2024-2025

Leonard M. Smith, Jr.

Philanthropist, Adventurist, Bon Vivant

Wilmington, North Carolina

Chair

Hank Estep

Civic Leader, Cultural Activist, Insurance Executive

Wilmington, North Carolina

Vice Chair

James Issac Metts, J.D.

Historic Preservationist, Retired Insurance Executive

Hampstead, North Carolina

Secretary-Treasurer

Howard Talley, III

Educator, Comptroller and Historian

Masonboro Sound, North Carolina

Dr. John Humphries

Professor of the Humanities, Retired

Wilmington, North Carolina

Dr. Kearney Smith

Professor of English, Writer, Poet.

Burnsville, North Carolina

Bernhard Thuersam

Historian & Author

Wilmington, North Carolina

Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Distinguished Author and Professor of History,

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

Columbia, South Carolina

Alexander McAllister Cheek

Historian, Southern Culture and Heritage.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

A d m i n i s t r a t i o n:

Archer N. Bledsoe

Wilmington, North Carolina
Executive Director

Kimberly Wolfton

Research/Transcription