Massey award winner is a jack of all trades John Parkhill “Jack” Evans is an Indiana boy with basketball in his blood. He played for his small high school in Warsaw at a time when anyone more than six feet tall … Read more
Edgerly wins one of four Massey service awards John White Edgerly never knew what he was going to have for breakfast. Or more accurately, who. The Edgerly breakfast table seated eight family members, from parents and siblings to his grandmother … Read more
Thomas Clegg: a straight shooter in a spin zone A friend described Thomas Clegg as a whirling dervish of intellectual energy. Spend just a few hours with him inside the little universe called the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), and … Read more
Tough negotiations earn Tufts a Massey A visitor walks into Lenoir Dining Hall on the first day of classes. Awed by the myriad selections, she gets a flashback of her own dining experience at Carolina’s “sister” school way back in … Read more
Devotion, hard work earn Howard a Massey William Lawrence Howard Jr. stands in the office doorway, braced for his interview. A ball cap frames his grinning face, and his arms are deeply tanned up to his rolled shirtsleeves. Steady blue … Read more
`A measure of success’ “Quietly unassuming,” was the way Patricia Challenger Crawford was described in the citation for her C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award. That quality has become all the more apparent since she won the award and received … Read more
Massey Award winner Runberg: Anchored to the task Most boys dream of what they want to be when they grow up. Policeman. Fireman. Maybe even president. Most boys end up letting go of their dream somewhere along the way. But … Read more
A nature to nurture “How you doing?” Martha Crocker Johnson says as a student passes her outside Graham Residence Hall on a rainy day morning in late August. The student has been here for barely a week, and already Johnson … Read more
Massey Award winner: Working the trenches There’s a lot about Elizabeth C. “Betsi” Snipes you don’t know, which is exactly the way she has tried to keep it during the 31 years she has worked in the University’s Payroll Services. … Read more
Massey Award winner profile: Homemade goodness “OK brother,” Ronald Wesley Hyatt said as he swung open the door to his office in Woollen Gym and pointed at the donkey’s head hung above his desk. Then he gestured toward his chair. … Read more