Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
50 results
for North Carolina--Biography
Currently viewing results 1 - 15
|
PAGE
OF 4
|
Next |
Record #:
3719
Author(s):
Abstract:
OUR STATE magazine is sixty-five years old. People and places sharing the birth year include author Reynolds Price, blues singer Nina Simone, Croatan National Forest, and the Alleghany County Courthouse in Sparta.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
5514
Author(s):
Abstract:
Metro Magazine selects twenty notable people, who, in its estimation, made \"remarkable contributions to our quality of life.\" People selected include Dr. Joseph Kalinowski, ECU, whose invention helps stutterers; Dr. Jim Leutze, Chancellor, UNC-W; Tiff Merritt, singer/songwriter; Kaye Gibbons, author; Robert Weiss, artistic director, Carolina Ballet; Eddie Smith, Jr., Grady-White Boats; and Orage Quarles, III, president and publisher, News and Observer.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
7046
Author(s):
Abstract:
METRO magazine presents its yearly selection of North Carolinians who have made a contribution to the quality of people's lives in 2004. These include Mary Easley, Dr. Kimberly Rorschach, Rick Weddle, Smedes York, and Evan Rachel Wood.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
7572
Author(s):
Abstract:
METRO magazine presents its yearly selection of North Carolinians who have made a contribution to the quality of people's lives in 2005. These include Bland Simpson, Ann Denlinger, Donald Rosenblitt, Henry Hugh Shelton, Chris Browning, and Gerhard Weinberg.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
8546
Author(s):
Abstract:
METRO magazine presents its yearly selection of North Carolinians who have made a contribution to the quality of people's lives in 2006. These include Erskine Bowles; William Atkinson II; Elizabeth F. Buford; Hodding Carter III; Surry Roberts; Linda Edminsten; Gordon Smith; Alice Watkins; S. Lewis Ebert; William S. Powell.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
9218
Author(s):
Abstract:
William S. Powell's, DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY, will be published in eight volumes, the first of which is due out in July. Published by the University of North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill, the dictionary covers the lives of four thousand North Carolinians, many of whom have never before been in a biography.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
10566
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Bernice Kelly Harris (literature), Luther H. Hodges (public service), A. G. Odell, Jr. (fine arts - architect), and Oscar K. Rice (science) received the award in 1966.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10567
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Albert Coates (public service), Jonathan Daniels (literature), Carl W. Gottschalk (science), Hiram Houston Merritt Jr. (science), and Benjamin F. Swalin (fine arts - music) received the award in 1967.
Source:
Record #:
10568
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Robert Lee Humber (public service), Hobson Pittman (fine arts), Vermont Connecticut Royster (literature), Charles Phillips Russell (literature) and Stanley G. Stephens (science) received the award in 1968.
Source:
Subject(s):
10.North Carolina Award - 1970 by Norris, Jeannie Faris North Carolina Awards Vol. Issue 7, May 1970
Record #:
10570
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Philip Handler (science), Frances Gray Patton (literature), Henry C. Pearson (fine arts), and Terry Sanford (public service) received the award in 1970.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10571
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Guy Owen (literature), James Hustead Semans and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (fine arts), Capus Waynick (public service), and James Edwin Webb, for (creative leadership in the United States program) received the award in 1971. The award to the Semans is the first North Carolina Award given jointly.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10572
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Sidney Alderman Blackmer (fine arts - actor), Edward E. David, Jr. (science), John Ehle, (literature), William Dallas Herring (public service), and Harold Hotelling (science) received the award in 1972.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10573
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Helen Smith Bevington (literature), Ellis Brevier Cowling (science), Burke Davis (literature), Sam J. Ervin (public service), and Kenneth Ness (fine arts) received the award for 1973.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10574
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' James B. Wyngaarden (science), Thad G. Stem, Jr. (literature), William C. Fields (fine arts), and Ellen Black Winston (public service) received the award in 1974.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
10575
Author(s):
Abstract:
The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Robert Ward (fine arts composer), Doris W. Betts (literature), William C. Friday (public service), and John L. Etchells (science) received the award in 1975.
Source:
Subject(s):