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12435
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Hunter Publishing Company, located in Winston-Salem, began as Hunter's Yearbook Service in 1948. While yearbooks still represent a large part of its annual sales, the company is a general printer that turns out everything from coupons to magazines to hardback textbooks.
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12436
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Qualified employees for high tech printing and graphic arts operations are hard to find. Two public universities, East Carolina and Appalachian State, and fourteen of the fifty-eight community colleges, offer courses tailored to careers in printing. This article describes the programs offered at East Carolina University, Chowan College, and Lenoir Community College.
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In 1871, Cornelius Bryant Edwards and Needham Bryant Broughton established a printing company that is now one of the ten oldest printing firms in Raleigh. They started operations with acquired printing equipment and $100 for ink and paper. Today Edwards & Broughton, which employs about one hundred people and occupies a 50,000-square-foot building, is known for its high-quality color work and overall printing capabilities.
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Preston Earle's grandfather and father purchased the Greensboro Printing Company in 1949. Earle is now the president of a company that has become one of the Southeast's largest commercial printing firms. The company has a long history of creating award-winning printing, and in 1984 it received the highest award given to a printing firm in the Carolinas, the prestigious DuPont Award.
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12439
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Howard Haworth is Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. He oversees a variety of programs, including business development, international trade, tourism, state ports, and the Employment Security Commission. In this We the People of North Carolina magazine interview, he discusses the state's economic development.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 43 Issue 11, Nov 1985,
p50, 52, 54, 113-115, il
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12440
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Ann B. Lambeth and her sister-in-law Peggy W. Lambeth co-own Indoor Landscaping, Inc., which is located in Greensboro. It is one of North Carolina's largest interior landscaping contracting firms. The firm specializes in high quality specimen foliage plants for commercial interiors.
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12441
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Founded in 1876 in the small town of Winston (now Winston-Salem), the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice handles clients statewide rom offices in Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Raleigh. By the end of 1985 the firm expects to one of the first North Carolina law firms with more than one hundred attorneys.
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12442
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The North Carolina Museum of Art opened its doors on April 6, 1956. It was the first in the nation to have a collection of works of art that were fully subsidized by state funds. This article contains information reviewing the museum's three decades of dramatic growth and success.
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12453
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William L. Burns, Jr. is president and CEO of Central Carolina Bank & Trust Company in Durham. We the People of North Carolina magazine features him in its Businessman In the News section.
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12454
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Frank H. Kenan, philanthropist, businessman, and civic leader of Chapel Hill, has bestowed millions of dollars upon his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article contains information on the use of the gifts and on the newest bequest which will fund the new five-story William R. Kenan, Jr. Center.
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12455
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The staff of We the People of North Carolina interview John P. Evans, dean of the School of Business Administration at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Rollie Tillman, director of the Institute for the Study of Private Enterprise and a former UNC business school professor and university vice chancellor, about the new Kenan Center.
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12456
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Phillip J. Kirk, Jr. has been a State Senator, an administrative assistant to a North Carolina Governor, and a U.S. Congressman. He is now in his second term as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources. When he was appointed by former Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. in 1976, he was the youngest Cabinet Secretary in North Carolina history.
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12457
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When Volney H. Kyle, Jr., president of North Carolina Natural Gas Corporation, died in 1966, the board of directors offered the job to Frank Barragan, Jr. At the time he was executive vice president with the Savannah Gas Company in Georgia. It was a hard decision to leave his hometown and an established company to join one that was just beginning in the industry; however, he accepted. We the People of North Carolina magazine features Barragan in its Businessman In the News section.
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12458
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Tom Smith's route to success in the grocery industry ran from bag boy to the presidency. He began his career at Food Lion in 1970, after almost seven years with Del Monte and before that bagging groceries while he was at Catawba College.
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12459
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Archie K. Davis, retired chairman of the board of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company is the author of a new Civil War biography. The University of North Carolina Press is the publisher of Boy Colonel of the Confederacy: The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.
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