Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Adds Five Members to Its Advisory Panel

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (February 27, 2008) - The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has named Lee Carol Giduz, Executive Director of the Caldwell Arts Council; Virginia Hardy, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Smith, litigation paralegal at Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.; Andrew Spainhour, General Counsel of Replacements, Ltd.; and David Woronoff, publisher of The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines to its advisory panel.

Each member serves a three-year term. In its advisory role, the advisory panel helps the Foundation better understand issues affecting North Carolina and opportunities for more effective grantmaking. It also helps identify major new initiatives of the Foundation.

Giduz is Executive Director of the Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir.  She is currently an executive committee member of the North Carolina Arts Council Board of Directors and treasurer for Western Art Agencies of North Carolina.  Giduz received a B.A. with honors in Public Policy from Davidson College in 1980.

Hardy, who is also serving as the Interim Chief Diversity Officer for East Carolina University, is responsible for leading the academic enterprise of the school of medicine.  She is a member of the Brody Council, the Chancellor's Executive Council, Pitt/Greenville Chamber of Commerce and the AAMC Coordinating Committee.  In 2000, she was invited to membership in the Women's Forum of North Carolina.  She is also a William C. Friday Fellow of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative where she is the incoming chair of the board.  Hardy received a B.A. in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  In 1993, she received an M.A. degree in counselor education from East Carolina University.  In 2001, she received a Ph.D. in counselor education from North Carolina State University.

A resident of Winston-Salem, Smith is a litigation paralegal at Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. He is active in community relations in Winston-Salem where he owns SCNTriad Event Communications and writes Smitty's Notes, a resource for community activities. He is an advisory panel member for the North Carolina Center for Design Innovation and a board member of the Millennium Fund. Smith graduated from Elon College in 1986 with a B.A. in public administration. 

As General Counsel at Replacements, Ltd., Spainhour is responsible for managing the company's legal and community affairs departments.  He is currently a director on the Boards of the Triad Stage, Friends of the Greensboro Public Library and Legal Aid of North Carolina - Greensboro Office.  In addition, he is a co-chair of the Access to Justice Campaign for Legal Aid of North Carolina.  A native of Concord, Spainhour graduated from Davidson College and the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Woronoff has been publisher of The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines for 12 years. He is currently a board member of the North Carolina Press Association (NCPA) and in 2007 served as president of the NCPA community newspaper division. Woronoff received a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, was established in 1936 as a memorial to the youngest child of R.J. Reynolds and Katharine Smith Reynolds.  During its history, it has made grants of more than $414 million to projects in all 100 counties in North Carolina.  Although it makes grants to a wide range of projects, it now gives special attention to five focus areas - community economic development, the environment, democracy and civic engagement, pre-collegiate education, and social justice and equity. The deadlines for grant applications are February 1 for consideration in May and August 1 for consideration in November. More information is available at the Foundation's web site, www.zsr.org.

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For more information, please call
Mary Fant Donnan or Joe Crocker, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
336.725.7541