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Animal MRI to debut at NCSU
College of Veterinary MedicineTriangle's first MRI Center for pets opens at NCSU
College of Veterinary MedicineDesign dean described as visionary, nationally respected
Marvin Malecha, designNCSU design dean named to DRA board
Marvin Malecha
NC State
experimenting with tobacco
Michael Boyette, biological and agricultural engineering
Biz
Mary Anne Drake, food science
Offers,
salary up for grads
University Career Center; College of Engineering
Tiny
neighborhood feels city closing in
expansion of Centennial Campus
NCSU
Police Warn Students After Attempted Robbery
campus police
N.C.
State Students Mourn Classmate
student Brandon Sova
Editorial:
Gatlin guns it
Paul Derr Track
SePRO
Corp. acquires former Zeneca Research Facility in N.C.
research opportunities
Boeing
Sponsors ASME Student Contest to Find Land Mines
ASME Student Design Contest
Obituary:
Dr. Charles F. Murphy
crop science
Design dean described as visionary, nationally respected
Aug. 20, 2004
Triangle Business Journal
By Heather McGowan
© Copyright 2004
RALEIGH - Coming to the Triangle a decade ago was a comfortable transition for Marvin Malecha.
"Both my wife and I feel as though we've come to a place very similar to where we've come from because of the small-town culture that is really the underpinning of North Carolina," says Malecha, dean of the College of Design at North Carolina State University. "It feels a lot like the Minnesota where I grew up."
"The accents are different, but the stories are the same," he says. "And the people have the same sort of desire to educate their children and get ahead."
Malecha has designed his life around those themes of education and getting ahead, and he has reached a level in his career that many aspire to.
In March, 2003, Malecha was presented with the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education by the National Board of Directors of The American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Thomas Barrie, director of The School of Architecture, lavishes praise on Malecha.
"The School of Architecture is continuing to occupy the leading edge of education, and that is due in a great part to the leadership of Dean Malecha," says Barrie. "I can honestly say he is a visionary dean. He is recognized nationally as an academic leader. He has clarified the role of each of the programs."
The College of Design offers programs in architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, industrial design and arts design.
Malecha's vision has expanded to embracing new teaching methods - the case-study method and the design-study method.
"The case method is actually the process of studying in detail the realization of a building," says Malecha. "In architecture, it could be the realization of a car or something else. The students gain an understanding for how the architectural firm got the job and how the project was designed."
The College of Design began using the case-study method four years ago. Four other peer universities - the University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Illinois Institute of Technology - were also using the method at the time, says Malecha.
"It has almost not been present in design education," says Malecha. "We now have about 30 American universities doing case studies."
"I think it's very responsive to what the profession would like to see from our graduates. When our graduates finish writing the case studies, not only do they have the exceptional design skills we've always taught our students, but now they will have a truly broad awareness of their working skills," he says
In the design study approach, "students work on a one-on-one basis with their professors in small classes and design everything from small objects to a whole complex building to an urban design project," Barrie says.
Private Design
These innovative teaching methods have helped NCSU's College of Design become
the school of choice for many aspiring architects.
"We are a school that is known for its excellence in teaching and our innovation and leadership," says Barrie. "And in his time as dean at the College of Design, Marvin Malecha has virtually transformed the place." Malecha took over as dean in 1994.
The College of Design really has the profile of a private school, says Malecha. "We're just as competitive in design as private schools."
The school receives approximately 1,100 applications every year but only has room for about 125 new students, 85 incoming freshmen and 35 transfer students.
"We have been having to really keep a lid on our growth," says Malecha. "We're waiting for spaces and facilities ... We have a proposal in for a new building that would help us grow by another hundred students at least. Leazar Hall may also give us some added classroom space in a few years," he says.
Typically, 83 percent of the students in the College of Design are residents of North Carolina, while the remaining 17 percent are out-of-state, says Malecha.
"At the moment, our out-of-state ratio is at about 12 percent," he says. "We do not consciously look at that. It just works out that way. However, 26 states are represented in our undergraduate program today."
After students graduate from the College of Design, many of them head to places such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but some stay in the Triangle.
Many of those graduates, such as Philip Freelon of The Freelon Group in Research Triangle Park and Richard Green, chairman and president of The Stubbins Associates who designed the Treasury Building in Singapore, are award-winning architects themselves.
"When you look down the list of accomplishments of the alumni of this college, it's phenomenal," says Malecha.
Malecha himself has made many accomplishments in the practice of architecture, prior to turning to an academic career.
He first worked for Hugh Stubbins & Associates architectural firm in Cambridge, Mass., and helped design the Citicorp Center in New York and the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. Malecha then formed his own architectural practice in Los Angeles and he was a dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona.
A Scientific Start
It was not Malecha's life-long dream to be an architect. That was his father's
dream. But that dream was put on permanent hold as he focused on earning
a living during the Great Depression.
"The only job he could find was driving a gas truck, which he then was able to turn into his own business by driving a gas truck between farms. He was later able to turn his business into a gas station and repair shop," says Malecha. "But his real desire was to study architecture, and he never had the chance. He kept putting that in front of me."
Malecha stubbornly resisted his father's wishes. But after studying physics and science at St. Thomas College in Minnesota for two years, he switched to architecture and earned a bachelor's degree in that discipline from the University of Minnesota. Malecha then earned a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University.
An Active Leader
Malecha is an advocate of what he calls "servant leadership."
"You have to be willing to accept the opinions of others and work for them. I like to believe that I am an inclusive leader," he says.
Malecha requires all faculty of the College of Design to teach. Malecha teaches a freshman class called "Design Thinking" and leads the research for The School of Architecture's case-study teaching method.
"I believe that you should never be a pure administrator," he says. " We don't have any such thing as a pure administrator's job in the College of Design. "
Malecha refers to the challenges that he's been faced with as opportunities.
"I think one of my greatest challenges has been to come into this community and work hard enough to be accepted by the community," he says. "I'm very proud of what's been accomplished in this college over the past 10 years.
I think we've done great things together, and I mean together, because I don't think anybody comes into a community like this and does something alone."
Malecha is active in community organizations. He is the central advisor of the Catholic Diocese in Raleigh, a board member of the contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, an advisor to the European Association of Architectural Education and is involved with the American Institute of Architects. Malecha also co-chairs the case-study work group with the American Students of Architects.
In June, Malecha was chosen to serve on the board of directors for the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, a nonprofit organization overseeing the revitalization of downtown Raleigh.
"At NCSU, the design school is internationally recognized as one of the best in the field and so is Marvin Malecha," says Margaret Mullen, the director of DRA. "Dean Malecha has done work all over the world and we wanted to get him involved further in the revitalization of downtown."
Aug. 23, 2004
Triangle Business Journal
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
The Iams Co. will open the region's first magnetic resonance imaging center for animals at North Carolina State University's Centennial Biomedical Campus on Tuesday.
The MRI machine cost about $2.2 million, according to NCSU spokesman Greg Thomas.
The 3,348-square-foot Iams Pet Imaging Center is the area's first MRI facility dedicated solely for use on pets and domestic animals. It is designed to provide area veterinarians with state-of-the-art diagnostic tools - comparable to those used on humans - and help doctors detect and begin treatment of hard-to-diagnose health conditions earlier and more accurately.
The Iams Co., which provides pet food and pet-care products for cats and dogs, is the first corporate partner to locate a facility on NCSU's Centennial Biomedical Campus, a 70-acre research and development "neighborhood" anchored by the university's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Tiny neighborhood feels city closing in
Aug. 24, 2004
News & Observer
By RICHARD STRADLING
© Copyright 2004
RALEIGH -- Tucked in the woods between the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus and land owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, residents of Pullen Park Terrace enjoy unusual seclusion about a mile from downtown.
About the biggest commotion in this eight-acre neighborhood is the annual Kirby Derby parade, when residents and friends make floats and outlandish costumes and march on Kirby and Bilyeu streets.
"We have our own little culture here," said Denise Lyn Hager, who leads the neighborhood association. "To lose that would be such a shame."
Residents feel their peace threatened by plans to develop the forested land that shelters them. Today, they plan to ask the city planning commission to reject N.C. State University's plans to expand its Centennial Campus to within 50 feet of the neighborhood on land that formerly belonged to Dix.
The 130-acre Centennial Campus expansion is the just the beginning, though.
With Dorothea Dix Hospital set to close in 2007, the future of the neighborhood's largest neighbor remains in doubt. Some legislators want the state to sell the 315-acre hospital campus for private development, and the city and state plan to draft a plan for the property by April.
Meanwhile, the Catholic diocese wants to sell some of its 45 acres along Western Boulevard, now that Cardinal Gibbons High School has moved to West Raleigh.
As the city closes in, Pullen Park Terrace residents, many of them NCSU employees or alumni, hope to fashion a buffer. They asked the university to keep offices, labs and parking lots at least 200 feet away from their property and to preserve a grove of towering oaks next to the neighborhood.
"It would not kill them to move their buildings back 200 feet and not put a parking lot in our backyards," said Hager, 34, a medical assistant at Duke Medical Center.
University officials met with neighbors for more than a year but decided 200 feet was too much to give up, said Michael Harwood, university architect. NCSU's latest offer is a buffer of trees and hedges, with parking lots no closer than 50 feet and buildings at least 100 feet back. Some of the oaks would come down.
"We thought that 200 feet was more than we wanted to saddle future university decision-makers with," Harwood said.
Pullen Park Terrace consists of a six-unit apartment building and 27 homes and duplexes. Many lots are no bigger than a fifth of an acre.
These close quarters, combined with the isolation, foster kinship, said Will Hooker, 61. Only the whoosh of traffic on nearby Western Boulevard and the whistle from the train ride at Pullen Park coming reminds residents they are in a city.
"It's sort of like you're in a life raft," said Hooker, a landscape architecture professor at NCSU. "You get to know each other and rely on one another."
Pullen Park Terrace was to be a neighborhood for the city's professionals and academics, said Steve Duncan, the resident historian. One of the first houses, completed in 1927, has stucco walls and a Spanish-style tile roof.
But the Great Depression brought construction to a halt, and over the next 30 years the neighborhood slowly filled with small homes of wood and cinder block. By the 1980s, many longtime homeowners had died or moved away, leaving most of the neighborhood to renters who came and went.
"It went from high expectations down to the lowest common denominator," said Duncan, 42, who directs a high school equivalency program for migrant farm workers at Wake Technical Community College. "And now we're revitalizing."
Like others, Duncan was attracted to the neighborhood by its unique feel and low prices. Many who bought homes in the past decade paid less than $100,000, and about 60 percent of the homes are now owner-occupied.
Many residents say they want to see Centennial Campus succeed and are happy to deal with the university instead of a private developer driven by profit.
"We want to be connected to the university, not railroaded by it," Aly Khalifa wrote in a letter to the city. Khalifa, 35, is an NCSU graduate who runs a product design and marketing firm in downtown Raleigh.
Pullen Park Terrace residents have rallied to save their neighborhood before. In the mid-1980s, someone tore down a bungalow and put up the three-story apartment building. Residents got the city to change the neighborhood's zoning to prevent anyone from doing it again.
They also got the city to include their neighborhood in the city's comprehensive development plan. The page devoted to Pullen Park Terrace sets basic goals, including protecting the neighborhood's integrity as surrounding land is developed. Residents want the city to keep that commitment.
"Now it's crunch time," Duncan said. "We're hoping the city will help us out."
Triangle's first MRI Center for pets opens at NCSU
Aug. 24, 2004
Triangle Tech Journal
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
Raleigh, NC - Cutting-edge medical imaging technology has gone to the dogs. And the cats and other domestic animals for that matter.
The Iams Company is opening the region’s first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) center at North Carolina State University’s Centennial Biomedical Campus.
The opening of the Iams Pet Imaging Center will begin Tuesday, Aug. 24th.
The 3,348-square-foot Iams Pet Imaging Center is the area’s first MRI facility dedicated solely for use on pets and domestic animals. It will provide area veterinarians with state-of-the-art diagnostic tools - comparable to those used on humans - and help doctors detect and begin treatment of hard-to-diagnose health conditions earlier and more accurately.
The Iams Company, which provides pet food and pet-care products to cats and dogs, is the first corporate partner to locate a facility on NC State’s Centennial Biomedical Campus, a 70-acre research and development “neighborhood” anchored by the university’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
Centennial Biomedical Campus is an extension of NC State’s Centennial Campus.
NC State experimenting with tobacco
Aug. 23, 2004
Associated Press; WAVY-TV, VA
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. North Carolina State University is experimenting to see what happens with tobacco that's chopped before it's cured.
The method allows farmers to pack 30 percent to 50 percent more tobacco into a bulk barn and save 20 percent on fuel costs as they heat and dry the leaf.
The aim is to find out whether American tobacco farmers can also produce lower-cost chopped leaf to compete with cheap foreign filler that's streaming into world markets.
NCSU Police Warn Students After Attempted Robbery
Aug. 23, 2004
WRAL-TV
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina State police are telling people to be cautious on campus after an attempted robbery.
Police say three men approached a group of students on Cates Avenue between Carmichael Gym and Student Health Services Saturday night and demanded money. One of the suspects was apparently armed.
Nothing was taken and the students went on their way. No one was hurt.
The men were last seen walking towards the Talley Student Center.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call campus police at (919) 515-2498.
N.C. State Students Mourn Classmate
Aug. 23, 2004
WTVD
By Vanessa Welch
© Copyright 2004
A dark cloud is lingering over campus life at N.C. State tonight. One student is dead, two others are in bad shape after a weekend car crash on Avent Ferry Road not far from campus.
Grief counselors have been here at N.C. State all day long helping students and staff cope with the loss of a popular sophomore from Clayton
It's the first full week of the fall semester. And now, on top of new classes and new schedules, students are coping with the death of classmate Brandon Sova.
Anthony Rahiminejad was Sova's lab partner and lived above him on campus. Anthony says his friend was studying computer science and just learned to play the guitar.
"A lot of people who really knew him are just really sad about it they can't even begin to comprehend how life is going to be without him around," Rahiminejad says. "He had a certain smile . . . a certain energy that you would see him down the hall and you couldn't help but be happy."
The 19-year-old sophomore was killed early Saturday morning in a car accident on Avent Ferry Road not far from N.C. State's campus.
When told of Sova's death, his friend, Rahiminejad, says "I couldn't even believe it. I couldn't comprehend. I was just feeling all of these things at once."
"He's not going to be around anymore. It's just going to be hard to deal with."
As they mourn the loss of one friend students here are also praying for the recovery of two other classmates who were riding in the back seat with Brandon. Troy Bradshaw and Bruce Chipa are juniors here at N.C. State and are in critical condition at Wake Medical Center.
NCSU design dean named to DRA board
Aug. 20, 2004
Triangle Business Journal
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
RALEIGH - Marvin Malecha, dean of the College of Design at North Carolina State University, has been named to the Downtown Raleigh Alliance board of directors. The DRA is a nonprofit organization of downtown Raleigh.
Aug. 20, 2004
Triangle Business Journal
By Jane Paige
© Copyright 2004
The job market is improving for recent engineering graduates from two local universities.
For a copy of this article, contact News Services at 5-3470.
Aug. 20, 204
Triangle Business Journal
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
If there's one food Biz craves, it's cheddar cheese.
And who better than folks at North Carolina State University to discover what creates the nutty flavor found in the fine cuts of the cheese.
NCSU associate professor Mary Anne Drake and postdoctoral researcher Youngmo Yoon say they have discovered that certain chemical compounds produce the nutty flavor.
How do they know?
Specially trained "taste testers" sampled some 50 cheeses and decided which were nutty and which were not. Those that were not nutty were injected with said chemical and, voila, yummy!
Now, where does Biz go to volunteer for this tasting gig?
Aug. 24, 2004
News & Observer
By staff writer
© Copyright 2004
Maybe you've seen him...or then again, maybe you've just felt the breeze, over at N.C. State University's Paul Derr Track. Justin Gatlin can be saluted as a home-town fellow by those of us here in the Triangle. Although he's a native of New York, he does his track-and-field training here in Raleigh, along with several other top-shelf track stars, and has for two years.
The salute is due because this home-town fellow is now the Olympic 100-meter champion, having blazed that distance in 9.85 seconds on Sunday night in Athens in what is perhaps the Olympic Games' highest-profile event. He was .01 seconds off the Olympic record -- which is another way of saying that Gatlin just about broke the record. And that he was fast. Very fast. His friend and Raleigh training partner, Shawn Crawford, just missed a medal, finishing fourth.
Breaking the record wasn't really the point. Standing center stage for the National Anthem and wearing that gold around one's neck is the point. Overcome with emotion after the race, Gatlin said, "I was just shocked that my dream had come true."
Shocked, perhaps, but maybe he shouldn't have been. What with all the controversy over drug-use allegations and rumors facing some athletes, it's easy to forget that people like Justin Gatlin, who run and lift weights and train for hours every day -- aiming for a dream that may either vanish or come true in less than 10 seconds -- are the real spirit of the Olympic games. In that sense, the fact that Gatlin achieved greatness in a flash shouldn't really be a surprise, not after all the work he put in.
Perhaps he'll be back at the track next week. This time, though, he won't be hitched to a weighted training sled. This time, nothing but gold.
Aug. 24, 2004
AKC Gazette
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
The AKC Employee Events Team (EET) sponsored the "Dog Days of Summer" on Friday, August 20, 2004. Two hot dog carts were stationed in front of the Raleigh office.
In addition to the hot dogs with all the fixin's, each employee received a 22-ounce stadium cup with the AKC logo. Beautiful sunny weather added to the festive atmosphere as employees lined up to get their "dogs."
The EET invited the AKC Community Events Team (CET) to join the fun with the "Throw in the Towel."
This event was set up to collect towels for the NC State University Mobile Veterinary Unit (MVU). The MVU travels throughout the state working with shelters to provide basic veterinary care, spay/neuter procedures, and trauma care to animals that might not get help otherwise. They also use the MVU to assist in disaster situations like floods, hurricanes, etc. The MVU goes through a lot of towels. Towels are used for drying wet animals, bedding for the animals, clean up, and many other uses. AKC employees donated 10 large lawn-size bags worth of towels.
The AKC staff in the Raleigh office has consistently supported great charitable causes like the MVU and the Ronald McDonald House over the years and look forward to continuing this great tradition spearheaded by the EET and CET teams.
SePRO Corp. acquires former Zeneca Research Facility in N.C.
Aug. 23, 2004
Lawn & Landscape, OH
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
Carmel, IN – SePRO Corp. President and CEO, William Culpepper, announced today that SePRO has completed negotiations to purchase the former Zeneca research facility in North Carolina.
The 410-acre site is located in Whitakers, N.C., 60 miles northeast of Raleigh. To be named the SePRO Research and Technology Campus, it includes an extensive six-building aquatic research and technology complex, complete with laboratories and 11 acres of specialized aquatic research ponds and mesocosms. In addition to the aquatic facilities, the campus site includes 296 acres of tillable land, 79 acres of woodland, and a 15-acre lake.
“We are extremely pleased to acquire a facility so ideal for advancing the science of aquatic plant management and for this facility’s ability to provide high quality technical support for SePRO’s future growth,” Culpepper says. “This new Research and Technology Campus greatly expands our laboratory capabilities and allows for additional cooperative research opportunities with such institutions as North Carolina State University,” he explained.
“North Carolina lies at nearly perfect latitude to meet our aquatic research requirements,” comments Steve Cockreham, SePRO’s vice president of research and regulatory affairs. “It’s a well situated geographic site with mild weather, giving us the ability to conduct studies on both Eurasian Watermilfoil and Hydrilla, and a wide variety of other invasive weed and algae species.”
Over the next five years, SePRO plans to invest approximately $7 million into their new facility, according to Culpepper. The effort will initially include aquatic-related aquarium, mesocosm and field research studies, laboratory assay support, and growth room screening for evaluating existing and new products. In the future, the facility could also accommodate turf and landscape ornamental research capabilities and distribution center for SePRO’s growing product line.
“SePRO’s selection to locate their new research campus here is great news for Eastern North Carolina,” said North Carolina Governor Mike Easley. “After all their investigation, they chose North Carolina’s No. 1-ranked business climate. SePRO is not only making a substantial investment but also creating jobs of the future, jobs that are high quality and high paying.”
Boeing Sponsors ASME Student Contest to Find Land Mines
Aug. 23, 2004
Ten Links, CA
By staff report
© Copyright 2004
NEW YORK, New York, August 23, 2004 - Technology is playing a key role in assisting the global community with the daunting task of locating undetected anti-personnel landmines, remnants of past wars and conflicts. According to the United Nations Association of the USA, 50 million landmines are buried and active in nearly 70 countries throughout the world. These mines injure or kill thousands of people every year.
This year, ASME student members have been asked to contribute to this noble humanitarian effort by participating in the 2004 ASME Student Design Contest, dubbed "Mine Madness," presented by ASME and sponsored by The Boeing Company.
Some of today's best and brightest mechanical engineering students from around the world will demonstrate their model-scale prototype devices - designed and built to retrieve landmines and to transport them out of harms way. Having already won competitions in their respective regions, the teams will prepare to participate in the finals competition to be held Nov. 14, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo, in Anaheim, Calif., Nov 13-19.
According to the contest rules, the teams must demonstrate the ability of their remote controlled, landmine-seeking vehicles to navigate over and around obstacles, retrieve six simulated mines and transport them to a designated receiving area, all within a 3-minute time frame. Each "mine" will be given a weighted value based on its level of retrieval difficulty. The team that retrieves the highest value of mines will be deemed the winner.
The ASME Student Design Contest, an event showcasing the innovation, problem solving abilities and teamwork of mechanical engineering students, holds its finals competition each year among the events held at the Society's annual Congress.
ASME, a professional engineering organization, and Boeing, the premier aviation manufacturer, recently announced an alliance that will strengthen the goodwill between the two organizations by fostering programs and activities of mutual interests, including the areas of technical information exchange at conferences, continuing education and career development, and public advocacy.
"The Boeing Company is pleased to sponsor the 2004 ASME Student Design Contest. This contest presents an outstanding opportunity for future engineers to experience real-life problem solving, while gaining important design, production and teamwork skills that will benefit their future employment," said Andy Bicos, the Boeing Company's ASME focal.
Universities and institutes representing this year's international finalists include, University of Alabama, Carnegie-Mellon University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, LeTourneau University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of New Mexico, North Carolina State University, Oregon State University, Santa Clara University, Southern Illinois University, University of Vermont, Villanova University and Western Kentucky University.
For more information about the 2004 ASME Student Design Contest visit the Web site at www.asme.org/students/ or contact Tom Wendt at 847-680-5493.
Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. ASME conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds numerous technical conferences worldwide, and offers hundreds of professional development courses each year. ASME sets internationally recognized industrial and manufacturing codes and standards that enhance public safety.
Obituary: Dr. Charles F. Murphy
Aug. 24, 2004
News & Observer
DR. CHARLES F. MURPHY, age 70, of University Park, FL, died August 20, 2004.
Born on December 13, 1933 in Ames, IA, he moved to Florida five years ago from Silver Spring, MD. Dr. Murphy was a professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, and was with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Small Grain Research leader for 17 years. A graduate of Iowa State University, he received his PhD from Iowa State University and a master's degree from, Perdue University. Dr. Murphy was a member of the United Church of Christ and was a member of the American Society of Agronomy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Crop Science Society of America.
Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Carol P.; a son, C. Reid Murphy of Longboat Key, FL.
A memorial service will be held later in Raleigh, NC.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart/Stroke Association.