Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a well-known university town, the home of the University of North Carolina and its major health center, UNC Health Care.  The town and the university were founded simultaneously in 1793 and have grown up together until the town population today is about 50,000, while the university has 25,000 students and about 14,000 faculty and staff.

I moved into Westwood, a next-to-campus neighborhood in 1974.  Six years later, when a developer petitioned the town to upzone our neighborhood so he could build an apartment complex there, I joined my neighbors in a campaign to sway the town council that this rezoning was not in the town's best interest.  We won!  This event ignited my interest in local politics, and made me realize that I should give some service to the town that had been so good to me since I came here in 1967.  I ran successfully for Chapel Hill Town Council in 1991, was re-elected in 1995, and in 1999 decided not to run again.  Running a political campaign is a team effort, and I could not begin to thank everyone who helped me, much less those who voted for me.  I must however acknowledge superb effort of my two campaign managers, Bill Davis and Flicka Bateman.

My political philosophy remains constant:  provide good quality municipal services, protect neighborhoods, maintain our environment, and not destory the town to accomodate the automobile.