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| SEN. JAMES T. BROYHILL |
By Teresa Loflin
“An Insider’s Look at the U.S.
Capitol” is the subject of a special presentation by Senator James T.
Broyhill who was a member of Congress for 24 years serving in the House of
Representatives and the Senate during the administrations of five presidents.
This entertaining program of “stories you have seldom heard before” will be a
patriotic event featuring the North Carolina Sons of the American Revolution
Color Guard in their 18th century uniforms and Susan Griffin Fisher,
Miss North Carolina 1974, singing the National Anthem. The date is Constitution
Day, Wednesday, September 17, at 7 pm and will be held in Phillips Hall at High
Point University.
Senator
Broyhill is a native of Lenoir, NC where he attended public schools. A graduate
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Senator was employed in
a number of executive positions with the Broyhill Furniture Factories. He also
held community responsibilities with the Planning and Zoning Commission and the
Recreation Commission of Lenoir.
At a
fundraising dinner in Greensboro in 1986, President Reagan described Broyhill
“as a man who is motivated by principle, but who also has a gift for the
maneuvers whereby principle is translated into effective legislation… which is
one way of saying Jim really knows how to work the Hill. He knows how to get things
done and he gets things done for North Carolina.”
After his
24 years of service in the Congress, Senator Broyhill served the state of North
Carolina as Chairman of the Board of Economic Development, Secretary of the
North Carolina Department of Commerce, Co-chairman North Carolina Welfare to
Work Business Council, and the Economic Development Committee of the North
Carolina Chamber of Commerce. Senator Broyhill served on the Board of Trustees and
the Board of the Appalachian State University Foundation in Boone. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws
degree in 2010 for a lifetime of public service, for contributions to the
state, higher education, and to Appalachian. An Entrance Plaza is named for him
at that University. He was inducted into the North Carolina Republican Party
Hall of Fame, and the Lenoir Post Office bears his name. He currently resides
in Winston-Salem with his wife Louise.
Everyone is
invited to this free event jointly sponsored by the High Point Museum Guild,
the Alexander Martin Chapter NSDAR, Bienenstock Furniture Library, and High
Point University. Please enter the campus at Montlieu and North College Drive,
proceed to the gate at University Ave, park behind the Commerce Building for
shuttle service to Phillips Hall.
The Museum Guild welcomes new members to
join and support the High Point Museum. Annual dues are $25 which helps to fund
wonderful programs which are free except for the field trips as well as other
Museum projects and exhibits.
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