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1. Philanthropy Journal-Your online source for news about nonprofits, social issues, and policy change - newsarticle
www.philanthropyjournal.org/ne - [Cached]Published on: 11/10/2004 Last Visited: 11/10/2004
Funds raised in the drive, chaired by John W. Burress of John W. Burress Inc., will be used for a 30,000-square-foot Senior Services Center to be built on 10 acres at Deacon Boulevard and Shorefair Drive donated by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. -
2. Trustees honor five with William R. Davie Award
www.unc.edu/news/newsserv/univ - [Cached]Published on: 11/14/2001 Last Visited: 2/6/2002
UNC Chancellor James Moeser and the Board of Trustees will honor the following recipients at an evening dinner: Erskine Boyce Bowles of Charlotte, Edward Calvin Smith Jr. of Greenville, Nelson Ferebee Taylor of Chapel Hill, John Woodfin Burress III of Winston-Salem and Walter Royal Davis of Midland, Texas, and Chapel Hill.
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Burress, a 1958 Carolina graduate, is the president of J.W. Burress Inc., a firm headquartered in Roanoke, Va., that sells, rents and services new and used construction and industrial machinery.Burress serves on the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Board of Advisors and the National Development Council.
He likes to honor those he admires with gifts in their names.In 2000, he surprised Trent and Anna Ragland with a gift in their name toward the renovation of the R.B. House Undergraduate Library.Burress helped create a distinguished professorship fund in Ruel W. Tyson Jr.'s name to be used to establish an endowed chair in the College of Arts and Sciences.He helped establish the Bill Guthridge Professorship in Mathematics, an endowed professorship to be used to attract or retain a distinguished teacher and scholar.He also established the John W Burress III Faculty Fellowship and the John W. Burress Faculty Research Endowment in the Kenan-Flagler Business School.Burress has served on the Board of Directors of the Educational Foundation Inc. -
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www.idcnc.com/news/04-20-03.ht - [Cached]Published on: 4/20/2003 Last Visited: 11/10/2007
John W. Burress, chairman of John W. Burress Inc., chairs the drive, and Vic Flow, president of Flow Lexus, chairs the building committee.
