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Forum Schedule of Events

Thursday, October 22 (Thursday events are all optional)

5:30 p.m. | Boshamer Stadium Tailgate Dinner & Tours | Boshamer Stadium

8:00 p.m. | UNC vs. FSU Football | Kenan Stadium (Morehead-Cain ticket block is SOLD OUT)


Friday, October 23

11:00 a.m. | Take a walk through Chapel Hill's colorful past on this historic tour of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery with Bland Simpson | Meet at the gazebo near the western end of the cemetery (second lane over from Winston Dorm)

12:00-5:00 p.m. | Forum Registration | Morehead Foundation Offices

Sign in, pick up your registration packet, and enjoy some refreshments!

1:00-4:00 p.m. | Tours of the New Carolina Basketball Museum hosted by Morehead Alumni basketball players Richard Vinroot '63, Charles "Pud" Hassell '65, Franklin "Rusty" Clark '69, Pearce Landry '95, and Will Johnson '03

Buses will leave from in front of the Morehead Building throughout the afternoon.

2:00-2:45 p.m. | Holy Smoke: An "Honors Seminar" on North Carolina Barbecue by UNC Professor Emeritus and Beloved Southern Humorist John Shelton Reed with Dale Volberg Reed (Co-authors of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue) | Hyde Hall (University Room)

Book signing to follow lecture—books will be available for purchase.

3:00-3:45 p.m. | Orientation Meeting for all panel discussion moderators, panelists, and timekeepers | Hyde Hall (University Room)

Panel Teams: hear some guiding words from Forum founder Brad Ives '86 before separating into your smaller groups for some planning and strategy time.

3:00-3:55 p.m. | Campus tour led by the director of the UNC Visitors' Center, Missy Julian Fox | Tour leaves from the Visitors' Center in the west end of the Morehead Building

Learn the stories, legends, and realities of the past, present, and future Carolina during this informative 55-minute stroll through the heart of our historic campus.

6:00-7:00 p.m. | Cocktail Reception | Genevieve B. Morehead Art Gallery and Rotunda, West Wing, Morehead Building

7:00-10:00 p.m. | Class Reunion Dinner | Morehead Banquet Hall

Find a seat at the tables designated for your class/decade and reconnect with old friends!

Welcoming Remarks by Chancellor Holden Thorp
Speaker: Naimul Huq '08
Entertainment by Jim Wann '70 (with Chancellor Thorp on keyboards, back-up singers Megan Mazzocchi and First Lady Patti Thorp, and narration assistance by Chuck Lovelace '77)


Saturday, October 24

7:00 a.m. | Fun Run led by Chuck Ferguson '63 | Meet at the Sundial in front of the Morehead Building for some fresh air and physical vigor to start your day!

9:00-9:45 a.m. | Welcome and Kick-off | Carolina Union Great Hall

Welcome video written just for you by Carolina favorite and Emmy Award winner Freddie Kiger and narrated by UNC alumnus Billy Crudup (the voice of the MasterCard "priceless" ads and star of Watchmen, Big Fish, and Public Enemies)

Words of Welcome and Preparation from Chuck Lovelace '77 and Tom Morris '74

9:45-10:15 a.m. | SEVEN Mixer | Carolina Union Lobby

Grab a cup of coffee and make it your mission to meet some new Morehead friends!

10:15-11:30 a.m. | Concurrent Discussion Sessions | Carolina Union Rooms TBD

Business as Usual? Life After the Credit Crisis

  • Is the Great Recession over?
  • What are the lessons learned?
  • What’s on the horizon for Wall Street and Main Street?

Panelists:

Yi-Hsin Chang '95, Director, Strategic Projects, the Hanover Insurance Group, Moderator
Steve Jones '74, former CEO of Suncorp (Australia) and former dean of Kenan-Flagler Business School
Robert Miller '96, President, RJ International Holdings, Raymond James Financial
Tom Ward '77, Senior Director, New York Capital Markets, Pritchard Capital Partners LLC

Hopping on the School Bus: Where is Public Education Headed?  

  • Great innovations
  • Impact of non-profits and charter schools
  • What is being done at the state level?

Panelists:

J. B. Buxton '92, Education Consultant, former Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction and senior education advisor to N.C. Governor Mike Easley
David Jernigan '00, Founding Principal of KIPP WAYS Academy in Atlanta and now executive director, KIPP Metro Atlanta
Dana Burgess O'Donovan '95, Vice President, Strategy and Administration, Teach for America
Julie McManus Werry '03, Director of Individual Giving, Teach for America, Moderator

H1N1 and Health Care Reform: An Inside Look at America's Health-Care Headlines

  • What does it mean to be "prepared," and what does H1N1 preparedness tell us about the future of our health-care system?
  • Taking the vote on health-care reform: an update from Washington
  • The impact of media and myths

Panelists:

Jim Cooper '75, U.S. Congressman, Fifth District, Tennessee
Bruce Gellin '77, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Director, National Vaccine Program Office
Til Jolly '83, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness, Office of Health Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Kimberley Barrett Kwok '86, Self-employed Health-Care Consultant, Moderator

Seven Words of Wisdom from Winston Churchill: “If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going”

  • Life is throwing some crazy stuff my way—Do I need a catcher’s mitt or a mask?
  • The only mistake is the one you don’t learn from
  • Why is my extraordinary life so extraordinarily difficult?

Panelists

Juana Barrios '84, Educational Consultant and Child Psychologist
Chuck Ferguson '63, Retired Vice President for Academic Affairs, Marine Corps University, Moderator
Becky Smith Galli '80, freelance writer and columnist whose upcoming book is titled, Plan B Living . . . Life Can Be Good, No Matter What 
Chip Stam '75, Professor of Worship and Music, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY) and Minister of Music, Clifton Baptist Church

The Future of American Energy Policy: Is Hot Air a Source of Renewable Energy?

  • What do "Cap and Trade" and the Stimulus mean for national energy policy?
  • Which renewable energy technologies are making money and which are just making noise?
  • Doesn't the cheapest thing always win?

Panelists:

Ian Fay '93, Founding Partner, Odin Advisors, LLC (with focus on oil & gas mergers & acquistions)
Brad Ives '86, CEO, Illumination Renewables, LLC
Dennis Markatos-Soriano '01, Executive Director, East Coast Greenway Alliance
Timika Shafeek-Horton '90, Associate General Counsel, Duke Energy, Moderator

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | BBQ Lunch in the Pit

1:00-2:15 p.m. | Concurrent Discussion Sessions

The Future of News Media: Is the Death of Newspapers Real, or Premature and Greatly Exaggerated?

  • Was my paperboy replaced by a mouse?
  • Would you let your kid major in journalism these days?
  • Who's making money off the news? 

Panelists:

Alan Murray '77, Executive Editor, The Wall Street Journal Online
Corey Ford '00, formerly a film producer and journalist at PBS FRONTLINE and now a fellow and lecturer at the Stanford Institute of Design
Kevin Kiley '10, University Editor, The Daily Tar Heel, Moderator
Jon Rust '90, Co-president of Rust Communications and a member of the board of directors for the Associated Press

America in the Waiting Room: Health Care for the Future

  • Health Care: A right or a responsibility?
  • Quality, access, or cost control? (pick two)
  • Allocation: Evidence-based or market-based?

Panelists:

David Ballard '78, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, Baylor Health Care System
Tom Stair '71, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Associate Research Director, Emergency Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Moderator
Grace Emerson Terrell '83, President/CEO, Cornerstone Health Care (a 250-provider multispecialty group)
Simba Wiltz '02, Director of Pharmacy, Innovative Pharmacy Services

Is Using One Square of Toilet Paper Really Better than Two? Defining "Sustainability" for Companies and Individuals

  • What is Sustainability?
  • Is Sustainability really important?
  • Can individuals and companies achieve Sustainability?

Panelists:

David Baron '11, Recipient of a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant for his sustainability project, HOPE Garden
Tom Darden '76, CEO, Cherokee Investment Partners (investment in and clean-up of environmentally damaged properties)
Laura Bolton '01, Sustainability Director, DHL
Justine O'Connor-Petts '02, UNC Law School '09 and an associate with Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphreys & Leonard, Moderator

Is the World Getting Larger or Smaller? Global Issues and America's Place in the World

  • If the Twentieth Century was the American Century, what is the Twenty-first Century?
  • Protectionism vs. Globalism — What was Smoot-Hawley, and why does the health of my wallet depend on the answer?
  • Arrrgh! If you pirate a pirate movie, do two wrongs make a right?

Panelists:

Lucia Halpern Davies '85, former executive director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. London, Moderator
Bill Lucas '73, Director for European Union Affairs, U.S. State Department, and a career Foreign Service officer
Alex Frew McMillan '94, British Morehead-Cain who lives and works in Hong Kong as a freelance journalist
Fred Wherry '96, Sociology Professor at the University of Michigan with an interest in economic sociology and globalization

Social Networking: Get Personal—Tap into Your Personal Network to Achieve Your Goals

  • Surf the groundswell like a digital native.
  • Get out there. Learn by doing.
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: What works. What to stay away from.

Panelists:

Barry Campbell '88, Director of Communications for IPsoft, a global IT services company based in New York
Barry Baucom '77, Senior IT Manager, Schneider Electric, a Fortune Global 500 energy solutions company based in Paris, Moderator
Zach Clayton '07, Founder, Three Ships Media, an emerging media PR company that serves corporations and high profile individuals wishing to develop and sustain an online identity, and Chairman, New Media Campaigns, a technology company run by his friend and fellow Morehead cousin, Joel Sutherland '07
Naimul Huq '08, Innovation Analyst, Humana's Innovation Center, Louisville, KY

The Morehead-Cain Way: Same Tradition, New Initiatives

  • Becoming Morehead-Cain: The story behind the transformation
  • "Survey says": What we learned from all of you
  • Vision for the future

Panelists:

Trustees and Directors:
Lucy Chatham, Chairman, Morehead-Cain Foundation Trustees
Tim Burnett '62, Vice Chairman, Morehead-Cain Foundation Trustees
Frank Craighill '61, Chairman, Morehead-Cain Scholarship Fund Board of Directors

Staff:
Chuck Lovelace '77, Executive Director, Morehead-Cain Foundation
Megan Mazzocchi, Associate Director, Morehead-Cain Foundation
Diane Dorney, Director of Enrichment and Advising, Morehead-Cain Foundation
Matt Proto, Director of Scholar Selection

Current Scholars:
Misha Belikov '10, New York, NY, The Hotchkiss School
Olivia Myrick '11, Charlotte, NC, Charlotte Catholic High School 
Joel Semakula '12, London, UK, St. Angela's and St. Bonaventure's Sixth-Form Centre

2:15-6:00 p.m. | Free Time Suggestions:

• 2:30 p.m. | Morehead Alumni Matinee | Preview the upcoming pilot of James Dean's ('89) BBC comedy series, This is Jinsy, followed by Q&A with James | Great Hall, Carolina Union

Other ideas:
• Self-guided walking tours of campus
• Shopping/strolling on Franklin Street
• Visit the Student Stores

6:00-7:00 p.m. | Cocktail Reception | Educational Foundation Terrace, Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Graham Memorial Building

Book signing with Jim Surowiecki will take place during the reception, and books will be available for purchase.

7:00-9:00 p.m. | Dinner | Morehead Banquet Hall

Cross-generational seating—in honor of our SEVEN theme—make an effort to meet new Moreheads from other classes and eras!

Keynote Speaker: Jim Surowiecki '88, writer of The New Yorker’s “Financial Page” column and author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Jim’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.


Sunday, October 25

9:00-10:15 a.m. | SEVEN Talks | Morehead Banquet Hall

In the spirit of the TED Conference and TED Talks, we have asked seven of your fellow Alumni to share—in seven minutes or less—a bit of wisdom, a life-lesson, their wish for the world . . . whatever they would like to talk about. Come hear about what matters most to a line-up that Tom Morris has dubbed the Seven Sages.

Steven Aldrich '91, CEO, Posit Science
David Gardner '88, Co-founder, The Motley Fool
Robyn Hadley '85, Founder and Executive Director, "What's After High School?" Program and former Rhodes Scholar
Jennifer Lloyd Halsey '94, Co-founder and Managing Director, Asante Partners
Kathryn Reklis '01, Director of Theological Initiatives and Special Adviser to the President, Union Theological Seminary
Jim Tanner '90, Sports Attorney, Williams & Connolly, representing Grant Hill, Tim Duncan, and Shane Battier, among others
Richard Vinroot '63, Attorney, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, former Mayor of Charlotte, and former Tar Heel basketball player

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Lemons to Lemonade: Stirring Change into Something Great | Morehead Banquet Hall

Discussion Leader: Tom Morris '74

After the 2006 Alumni Forum, the overwhelming feedback from all of you was, "More Tom Morris!" So here he is, by popular demand, to help us wrap up the Forum with his wit, wisdom, and inspirational exhortations. Enjoy!

12:30 p.m. | Lunch on the Lawn | McCorkle Place

 

. Learn the stories, legends, and realities of the past, present, and future Carolina during this informative 55-minute stroll through the heart of our historic campus.