2020-2021

Howard Talley, III

Comptroller and Historian

Masonboro Sound, North Carolina

Chair

Alexander McAllister Cheek

Historian of Southern Culture and Heritage.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Vice Chair

James Issac Metts

Historic Preservationist, Retired Insurance Executive

Hampstead, North Carolina

Secretary-Treasurer

Dr. John Humphries

Retired Professor of the Humanities

Wilmington, North Carolina

Dr. Kearney Smith

Writer, Poet, Distinguished Professor of English.

Burnsville, North Carolina

Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Distinguished Author and Professor of History,

University of South Carolina; Editor, John C. Calhoun Papers

Columbia, South Carolina

Hank Estep

Civic Leader and Cultural Activist

Wilmington, North Carolina

Leonard M. Smith, Jr.

Philanthropist, Adventurist, Bon Vivant

Wilmington, North Carolina

I n s t i t u t e A d m i n i s t r a t i o n:

Bernhard Thuersam

Wilmington, North Carolina
Executive Director and Editor

Jennifer M. McIntyre

Research/Transcription