College of Veterinary Medicine

When his beloved golden retriever became ill, the late High Point businessman and philanthropist Randall B. Terry, Jr. turned to NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) to diagnose and treat his pet. Until his death in 2004, Terry spent the rest of his life making sure that other folks with seriously ill companion animals could receive the acute care they needed through donations totaling more than $4 million to the CVM in challenge grants and scholarships while he was serving two terms as president of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation.

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CVM faculty members have saved three of Terry and Jane Seaks’ beloved cats, adding precious years to each cat’s fulfilled life, which was as equally fulfilling to the Seaks themselves. In order to reward and retain “the distinguished professors who make our college famous and heal our animal friends,” Seaks established CVM’s first-ever endowed distinguished professorship: The Jane Lewis Seaks Distinguished Professorship for Companion Animal Medicine. Seaks hopes that the professorship, which honors his wife, will also “attract future star professors.”

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After Randall (’68) and Susan Ward rescued the dog, Hannah, from an early life of neglect, the dog was struck with a life-threatening diagnosis of heart disease at age five in 1999. Fortunately for the dog and her owners, Hannah benefited from the groundbreaking work of Dr. Bruce Keene, a cardiology professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM). Keene led a team of experts to perform artificial heart valve replacement surgery and successfully save the canine, adding five years to her life. When the new Randall B. Terry, Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center opens in 2010, a bronze statue of Hannah will welcome those to the Hannah Heart Center. One of nine specialty heart pavilions in the nation, the state-of-the-art center was made possible by the Wards’ $1.5 million gift of coastal property.

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