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Anne Cannon Forsyth (August 23, 1930 – May 11, 2003) was a Cannon textiles and R.J. Reynolds tobacco families heiress, and education activist who created the Anne C. Stouffer Foundation in 1967, which was the first foundation to offer full scholarships for young African-American students to attend elite southern preparatory boarding schools.
Jim Broyhill, a Republican politician; served North Carolina in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; Ted Budd, former United States Representative and United States Senator from North Carolina [27] Richard Burr, United States Senator; Irving E. Carlyle, North Carolina lawyer and state leader; R. Thurmond Chatham, U.S. House of ...
Bowman Gray was born in what was then Winston, North Carolina, to Wachovia co-founder James Alexander Gray and the former Aurelia Bowman. After receiving his primary and secondary education in his hometown, Gray matriculated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1890-91 academic year and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Cherrill Crosby, Salem Statesman Journal November 10, 2023 at 12:50 AM Pete Martini, a long-time sports reporter for the Statesman Journal, died Tuesday from cancer.
During her lifetime, Davis produced many works that she exhibited both in group shows and in 15 individual exhibitions around the Southeast. [3]Posthumous exhibitions include a retrospective at Wake Forest University's Scales Fine Arts Center Gallery in 1986, [3] and ELDA – Paintings by Eleanor Layfield Davis at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts in 2012. [1]
Brinson moved back to North Carolina in the late 1970s and worked as a reporter, editorial page writer, and feature writer for The Sentinel, an afternoon newspaper in Winston-Salem. After the paper folded in 1985, she began writing book reviews and feature stories for the Winston-Salem Journal. She was later appointed the first woman editorial ...
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. Died: April 16, 2005 (aged 58) Salem, Oregon, U.S. Listed height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Listed weight: 190 lb (86 kg) Career information; High school: Atkins (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) College: Purdue (1966–1969) NBA draft: 1969: 1st round, 8th overall pick: Selected by the Cincinnati Royals: Playing ...
Zachary Smith Reynolds (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1932) was an American amateur aviator and youngest son of millionaire businessman R. J. Reynolds.The son of one of the richest men in the United States at the time, Reynolds was to inherit US$20 million when he turned 28 (equivalent to US$450 million in 2023), [1] as established in his father's will.