The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-04
CHOOSES PARTNER,
PROFESSION, ENTERS
BUSINESS IN RALEIGH
Richard Bell, Man+eo Boy. After
Extensive Training Has Of
flee In the Capital
BY AYCOCK BROWN

BY A1COCh BROWN
When Dick Bell and Jim God
win were classmates at State Col
lege in the late 40's they may have
Started plans to become associated
in landscape architecture and site
planning.
After receiving their B. S. de-
grees in landscape architecture at
graduation in June 1850, each
went their different courses. Then,
five years later, they returned to
Raleigh and are now in business
there.
James (Jim) Beckman Goodwin
was born in Richmond, Va, six
days after the Armistice of World
War l, in 1918. He graduated from
Suffolk (Va.) High School in 1887
and went to work Immediately
with the Virginia Department of
Highways. In 1941 he entered the
Army in February 3 as a private
and before his discharge in 1916,
he was Captain of Infantry with
considerable overseas duty in the
Eastern Theatre of Operations.
From June, 1916, until August,
1947 he was a student at the Uni
versity of South Carolina. In Sep
TENDER, 1947, he entered North
Carolina State and before gradu-
alton four years later he was to
serve as chairman of the Honor
Council for the School of Design.
He married Rebecca Cade,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. M.
Cade of Sanford.
Richard (Dick) Chevalier Bell,
was born in Elizabeth City on
April 10, 1928. After graduation
from the high school there in 1916
he entered State College. 1t
was only natural that Bell would
be interested in landscape archi-
lecture. His father Albert @. Bell,
British-born and the son of the
late Albert Ernest Bell, had in
herited love for growing flowers
end plants and landscaping from
his father They had been asso-
ciated in the nursery business at
Elizabeth City. before his father
moved to Roanoke Island where
he was to design and build Water
-ide Theater for the Lost Colony
d establish Roanoke Gardens.
y Military training at State re-
Llted in a commission as End
lieutenant in the organized Re-
served Corps for Dick Bell in 1919
and in February 1854, he was pro-
NOTED to first lieutenant in the
Organized Reserve Corps. During
summer holidays between 1945-50,
Dick Bell had worked with his
father in connection with con-
structing and maintenance of Wa
terside Theater and also assisted
in the planning of Mountain Thea
ter at Cherokee, of which Albert
Bell was designer. In Raleigh
from 1949 until his graduation
young Bell did part time work
with the campus engineer at State.
Since his graduation, Jim God
win gained his experience in con-
struction phases of landscape ar
chitecture in the office of R. D.
Tillson, landscape architect and
engineer at High Point. He be-
came an associate in that firm in
1858 and in High Point he worked
on some Is or more housing prof.
ects, several cemeteries, subdivi-
sions and parks.
Among some of the major prof.
ects he has worked on included
the E. |. DUPONT de Nemours May
plant at Camden, S. c.; the Gel
anese Corporation of Americas
Cel-River plant at Rock Hill; Bur-
lington Mills Corporations Neuse
River plant at Wake Forest;
Western Electric Company's Lex
ington Road plant in Winston-Sa
lem and the General Electric Com
pany's Asheboro plant.
Site improvement work projects
which included grading, utilities,
drives, walks and landscape de-
signs on which Goodwin worked
have been located in several North
Carolina cities from Wilmington
to Winston Salem and many
points between. Site layout work
has included such projects as the
Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital,
Greensboro, Friends Meeting
'ouse, High Point, Chapel Hill
smetery, City Park Pool and
.athhouse, Burlington and also
the Presbyterian Church there,
and several other jobs including
many school grounds in North and
South Carolina cities.
Bells Training
Since his graduation Dick Bell
has had unusual experiences. First
he had worked from 1850 through
September, 1851, in the office of
Simonds and Simonds, landscape
architects of Pittsburg, Pa. In the
meantime. in competitive exami-