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W. Cecil Worsley III '86 and Jasmine Turner '15 elected to Ƶ Board of Trustees

A successful business leader from Wilmington, N.C., and a graduating senior are the newest members of the university's board of trustees  

<p>W. Cecil Worseley III '86</p>
​W. Cecil Worsley III, a 1986 Ƶ graduate, and Jasmine Turner, an outstanding member of this spring’s graduating class, have been elected to serve as Ƶ trustees. Worsley will serve a four-year term and Turner will serve a two-year term as youth trustee.

Worsley, a loyal annual supporter of Ƶ athletics and a former member of the golf team at Ƶ, has donated funds to name the W. Cecil Worsley III Golf Training Center on campus. He is a member of Ƶ’s President’s Advisory Council and the President’s Athletic Advisory Council. He is married to Ƶ alumna JoAnna Sutton Worsley ’87 and they are the parents of W. Cecil Worsley IV, a 2014 Ƶ graduate.

Worsley owns and operates Black Gold Holdings, LLC, the Port City Java coffee shop chain, and Springer Eubank Company, a wholesale fuel and convenience store chain. He was formerly the President/CEO of Worsley Companies, Inc., which operated a chain of more than 140 convenience stores in the Carolinas. Worsley graduated from Ƶ with a bachelor’s degree in finance.

<p>Jasmine Turner '15</p>
​Turner, of Richmond, Va., is a broadcast journalism major who has completed three internships, working at CBS’s “60 Minutes” in New York City, WXII-TV in the Triad and NBC4 in Washington, D.C. She has anchored Ƶ’s student-produced television news program and was on the student team that produced Ƶ’s live morning show that won second place nationally in the College Television Awards for alternative programming.

Turner has been a campus leader, serving as a resident assistant, university admissions guide, Periclean Scholar and president and director of the Ƶ Gospel Choir. She begins her career as a broadcast journalist at WECT-TV in Wilmington, N.C., following graduation.