Hayden Bentley Renwick, age 74, the son of the late Lewis Renwick and Mary Louise Colvert Renwick, was born February 10, 1935 in Statesville, N.C. He departed this life September 2, 2009, at Presbyterian Medical Center after suffering from heart failure.

He was educated in the public schools of Iredell County and later attended Johnson C. Smith University where he achieved his bachelor of science degree in 1956. During his term as a Golden Bull, he was caption of the football team and member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. He married Sandra Allayne Medford in August of 1957. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1958 and after two years of service was honorably discharged. He returned to North Carolina and immediately began hi 30-year career in education. During this time he was a teacher and coach at Horton High School in Pittsboro, physical education instructor at NC A & T State University in Greensboro, teach, coach and then assistant principal at Guy B. Phillips Junior High School in Chapel Hill. 

He achieved his master’s of education degree from The University of North Carolina in 1966.  While working for UNC, he served as assistant director of Undergraduate Admissions (1969-1973), assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences (1973-1977) and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences (1977-1988). From 1988-91 he was associate vice chancellor at Fayetteville State University and finally special assistant to the chancellor at Winston Salem State University.

Among numerous awards and recognitions, he was an honorary member of the Order of the Old Well (1972) and Order of the Golden Fleece (1974); named top administrator by the Black Student Movement (1980), honored by the Black Faculty Staff and former students at The University of North Carolina for 18 years of service (1988). In 1994 he was inducted in the Johnson C. Smith University Sports Hall of Fame and in 2006 he received the Harvey E. Beech Outstanding Alumni Award during the UNC Black Alumni Reunion (2006 Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award Citation).

He leaves to cherish fond memories, his wife Sandra Medford Renwick; daughter Beverly Renwick Pappy of Charlotte; son Michael Lewis Renwick of Atlanta, GA; sister Natalie Marsh of Statesville; brother Roy Renwick (Helen) of Atlanta, GA; two granddaughters, Cassandra Allyane-Louise Pappy of Greensboro, Kelsea Sabrina Pappy of Charlotte; sisters-in-law, Jacquelyn Byers Johnson of savannah, GA, Barbara Jackson of Los Angeles, CA; one brother-in-law Norman Day of Unionville, NY; one godson, Cameron Bentley Belton; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.  Hayden was preceded in death by two brothers, Lewis Renwick, Jr. and Donald Renwick, and one sister-in-law, Clarissa Day.