New Member Named, Three Reappointed to Board of Trustees

Posted on March 31, 2005

Barbara Rosser Hyde ’83 of Memphis, Tenn., has been appointed to a four-year term on the UNC Board of Trustees to begin July 1.

A Morehead Scholar who earned English and religion degrees, Hyde has served as president of the J.R. Hyde III Family Foundation and director of the J.R. Hyde Sr. Foundation. The foundations support education, civil rights and other endeavors. She began her career as a development officer at Carolina and was executive director of UNC’s Arts and Sciences Foundation from 1987 to 1992. Hyde chairs the external advisory board of UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Her appointment fills a vacancy left by Philip Carson ’63 of Asheville, who did not seek reappointment.

The UNC System Board of Governors reappointed three trustees to new four-year terms: Paul Fulton ’57 of Winston-Salem, Karol Mason ’79 of Atlanta and Nelson Schwab III ’67 of Charlotte.

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