors, of which he was an original member.
He received the University Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Board of Governors, in 1990. The award recognized his "illustrious service to higher education."
Dees, a native of Wayne County, earned his undergraduate and law degrees from UNC Chapel Hill.
During World War II, he was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and worked in mine and bomb disposal units in Europe and the Pacific theaters.
He started his law career in 1948 with his father. Dees served on the board of governors of the N.C. Bar Association and as the original editor of its publication "Bar Notes." He also served as president of the district bar association.
"He was a standard that I think every lawyer tried to adhere to," said Goldsboro lawyer Charles Gaylor.
Dees also served three terms on the Goldsboro Board of Aldermen and nine years as chairman of the Goldsboro City Board of Education. He also was chairman of the state Board of Higher Education and a member of the board of directors of the state School Boards Association.
Dees is survived by his wife, Patricia Turlington Dees, his son, John Woodward Dees, and his daughters, Mahala Dees Myrick and Alice Dees Crabtree. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ozello Woodward Dees, who died in 1991.
Funeral arrangements were pending, according to Seymour Funeral Home.
Report says state universities illegally limit free spee
Jan. 11, 2006
Herald -Sun
By Associated Press
© Copyright 2006
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Some public universities in North Carolina system impose unconstitutional limits on freedom of speech, according to a report issued Tuesday.
The report was issued by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
"It's a public school system," Greg Lukianoff, interim president of the foundation, said at a news conference in the Legislative Building. "It's bound by the First Amendment."
One example cited in the report was a prohibition by Fayetteville State University on vulgar language. Another example was the prohibition on "disrespect for persons" at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Elizabeth City State University was the only school in the UNC system not criticized in the report.
The report called on the system to review the campus policies.
Leslie Winner, vice president and general counsel for the university system, said the report will be examined carefully.
"Open debate and free dialogue are hallmark values of the university system and we very, very rarely get any complaints that anyone feels their free speech rights are being infringed," Winner said.
"We do have time, place and manner restrictions that say you can't have your protest on the classroom steps when people are trying to get in, but it never means you can't have your protest."
She questioned the need for the report and called it "a clear case of smoke with no fire."
Distinctive women to speak at MLK events
Jan. 11, 2006
Herald-Sun
By PAUL BONNER
© Copyright 2006
DURHAM -- Two women who have gained distinction in literature and engineering will speak at N.C. Central University this week and next as part of the university's commemoration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
A weeklong celebration kicks off Wednesday with a talk by author Maxine Hong Kingston, whose memoirs and fiction on Chinese-American themes over the past 30 years have drawn wide acclaim, including several of America's top literary prizes.
Kingston will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at B.N. Duke Auditorium on NCCU's campus.
The university also will hold its annual rally and vigil on Thursday morning and other activities, with a keynote address on Jan. 17 by Gwendolyn Boyd, a Johns Hopkins University official and the first black woman to earn a graduate degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University. As the former national president of Delta Sigma Theta, an international service sorority, Boyd has promoted better education worldwide, particularly in Africa and among black Americans in the sciences.
Boyd chairs Johns Hopkins' Diversity Leadership Council and is executive assistant to the chief of staff of the university's Applied Physics Laboratory.
While she was president of Delta Sigma Theta from 2000 to 2004, the sorority promoted science and math education among black middle-school girls with its Science in Everyday Experiences program. It also established or supported schools for computer literacy and teacher training in the African countries of Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa.
Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," and a sequel, "China Men," both won the National Book Critic's Circle Award, with the latter also receiving the National Book Award. Her other books include the 1989 novel "Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book," and "The Fifth Book of Peace," published in 2003.
NCCU English professor Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara invited Kingston to NCCU to address a campus "dialog group" that since last March has met regularly to discuss Kingston's works. Kingston also will meet with the group. Kuwahara obtained a $2,000 university seed grant for the purpose, which the university's Martin Luther King planning committee joined in sponsoring, along with other groups on and off campus. They include the Duke Women's Studies Program, N.C. State University Women's and Gender Studies and a "Citizens of the World" club Kuwahara started. The latter grew out of campus concern over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"What was a seed grant has grown into a tree," Kuwahara said.
Kuwahara also teaches Kingston's works in several graduate seminars and other courses, focusing on the author's use of the literary device of magical realism and her dedication to peace that her work embodies, Kuwahara said.
"I do believe she continues the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King," Kuwahara said. "Of course, it goes back to the belief that the pen is mightier than the sword. ... I do believe she has made a difference. You can create peace through a vision of peace."
Other events planned at NCCU include the university's annual prayer breakfast Friday morning and a coffeehouse featuring poetry and dance on Jan. 17. Duke University also has scheduled events beginning Friday culminating in a speech by entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte in Duke Chapel on Sunday.
Colleagues praise University’s new VP
Jan. 11, 2006
Oregon Daily Emerald (OR)
By Ryan Knutson
© Copyright 2006
A woman with an extensive resume, including work with the U.S. Department of Defense, will take over as senior vice president and provost for John Moseley, who is retiring June 30.
Dr. Linda P. Brady, currently the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University, will take office July 1.
"I am honored to have been selected for this important position," Brady said in a University news release.
Brady worked with the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense from 1978 to 1985 and held several positions.
University President Dave Frohnmayer wrote in an e-mail that he is not concerned with how military experience could be perceived by the public in light of recent controversy regarding the University's connection to the Department of Defense.
"Dean Brady had a distinguished career in the field of arms control and disarmament. I have not heard of anyone who is 'mad' that Dr. Brady has such an important part of her career in public service at the highest levels. If there is such a person, he or she is short-sighted and engaged in classical stereotypical thinking that fair-minded people should strive to avoid," Frohnmayer wrote.
"I will work tirelessly to promote academic excellence and the academic vision for the University," Brady said.
Brady's colleagues at NC State spoke highly of her work.
"From my vantage point, everything that Brady did for the University was positive," said Andy Taylor, the associate professor of the Political Science Department at NC State.
Taylor credited Brady as being largely responsible for raising the College of Humanities and Social Sciences from "somewhat of an appendage of NC State University to a more prominent figure on campus," Taylor said. "It's not very easy to raise a profile for a college like ours."
Brady, a New York City native, was also praised by Matt Zingraff, associate dean for Research and Engagement in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State.
"I found her thinking and her plans to be deliberative and thoughtful," Zingraff said. "Her strengths are that she's a very honest and sincere person... there really aren't any weaknesses," he added.
Bradley Wilson, the newspaper advisor for NC State's student-run newspaper, The Technician, said Brady took the time to answer her own phone calls and had positive relationships with members of the University community.
"I enjoyed my personal dealings with her a lot, when you needed to talk to her, she was amazingly accessible," he said.
Currently, Brady has begun to familiarize herself with the campus and the different academic departments, and is looking through program operations and contacting the different academic units, Frohnmayer said.
"She's off to a very fast start," he said.
As provost, Brady will work closely with Frohnmayer. Her job responsibilities include speaking for University academic programs to the larger University system, and oversight of budgets, academic priorities, student affairs and diversity issues. Brady will also be working on research regarding the role of negations in war termination.
According to the University's news release, Brady was the first person in her family to go to college, and she earned her master's degree in political science from Rutgers in 1970, and her doctorate in political science from Ohio State University in 1974.
Her other work experience includes leading the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1993 to 2001. She was a professor of national security at the US Military Academy, and special assistant for mutual and balanced force reductions in the defense department during the Carter administration.
Zingraff said the University made a good decision in hiring Brady.
"I think there is any doubt that the University of Oregon won. She's a good person, she's honest, she's deliberate, she's smart. The university here will certainly miss her," he said.
Contact the higher education reporter at rknutson@dailyemerald.com
Obit.: WILLIAM ARCHIE DEES JR.
Jan. 11, 2006
News & Observer
WILLIAM ARCHIE DEES JR., 85, died early Monday at Wayne Memorial Hospital. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church, 1101 E. Ash St., following a private burial at Willowdale Cemetery.
Dees was the senior partner in the law firm Dees, Smith, Powell, Jarrett,
Dees and Jones, and continued working even from his hospital bed as
late as December
2005.
Dees was born in Goldsboro June 10, 1920, to William Archie Dees and May
Smith Dees.
He was an avid sportsman, excelling in track and field as a student at Goldsboro High School. Under his guidance, the Student Association at Goldsboro High School was formed and he was elected that organization's first president. He was selected "Most Likely to Succeed" by his classmates. Dees entered the University of Norh Carolina at Chapel Hill in September 1937. He joined Sigma Nu fraternity and was also a member of the freshman track team. During his sophomore year he was elected to the Order of the Grail and during his junior year was tapped into the Order of the Golden Fleece. He was president of both organizations during his senior year at Carolina. Also during his sophomore year he was elected president of the North Carolina Federation of Students, a statewide, interschool student government association. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1941.
A day after his graduation from UNC, Dees enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Following midshipman training, he volunteered to participate in the Navy's newly developed bomb disposal program, training in the United States and in England. There he worked with British bomb disposal squads after the German air raids. He later traveled to Australia and the Philippines and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for supervising the removal of more than 600, 000 pounds of enemy and U.S. explosives from critical military areas in the Southwest Pacific.
After the war ended, Dees enrolled in law school at UNC and graduated in 1948. He was an honorary member of the Order of the Cois, the Phi Beta Kappa of the law school. In June of that year, he returned to Goldsboro and began practicing law with his father under the firm name of Dees and Dees, Attorneys at Law.
In 1950 he was appointed to the Goldsboro Board of Aldermen to fill
an unexpired term. Afterward he was elected to three regular terms
and served
a total
of seven years.
In 1963, Gov. Terry Sanford appointed Dees to the N.C. Board of Higher
Education, a board charged with planning all higher education programs
in the state.
Dees served two years, the second as chairman. Also in 1963, Dees
was appointed to the Goldsboro City Board of Education. In 1964 he
became
chairman of
the school board and remained in that position until 1972. Those
nine years were
critical in the development of an equal public education system for
all students in North Carolina, and compliance with the regulations
of the
1964 Civil
Rights
Act took a great deal of time.
Dees' involvement on the local level led him to work with the N.C. School Boards Association, serving on the board of directors and as legislative chairman. In 1969, Senator Lindsay C. Warren Jr., a fellow Goldsboro lawyer, nominated him to the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University, the old board of more than 100 members that governed the six campuses of what was called the Greater University. Dees was elected, and later that year was elected to the board's executive committee.
During the early 1970s, when the state's higher education system was reorganized into our present-day 16-campus University system, Dees was elected to its original Board of Governors. He served as vice chairman under Governor Bob Scott and became the Board's first elected chairman six months later by a unanimous vote. Those were complicated times for education, and Dees traveled the state making speeches and listening to others' ideas in an attempt to find solutions that were acceptable to all parties involved.
Also during that time, Dees was invited to speak at one of the annual meetings of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and later served that organization as director and treasurer. As a member of AGB's mentor program, he traveled to different states meeting with trustees and administrators, helping them analyze and solve their problems.
In 1984 Dees was named recipient of the AGB Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service in College and University Trusteeship, a national award considered the highest honor that can be awarded to a college or university trustee.
During a 1990 interview recalling Dees' tenure on the UNC Board of Governors, former UNC-CH Secretary John P. Kennedy Jr. said: "Bill Dees, like George Washington in the early days of the Republic, was the one person who was acceptable to all. He was not then, nor later, the best orator on the board, nor the most dazzling debater, but whatever he said, in his quiet way, carried enormous weight because of his honesty and integrity. How fortunate for the state that we had such a person available in those first difficult years."
During a November 1990 ceremony, Dees was honored as the recipient of the University Award, the highest award bestowed by the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina. In addition, Dees served on the Board of Governors of the N.C. Bar Association and as chairman of the original Bar Notes committee, which edited the Association's publication. He is also a former president of the District Bar Association.
Active in the First Presbyterian Church of Goldsboro,
he has served as superintendent of the Sunday School,
as Elder
and
as adult Sunday
School
teacher.
In 1988 he received the Distinguished Citizen Award
by the Torhunta District of the Boy Scouts of America,
and
in 2000,
the Wayne
County Chamber of
Commerce named him recipient of its Cornerstone Award,
the organization' highest honor,
for his commitment to growth and industry in Wayne
County.
Dees was preceded in death by his first wife, Ozello
Woodward Dees, and a sister, Ann Dees Dees.
Dees (better known as "Big Bill" to his family) is survived by his wife, Patricia Turlington Dees; a sister, Sara Dees Fonvielle of Goldsboro; a son, John Woodward Dees and wife, Georgia of Goldsboro; daughters, Mahala Dees Myrick and husband, Mike of Greenville, Alice Dees Crabtree and husband, Steve of Chapel Hill; two stepsons, Dr. William Turlington and wife, Angel of Clayton and David Turlington and wife, Connie of Durham; 11 grandchildren, Jay Dees and wife, Meg of Salisbury, Martha D. Baur and husband, Carson of St. Louis, MO, Charlie Dees of Goldsboro, Melanie M. Spainhour and husband, Adam of Fuquay-Varina, Lt. David Myrick and wife, Megan of Seattle, WA, Wes Myrick of Greenville, Will Crabtree of Chapel Hill, Quinn Turlington, Eli Turlington and Sutton Black of Clayton, and Katrina Barker of Durham; six great-grandchildren, Archie Dees, Maggie Dees, Jane Baur, Anna Scott Baur, Hannah Spainhour and Sara Spainhour.
Memorial contributions may be made: to either the W. A. Dees Family Scholarship, Wayne Community College Foundation, CB# 8002, Goldsboro, N.C. 27533-8003; or the W. A. Dees Jr. Memorial Fund, UNC Law School, 100 Ridge Road, CB#3380, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599.
The family will receive friends in McChesney Hall of First Presbyterian Church following the memorial service Friday, and at other times at the home of Patricia Turlington Dees, 709 Park Ave., and at the home of John and Georgia Dees, 707 E. Mulberry St.