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North Carolina Symphony Holds Annual Meeting Elects New Trustees
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William Cavanaugh III, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Progress Energy and currently the chairman of the World Association of Nuclear Operators, presided over the North Carolina Symphony’s Annual Meeting in his role as Chairman of the North Carolina Symphony Society. The meeting was held June 26 at The Umstead Hotel & Spa in Cary.
New Trustees elected to serve three-year terms are Dr. Robert Lacin, Raleigh, who heads the Raleigh Center of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences based at Rex Hospital; Branford Marsalis, Durham, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist; Lee Anne McClymont, Hillsboro, who served as Board Member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, “Con Brio” designee; and Sandy Stidham, Raleigh, who has served as a member of the North Carolina Symphony Foundation Board for seventeen years, most recently as its president. The Foundation Board oversees the Symphony’s $9 million endowment.
“We are pleased to have four notable community members joining our Board of Trustees,” says Symphony president and CEO David Chambless Worters. “The Board sets the tone for our continuing achievement and every time we are able to recruit outstanding new leadership to our organization we position ourselves for success.”
Trustees reelected to three-year terms are Joan English Allen, Fayetteville; Ella Ann Holding, Smithfield; Doug Hornberger, Raleigh; John Kane, Raleigh; Emily Ann Peck, Raleigh; Luanne Roth, Cary; John Wallace, Raleigh; and B. Grant Yarber, Cary.
In addition, ex-officio representatives were elected to one-year terms: Foundation representative Bruce Lueck, Raleigh; League representative Josie Walker, Raleigh; and Bravo! representative Sherry Heuser. Ex officio statewide representatives are Linda Staunch, Craven County; Mary Margaret Latham, Cape Fear County; Linda Hardison, Moore County; and Faye Price, Edgecombe County.
Other North Carolina Symphony Society officers include B.Grant Yarber, President of Capital Bank, Vice Chairman, an office he shares with Graham Mosely, Immediate Past President of the Cape Fear Series. Catharine Biggs Arrowood, former Associate Attorney General and partner in the law firm of Parker, Poe, Adams and Bernstein, serves as Treasurer; David Strong, President of Rex Healthcare as Assistant Treasurer; E. Kemp Reece, Jr., First Vice President of Davenport and Co. as Secretary; and David Chambless Worters is President and CEO. Douglas C. Hornberger is Immediate Past Chairman.
North Carolina Symphony chapters throughout the state were honored for their diligent work selling tickets and raising money on behalf of the organization.
- The Talley Cup is named in honor of Dr. Banks C. Talley for his years of service as executive director of the North Carolina Symphony. It is awarded to the chapter which has stretched itself significantly on behalf of the Symphony during the past year. Chapter president Lynne Boney accepted the Talley Cup on behalf of the Cape Fear Series in Wilmington.
- America’s Next Great Orchestra Award honors the chapter or series which best epitomizes the aspirations of the North Carolina Symphony in becoming America’s next great orchestra. Criteria include best all-around performance for a given concert season, extraordinary community involvement and development, a team of enthusiastic board members and dedicated leadership from the chapter or series president. Chapter president John Gray accepted the award for the Edgecombe County Chapter.
- Two chapters received the Grand Effort Award,which recognizes specific, extraordinary efforts to support the North Carolina Symphony in the community. Linda Staunch, president of the New Bern Series and ex officio trustee of the North Carolina Symphony Society Board, accepted the award on behalf of her chapter. Also honored was the Onslow County Chapter, Maggie Royster, president.
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