New Officers Appointed To North Carolina Zoo Society's Board

By Rod Hackney

Asheboro, NC - Mary F. Flanagan of Chapel Hill was elected Chairman of the N.C. Zoological Society Board of Directors during the board’s quarterly meeting at the North Carolina Zoo.

The Director of Development, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, Flanagan was elected at the end of the two-year chairmanship of Charlotte businessman David K. Robb. Earl Johnson, Jr., Chairman of both Southern Industrial Constructors Raleigh and Research Triangle Institute, was elected vice chair and Melanie Wilson, Director of Planning for Wake County, was named as the Society Board’s newest member.

Along with Johnson and Robb, five members were re-elected to three-year board terms, including: Albert L. Butler III of Winston-Salem; Lynne Yates Graham of Advance; Molly Millis-Hedgecock of High Point; Mary Norris Preyer Oglesby of Chapel Hill; Nancy Proia of Durham; and Laura H. Virkler of Hillsborough. 

The Zoological Society is the private, non-profit organization that supports the North Carolina Zoo and its conservation and education initiatives. The zoo is an agency of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Dee A. Freeman, Secretary; Beverly E. Perdue, Governor.

Photo: Mary F. Flanagan, Chairman, N.C. Zoological Society Board of Directors
Photo credit: Eileen Mignoni