Morehead-Cain YEAR IN REVIEW 2019–2020 YEAR IN REVIEW 2019-2020 The Morehead-Cain Foundation Post Office Box 690 Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0690 moreheadcain.org Follow us @moreheadcain YEARS Year in Review 2019–2020 Contents 4 From the Director 54 From the Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund Board Chair 6 From the Chair of the Trustees 55 Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund Board of Directors 7 Morehead-Cain Board of Trustees 56 Give Together Scholarship Challenge: 8 Morehead-Cain 75th Anniversary Anonymous Donor Honors Morehead-Cain’s and Carolina’s Legacy of 10 Reflections: 1940 to 1949 Impact with $10 Million Match Challenge 12 2020 Honor Roll of Giving 58 Reflections: 1950 to 1959 Graduate and Professional School Alumni Alumni and Scholars by Class 60 The Year in Review 2019–2020 Friends of the Program Morehead-Cain Staff Parents of Alumni and Scholars 78 MCSF Chair Keith Cowan ’78 Steps Down Corporations and Foundations After Decade-Long Tenure 49 Day of Giving 2019 82 Reflections: 1960 to 1969 50 A Lifetime of Service: Lucy Hanes Chatham Steps Down from the Board of Trustees After 36 Years of Service 2110 | |YEAR YEAR IN INREVIEW REVIEW 2019 2019– 2020 - 2020 84 The Morehead-Cain Selection Process 108 Morehead-Cain Benefactors Selection Process at a Glance Professional Readers 110 Reflections: 2000 to 2009 Group Activity Assessors Central Selection Committee British Selection Process 112 Sean Nguyen ’21 on His Connection with Canadian Selection Process Mentor Angela Liu ’04 New Nominating Schools and Affiliates 114 Scholar Impact at Carolina 92 Reflections: 1970 to 1979 138 Class of 2020 94 The Summer Enrichment Program In Memory of Wynn Alexandra Burrus ’20 96 Reflections: 1980 to 1989 173 Class of 2021 In Memory of Sarah “Sally” Dudley Sasz ’21 Class of 2022 98 The John Motley Morehead Society Class of 2023 Class of 2024 100 The John Motley Morehead Society Spotlight: Jennifer Halsey Evans ’94 196 Reflections: 2010 to Now 104 Reflections: 1990 to 1999 198 Morehead-Cain Staff 106 #TakeoverTuesday 200 Special Thanks YEAR IN REVIEW 2019– 2020 | 3 FROM THE DIRECTOR From the Director CHARLES E. LOVELACE, JR. ’77 Dear Friends, What a year to mark the 75th anniversary of Our personal the Foundation! The dramatic end to the spring semester due to the coronavirus reminded us journeys have that life has a habit of ignoring whatever grand plans we have for it. Thriving requires us to be taught us an resilient, dedicated, and lucky. important lesson: There were certainly moments this year life has a habit of to rejoice. An anonymous Morehead-Cain donated $10 million to the Program and ignoring whatever inspired the $20 million Give Together Scholarship Challenge. It is the largest single grand plans we gift from an alumnus or alumna to the Program in its history. Ashton Martin ’20 served as have for it. Carolina’s first Native American student body president. Scholars received Schwarzman, Charles E. Lovelace, Jr. ’77 Churchill, Gates Cambridge, Truman, and Luce Executive Director Scholarships. Eight scholars distinguished themselves with Chancellor’s Awards, the University’s highest honor for leadership and academic achievement. distanced world. The COVID-19 pandemic sent However, this year was also marked with deep students home, forced classes online, and denied sadness. Last fall, we grieved the tragic loss graduating seniors the opportunity to celebrate of Wynn Burrus ’20, and of Sally Sasz ’21 the their accomplishments together in person. The following summer. Both were joyous advocates Summer Enrichment Program went remote to the of the Program and beloved by their classmates. extent possible, but travel restrictions diminished Our thoughts remain with their families. the scholars’ opportunities. Spring brought the new and unprecedented It seems somehow appropriate that this challenge of the coronavirus. Days after important moment of uncertainty about the Final Selection Weekend, we found ourselves future and reckoning with the past coincides confronting an uncertain and physically with the 75th anniversary of Morehead-Cain this fall. 4 | YEAR IN REVIEW 2019– 2020 FROM THE DIRECTOR Executive Director Chuck Lovelace ’77 speaking at the All-Scholar Kickoff John Motley Morehead signed the indenture undergraduate scholarships to Black students establishing the Foundation on November until 1968 and to women until 1975. This was 21, 1945. The world had just emerged from wrong—even for its time. the long shadow cast by the second World War, which had ended a few months before. The decisions by the Program then do not The future was hopeful. The first order of represent the values of the Program today. business for the new foundation was to build a We are committed to racial reconciliation, and planetarium, since visited and enjoyed by millions. we promise to be deliberate and focused to ensure that this program is welcoming to and As we reflect on the past seven decades, we are supportive of scholars from every background. immensely proud of the impact that we have had on the University of North Carolina at Chapel I close with heartfelt thanks to retiring trustees Hill. Over 3,200 Morehead-Cain Scholars and Lucy Chatham and Ken Thompson ’73, as well Fellows have left a legacy of leadership and as to former Scholarship Fund Chair Keith service to the University community and in their Cowan ’78, for their remarkable commitment lives thereafter. Their contributions to society are to the Foundation and our scholars. We are simply immeasurable. grateful for their many years of service. But we are not proud of our entire history, and as the nation refocuses the national conversation on race and racism, we must also reflect on our mistakes. The truth is that in our early years, promising young leaders With appreciation, were denied the opportunity to apply to Charles E. this program due to the color of their skin Lovelace, Jr. ’77 or their gender. We did not begin offering Executive Director YEAR IN REVIEW 2019– 2020 | 5 FROM THE CHAIR OF THE TRUSTEES From the Chair of the Trustees DAVID C. WRIGHT, III ’80 programs, and our students have—like much of the country—been thrown into “virtual learning.” If this weren’t enough, we’ve been required to come to grips with the painful legacy of racial discrimination, which continues to affect our students, scholars, and alumni, all amidst the shadow of a campus statue dedicated in a shamefully racist address that remains difficult to comprehend even with the indulgence of historical perspective. But in the face of this, I continue to feel Dear Friends, incredible gratitude. By all accounts, this has been a tough year. This Foundation, as I tell the candidates every I have been reminded that most important Finals Weekend, is perpetual. We keep on things are beyond our control and that life, keeping on. I am grateful for our benefactors: with all its joys and beauty, will inevitably both chemical engineers, both of whom turn tragic for a period. This year we lost two fought for the country in World Wars, neither scholars, each of whom was tremendously of whom had children of their own, but who talented—a gift to our program—and left us each believed that—in the face of tremendous far too soon. Their losses hit us hard. I wept challenges—the very best way to improve our for them, and I continue to grieve for their society’s future is to bring talented young families and friends. The remainder of our leaders to a great University and set them free troubles this year—frankly—pale in contrast to to discover their talents. the untimely and devastating deaths of Wynn Burrus and Sally Sasz. Almost lost in the midst of all of this has been the Foundation’s search for a successor to As Shakespeare said, though, sorrows seldom Chuck Lovelace, who has been an absolutely come as single spies but in battalions. We superb leader of our Foundation, and who were hit with a global pandemic, which has graciously agreed to stay on another required us to cancel most all of our summer 6 | YEAR IN REVIEW 2019– 2020 year in this transition. We shall soon announce Morehead-Cain the new president of the Foundation, who has been occupied with his own challenges in the Board of Trustees international educational community, but we are tremendously excited about the talents he will bring to the Foundation. More on that soon. The generosity of our alumni—in giving their time, mentoring, and financial support—continues to be extraordinary and displays, yet again, the promise of our future. We have reorganized our governance MR. DAVID C. MR. G. KENNEDY to welcome the chair of the Scholarship Fund WRIGHT, III ’80, CHAIR THOMPSON ’73, VICE CHAIR Board as a full member of our board of trustees. Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Welcome, Jen Halsey Evans! And the departing wisdom and perspective of Lucy Chatham and Ken Thompson will be missed on our board as we welcome the return of Holly Gwynne-Timothy and the new service of Peter Larkin. When I was a high school senior, my father told me that—due to the competitiveness of the Morehead Program—I was not likely to be MS. LUCY HANES MR. W. FRANK CHATHAM DOWD, IV ’78 selected. Although that wounded my confidence, Camden, South Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina he was probably right—our Program remains extremely selective and it requires a measure of good fortune to make it through the process. But what remains with me—and I hope with you—is the tremendous honor in being selected as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and all that designation means. It is a lifelong honor, and we are committed to making sure the Program continues MS.