Pendergraph helps students transition from college to career   A career that spans 42 years of service to one of Carolina’s most essential offices started before Julie Pendergraph left high school. “I’m from Chapel Hill, so it was a logical … Read more

Garland’s penchant for work, devotion to students recognized Children, it has been said, inherit much more than the color of their hair and eyes from their parents. Parents also can pass down their religion and politics, and in the case … Read more

Ray Dooley finds his ‘artistic home’ in Chapel Hill Ray Dooley and Julie Fishell in PlayMakers Repertory Company production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”   Familiarity, so the saying goes, breeds contempt. Ray Dooley begs to differ. In the … Read more

For Gloria Thompson, the work is personal Gloria Thompson received a 2014 Massey Award winner for her work at the Gillings School of Global Public Health.   Gloria Thompson gets by on only three or four hours sleep a night, … Read more

Harper’s hometown approach harkens back to his roots James “Bud” Harper officially retired to Pinehurst in July 2012, but he’s still around campus – winding down from a Carolina career spanning 45 years. On the second and fourth Tuesdays of … Read more

When one door closed, another opened for Helen Marsh Helen Marsh doesn’t go to movies much, but when “The Help” came out this summer, she knew she had to see it. Based on the 2009 novel by Kathryn Stockett, the … Read more

A journey from Kenya to Canada to Carolina Few people can point to the exact moment that changed their life, but Eunice Sahle can. She was in fifth grade and had just raced home to show off the A she … Read more

Mary Craven always put a shine in her work as she motivated those around her Mary Craven was born in Siler City in 1947, in the middle of a brood of five, a couple of years after her father returned … Read more

Cotton’s approach: helpful, positive, pleasant, hard working Tammy Cotton was born in a doctor’s office almost close enough to the Chatham County Courthouse to fall under its shadow. All but a few of her nine siblings were born there as … Read more

Stabile fields public information requests with service in mind Mention Wellesley and certain adjectives immediately spring to mind. Women’s college. Ivy League. Prestigious. Privileged. Before she applied there, Regina Stabile knew none of these things. In fact, she had never … Read more