THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, May 6, 1996 TAG: 9605060119
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: KILL DEVIL HILLS LENGTH: Medium: 51 lines
Historian David Stick, who during his achievement-studded life founded the Outer Banks Community Foundation, was named the first winner of the 14-year-old organization's Meritorious Award Sunday night.
Stick, author of numerous books including ``The Outer Banks of North Carolina'' and ``The Graveyard of the Atlantic,'' and instrumental in Outer Banks development, was honored by about 150 people at a $100-a-plate dinner at the Ramada Inn.
Congratulatory notes were read from Gov. James B. Hunt Jr.; Bill Friday, retired chancellor of the University of North Carolina, and actor Andy Griffith, an old friend who lives in Manteo.
Stick, 76, who lives in Kitty Hawk, has played a key role in many facets of life on the Outer Banks.
As a journalist, he served as a Marine combat correspondent in World War II. When he returned to the Outer Banks, he became the first licensed real estate broker in Dare County. He developed the community of Southern Shores and has been involved in publishing, construction, other business interests and history.
He organized a tourist bureau in the '50s and developed the Duck Woods Golf Course. He has been chairman of the Dare County Commission, the first mayor of Southern Shores, and has served on a variety of state and local boards and agencies.
In 1962, he decided to preserve as many colonial records as he could, and in 1986 he donated his collection to the state, prompting the formation of the Outer Banks History Center.
Stick, son of internationally famous artist Frank Stick, created the Outer Banks Community Foundation in 1982 with Griffith, Eddie Greene and George Crocker as a way to form an endowment fund to solve the community's current and long-range needs. The citation honoring Stick says:
``He has received many, many honors and awards. It is appropriate that the foundation, that he established and loves, chooses to present him the first Meritorious Award.'' ILLUSTRATION: Photo
David Stick
KEYWORDS: AWARD by CNB