Carolina Alumni Review - May/June 2009

Reunion
GAA
Board of Directors

2008 2009

Officers

Randy Kane Jones ’ 79, Chula Vista, Calif. . . . . . . .Chair Dwight M. Davidson III ’ 77, Greensboro .Immed. Past Chair Eleanor Saunders Morris ’ 55, Chapel Hill. . .Chair-Elect D. Jordan Whichard III ’ 79, Greenville . . . . . . .1^stVice Chair David B. Layton Royle ’ 78, Washington, D.C. ...2^ndVice Chair Anthony Eden Rand ’ 61, Fayetteville . . . . . . . Treasurer William P. Aycock II ’ 65, Greensboro . . . . . . . .Counsel Douglas S. Dibbert ’ 70, Chapel Hill . . . . . . . .President

‘We Needed Each Other’
American Indian alumni recall facing ‘invisibility’
Tar Heel Network Chairman

Thomas W. Lambeth ’ 57 . . . . . . . . . . Winston-Salem

Directors APPOINTED AT LARGE Teresa Artis ’ 83 (2011) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Raleigh Will Current ’ 56 (2011) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gastonia Kraig J. Holt ’ 82 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte James R. Zook Jr. ’ 87 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Atlanta W.Allen Cobb Jr. ’ 74 (2009) . . . . . Wrightsville Beach Sylvester Taylor ’ 79 (2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greensboro

ELECTED TO REPRESENT NORTH CAROLINA ALUMNI
Alan L. “A.C.” Caldwell ’ 78 (2011) . . . Winston-Salem
Harriet Morrison Loweth ’ 82 (2011) . . . . Wilmington
Sally Price Ormand ’ 58 (2011) . . . . . . . . . . . .Monroe
W. Hampton Lefler Jr. ’ 59 (2010) . . . . . . . . . .Hickory
Sarah Hester Mayo ’ 85 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . .Greenville
Dan Allen Myers ’ 71 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kinston
Judy Allen Vinroot ’ 65 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . .Charlotte
Donald W. Curtis ’ 63 (2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Raleigh
Thomas E. Terrell Jr. ’ 79 (2009) . . . . . . . . . . .High Point
Ann Yaeger Young ’ 72 (2009) . . . . . . . . . . . .Asheville
ELEC TED TO REPRESENT OUT-OF-STATE ALUMNI
Draggan P. Mihailovich ’ 83 (2011) . . . .Stamford, Conn.
Elizabeth Fell “Betsy” Oliphant ’ 96 (2011) . . .Philadelphia
Larry L. Poe ’ 65 (2011) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Issue, Md.
Michael J. Egan ’ 78 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Atlanta
Marjorie Julian Spruill ’ 73 (2010) . . . . .Columbia, S.C.
S. Thompson Tygart ’ 62 (2010) . . . . . . .Jacksonville, Fla.
E. Warner Bass ’ 63 (2009) . . . . . . . . . .Nashville, Tenn.
Thomas N. Chewning ’ 67 (2009) . . . . . . . .Richmond,Va.
Suzanne Lowe Weerts ’ 88 (2009) . . . . .Burbank, Calif.
EX OFFICIO, REPRESENTING THE STUDENT BODY
Jessica Jewett “J.J.” Raynor ’09 .Student Body President
Allison Carol Nichols ’09 . . .Editor, The Daily Tar Heel
James Robert Shelly ’09 . . . . . .President, Senior Class
Ann Margaret Stavros ’09 . President, Order of the Bell Tower
EX OFFICIO, REPRESENTING THE FACULT Y
Lloyd S. Kramer (2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chapel Hill
PRESIDENTS OF SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS (EX OFFICIO)
Barbara Beechwood ’06 (MRP),City&Reg’l Plan. . .Durham
John Buchanan ’ 79, Dentistry . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lexington
Michael F. Williams’ 67, Education . . .Roanoake Rapids
Cassidy R. Sugimoto ’05, Info.& Library Sci. . . . .Chapel Hill
Daniel W. Teachey ’ 95, Journalism & Mass Comm. . .Cary
John S. Willardson ’ 68, Law . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilkesboro
Dr. Hugh A.“Chip” McAllister Jr. ’ 66, Medicine . .Houston
Gregory A. Simpson ’01 (MSN), Nursing . . . . .Durham
Kenneth R. Phares ’ 91 (MS), Pharmacy . . . . .Hillsborough
Sean R. Brandon’99 (MPA), Public Admin. . .Savannah, Ga.
Jacky A. Rosati ’02 (PhD), Public Health . . .Hillsborough
Michelle R. Turner ’01, Social Work . . . . . . . . .Chapel Hill
ALUMNI ON THE ATHLETIC COUNCIL (ELECTED AT LARGE)
Vaughn D. Bryson ’ 60 (2011) . . . . . . .Vero Beach, Fla.
Jason F. Stanicek ’ 95 (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Raleigh
Eric S. Montross ’ 94 (2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapel Hill

UNC had hosted an annual conference and a cultural center, he said that “we were for minorities, but until recently, it did left to wander.” not include American Indians. Many Native American students come

“Carolina is the flagship public institution from small, close-knit, family-oriented in the state with the largest Indian tribe communities and comment on having felt population east of the Mississippi, and it lost and lonely on Carolina’s campus in leaves them out,” classes with more said Kevin Maynor students than in

NANC Y OATES

’ 79, one of the their whole high founders of the schools.

Carolina Indian “It was culture Circle at UNC. shock,” Maynor

The opening of recalled of arriving the American as a freshman. He Indian Center at helped found the UNC in 2007 gave CIC because “we Native American needed each other. students a perma- We were all we nent home base, had.”

Among American Indian alumni attending the powwow coinciding

and the growing Through that

with the reunion were, from left, Kristey Evans ’99 (Meherrin),

organization has Brandi Brooks ’07 (Lumbee) and Tonia Jacobs ’03 (Waccamaw support infrastruc-

Siouan).

strengthened the ture, the students American Indian network on campus. The held potlucks and shared rides home. More GAA most recently sponsored an American often than not, the reason that some didn’t Indian reunion about 10 years ago; this achieve academically was because they were year, the American Indian Center organized intimidated by the institution and felt a the affair and plans to make it an annual strong pull to be home among family, Bird event. said. The CIC became a surrogate family.

The dinner dance at The Carolina Inn At a planning brunch the morning after on March 20, the night before the CIC’s the reunion and before the powwow, Bird, annual powwow, drew nearly 100 alumni. A Maynor and Clara Sue Kidwell, director of silent auction raised money for the center. the American Indian Center, sat at one table Music by a band of three American Indian talking about some of the issues that need to alumni took the stage after keynote speech- be addressed for American Indian students es by Genevieve Lowry Cole ’ 54 (’ 76 and the 1,200 alumni of American Indian MPH), one of the first Native American heritage. women to graduate UNC; James Gregory Bird said that while the University should “Greg” Bell ’ 83 (JD), a state Superior do its part to create an environment that Court judge; and Karla Martin ’08 (MEd). will support American Indian students aca-All shared their experiences during their demically, culturally, socially and financially, time as students. alumni can help by taking some of the

Kerry Bird ’ 86, a former administrative responsibility for recruiting students early chief of the CIC, came to the reunion to enough to begin preparing for admission to reconnect with other American Indian Carolina. Alumni also can form an informal alumni. There were fewer than 100 American mentoring network for employment advice Indian students among his classmates in the and opportunities after graduation. mid-’80s, and they gravitated toward one A strong alumni network working with another to form a supportive network. the University benefits the school and the