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RALEIGH, N.C. -
Six North Carolinians are about to receive the highest civilian honor the state bestows.
The North Carolina Award will be given out Thursday evening by Gov. Beverly Perdue and Cultural Resources Secretary Linda Carlisle at the state Museum of History in Raleigh. The annual awards have been presented since 1964.
Receiving the award this year are: poet Gerald Barrax of Raleigh for literature; scientist Joseph DeSimone of Chapel Hill for science; former Cultural Resources Secretary Betty Ray McCain of Wilson and former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl of Charlotte for
public service; glass artist Mark Peiser of Penland and Cape Fear Regional Theater artistic director Bo Thorp of Fayetteville for fine arts.
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By Raymond Gilmore on 10/30 10:02 AM
I would like to see Mike Pedneau former Deputy of the Willie M. Program & Laura Winslow be so honored. There service to children in North Carolina has been lengthy and superlative.
By Realist on 10/29 10:45 AM
Still bribing the crooked politicians..... David Whitford: Do you miss the power you had as CEO of the biggest bank in America? Hugh McColl: "I had dinner with Bill Clinton a while back. He was asking me the same question. And I asked him, Did he miss the power? And he said yes, but he had swapped it for influence. And I would have to say in my own case there is some of that. I don't have the financial power anymore. I can't move an entire block where I want it to go. But I still have leverage in terms of contacts, influence..."
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