New Foundation Chair, Herring Fellows

For Release: IMMEDIATE	Contact: Chancy Kapp
Date: April 30, 2008	Telephone: (919) 807-6962

NC Community Colleges Foundation elects new chair, names W. Dallas Herring Fellows

RALEIGH – The Board of Directors of the North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation, Inc. has elected Hunt Broyhill to serve as chair, succeeding Raleigh attorney Dwight Allen.

Broyhill, a businessman with Broyhill Asset Management LLC in Lenoir, has served on the foundation’s board since its revival in 1998 and recently chaired the Investment Committee.

In making the nomination at the foundation’s meeting in Raleigh April 29, retiring chair Allen praised Broyhill for his excellent work on investments and his commitment to the foundation’s successful capital campaign.

Since 1998, J. Gregory Poole, Jr. and Stephen P. Zelnak, Jr., both Raleigh business leaders, have also chaired the foundation board.

The board also approved the selection of two recipients of the W. Dallas Herring Fellowships to the Institute for Future Presidents. Endowed in 2003 by gifts to the foundation from friends of the late Dr. Herring, regarded as the spiritual father of the North Carolina Community College System, the fellowships assist in preparing talented senior administrators to become community college presidents.

This year’s Fellows are:

Dr. Tim Brewer, Vice-President for Instruction at Mitchell Community College in Statesville; and
Dr. Kim McGinnis, Dean of Continuing Education at James Sprunt Community College in Kenansville.

In presenting the names for approval, H. Martin Lancaster, retiring president of the North Carolina Community College System, praised Dr. Brewer and Dr. McGinnis for their vision, energy and commitment to community college education in North Carolina. He noted that four of the six previous Fellows have already become community college presidents in North Carolina. They are:

Dr. Robert S. Shackleford, Jr. Randolph Community College, Asheboro
Dr. Sharon Morrissey Richmond Community College, Hamlet
Dr. Ralph G. Soney Roanoke-Chowan Community College, Ahoskie
Dr. Kay Albertson Wayne Community College, Goldsboro

The North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit foundation working to enhance the capacity of the North Carolina Community College System and its community colleges to increase public advocacy, encourage innovation, recognize excellence and build capacity for leadership.

For information about the foundation, contact Chancy Kapp at 919-807-6962.

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