Source: NCPC Porkline, March 29

H. Frank Grainger of Cary has been reappointed to a fourth term on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.

For over 40 years, Frank Grainger has been a leader in the tobacco industry, agribusiness, economic development, and higher education. He was instrumental in forming the Tobacco Growers Association of NC and was a founding member of the NCSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Society.

NC State's Alumni Association honored Grainger with an honorary alumnus degree in 1998 and an Award of Merit in 2008. In 2004, he received the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation's Distinguished Service Award and in 2009, Grainger was presented a prestigious award from the Tobacco Farm Life Museum "in recognition of outstanding achievements to NC's Tobacco and Agricultural Community."