THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, April 4, 1995 TAG: 9504040346
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY MASON PETERS, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
Betty Meggs, a long-time Albemarle Democratic leader and educator, will soon be named to the board of trustees of Elizabeth City State University, a source close to Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. said Monday in Raleigh.
Vacancies on the 13-member board at the predominantly African-American university opened up this spring with the mandatory retirement of a pair of trustees at the end of their terms.
The University of North Carolina board of governors recently named Floyd Lupton of Belhaven to one of the vacancies. Hunt, under law, must fill the second vacancy and has decided on Meggs, the source said.
``So far the governor has made no statement about Betty Meggs and we have no further comment,'' a press secretary said Monday. In Elizabeth City, friends of Meggs said Hunt had asked her to take the position.
Meggs, 60, and her husband, the late Dr. David P. Meggs, for many years held important state and national Democratic Party posts. Their daughter, Catherine Meggs, is chairman of the Pasquotank County Democratic Party.
Betty Meggs also taught economics in Camden County schools and participated in various statewide educational efforts.
Meggs and Lupton will take office in June. by CNB