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Joyce Martin Dixon
Joyce Martin Dixon is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. Career Joyce Martin was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she lived with her family as a child on McConnell Road. She graduated from James B. Dudley High School in 1952, and Bennett College in 1956. Her mother and both her sisters had also attended Bennett College. After leaving college, Martin moved to Florida. Alongside her husband Jacob Dixon, an electrical engineer who had worked on the NASA space shuttle program, she was co-founder and co-owner of Creative Management Technology, Inc., a contracting firm based in Cocoa Beach, Florida, which provided services to government agencies, especially NASA, for many years, and grew to employ 550 people. The couple sold the company shortly before Jacob Dixon's death in 2004. Martin Dixon moved back to Greensboro in 2006. In 2011 she donated $1 million to her alma mater, Bennett College, to pay for the Martin Dixon Intergenerational Center, a laboratory school, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, the List of United States cities by population, 69th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 299,035. Three major interstate highways (Interstate 40 in North Carolina, Interstate 40, Interstate 85 in North Carolina, Interstate 85, and Interstate 73 in North Carolina, Interstate 73) in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city. In 1808, Greensborough (the spelling before 1895) was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. The county courts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
