Final thoughts on the Order

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on May 19, 2009 - 3:55pm.
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Dome has now read the entire list of recipients.

With our eyes getting bleary from scanning the list, we have a few final tidbits of trivia to report about the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

THRICE IS NICE: Not everyone is inducted just once. Gospel singer Shirley Caesar, Wake sheriff John Baker, longtime political adviser Franklin Freeman and Rev. Alfred G. Dunston Jr. were inducted three times; Campbell University president Norman Wiggins, four.

MISSING IN ACTION: Govs. Jim Hunt and Mike Easley, Sen. Jesse Helms, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, actor Andy Griffith and Pepsi Cola are not on the list. Govs. Jim Holshouser and Bob Scott, Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, coach Dean Smith and Coca-Cola are.

ALSO LISTED: The Bahama community, actor Robert Redford, lobbyists Don Beason and Sandy Sands, baseball player "Crash" Davis, the earls of Guilford and Erroll, actress Ruby Dee, Raleigh mayor Tom Fetzer, journalists Jack Betts and Claude Sitton.



Document(s):
Order Of Long Leaf Pine Alphabetical List.pdf

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Re: Final thoughts on the Order

Submitted by Isaac136 on May 19, 2009 - 2:30pm.

Thanks, N&O, for covering this. I found it fascinating.

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