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TH-ey ONUy MET" ONCe, B-UIT IT aHANC\BT> TH-eiR. LIveS FOR-^veR. 1 I M.1' Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from North Carolina Digital Heritage Center https://archive.org/details/northcarolinasch2007nort whom concern'- rviav/ i-t W< accept •Hie -fad -Hiort we had jv ^criflC€ a’V^oriwal'* high jchoot fkperiewce wVioteifr •fov' art we wAnted pursue. And wV»«t we warded -It Ye •tt pursue was dfffererd. But we ttiink you eira^y +o*frY and wiake us drHne who we arc at •miS aae. How caxx weT Vou see us aSk yi^ want to Sec us ar.YwaY^... »n tBe simp'est terms /in most convenient dctinVhuns... tlie E we r - -iot m - academic and an atinr, k musician and a dancer, a ^ a visual artist*, _ an Arid artist*. answer yewr gMcsticn.'' ••^hat Stncerciy VourS, ficioes -nte IfI were to write a guidebook for newgovernors, one ofmy main suggestionswould be that he find a novelist and put him on his staff. TerrySanford. GovernorofNorth Carolina (1961-1965) HONORING TERRY SANFORD JOHN EHLE BEN RONEY VITTORIO GIANNINI JohnEhle WITHOUT WHOSE IMAGINATION AND HARD WORK, THIS SQHOOL WOULD BE ONLY A DREAM PerformancePlaceSculpture lohn has been a father ofso many creative things in this state, thatit's hard to tellwhat kind ofa state itwould have been, he hadn’t been hanging if JohnEhleandwife,RosemaryHarris around over at Chapel Hill HonoraryDoctorateReception . April25,1980 TerrySanford Dedication No one figures more prominentlyinthe earlyhistoryofthe North Carolina School oftheArts than John Ehle. As SpecialAssistantto GovernorTerrySanford, Mr. Ehle skillfullynavigatedthe North Carolina legislature to foundthe school. Mr. Ehle understoodhowimportantitwas forthe state's new conservatoryto have its own campus ratherthan beinglocated on the campus ofan existing constituent oftheUniversityofNorth Carolina system. Thepoliticallandscape ofNorth Carolinainthe early 1960s makes iteven more amazing that aprogressive governor and avisionarywritercould foundfour significant educationalinstitutions: the Governor's School, The North Carolina School of Science and Math, the North CarolinaAdvancementSchool, andthe North Carolina School oftheArts. Mr. Ehle also had ahandin establishingthe North CarolinaFilm Board andthe North CarolinaInstitute ofOutdoorDrama. native North Carolinian andgiftedwriter, John Ehle haswon acclaim Iforhis historical novels aboutAppalachia andforhis nonfictionbook \TrailofTears: TheRiseandFallofthe CherokeeNation. Mr. Ehle has )een awardedthe North CarolinaAwardforLiterature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, the Lillian SmithAwardfor Southern Fiction, the Sir alterRaleighAward forFiction, the MayflowerAward, the Pt’Governor'sAward forMeritorious Service, and the JohnTyler Caldwell Awardforthe Humanities. He has receivedhonorarydoctorates from UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Asheville, Berea College (Kentucky), and the JohnEhleattheFounder'sForum North Carolina School oftheArts. WatsonHall AprU22,2006 John Ehle andhiswife RosemaryHarris, live inWinston-Salem. They also have residences in Penland, N.C., andin NewYorkCity. Mr. Ehle andMrs. Harris have a daughter, JenniferEhle. Mr. Ehle'swife and daughter areboth actresses, andhe hasremarkedthathe isAuntMay's {Spider-Man) husband andLadyMacbeth's father. Winston-Salem ( Journal, August27, 2006) Mr. Ehle's accomplishments are outstanding, butwe believe ourschool is his greatestachievement.We dedicate the 2007yearbookto John Ehle. We honorthe tenacityandvisionhe broughtto founding a schoolwhere high school students ofextraordinarytalent cantrain forprofessional careers in the arts. Dedication 3 - r P/k & -^culty 70 Staff VC , yfJ vV^• \.,ii ^8th Grade 80-81 > J ^ i.. f. Freshmen 82-83 / , J !> ' C . ^ H Sophmores 84-87 I > ^ \ - ^^^niors 88-93 r' - . \ \ . \ MII ,’. I I K^/ . I':' •t i-132 Pk .. •* , J i ’V <T TableofContents — it Wvc f*. tt^ern^v^: vv,ii • „ ^ .^ , ., - WjT.. V#- 4^ , ; ' ^#«. /' / .. ^ ' » - *47 .fs «ri-4 ^ ' ’. •.',. L •L ^hor¥( , A ''"^ ^£.•1 ' t,»^ r,',^.'. ,.",'.»- To O'- u,h«+ ^ I'v; C• >’’! V/ C'u> »- ^ c^ 5 'f'-'' '\'f uc r-" iL€ «. orvv€> of ^ ( *o/Tosw.i4V. «M...^.. ..., -' Kiil'n * V f C If' .€ "' y . I I satf^' •i \jf<. V> V '' b O i C. ' Cy Vf^ -V 'VVv. ^ J^'\^ b«- \'N V * ^ - V W Table Content , Whom mai^ concerii li NCSA has been ma hoim auJon-^con -fer /iiany\ uOars ahd amasVna ds have oechnu \\V\e 'Waulou +d nde. X HsiiT and Unl\ love -hxna ^‘forevSC. SWooV ^veo'te (|j^vs us dnah e^Wa brrie fe much so 'WM .jaUpW _ 1 im •r-' 1