Lenore Taylor Track at UNCP: "At halftime of the football
game (September 26 vs. Lane), I was thinking about Allen.
He started the marching band even before the football
team. Chancellor Meadors and Barbara were wonderful
people and great friends of mine and Lenore's. He was the
right man for this time at the University. I was interested in
doing something for UNCP, and he helped make it pos-
sible. I enjoyed knowing him, and I was sorry to see him
go. But he got the right opportunity at the right university,
his alma mater. It's hard to argue with that."
personable and fit into the community well. He seemed to
enjoy being a part of the community. I remember his first
year when he rode in the Lumbee Homecoming Parade
and then walked around the campus and met with the
community. To me, that showed that he wanted to be a
part of what was going on with the University and the
community. He would also be at the post office uptown
and would always take the extra time to speak to people."
good leader, and I enjoyed working for him. He gives a
tremendous amount of his time to students. As for football,
he was there to talk to the team or to recruits. When you're
a new program, people want to know if you have support.
He was there at recruiting fairs which speaks volumes."
fielded 12 teams with 195 student-athletes, and today we
have 16 teams and 400 student-athletes. It is appropriate
that he gave us a `fight song' too."
"Chancellor Meadors will truly be missed throughout the
entire campus community. He set the bar very high for our
institution and that is reflective in the breadth and depth
of what we are accomplishing now. His leadership has
provided a steadfast vision for our University and new op-
portunities for Pembroke."
one to take credit, but credit should be heaped upon his
shoulders."
"While I am so very happy for Dr. Meadors to get the op-
portunity to lead his alma mater, their gain is certainly our
loss. He was such a sincere, genuine and caring individual
who really put the interests of the University first. Under
his leadership, UNCP excelled in so many areas."
ing Chancellor Meadors an email at 11:59 p.m. one Thurs-
day night and getting a response at 12:01 a.m. Chancellor
Meadors was thought highly of by our alumni. He helped
establish traditions and events that brought them back to
campus, football chief among them. These traditions are a
lasting legacy."
adors was a ray of sunshine at UNC Pembroke and in the
surrounding communities. Even though he has departed,
he left a blueprint of success for staff, students, faculty,
alumni and community leaders."
Dr. Meadors first came to UNCP and announced that his
goal was to increase the enrollment by a couple thousand,
several of us old guys who have been here for quite a
while already had heard those remarks by others and saw
no countable results. So, we were amazed and pleasantly
surprised when he began to make good on his enroll-
ment projection. I never thought that I would ever see our
enrollment surpass 3,000 students; when I first came to the
University the enrollment was 1,800 and declining.
"I will always be grateful to the Chancellor for listening
to and supporting our plans for building an observatory as
part of the addition to the science building. Originally, the
observatory was not going to be part of the budget, but by
saving money on the initial bid, he was able to fund both
the observatory and the greenhouse, both valuable addi-
tions to our great University."
plete stranger to come here and, after a couple of months,
become part of the community is remarkable. This man
knew how to market this University. His baby, though, was
football."