Dena Higley
Dena Higley( born September 26, 1958) is an American writer, speaker and author.
John Motley Morehead III
John Motley Morehead III( November 3, 1870 – January 7, 1965) was an American chemist, politician, and diplomat.
As a chemist, his work provided much of the foundation for the business of Union Carbide Corporation.
The Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation was formed in 1917 from the merger of the former Union Carbide founded in 1898 by Morehead's father; and the National Carbon Company founded in 1886 ..
He was a noted philanthropist who made major gifts to his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He also served as mayor of Rye, New York and United States Ambassador to Sweden.
Morehead came from an illustrious North Carolina family: his father was James Turner Morehead; his grandfather, John Motley Morehead, served as Governor of North Carolina.
His sister, Lily Morehead Mebane, was decorated by the governments of France and Serbia for her relief work after World War I; she later served two terms in the North Carolina state legislature.
Morehead graduated from UNC- Chapel Hill in 1891 and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
One of his notable early scientific discoveries was the development of an economical process for the manufacture of calcium carbide.
He was also an authority on the analysis of gases, having invented a device for the purpose and written a book on the subject.
Morehead married Genevieve Margaret Birkhoff.
A few years after her death, he married Leila Duckworth Houghton.
He had no children.
He devoted his considerable fortune to philanthropy, especially to the benefit of UNC- Chapel Hill.
With a college classmate and fraternity brother, Rufus Lenoir Patterson, he donated the Morehead- Patterson Bell Tower on the campus.
He also gave the University the Morehead Planetarium, later renamed the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.
One of Morehead's particular interests was in providing financial assistance to students attending UNC Chapel Hill.
To that end he endowed the John Motley Morehead Foundation, which each year awards undergraduate scholarships covering the full cost of attendance at UNC Chapel Hill to applicants chosen through an extensive and competitive screening process.
The Morehead- Cain Scholarship is the oldest merit- based scholarship in the United States.
During the First World War, Morehead served as a major in the United States Army; he later became a colonel in the United States Army Reserve.
From 1925 to 1930, Morehead served as the Mayor of Rye, New York, and also gave money for the establishment of a new city hall; his nomination as minister to Sweden, from which he served from 1930 to 1933, came during his mayoralty.
He was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian award bestowed by the U.S. state of North Carolina in the category of Public Service in 1964.
Direct descendants through the paternal line of James Turner Morehead include W. Harris Nelson and William H.M. Nelson III ..
Non-lineal descendants include Jean Motley Morehead Larkin and John L. Morehead.
There is a section of Interstate 40 named after him, called the John Motley Morehead III Freeway, that passes through Chapel Hill, North Carolina and most of the eastern end of Orange County.
James Turner Morehead (North Carolina politician)
James Turner Morehead( January 11, 1799 – May 5, 1875) was the younger brother of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead and a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.
He was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, on January 11, 1799; he attended the common schools and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1819.
A lawyer, Morehead studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greensboro, North Carolina, before going into politics.
First, he served as commissioner of Greensboro in 1832, 1834, and 1835; then as a member of the North Carolina Senate in 1835, 1836, 1838, 1840, and 1842.
He was also a trustee of his" alma mater", the University of North Carolina, from 1836 to 1868.
In 1850, he was elected as a Whig to the Thirty- second Congress( March 4, 1851- March 4, 1853); after his term was up, he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852 to the Thirty- third Congress.
After retiring from national politics, he resumed the practice of his profession, and also engaged in agricultural pursuits and operated an iron works.
Morehead died in Greensboro, N.C., on May 5, 1875.
He is interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery there.
John Motley Morehead
John Motley Morehead (July 4, 1796 – August 27, 1866) was an American lawyer and politician who became the 29th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (1841 to 1845).
He became known as "the Father of Modern North Carolina."
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He is married to Dena Higley.
During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.
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He was the grandson of Sultan Murad III and Safiye Sultan, the half brother of the future sultan Ahmed I and the brother of Mustafa I.
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John Motley Morehead II
John Motley Morehead II( July 20, 1866 – December 13, 1923) was a North Carolina politician who chaired the state's Republican Party from 1910 until 1916 and served one term( 1909 – 1911) in the United States House of Representatives.
James Turner Morehead (chemist)
James Turner Morehead( August 6, 1840- April 20, 1908) was an American chemist and entrepreneur.
The son of Governor John Motley Morehead, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1861, where he joined Beta Theta Pi. Commissioned a lieutenant in the Confederate army, he was wounded at Bristoe Station, Virginia in 1863; he ended the war as a major.
Following the war, he served two terms as a state senator( 1870- 1874).
Upon his father's death, he inherited his properties, and soon became a pioneering chemical manufacturer.
He and his son, John Motley Morehead III, would found one of the world's leading chemical companies — Union Carbide, assisted by Thomas Willson, who discovered calcium carbide at one of his furnaces.
Willson, through his continuing experimentation with calcium carbide and other chemicals, ultimately contributed to the later war effort during the Spanish- American War.
A serial entrepreneur, chemist, engineer, inventor and author of scientific works, Morehead later entered into cotton manufacturing.
He had one son, John Motley Morehead III, a chemist, diplomat, industrialist, and noted philanthropist; and four daughters:
Mary Kerr Morehead Harris( 2 children: Trent Harris, William Nelson Harris), Eliza Lindsay Morehead Nelson( 1 child: William Harris Nelson), Lily Morehead Mebane( no children), and Emma Gray Morehead Parrish( no children).
Morehead died on April 20, 1908, in New York City.
Randy Stageberg
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She started gymnastics at the age of 4 at Ocean Tumblers and in 2001 moved to Excalibur Gymnastics to train under Jim and Dena Walker.
She graduated from the University of Florida in 2013.

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