Awards and honors
Awards while CEO of Hanes Companies
- 1966, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1979,1981 Business Committee for the Arts
- 1985 NC. Governor's Award in the Arts and Humanities
Awards (ARTS)
- 1958 Junior Chamber of Commerce, Young Man of the Year - Winston-Salem, NC
- 1958 Junior Chamber of Commerce, Young Man of the Year - North Carolina
- 1960 Winston-Salem Arts Council Award
- 1966 National Endowment of the Arts, Chairman’s Award
- 1976 North Carolina Public Service Award
- 1977 Morrison Award for the Arts (NC)
- 1979 Swan Award (TN)
- 1979 North Carolina Society of New York Award
- 1979 Community Service Award, Winston-Salem Urban League
- 1981 LHD, St. Andrews College
- 1982 National Governor's Association Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts
- 1982 North Carolina Award in Fine Arts
- 1983 Winston-Salem NAACP Award (two awards)
- 1983 Mule Collar Award - Yale University, Class of '49
- 1987 DFA, North Carolina School of the Arts
- 1990 HHD, Wake Forest University
- 1991 National Medal of Arts (presented by President Bush)
- 1992 Piedmont Opera Theatre Award
- 1994 Giannini Award (NCSA)
- 1995 National Arts Club Tribute (NYC)
- 1998 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art - Leadership in the Arts Award
- 2001 Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University
- 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award, Winston-Salem Chronicle
- 2003 Downtown Winston-Salem Excellence Award
- 2003 Charlotte and Philip Hanes Student Commons Bldg, North Carolina School of the Arts
- 2003 The Winston-Salem Foundation Award
- 2005 National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Founder’s Award
- 2005 Association of Fund Raising Professionals Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Chairman’s Award
- 2007 Partners for Livable Places Entrepreneurial American Leadership Award
- 2008 Trent Lott Center Innovation Award
- 2008 Trent Lott Center Innovators Hall of Fame
- 2008 Scott Cares Foundation Humanitarian Award
- 2009 Most Influential People in the Triad, Triad Business Journal
- 2009 Ralph J. Bunche International Medallion
- 2009 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans –OPUS AWARD
Conservation Organizations
- 1962 - 1965 North Carolina Recreation Committee - Member
- 1968 - 1974 Stone Mountain Park & Preservation Committee – Founder & Vice Chairman
- 1973 - 1976 Appalachian Trail Conference - National Advisor
- 1972 - 1978 National Audubon Society - Board Member; Development, Nominating and Business Relations Committees
- 1974 - 1978 Isaac Walton League of America - Board Member; Founder of Board of Trustees; Nominating and Development
- 1975 - 1979 Nature Conservancy - Board Member; Development, Land Acquisition, Nominating, Corporate Relations
- 1976 - 1984 American Land Trust - Board Member
- 1975 - 1980 Appalachian Highlands Association - National Advisor
- 1974 - 1978 Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy - Founding Board Member, Vice President
- 1975 - 1980 North Carolina Land Heritage Trust - Founder (became North Carolina Nature Conservancy)
- 1977 NC Nature Conservancy - Co-Founder
- 1983 - 1996 American Farmland Trust - National Advisory Committee
- 1988 - 1987 China Poot Bay Society, Alaska - Member
- 1994 - 1999 National Committee for the New River - Land Trust Committee, Board of Governors
- 1994 - 1997 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - WHOI Corporation, Development Committee
- 1995 Agri-Systems Research and Extension Network of North America - Member, Founding Committee
- 1999 Council of Advisors, Blue Ridge Parkway
- 2002 Initiator, New River (VA) Blueway
- 2003 Advisory Board, Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust
- 2004 - 2006 The H.J. Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
- 2008 Land Trust Alliance National Council
- 2008- Conservation Trust for N.C. Honorary Director
Conservation Awards
- 1969 The North Carolina & National Wildlife Federation Award for Preservation of Natural Areas
- 1982 The Gulf Oil and Isaac Walton League of America Conservation Award
- 1990 Honorary NC Park Ranger – Naturalist
- 1998 Honorary Commander, USS North Carolina
- 2010 National Committee for the New River
Listed In:
- Who's Who in America
- Who's Who in the World
- Who’s Who in 20th Century America
- International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
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