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4-H honors lifetime achievers at Raleigh gala

Former N.C. Governor Jim Hunt, a Lifetime Achievement honoree, and his wife, Carolyn, greet a young 4-H’er at the gala.

Ornate letter "N"orth Carolina 4-H honored several prominent North Carolinians at the 2004 North Carolina 4-H Development Fund’s Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala on April 22 at Raleigh’s North Ridge Country Club.

Honorees included four-term North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt, N.C. Community College System president and former U.S. Congressman Martin Lancaster and Unilever Bestfoods research and development Director Georgette McAuley. Hunt is a Wilson County 4-H member; Lancaster, a Wayne County member; and McAuley, an Iredell County member.

Caitlin Boon, a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences graduate and Fulbright Scholar, introduced her aunt, Georgette McAuley, one of seven 4-H Honor Club siblings from the McAuley clan.

Also, Dr. Johnny Wynne, interim College dean, presented the College’s Family Legacy Award to Dr. Sharon Ellis Joyner and the Rudolph Carl Ellis family of Cumberland County. Ellis was Joyner’s father. The award honors families who provide multi-generational leadership through 4-H program values.

“Our recipients were recognized as outstanding 4-H members of the 1930s,” Wynne said, “and their daughter found a way to celebrate their legacy in a way to benefit the entire state program today and in the future.”

In 2002, Joyner donated her family’s former farmhouse to the N.C. 4-H Development Fund. Moved recently from Fayetteville to the Millstone 4-H Center, it will be restored to become the North Carolina 4-H Museum.

Lynda Loveland, WRAL-TV anchor and reporter and former Missouri 4-H’er, presided.

The annual gala raised $224,000, said Sharon Rowland, executive director, N.C. 4-H Development Fund.

—Art Latham