A successful business leader from Wilmington, N.C., and a graduating senior are the newest members of the university's board of trustees
Worsley, a loyal annual supporter of Elon athletics and a former member of the golf team at Elon, has donated funds to name the W. Cecil Worsley III Golf Training Center on campus. He is a member of Elon’s President’s Advisory Council and the President’s Athletic Advisory Council. He is married to Elon alumna JoAnna Sutton Worsley ’87 and they are the parents of W. Cecil Worsley IV, a 2014 Elon graduate.
Worsley owns and operates Black Gold Holdings, LLC, the Port City Java coffee shop chain, and Springer Eubank Company, a wholesale fuel and convenience store chain. He was formerly the President/CEO of Worsley Companies, Inc., which operated a chain of more than 140 convenience stores in the Carolinas. Worsley graduated from Elon with a bachelor’s degree in finance.
Turner has been a campus leader, serving as a resident assistant, university admissions guide, Periclean Scholar and president and director of the Elon University Gospel Choir. She begins her career as a broadcast journalist at WECT-TV in Wilmington, N.C., following graduation.