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October 30, 2001 N.C. Wesleyan College Gives Highest Award to B. Mayo Boddie, Sr.
Rocky Mount, N.C.--North Carolina Wesleyan College’s highest award for a member of the community, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, was presented to B. Mayo Boddie, Sr., of Rocky Mount, by Wesleyan President Dr. Ian Newbould at the College’s Founders’ Day convocation on October 25. Boddie has been a generous supporter and advocate of Wesleyan for several decades. The College’s Boddie Residence Hall, a two-story brick structure completed in 1998, is named for the Boddie family in recognition of their generosity to the College. Boddie serves on Wesleyan’s board of trustees and in 1998 received a 15-year service award from the College. A Nash County native, Boddie is a well-known business and community leader. He is a founder of Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Inc., the largest single private franchisee company in the Hardee’s restaurant chain, which operates more than 300 Hardee’s restaurants, in addition to other business interests. In 1991, he was named Master Entrepreneur of the Year for North Carolina by Inc. Magazine. Last year, Boddie and his brother, Nick Boddie, were named Restaurateurs of the Year by the N.C. Restaurant Association. Boddie has served on the board of directors of a variety of corporate, civic, and community organizations. While chairman of the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce in 1994, he was a founder of the Northeastern Entrepreneurial Roundtable. He is also an elder of Rocky Mount’s First Presbyterian Church.
Photo: Thomas A. Betts, Jr., (right) of N.C. Wesleyan College’s board of trustees, recently presented the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, the College’s highest honor presented to a member of the community, to B. Mayo Boddie, Sr., a Wesleyan trustee, in recognition of his generous support of the College. # # # |
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