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​W. Cecil Worsley III, a 1986 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ graduate, and Jasmine Turner, an outstanding member of this spring’s graduating class, have been elected to serve as ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ trustees. Worsley will serve a four-year term and Turner will serve a two-year term as youth trustee.

Worsley, a loyal annual supporter of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ athletics and a former member of the golf team at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, has donated funds to name the W. Cecil Worsley III Golf Training Center on campus. He is a member of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s President’s Advisory Council and the President’s Athletic Advisory Council. He is married to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ alumna JoAnna Sutton Worsley ’87 and they are the parents of W. Cecil Worsley IV, a 2014 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ graduate.

Worsley owns and operates Black Gold Holdings, LLC, the Port City Java coffee shop chain, and Springer Eubank Company, a wholesale fuel and convenience store chain. He was formerly the President/CEO of Worsley Companies, Inc., which operated a chain of more than 140 convenience stores in the Carolinas. Worsley graduated from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ with a bachelor’s degree in finance.

​Turner, of Richmond, Va., is a broadcast journalism major who has completed three internships, working at CBS’s “60 Minutes” in New York City, WXII-TV in the Triad and NBC4 in Washington, D.C. She has anchored ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s student-produced television news program and was on the student team that produced ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s live morning show that won second place nationally in the College Television Awards for alternative programming.

Turner has been a campus leader, serving as a resident assistant, university admissions guide, Periclean Scholar and president and director of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Gospel Choir. She begins her career as a broadcast journalist at WECT-TV in Wilmington, N.C., following graduation.