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Oct. 30, 2002

NC State University Alumni Association Presents Annual Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Three successful businesspeople and a Hall of Fame coach will be honored with North Carolina State University Alumni Association awards in recognition of their service to the university.

The awards dinner, which will be held on Friday, Nov. 1, at Raleigh's Exploris Museum, is part of NC State's annual Homecoming festivities.

The Alumni Association's Meritorious Service Award will be presented to Robert Hege III of North Wilkesboro, a 1965 alumnus and former district manager for Duke Power Co. Hege has actively supported NC State, serving as a director of the Alumni Association from 1983 to 1990 and president of the board from 1988 to 1989. He has also served as Wilkes County alumni chairman from 1975 to 1980 and coordinator of the Northwestern North Carolina area from 1980 to the present. He served on active duty in the Army from 1965 to 1967, and as a reservist until 1973, and has served as director of the Wilkes County United Way since 1978.

The Alumni Association's Award of Merit, presented for service to the university by an individual who is not an alumnus, will be given to Ron E. Doggett of Raleigh, the former chairman and chief executive officer for GoodMark Foods Inc. Doggett retired from GoodMark in July 1999. He is a graduate of Minnesota State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and completed some graduate work at NC State. He is an executive in residence at NC State's College of Management and has supported the work of the university's JC Raulston Arboretum. His contributions to the arboretum will help fund the computer-based information kiosk in the new Ruby C. McSwain Education Center.

The Outstanding Young Alumnus Award will be presented to Tori Collins of Atlanta, a 1989 alumna and an associate partner with Accenture. At NC State, Collins was a Caldwell Scholar, as well as a member of the Golden Chain Society, the Student Alumni Associates program and a chancellor's aide her senior year. Since 2001, she has served as a national co-chair of the NC State Annual Fund and Chancellor's Circle. She is also active as a regional leader of the NC State Park Scholarship Selection Committee and as an officer in the Atlanta NC State Alumni.

An Honorary Alumnus Award will be presented to Kay Yow of Raleigh, women's basketball coach at NC State. Yow was recently elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Entering her 28th season at NC State, Yow has amassed 625 career wins, which ranks her fifth among active Division I coaches. Yow has won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season title five times, the tournament title four times and made it to the Final Four in 1998. She is also successful in international competition, coaching the gold-medal women's basketball teams at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow and the World Basketball Championships later that summer.

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