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Trustee Emeritus Royall Spence, Jr. ’42, a generous supporter of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ and a beloved member of the Board of Trustees for more than two decades, died December 22.

Housing Works, a nonprofit organization that is working to end AIDS and homelessness, dubbed Britten GInsburg Pund '06 a 2010 "Renegade to Celebrate" in its annual list of "AIDS Heroes and Villains."

Belk Library added a rare volume to its archives this fall when an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumna donated to the university a copy of the first land survey ever completed in England, today considered one of the most important documents of the medieval era.

Jack Staley '83 has been promoted to supervisor of field operations for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission's Division of Law Enforcement. Staley will oversee more than 200 officers in District 5, which includes Alamance, Rockingham, Orange, Granville, Durham, Person, Caswell, Randolph, Chatham, Lee and Guilford Counties.

Though the United States was ultimately not selected to be a host for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, it can't be said that ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumni didn't do their part to bring the international soccer tournament to America. Read about Bryan James '95, a soccer aficionado who worked with U.S. Soccer officials on America's bid to host the Cup. The article first appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Magazine of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

Thirty-nine candidates in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program received their degrees on Dec. 12, 2010, in an afternoon ceremony that featured an address from the creator of Evidence in Motion, a highly regarded education and business practice consultation company within the physical therapy profession.