Perspectives On Line - Faculty, students honored with 2004 Resource Development Awards

Billy Caldwell, William Collins, Robert Lyons and Peter Conden were honored for efforts in support of the College.

r. William K. Collins Sr., coordinator of tobacco programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ research office; Dr. Robert E. Lyons, director of the JC Raulston Arboretum; Dr. Billy E. Caldwell, professor emeritus and former head of the Crop Science Department and retired assistant director of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service; and Peter Conden, president of the Iota Chapter of the honor society Pi Alpha Xi, were recipients of the College’s 2004 Resource Development Awards, presented by the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc. Margie Spivey of Lumberton, past chairman of the N.C. Tobacco Foundation, also received a special presentation in honor of her ongoing support of that foundation.

The awards were announced at the annual joint spring board meeting of the N.C. Agricultural, Dairy and Tobacco Foundations, held in April at the University Club at N.C. State.

Collins and Lyons received Faculty Resource development awards. In presenting the awards, Dr. Johnny Wynne, College interim dean, noted that Collins had secured more than $1 million per year in funding for the Tobacco Foundation, more than $420,000 in grants from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund and contributions of more than $100,000 in support of a Caldwell Scholarship created through a partnership between the N.C. Agricultural Foundation and the N.C. State Alumni Association. Lyons was sited for his leadership in raising more than $436,000 for the JCRA in 2003 and a cumulative $6.5 million since 1999.

Caldwell received the Retired Faculty Resource Development Award for helping to secure more than $4 million in land gifts to the College, bringing in gifts in support of the N.C. State Grange’s Search for Excellence Awards and for, with his wife, endowing the Billy and Wilma Caldwell Leadership Endowment, a professional development award for Extension county directors.

Pi Alpha Xi, honor society for floriculture, landscape horticulture and ornamental horticulture, was winner of the Student Organization Resource Development Award. The society was honored for its fall and spring plant sales at JCRA that annually raise more than $20,000 to support College and community activities and organizations.

— Terri Leith


		Faculty, students honored with 2004 Resource Development Awards r. William K. Collins Sr., coordinator of tobacco programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ research office; Dr. Robert E. Lyons, director of the JC Raulston Arboretum; Dr. Billy E. Caldwell, professor emeritus and former head of the Crop Science Department and retired assistant director of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service; and Peter Conden, president of the Iota Chapter of the honor society Pi Alpha Xi, were recipients of the College’s 2004 Resource Development Awards, presented by the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc. Margie Spivey of Lumberton, past chairman of the N.C. Tobacco Foundation, also received a special presentation in honor of her ongoing support of that foundation. The awards were announced at the annual joint spring board meeting of the N.C. Agricultural, Dairy and Tobacco Foundations, held in April at the University Club at N.C. State. Collins and Lyons received Faculty Resource development awards. In presenting the awards, Dr. Johnny Wynne, College interim dean, noted that Collins had secured more than $1 million per year in funding for the Tobacco Foundation, more than $420,000 in grants from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund and contributions of more than $100,000 in support of a Caldwell Scholarship created through a partnership between the N.C. Agricultural Foundation and the N.C. State Alumni Association. Lyons was sited for his leadership in raising more than $436,000 for the JCRA in 2003 and a cumulative $6.5 million since 1999. Caldwell received the Retired Faculty Resource Development Award for helping to secure more than $4 million in land gifts to the College, bringing in gifts in support of the N.C. State Grange’s Search for Excellence Awards and for, with his wife, endowing the Billy and Wilma Caldwell Leadership Endowment, a professional development award for Extension county directors. Pi Alpha Xi, honor society for floriculture, landscape horticulture and ornamental horticulture, was winner of the Student Organization Resource Development Award. The society was honored for its fall and spring plant sales at JCRA that annually raise more than $20,000 to support College and community activities and organizations. — Terri Leith