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AIA NORTH CAROLINA LEADERSHIP
South Atlantic Regional Council
The leadership of AIA North Carolina, along with representatives from AIA Georgia and AIA South
Carolina, participates in the South Atlantic Regional Council (SARC).SARC enables the AIA components
in the South Atlantic Region to share ideas and also maintain liaison with national activities of
the lnstitute.
South Atlantic Region directors serve rotating three-year terms with representation shared equally
among the three states. SAR directors attend all Institute Board meetings and also travel the threestate
region as a means of communicating and sharing information with AIA members.
SARC convenes at least three times a year. Every three years, SARC hosts a regional convention. The
most recent convention was held in October 2003 in Savannah, GA. The next SARC convention will
be hosted by AIA North Carolina in 2006.
The South Atlantic Region has two representatives who serve on the Institute Board of Directors.In
2004, those individuals are:
William J. Stanley,lll, FAIA, NOMA
South Atlantic Region Director
Mr.Stanley was educated at the Georgia Institute
of Technology and in 1972 became the first black
graduate of its College of Architecture. In 1975
he became the youngest African American ever
to receive an architectural registration in the
South. Mr.Stanley began his private architectural
practice in 1977 with his wife lvenue Love-
Stanley, FAIA. Over the years the firm has grown
to become one of the largest African-American
practices in the country concentrating in architecture,
planning, program management, and
interior design throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Mr. Stanley has lectured and served as a visiting
critic and jury member throughout this country,
in Europe, and in Africa; his work has been featured
in numerous books and periodicals. Mr.
Stanley is a past National President of the
National Organization of Minority Architects;
past President of 100 Black Men of Atlanta and
AIA Georgia; past member of Architectural
Record Magazine's Advisory Board, Georgia
Institute of Technology's National Advisory
Board and its Alumni Association Board of
Trustees; member of the National Board of
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
Southwest YMCA Board, St. Paul A.M.E. Church
Trustee and Steward's Board, Sigma Pi Phi
Fraternity's Kappa Boul6 and Atlanta Life
Financial Group Corporate Board; Secretary of
the Morris Brown College Board of Trustees;
Chairman of the Herndon Foundation Board;
and numerous other affiliations.
Edward T. Zeigler, Jr., AIA
South Atlontic Region Director
Ed Zeigler is president and chief executive officer
of Craig Gaulden Davis, a Greenville, S.C., firm
specializing in education, cultural, religious, civic,
libraries, and commercial Projects throughout
the region. The firm is responsible for the
Greenville County Main Library, its County
Museum of Art, and the Peace Center for the
Performing Arts. Elsewhere around the state,
CGD's projects include the Brookgreen Gardens
Visitors Center (Pawley's lsland) and the Worship
Center for the First Baptist Church (North
Augusta). Currently, CGD is designing one of the
nation's first Ray and Joan Kroc Corps
Community Centers for the Salvation Army.
Ed attended Clemson University, earning BA and
March degrees. He joined the Wells Law Group
Architects after graduation, followed by Hughes
and Beattie Architects prior to joining CGD in
r 983.
He was elected treasurer of the Greenville
section (1991), followed by terms as its secretary
(1992), vice president (1993), and president
(1994). Ed was also elected to office at the state
component level, as a member of its board
(1993-1995), vice president (2001), and president
(2002). He was a member of the state's long
range planning committee (2003-2005) and the
Past Presidents' Society (2007). Regionally in
2001-2002 Ed was on the state's national
convention committee for the Charlotte, N.C.,
event.
Ed is married to Susan M. Zeigler, who serves
as Financial Manager at Craig Gaulden Davis.
They have two children. Claire Gray Zeigler is a
2007 graduate of Savannah College of Art and
Design and is working in Charlotte as an interior
designer with LS3P Associates, LTD. Tate Weston
Zeigler is a junior, political science major at
Furman University.
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